Capitalism
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Damp, Mould and Dying of Cold: Fuel Poverty in Austerity Britain by Clare Hymer
Like people in over 4m UK households, Lea, a 59 year-old woman from Worthing, is living in fuel poverty. Every winter – come snow, storms and sub-zero temperatures – low-income individuals and families already struggling with basic living expenses are faced with the additional cost of heating their homes. In many cases, people are forced… Continue reading
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Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting By Patrick Bond
Africa’s smash-and-grab ‘development policies’ aiming to attract Foreign Direct Investment have, even the Bank suggests, now become counter-productive: “Especially for resource-rich countries, the depletion of natural resources is often not compensated for by other investments. The warnings provided by negative ANS in many countries and in the region as a whole should not be ignored.”… Continue reading
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Blackouts and Flashpoints in 2018: Who Rules America, Globalization and Geopolitics By Prof. James Petras
I believe that we will experience a radical making and remaking of political and economic integration, East and West, within and without nations states. ‘States Rights’ will re-emerge as an antidote to globalization. Big countries will compete in regional wars with limited commitments but with global goals. Continue reading
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The Exploitation of the World’s Poor: Selected Articles
25 January 2018 — Global Research Federal Government Shutdown and the Duopoly System of Two-party Politics By Abayomi Azikiwe, January 25, 2018 After three days of recriminations from both sides of the political aisles, the government was reopened on January 22. What is described as “essential services” were continued over the weekend of the closure. Continue reading
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WaPo Defends Its Owner Against Charges That He's Very Wealthy By Jim Naureckas
Awkwardly enough, one of the world’s six wealthiest people is the owner of the paper doing the factchecking. Or as the Post coyly put it, “(Among the names on the list: Jeffrey P. Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post.)” The Post’s Nicole Lewis didn’t say that Sanders was wrong,… Continue reading
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Cape Town Water Wars: A Literal Shitstorm
In Cape Town, one of the most unequal cities in the world, poor people are taking the buckets they use for chemical toilets and turning them into weapons, as the water shortage intensifies class conflicts Continue reading
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Participate in Copyright Week with us!
Copyright law has now been captured by major media interests all over the world. That’s why digital rights organisations in Brazil, Pakistan, Canada and Austria all fight to make it better for everyone: accessible and open, not just owned by a few huge corporations. Continue reading
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Carillion’s collapse in UK and the East Coast bailout: What would ending the “Private Financial Initiative rip-off” entail? By Jean Shaoul
In a YouTube video, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described the collapse of Carillion, the UK’s second largest construction company, as a “watershed moment,” a signal it is “time to put an end to the rip-off privatisation policies that have done serious damage to our public services and fleeced the public of billions of pounds.” Continue reading
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UK: The political lessons of Carillion’s collapse By Julie Hyland
The jobs, wages and pensions of tens of thousands of workers along with vital public services are in danger, following on the collapse of Carillion into liquidation on Monday. Carillion employed 20,000 workers in the UK and 23,000 overseas. It went into compulsory liquidation with more than £2.2 billion debts, of which an estimated £800… Continue reading
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GMOs and Pesticides – Global Breaking News
17 January 2018 — Sustainable Pulse US Organic Food Movement Protests USDA Interference in Animal Welfare Standards The U.S. organic food movement, representing dozens of brands, thousands of organic farmers and millions of organic consumers, as well as retailers, certifiers, and organizations, has published an open letter in the Washington Post. The cosigners are demanding that… Continue reading
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Virgin Care and other private companies seize another £3.1 billion of NHS assets By Ajanta Silva
With a £101 billion ($US 137 billion) budget in the National Health Service (NHS) in England alone, private companies have found a gold mine to plunder with the blessings of the Tory government. Continue reading
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NHS IN CRISIS – FIX IT NOW!
Emergency Demonstration 12pm, Saturday 3 February Assemble Gower Street Central London WC1 We’re calling on everyone; all campaigns and local groups, all round the country – to come down to London and demand proper funding, beds and full staffing levels on fair pay. Continue reading
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GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice By Colin Todhunter
One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 