Capitalism
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Barry Commoner: Radical father of modern environmentalism
Described in 1970 by Time magazine as the “Paul Revere of ecology,” Commoner followed Rachel Carson as America’s most prominent modern environmentalist. But unlike Carson, Commoner viewed the environmental crisis as a symptom of a fundamentally flawed economic and social system. Continue reading
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Last ditch effort to save the Link Tax!
MEP Pascal Arimont tabled a series of amendments with the worst copyright proposals this debate has yet seen — including suggestions that would double the negative impact of the link tax, and drastically expand the scope of the content filtering censorship machine. Continue reading
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Video: Exxon Climate Change Cover Up: What Did Exxon and CEO Rex TIllerson Know and What Did They Do About It?
Rex Tillerson now acknowledges climate change science, but as CEO of Exxon Mobile did he do anything about it? The New York State Attorney General wants to know says Investigative journalist David Hasemeyer (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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More on Monsanto’s Glyphosate Coverup
Internal corporate communications uncovered by the courts show that Monsanto conspired with an EPA deputy director to stop reviews of the effects of glyphosate by government agencies. The same EPA official also tipped off the company to a glyphosate report released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, giving Monsanto the time it needed… Continue reading
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Media: ‘Chevron Was Just Fabricating a Lie to Get Out of Paying for a Cleanup’
When we talk about environmental justice, the emphasis is usually on the first word. That might be what comes to mind first when you think about Chevron, formerly Texaco, dumping some 16 billion gallons of toxic oil waste into the land and water of indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador. But when, having poisoned these… Continue reading
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‘It Comes Down to Monopoly Control of the Aftermarket’
Janine Jackson: Copyright and farmers don’t generally appear in the same story. They do now, thanks to the argument, recently reiterated by agricultural machine maker John Deere, that farmers shouldn’t be able to independently access the operating software in their tractors, for example, because they don’t own that part, they just license it. As our… Continue reading
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The Green ‘Nobel’
Six brave people from around the world were awarded the most prestigious environmental award in the world last week — The Goldman Environmental Prize (aka. the ‘Green Nobel’). The award recognises the ordinary people like you and me who do extraordinary things to stand up to corporate power. People like Rodrigue and Prafulla who risked… Continue reading
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‘1 Percent of Taxpayers Receive More Than the Bottom 80 Percent’
Jeremie Greer: “When you think about what’s driving inequality, I would say a federal system that is subsidizing the income and expenses and wealth at the high end, at the expense of not investing at the low end, is really exacerbating that divide.” Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin, 21st April 2017
21 April 2017 — medConfidential Though the political focus is on the General Election, the ‘STP shuffle’ remains highly significant. Whatever the result in June, both funding and decision-making for health and care services will be increasingly devolved to local areas. Continue reading
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Monsanto Tribunal: Report from The Hague
We assembled to hear the opinions of the five judges who presided over the International Monsanto Tribunal. After taking six months to review the testimony of 28 witnesses who testified during the two-day citizens’ tribunal held in The Hague last October, the judges were ready to report on their 53-page Advisory Opinion. Continue reading
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Video: UK Elections Called Before Full Impact of Austerity Kicks In
Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election is an opportunistic move, she also has an eye on the electoral arenas in France and Germany says Prof. Leo Panitch co-editor of the 2016 Socialist Register titled “The Politics of the Right” Continue reading
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What does the NHS do with your data?
Although the Government has yet to issue the necessary CAG Regulations; or ‘one strike and you’re out’ sanctions for data misuse or abuse; has failed to close the “promotion of health” (i.e. Pharma marketing) and commercial re-use loophole; still hasn’t put the National Data Guardian on a proper statutory footing, let alone responded to the… Continue reading
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Video: UK Police Intensifies Crackdown on Environmental Protests
Police observer group Netpol has documented an increasingly harsh crackdown on anti-fracking protesters in the UK, often in collusion with fracking companies Continue reading
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Bloomberg’s Hit Job on Venezuela – and Me By Michael Hudson
I just had a disastrous and embarrassing interaction with Bloomberg, and feel that I was ambushed and sandbagged by having my comments taken out of context in a hit piece Bloomberg’s journalists wrote on Venezuela – evidently trying to distort my own views in a two-for-one job. Continue reading
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Video: The Laura Flanders Show: Cheat, Lie, and Steal
Laura speaks with Michael Hudson about the manipulation of economic terminology and how this process serves economic elites. Countering the narrative that privatization is better, Hudson asks: “Better for whom?” Continue reading
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Roundup: Evidence EPA Colluded With Monsanto to Dismiss Cancer Concerns Grows Stronger
Glyphosate — the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and other herbicides — is the most widely used agricultural chemical in the world, and testing suggests a large portion of the global population now has glyphosate in their system. Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin, 24th March 2017
We are entering a period where a lot of things are happening – and are likely to happen – in quick succession, so we wanted to provide a perspective and some context that we hope will help explain at least some of what is going on. Continue reading
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Video: Bankruptcy Protection, Debt Jubilee, Students Debt and the Credit System
20 March 2017 — TRNN Part 3 of an interview with Richard D. Wolff, Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work – acTVism.org Continue reading
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The terrifying mathematics of the Anthropocene
For four billion years, one formula summarized global change. That has changed in just four decades, and if we don’t act quickly, human civilization may not survive. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 