Capitalism
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The campaign over the “unfitness” of Donald Trump
The publication of Michael Wolff’s insider account of the early months of the Trump administration, Fire and Fury, has become the occasion for a media firestorm powered by allegations that Trump is mentally unfit to be president. Media pundits and Democratic politicians have cited the book’s portrayal of Trump to claim that the president should… Continue reading
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Shocking Study Shows Glyphosate Herbicides Contain Toxic Levels of Arsenic
A shocking new study published in Toxicology Reports has shown that the current regulatory assessments of the world’s most used herbicides are wrong, with ingredients such as arsenic being regularly found in Glyphosate based herbicides and other pesticides at toxic levels. Continue reading
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Top ten Climate & Capitalism articles in 2017
5 January 2018 — Climate&Capitalism Readers’ choices The 109 articles we published in Climate & Capitalism in 2017 were read by more people than ever before. These were the most popular … Continue reading
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Secret Trade Deals
Giant corporations suing our government. Restricted access to medicines we all need. That’s what the government is considering in a trade deal right now. Continue reading
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Ghost in the Machine, Part 1 — Drug Safety and Media Shaped by Big Pharma
A Brutally Honest Analysis of Who’s Really Pulling the Strings Just when you might have thought industry’s influence couldn’t get any worse, we’re now looking at a situation that could dwarf the past. A dark cloud is brewing, as this new venture capitalist-turned-Commissioner with financial links to Pharma since 2005 moves closer to taking over… Continue reading
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Trump Suppressing Biggest National Security Threat
While the Trump Administration censors the term ‘climate change’ for government institutions, the Pentagon highlights the urgency of the crisis Continue reading
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Virgin Care: A case study in how private corporations loot the UK’s National Health Service By Ajanta Silva
The Health Service Journal (HSJ) recently exposed a scandalous handout given to private healthcare company Virgin Care by a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in the county of Surrey, England. Continue reading
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Michael Gove: Plastic containers update
A group of influential MPs have just told the government that the UK needs a plastic bottle deposit return scheme. Continue reading
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Why the Revolution Will Not (but Must) Be Televised By Jim Naureckas
The problem is, the energy companies are some of the richest, most powerful entities on Earth. Corporations are designed to act like organisms with a single goal, maximizing profits. And the fossil fuel industry’s future profits—roughly four-fifths of them—depend on extracting that excess carbon and burning it, climate and civilization be damned. They have been… Continue reading
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NYT Failed to Note Op-Ed Authors' Funder Has $2 Billion Motive for Attacking Argentina By Eli Clifton/LobeLog
Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz, two executives at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times (12/11/17) to celebrate last week’s announcement that Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, would face treason charges for her alleged role in covering up Iran’s alleged involvement in… Continue reading
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Forced Privatization of The Greek Port of Piraeus, One Year Later
Dimitri Lascaris in Greece, speaks with Giogros Gogos, general Secretary of the Dockworkers Union at the Port of Piraeus. The Troika forced the privatization of 67% of Port of Piraeus, this means that the most secure and lucrative asset in Greece, that could have generated money to pay the debt, is now the hands of… Continue reading
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Media Downplay Class Warfare as 'GOP Victory' By Ben Norton
The fallacy of “neutral,” “both sides” journalism rings loud and clear in corporate media reporting on the Republican Party’s tax plan. The GOP bill, passed by the Senate in the early hours of December 2 and described by major media outlets as a “tax cut,” is in reality an explicit handout to large companies and… Continue reading
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The FCC's Order Is Out, We've Read It, and Here's What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet
Pai’s draft is a lot of things: thin on substance and reasoning, cruel, willfully naive — and it’s everything that ISPs like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon could have wanted (and more). But what it’s not is sensible or grounded in reality. It will take away every safeguard we need to protect the open internet we’ve… Continue reading
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The FCC’s Order Is Out, We’ve Read It, and Here’s What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet
Pai’s draft is a lot of things: thin on substance and reasoning, cruel, willfully naive — and it’s everything that ISPs like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon could have wanted (and more). But what it’s not is sensible or grounded in reality. It will take away every safeguard we need to protect the open internet we’ve… Continue reading
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Monsanto: Out of Control
“Corporate-Spun Science Should Not Be Guiding Policy,” Gillam lays out all ways corporate-spun science is spinning out of control—and threatening public health. (News update: This week the EU voted to allow the use of Roundup for another five years—not the 15 years Monsanto wanted, but more than the three years some countries favored. France just… Continue reading
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Glyphosate: victory or defeat?
For over two years a huge part of our energy was focused on one goal: stopping Monsanto from getting their hands on a 15-year licence to sell glyphosate on our European market. And we did – but we didn’t get all we wanted. Instead of a total ban on glyphosate for which we fought long… Continue reading
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Save Net Neutrality!
We need you to add your name now to our worldwide message to Republican Congressional leaders to stop the FCC from destroying the free and open Internet as we know it. This won’t just impact Americans, it will disrupt the Internet for all of us who depend on it. Continue reading
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European Commission still trying to ram through the renewal of the licence for Roundup
Fresh from its latest glyphosate defeat, the European Commission is still trying to ram through the renewal of the licence for Monsanto’s favourite weedkiller. After EU member states voted down a ten-year license, the chemical lobby couldn’t even secure a five-year one either. But rather than accept that this battle is lost, the European Commission… Continue reading
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Paradise Papers: 'There’s All Kinds of People Who Have Their Snouts in the Trough Here'
Janine Jackson: Establishment media cover poverty sometimes, sometimes in a compassionate and compelling way. And they cover wealth and the rich, sometimes, sometimes in a thoughtful and critical way. When the discussion called for is about the relationship between the two, the limits of media’s spotlight approach are salient. Continue reading
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Planetary Salvation Compromised By Activism Lite, Climate Lite, Anti-Apartheid Lite & Anti-War Lite Weakness By Dr Gideon Polya
In the neoliberal War on Humanity and War on Terra, there are the Bad Guys (the neoliberals, One Percenters, Super Rich, US Alliance military, warmongers, moronic Trumpists, fascists, neo-Nazis, religious right, and genocidal Zionists) versus the Good Guys (the anti-war, anti-nuclear, anti-Apartheid, anti-discrimination, pro-environment social humanists). However the Good Guys have been severely compromised by… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 