Capitalism
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Doomed Prospects for Achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 By Carla Stea
Funds Squandered on Military-Industrial Complex Are Indispensable for Success Criminal UN Security Council Authorized Military Actions and Sanctions are Gross Violation of Sustainable Development Goals and Obliterate all Hope For Attainment of SDGs Continue reading
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Imperialism and Its Accomplices: Selected Articles
27 August 2018 — Global Research News Imperialism and Its Accomplices: The Question of Dictatorship and Democracy at Home and Abroad By Prof. James Petras, August 27, 2018 One of the most striking world historic advances of western imperialism (in the US and the European Union) is the demise, disappearance and dissolution of large scale long-term anti-imperialist… Continue reading
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Yet Another Appeal for “Green” Capitalism, Annotated By Stan Cox
The Guardian recently published an opinion piece by its economics editor Larry Elliott, in which he argued that capitalism can rescue civilization from the global climate emergency. Here are excerpts, with Stan Cox interrupting. Continue reading
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Monsanto Loses Landmark Roundup Cancer Trial, Set to Pay USD 289 Million in Damages
Monsanto has lost a landmark cancer trial in San Francisco and has been ordered by the Judge to pay over USD 289 Million in total damages to the former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, a California father who has non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which was caused by Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup. Continue reading
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Global Species Extinction: Humans Are Now the Asteroid Hitting the Earth By Shane Quinn
The rate of global species extinction is today roughly what it was 66 million years ago, after an asteroid six to nine miles across careered into south-eastern Mexico, quickly wiping out the dinosaurs and much else. The force of the asteroid, which struck the planet at the end of the Cretaceous period, was over a… Continue reading
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Extreme Heat Could Make One Third of Planet Uninhabitable
Climate scientist Michael Mann says that, under a business-as-usual scenario, the mass displacement of vulnerable populations could trigger an unprecedented national security crisis (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Lost in a Brexit Maze: a Baffled Political Class Dreads the Prospect of Jeremy Corbyn By Alexander MERCOURIS
It is fair to say that Theresa May’s Brexit plan ( two years in the making and details still to be worked out), which proposes a relationship between Britain and the EU similar to those agreed by Ukraine and Moldova, satisfies no-one. Continue reading
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An engineer, an economist, and an ecomodernist walk into a bar and order a free lunch . . . By Stan Cox
Stan Cox says ecomodernists are far better at inventing technological fantasies than at finding ways to solve environmental crises Continue reading
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Obama Joins Club of the Super-Rich – Defends Global Capitalism in Lecture
Prof. Leo Panitch and Paul Jay discuss Obama’s Mandela lecture; Obama wants the impossible – a world where the super-rich give up “a little” and there is no massive inequality (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Jeff Bezos’ Paper Tells You Not to Worry About Those Billionaires by Dean Baker
Just when you thought economic commentary in the Washington Post couldn’t get any more insipid, Roger Lowenstein proves otherwise. In a business section “perspective” (7/20/18), he tells readers: But what if inequality is the wrong metric. Herewith a modest proposition: economic inequality is not the best yardstick. What we should be paying attention to is… Continue reading
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Book Review: Red-Green Revolution: The politics and technology of ecosocialism
For 20 years, Victor Wallis was managing editor of the journal Socialism and Democracy, and he has been writing about ecological issues, from a Marxist perspective, for longer than that. He has a well-earned reputation for clear thinking and writing about capitalist eco-destruction and how we can stop it. Continue reading
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Mainstream Media Obscure Most Important Issues From Public Eyes By Shane Quinn
As the summer moves on, the world is literally burning under intense heat due to ever worsening climate change, mainly as a result of government impotence under corporate sway. Areas near Tokyo have just experienced a record temperature of 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41.1 Celsius), with beleaguered residents fleeing to avoid the sun. Across Japan, this… Continue reading
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Please Sign Now! Zero tolerance for plastic
Thanks to public outcry, the European Commission proposed a new law to reduce single-use plastics and stem the huge tide of plastic waste. [3] Unfortunately some EU countries are likely under pressure from the plastic industry to derail this hopeful proposal for our environment. [4] But we still have a chance to make the Commission’s… Continue reading
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The Wifi Alliance, Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood: 5G Wireless By Renee Parsons
The medical and scientific data is overwhelming and irrefutable as the wireless industry, the MSM and government agencies, frequently the last to acknowledge a pervasive health problem, continue to protect the industry from widespread public awareness of the insidious effects of the latest generation of digital by-products. Continue reading
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'Data Needs to Serve a Public Safety Purpose'
6 July 2018 — FAIR by Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Tracy Rosenberg about ICE’s corporate collaborators for the June 29, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 4 July 2018
4 July 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Loophole Could Exempt Over 10,000 GMO Foods from GMO Labeling Law Loopholes proposed by the Trump administration could exempt over 10,000 – or one out of six – genetically modified foods from a new GMO disclosure law, according to an EWG analysis. The draft rule may exempt foods produced… Continue reading
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What the Monsanto Papers tell us about corporate science
The Monsanto Papers are a treasure trove of internal documents slowly released since March 2017 as part of a US lawsuit by cancer victims against Monsanto over its ubiquitous herbicide, glyphosate. They tell a lot about how Monsanto actively subverts science, both in the company’s practices and the way it abuses science’s moral authority to… Continue reading
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The Ministry of Cruelty
It’s a special vengeance that capital takes on those who only make counterrevolution halfway. And make no mistake, the policies and programs of the last ten years have been half-a-counterrevolution. Whether presented as austerity, or as special investment vehicles, or direct capital injections, or quantitative easing, behind all those masks stands the attack on labor,… Continue reading
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London Review of Books publishes scurrilous account of Grenfell Tower fire By Alice Summers
O’Hagan’s piece is characterised by vicious and dishonest misrepresentations, inaccuracies, the demonization of local activists, residents and firefighters, and hymns of praise to the local council. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 