Climate
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Video: Neoliberalizing Nature and Privatizing the Air By Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond: In 2013 bankers will increase their efforts to make money out of the climate crisis and put a dollar value on everything Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Illusion Of Democracy By David Cromwell
In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices? We are awash in state and corporate propaganda,… Continue reading
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The commodification of crap and South Africa’s toilet apartheid By Patrick Bond
In central Durban, the mafia of the global water and sanitation sector – its corporate, NGO and state-bureaucratic elite – have gathered at the International Convention Centre, just a few blocks west of the Indian Ocean, into which far too much of our excrement already flows. They’re at the same scene of the crime as,… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Game Over For The Climate?
Last week, the Independent marked the half-century with a well-meaning but frankly insipid ‘landmark series’ titled ‘The Green Movement at 50’. But there’s a glaring hole in such coverage; and, indeed, in the ‘green movement’ itself: the insidious role of the corporate media, a key component of corporate globalisation, in driving humanity and ecosystems towards… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 3 January 2012:
3 January 2012 — Information Clearing House Debacle! How Wars Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower By Tom Engelhardt Now, at a nadir moment in the Greater Middle East, perhaps it’s finally time to put an American face on America’s wars, to see them clearly for the imperial debacles they have been — and Continue reading
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Video: Where is the Urgency About Climate Change?
29 December, 2011 — The Real News Network Patrick Bond: Global elites not interested in changes effective policy requires Continue reading
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Video: Climate Change and the Failure of Market Mechanisms
Patrick Bond: Carbon markets failing and Durban Green Climate Fund doomed – up to activists now Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘A Death Sentence For Africa’
The UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, ended with one of those marathon all-night cliffhanger negotiations that the media love so much. The outcome was a commitment to talk about a legally-binding deal to cut carbon emissions – by both developed and developing countries – that would be agreed by 2015 and come into… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Climate Crisis – The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
The latest round of UN climate talks has just begun in Durban, South Africa, but the world’s richest nations are already planning to prevent any new treaty from taking effect before 2020. Achim Steiner, head of the UN environment programme, has condemned the action as a ‘political choice’, rather than one based on science, calling… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 560: CLIMATE APARTHEID AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRATISATION
2 December 2011 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Obituaries, 6. Books & arts, 7. African Writers’ Corner, 8. Cartoons Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 558 18 November 2011: ANGOLAN CORRUPTION, THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND ELECTIONS IN DRC
18 November 2011 — Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa CONTENTS:1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Pan-African Postcard, 6. Letters & Opinions, 7. African Writers’ Corner, 8. Highlights French edition Continue reading
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Occupy Denialism: Toward Ecological and Social Revolution By John Bellamy Foster
5 November 2011 — MRZine This is a reconstruction from notes of a keynote address delivered to the Powershift West Conference, Eugene, Oregon, November 5, 2011. Continue reading
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Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe By John Bellamy Foster
30 October 2011 — MRZine John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff at Occupy Wall Street. Photo by Carrie Ann Naumoff This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment” organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), Continue reading
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Video Trailer: Just Do It — A tale of modern-day outlaws
Emily James spent over a year embedded in activist groups such as Climate Camp and Plane Stupid to document their clandestine activities. With unprecedented access, Just do It takes you on an astonishing journey behind the scenes of a community of people who refuse to sit back and allow the destruction of their world. Continue reading
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Fukushima: Growing resistance challenges pro-nuclear policies By Pierre Rousset
Every day brings new revelations on the gravity of the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daichi and on the mendacious policies which covered the activity of the nucleocrat lobby, on the breadth of the risks imposed on the population by the choice of the atom, on the denial of democracy. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 