Capitalism
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What’s Important and What’s Really Important By S. Artesian
It’s important to grasp that the reduction in manufacturing jobs with a higher wage rate, the increase in service jobs with a lower wage rate; the increase in part-time and temporary employment; the destruction of benefits, is not the result of globalization or “open borders” or NAFTA, or the WTO or free trade agreements, but… Continue reading
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How the left can win By Jeremy Gilbert
Labour Party membership is at a record high. Momentum now has more than 15,000 paid up members. There’s no question that this is a significant political movement. But is it really, as many of its advocates claim, a ‘social movement’? Jeremy Corbyn has expressed desire for the Labour Party itself to ‘become a social movement’.… Continue reading
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Tell your MEP to stand up and say no to Censorship Machines and the Link Tax
For the last year we’ve worked together to ensure that the huge new copyright law in the EU doesn’t crush our free expression online. But when the proposal finally came out last month, it confirmed our worst fears: The Link Tax is still alive. Continue reading
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The Importance of Being Wrong By S. Artesian
9 November 2016 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that my unblemished record of incorrectly predicting the winner of presidential elections is…….still unblemished. That’s 36 years and 10 presidential elections in a row, and I defy anyone to show me a record… Continue reading
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The NHS is hanging by a thread
Jeremy Hunt doesn’t want you to watch this video – it proves the NHS is hanging on a thread. Millions of us are reading this email today. And if we all watch the video and share it with our friends and family, we’ll get the word out: Continue reading
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Note Insurgency By S. Artesian
The comrades at Insurgent Notes have published an editorial regarding the possible election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. The editorial is both confused and mistaken, and gives credit to the notion that Trump has attracted considerable support because of working class resentment and alienation, or at least in “white working… Continue reading
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Video: Whether Clinton or Trump, Tensions Will Escalate with China and Russia Under Next U.S. President By John Pilger
Journalist John Pilger tells Paul Jay that the very real prospect of another World War is not being taken seriously by the American media Continue reading
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Syngenta and Bayer both knew its pesticides killed Bees
Thanks to Freedom of Information Act requests, previously unpublished field trials commissioned by the two neonic manufacturers have been released showing that two neonic pesticides seriously harm bee colonies in high concentrations. Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (7/7)
31 October 2016 — TRNN Professor Peter Drahos says a global effort will be needed to keep knowledge in the public domain Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (5/7)
Professor Peter Drahos explains the TRIPS Agreement gave multinational corporate owners of intellectual property rights a global form of private taxing power (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (6/7)
Professor Peter Drahos says the story of the trade agreement is not just a story of power, it’s also a story of clever psychology Continue reading
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Bayer-Monsanto: We need to stop this nightmare merger
In just a few weeks Bayer and Monsanto are getting ready to file their merger with antitrust authorities in Europe and the U.S.. If they succeed, we are facing a nightmare scenario: more bee-killing neonics in our fields, more toxic glyphosate on our plates, and more corporate control over our food supply. Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (4/7)
The globalization of intellectual property rights will not improve trade, competition, or the livelihood of workers; it leads to underdevelopment, says professor Peter Drahos (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Councillors must look before they leap into secret NHS cuts plans By John Lister
Theresa May has not taken kindly to the NHS boss’s belated admission that he had originally asked for considerably more than £8billion “extra” for the NHS (even as that £8bn figure was itself criticised as “misleading” by Sarah Wollaston MP, who points out the true amount given to the NHS is considerably less than the… Continue reading
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Making the NHS a “hostile environment” for migrants demeans our country By Erin Dexter
Three years have passed since Theresa May, then home secretary, committed to creating a “hostile environment” for so-called “illegal” migrants in the UK. Since then the UK has reinforced and multiplied its inland borders, making border guards of teachers, landlords, and healthcare workers. Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (3/7)
26 October 2016 — TRNN Countries like India and Brazil saw early on how excessive monopoly protection due to intellectual property rights would be an impediment to development, says professor Peter Drahos (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (2/7)
The architects of this trade agreement saw great profit from controlling the building blocks of the biological and digital technologies of the future, says professor Peter Drahos Continue reading
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The Great CETA Swindle – Signing Of Trade Deal Hits Last Minute Glitch: Selected Articles
25 October 2016 — Global Research The Great CETA Swindle – Signing Of Trade Deal Hits Last Minute Glitch By Corporate Europe Observatory, October 20 2016 Today, Belgium followed a ‘no’ vote by two of its regional Parliaments on the controversial EU-Canada trade deal CETA, temporarily blocking the first step towards the treaty’s ratification in a… Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (1/7)
24 October 2016 — TRNN In this 7 part series, Professor Peter Drahos explains how multinationals from US, Europe, and Japan collaborated to create a global platform for multinationals to privatize knowledge Continue reading
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Corporate climate risk is about profit, not fixing the problem By Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg
The core assumption here is that risk is somewhere outside the company: it just has to be found and captured. The perception is that corporations are exposed to a variety of objective risks that can be managed through rational decision-making. This might include cost–benefit analysis based on probabilities and consequences. The aim is to make… Continue reading
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