Crisis
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The Handbook of Karl Marx: profitability, crises and financialisation
The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, edited by Matt Vidal, Tomas Rotta, Tony Smith and Paul Prew, brings together a series of chapters by prominent Marxist scholars covering all aspects Marxist theory, from historical materialism, dialectics, political economy, social reproduction and post-capitalist models. Continue reading
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Fukushima: We’re In The Most Dangerous Moment Since the Cuban Missile Crisis
Award-winning scientist David Suzuki says that Fukushima is terrifying, Tepco and the Japanese government are lying through their teeth, and Fukushima is “the most terrifying situation I can imagine”. Continue reading
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Video: Nuclear Danger: World Action Now on Fukushima By grtv
Journalist, author, activist and historian Harvey Wasserman has been reporting on, and participating in, the nuclear free movement for decades. In that time, by his judgment, only one other event matches the danger to the world posed by the Cuban Missile Crisis. That event is the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Continue reading
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NSA: “Disreputable if Not Outright Illegal”: The National Security Agency versus Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Art Buchwald, Frank Church, et al.
Newly Declassified History Divulges Names of Prominent Americans Targeted by NSA during Vietnam Era Continue reading
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Media: Iran Has Space Program–Some See Crisis! By Peter Hart
A well-respected research group posted a short article on its website about the location of a second launchpad for Iran’s space program. That’s not big news–but it can be made to sound like scary news in the New York Times. Continue reading
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Video: The Great Rift: Capitalism and the metabolism of nature and production John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster: We need a society that is geared, as István Mészáros always tells us, to substantive equality. And no compromise on the issue of equality. Bolívar said equality is the law of laws. So we need substantive equality and we need ecological sustainability. And they have to go together. Continue reading
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Video: U.S. Allies Violate Int. Law Pursuing Snowden
Mark Weisbrot: Forced landing of Bolivia president’s plane and other tactics show that Snowden needs to speak directly to the public to get political asylum (inc transcript) Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for July 3, 2013: MHP, Joy-Ann Reid vs Wikileaks & the Constitution, Obama & Mandela: Dangerous Mythology
3 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Joy Ann Reid, Melissa Harris-Perry as Prosecutor & Cop Go After Snowden, Wikileaks, & the Second Amendment by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Gandhi once said that western civilization would be “a good idea.” So would black journalism. One white TV Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 1 July 2013
1 July 2013 — williambowles.info Egypt’s Military Gives President 48 Hours to Resolve Crisis Wall Street Journal CAIRO—Egypt’s military gave Mohammed Morsi a 48-hour ultimatum to “resolve the crisis” before the military intervenes, setting the stage for a possible military coup a day after millions thronged Egypt’s streets demanding the president’s resignation. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323297504578578991289439784.html Continue reading
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Leaked Recording Leads to Allegations of Plot to Provoke a Crisis in Venezuela By RYAN MALLETT-OUTTRIM
The Venezuelan government released a recording that allegedly shows that one of the leaders head of the country’s opposition coalition discussed a possible coup with U.S. State Department officials. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 19 June 2013: Lies of Empire, No Rollback on Mass Incarceration, Obama's Syrian Press Pass and more…
19 June 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Lies of Empire: Don’t Believe a Word They Say by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S. reprises Iraq, inventing a WMD threat from Syria. The FBI concocts home-grown terror through stings, while the NSA claims it has secretly saved many Continue reading
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Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate and energy shocks By Nafeez Ahmed
Since the 2008 economic crash, security agencies have increasingly spied on political activists, especially environmental groups, on behalf of corporate interests. This activity is linked to the last decade of US defence planning, which has been increasingly concerned by the risk of civil unrest at home triggered by catastrophic events linked to climate change, energy… Continue reading
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Humanitarian Crisis in Syria: “The West should Pay War Reparations to Syria”. Interview with Michel Chossudovsky
Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel Chossudovsky, Center for Research on Globalization, Montreal, on the back of UN concern for the Syrian war spilling over into other countries. Continue reading
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Today’s World Environment Reflects Crisis Of Capitalist Civilization By Farooque Chowdhury
The state of today’s global environment reflects the contradiction between the ownership of the world resources by a miniscule group and billions of resource-producing, but resource-starved humans, the contradiction created by an ever accumulating economy, the contradiction between ever greedy capital owners and humanity in chains. Continue reading
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The Geopolitics of Gas and the Syrian Crisis By Dmitry MININ
What has one of the most democratic countries of the Middle East, Syria, done to tick off some of its neighbors in the West, the fierce fighters for democracy? The irrationality and unscrupulousness of the approaches Western countries have taken to the Syrian crisis, when the same people who in Europe are considered terrorists are… Continue reading
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Ireland and the Basque Country By James Petras
Many billions of Euros are being extracted from Europe’s vassal-debtor nations – Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland –and transferred to the creditor banks, financial speculators and swindlers located in the City of London, Wall Street, Geneva and Frankfort. Under what has been termed ‘austerity’ programs vast tributary payments are amassed by ruling Conservative and Social… Continue reading
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The Greek Crisis and the Left Response: Two Essays by Panagiotis Sotiris
For the past three years Greece has been at the same time an experiment in neoliberal social engineering and a laboratory of movements and collective struggles. For the first time in many decades we have the case of a country entering a phase of profound social and political crisis that has the potential to turn… Continue reading
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The Global Economic Crisis: Causes and Devastating Consequences By Global Research
This important collection provides the reader with “a most comprehensive analysis of the various facets – especially the financial, social and military ramifications – from an outstanding list of world-class social thinkers.” Continue reading
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For the Finance Minister of Germany, Crisis Is a “Necessity” By Victor Grossman
Angela Merkel’s face usually displays a rather plain, friendly, almost benign expression, matching her simple, benign words. But in rare unguarded moments, some claim, they glimpse a very hard visage, which is matched, equally rarely, by hardly benign words, like her annoyed statement that Cyprus was “exhausting the patience of its euro partners.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 