Capitalism
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Second release of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement documents
On 13 November 2013 WikiLeaks released the draft text of the crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Intellectual Property chapter during the lead-up to a TPP chief negotiators’ meeting in Salt Lake City on 19-24 November 2013. Today, 9 December 2013, WikiLeaks has released two more secret TPP documents that show the state of negotiations as… Continue reading
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Conservative Britain: Repackaging the American Dream By Sean Keach
Much of America’s aggression towards communism in the 20th Century was mobilised through a propaganda campaign that dangled white picket fences and warm blueberry pies over the heads of a blue-collar citizenship. Even today, the American dream idealism can be seen propagating the ever raw political divisions of the United States. Fast-forward to modern day… Continue reading
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Global Poverty and Post-colonial “Development Agendas”: Ethiopia and the West By Paul O’Keeffe
The world of international aid is a multi-trillion dollar exercise with transactions affecting every country on earth. Some give, some receive, some give and receive, but all are involved in aid flows that are ultimately held up as virtuous considerations of man to fellow man. The world has long been used to the cycles of… Continue reading
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Are working class people to work until they die? By Ellie May O’Hagan
Last year it was revealed that 18 of the 29 cabinet ministers are millionaires with a combined wealth of £70m. Since then, the “millionaire government” line is so frequently-used, it’s almost a cliché. Rolling our collective eyes at our privileged, out-of-touch rulers has become such a national pastime that we almost forget what the implications… Continue reading
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Deep divisions over TPP as US pressures to close controversial deal – WikiLeaks
Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has released two documents revealing the state of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The deal in question includes 12 countries – the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei – which represent more than 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. The… Continue reading
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Celebrating the Spirit of Envy By Alastair McIntosh
What most struck me last week about Boris Johnson’s speech canonising Margaret Thatcher and thereby, paving the way for his own beatification, was how deeply and intimately familiar it all sounded. Continue reading
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Video: Matt Damon channels Howard Zinn – “The problem is civil obedience.”
We’re mighty glad that Damon, a very decent man and a thinker, even if deeply embedded in the Hollywood miasma, took it upon himself to make this video. Fact is, Howard Zinn and other radicals had been saying this for decades, (Zinn gave this speech in 1970), reaching a puny audience. But it took Damon… Continue reading
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Video: Matt Damon channels Howard Zinn – "The problem is civil obedience."
We’re mighty glad that Damon, a very decent man and a thinker, even if deeply embedded in the Hollywood miasma, took it upon himself to make this video. Fact is, Howard Zinn and other radicals had been saying this for decades, (Zinn gave this speech in 1970), reaching a puny audience. But it took Damon… Continue reading
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Left Unity: A Report from the Founding Conference By Richard Seymour
Based on the votes, I would estimate that somewhat over 400 people gathered in Bloomsbury on Saturday to launch the new left party first suggested by Ken Loach some months ago. The attendees were disproportionately veterans of the Left, older and white, but there were a lot of them. Continue reading
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Video: Susan George on "How to win the class war – The Lugano Report II" Part 1
If you have ever wondered what it’s like to be in the shoes – and the minds – of the guardians of the capitalist system, Susan George can give you the key. “How to win the Class War” is a ‘Factual Fiction’: the facts are based on solid research, but the fictional setting and the… Continue reading
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Join Susan George Discussing the Class War
Susan has a world wide reputation as a searing critic of capitalist globalisation and as an activist for international social justice. Her latest book, titled How to Win the Class War, is the sequel to her popular Lugano Report. Continue reading
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Book Review: How the corporate elite win the class war By John Palmer
Susan George returns to the conceit of the global conspiracy as the framework for her latest book. This approach allows her, tongue in cheek, to track just how far the financial, economic, ecological and social crisis has intensified over the past 16 years and has neutered so much of the democratic life of out societies. Continue reading
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Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance By Ellen Brown
Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment… Continue reading
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Copyright Maximalists Harm Authors
Copyright maximalists want all sorts of new laws to “help authors get paid”. Well, I’m a published author, and all their efforts to “help” cost me money. Even if we strictly limit the argument to printed books, copyright maximalists still only succeed in harming authors and publishers. This is how. Continue reading
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Video: Professor Louie What Does it Mean to be Working Class?
At the People’s Voice Café in New York City, the incomparable Brooklyn rapper Professor Louie offers a heavy lesson in class to the 99% in rhythm and rhyme. Continue reading
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Are we stupid? By Alan Hart
The following is the text of the address I made to the Seek, Speak and Spread Truth Conference in London yesterday, 23 November. Its main thrust is about the need for citizens to become politically engaged to make democracy work (before it’s as dead as the two-state solution for Israel-Palestine) in order for our children… Continue reading
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Video: Wikileaks Exposes the TPP as a Capitulation to Corporate Interests
Kevin Zeese: Obama administration’s Fast Track authority plan derailed by bipartisan outrage (inc. transcript). Continue reading
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Video: The Epochal Crisis, Unequal Ecological Exchange, and Exit Strategies by John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster: My talk is called “The Epochal Crisis.” The term “epochal crisis” was introduced by Jason Moore to deal with periods in which economic and ecological crises intersect or merge. We are certainly in the greatest epochal crisis in the history of the world. . . . Now, we can also talk about… Continue reading
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TPP Leaked Treaty: Worse Than SOPA and ACTA
An international treaty being negotiated in secret which would not only crack down on Internet privacy much more than SOPA or ACTA, but would actually destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. and all other signatories. Continue reading
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