While War, Wall Street or Weather by itself could each cause the world economy to collapse, they are not mutually exclusive. Empire is becoming increasingly expensive. Nations have caught on to the US’s strategies of debt slavery (through the IMF, World Bank, etc.) and overthrowing legitimately elected government to install friendly dictators. Russia and China, [...]
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01/07/2013 by 19 Comments
January 8th, 2013 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? “France no longer recognizes its children,” lamented Guillaume Roquette in an editorial in the Figaro weekly magazine in Paris. “How can the country of Victor Hugo, secularism and family reunions produce jihadists capable of attacking a kosher grocery store?” 1 I ask: [...]
Obama Sells Out Labor and the Environment … Again
06/22/2012 by Leave a Comment
Obama Sells Out Labor and the Environment … Again The Big Lies About Free Trade Agreements by ROB URIE, 06, 22, 2012 Source: Counterpunch This week the Obama administration was caught hiding behind secrecy agreements to mask its role in the latest ‘free-trade’ deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The pact is designed to further [...]
The Solution to Concentrated Power: Diffusion, Decentralization, and Devolution of power to local communities.
06/22/2012 by 1 Comment
While you’re at it, do what you can by signing this petition: In Support of Asylum for Julian Assange in Ecuador, and consider a personal appeal to the Correa Administration of Ecuador via embassy@ecuador.org.—Thanks! The Solution to Concentrated Power: the Three Ds Charles Hugh Smith, 06, 22, 2012 Source: charles hugh smith The solution to centralized power [...]
The Green Economy is the Environmentalism of the Rich
06/19/2012 by Leave a Comment
Market Failure at the Rio+20 Earth Summit ’The Green Economy is the Environmentalism of the Rich” by PATRICK BOND, 06/19/12 source: Counterpunch Given the worsening world economic crisis, the turn to “Green Economy” rhetoric looms as a potential saviour for footloose financial capital, and is also enormously welcome to those corporations panicking at market chaos [...]
Rio+20: Farmers, Indigenous peoples mobilise against green capitalism and the privatisation of nature
06/18/2012 by Leave a Comment
Rio de Janeiro, June 14, 2012 – La Via Campesina – About 3000 people from around the world will mobilise to say NO to the commodification of life and nature at the “Peoples Summit for Social and Environmental Justice and in Defense of the Commons”, the parallel opposition activity to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development or [...]
Beautiful green world? On the myth of the green capitalist economy
06/18/2012 by Leave a Comment
By the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation June 13, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – The “green economy”: It will stop climate change and the extinction of species and in so doing will create high growth rates and millions of jobs. It’s seen as a miraculous weapon. Through it, global capitalism will be stabilised. And then it [...]
The Ecology of Marxian Political Economy
09/03/2011 by Leave a Comment
The Ecology of Marxian Political Economy John Bellamy Foster It is no secret today that we are facing a planetary environmental emergency, endangering most species on the planet, including our own, and that this impending catastrophe has its roots in the capitalist economic system. Nevertheless, the extreme dangers that capitalism inherently poses to the environment [...]