Capitalism
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Video: Local Community ‘Put Their Bodies On the Line’ to Protest UK Fracking Site
Anti-fracking activists have joined the local community in Lancashire for a ‘rolling resistance’ month of direct action protests, after the UK government overruled the local government’s ban on fracking (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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The Shameful Link Tax!
Just a few days ago we wrote to you about key votes in the European Parliament this week, where our right to link and to share content was hanging in the balance. We hoped MEPs would side with citizens. But what we got instead was truly shameful. Continue reading
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Degeneration Nation
After decades of trying to reform public policy on food and farming, including an intense four-year battle to force mandatory labeling of GMOs (rudely terminated in 2016 when Congress and the Obama administration rammed through the outrageous DARK Act), food activists and conscious consumers find ourselves wondering “what’s the use of lobbying the government?” Continue reading
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Europe says no to glyphosate!
A staggering 1.3 million Europeans signed the Stop Glyphosate European Citizens Initiative (ECI). Together we’ve told the European Commission to ban Monsanto’s favourite pesticide, to reform the EU’s pesticide approval procedure, and to set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use. We’ve done it — and only just in time! Continue reading
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An even worse version of the Link Tax now on the cards!
Crucial votes on the Link Tax are happening TOMORROW, and a major EU political party just u-turned to officially back this costly and reckless proposal. The European People’s Party (EPP) has decided to go all-in for the broadest, worst version of the Link Tax — which gives copyright ownership and the right to collect fees… Continue reading
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Tensions in Hamburg: The G20 Fractures By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
9 July 2017 — Global Research “I think it’s very clear that we could not reach consensus, but the differences were not papered over, they were clearly stated.” – Angela Merkel, BBC News, Jul 8, 2017 Such gatherings and summits are not always smooth, but on a planet bearing witness to a Trump presidency, there was always… Continue reading
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Video: Haringey Council Vote Through £2BN Public Asset Deal with Lendlease
London’s Haringey Council voted to approve a £2 billion sell-off of public assets to the notorious private developer Lendlease despite overwhelming opposition from the community Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Global Destruction and US Foreign Policy
30 June 2017 — Global Research Global destruction is perhaps the underpinning for the US foreign policy. It seeks to destabilize genuine representative democracies so as to install their pseudo/puppet governments. It’s the Washington Consensus and and they’re not ready to give up! What are the implications of their actions? Read our articles below… A re-built Syria which controls… Continue reading
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Video: London Grenfell Inferno: Who's to Blame?
The Grenfell Tower Block fire in London is a predictable consequence of policies that can be traced to Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as well as those of David Cameron and Theresa May, says former financial regulator Bill Black Continue reading
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Video: London Grenfell Inferno: Who’s to Blame?
The Grenfell Tower Block fire in London is a predictable consequence of policies that can be traced to Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as well as those of David Cameron and Theresa May, says former financial regulator Bill Black Continue reading
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Video: Jayati Ghosh On Imperialism in the 21st Century (Pt. 3/3)
New forms of economic territory, including privatized commons, cannot lift capitalism out of the stagnation that it pushed itself into because it has suppressed wage incomes, says renowned economist Jayati Ghosh (inc transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Jayati Ghosh On Imperialism in the 21st Century (Pt. 2/3)
Large capital, when on its knees, makes concessions to labor. But now, with disproportionate bargaining power under new global forms of capitalist organization, is pushing down the share of wages in national income, says renowned economist Jayati Ghosh (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Jayati Ghosh On Imperialism in the 21st Century Pt.1/3
Imperialism, explains renowned economist – whether explicit or implicit – is about the struggle to control economic territory such as markets, workers & labor, natural resources and new kinds of markets that are developed (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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‘Amazon Now Has Monopoly Power in Online Commerce’
27 June 2017 — FAIR Janine Jackson interviewed Stacy Mitchell about Amazon‘s bid to buy Whole Foods for the June 23, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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The flaw in the Labour Party’s manifesto
The personal attack on Corbyn by the media was premeditated. If they could not destroy the message, then one of the cardinal rules of propaganda, is to then discredit the messenger. The capitalist class was aware that Corbyn’s message of hope and of an alternative to austerity, would be popular. The capitalists fear raising of… Continue reading
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Video: US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Chevron Pollution Case
Steven Donziger, the lawyer representing affected indigenous communities in Ecuador, calls this “the probably the most outrageous act of industrial pollution in history related to oil.” Continue reading
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Media: When You Reject Class-Based Politics, ‘Thoughtful’ Appeals to Racism Are All You’ve Got Left
The axe Edsall is grinding is that politics no longer has to do with rich or poor, but is now a question of “globalism versus nationalism.” It’s a variation on his class-no-longer-matters argument, or class-matters-backwards-from-the-way-you’d-think-it-does, as in “How Did the Democrats Become Favorites of the Rich?” (New York Times, 10/7/15)—a piece I examined at the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 