“Deindustrialization.” That’s a word you virtually never hear in the debate around global warming. Not surprising. It’s a word that’s loaded with negative implications: economic collapse, mass layoffs, falling living standards.
Geography Archives: Americas
South America, Central America, United States & Canada
Facebook suspends teleSUR English without explanation, again
teleSUR English’s page has been removed from Facebook for the second time this year without any specific reason being provided. This is an alarming development in light of the recent shutting down of pages that don’t fit a mainstream narrative.
U.S. now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing and building
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to give the go-ahead for the use of Asbestos in manufacturing, building or other use.
Magical bootstraps and the struggles of working Americans
A recession is coming, sooner or later. Once it hits, we can expect articles bemoaning the fact that working people didn’t build-up their savings during this record expansion to help them through the hard times. If only they had pinched pennies here and there, skipped a new TV or smart phone, they could have generated […]
Venezuela’s monetary revolution vis-à-vis economic sanctions
Nino Pagliccia looks at the impacts of the increasing sanctions against Caracas.
Science fiction and the angel of history
A review of, ‘Sorry to Bother You’.
Venezuelanalysis: official statement on facebook’s removal of our page
Venezuelanalysis is the only independent English language website covering news and analysis on Venezuela from a progressive perspective & which platforms leftist grassroots voices. It is run by committed journalists, authors and academics & praised by renowned journalists and intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Marta Harnecker and Oliver Stone.
Why the attempt to assassinate Maduro?
While many countries claim to be protect civil rights and democracy, their ties to imperialism ensure silence in such moments. They predictably failed to denounce the assassination attempt, even after signing international agreements defining an attempt on the life of a head of state as a “terrorist act.”
López Obrador: no time to lose
Andres Manuel López Obrador has announced the first 13 reforms that he will send to Congress when he assumes the Presidency of Mexico on December 1.
Cuba reiterates unconditional solidarity and support for President Maduro and the Bolivarian Chavista Revolution
The revolutionary Cuban government issued a declaration forcefully denouncing the attempted attack on the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, which occurred Saturday August 4, during a military parade in Caracas.
Failed Terrorist Attack against Venezuelan President Maduro
Jorge Martin looks at some of the consequences of the recent terrorist attack which looked to assassinate President Maduro.
A reserve army of reporters
Capitalists profit from the misery of both those who are unemployed and those who are lucky enough to be working full-time but seeing their work hours increase, their benefits diced, their wages cut. This very much describes the state of modern journalism in 2018.
Capitalism killed our climate momentum not ‘human nature’
This Sunday, the entire New York Times Magazine will be composed of just one article on a single subject: the failure to confront the global climate crisis in the 1980s, a time when the science was settled and the politics seemed to align.
U.S. foments regime change in Nicaragua
Around a dozen thugs attack Bookmarks in central London and threaten to return.
U.S. militarism marches on
Republicans and Democrats like to claim that they are on opposite sides of important issues. Of course, depending on which way the wind blows, they sometimes change sides, like over support for free trade and federal deficits. Tragically, however, there is no division when it comes to militarism.
U.S. fake World War 2 history underlies permanent bipartisan hostility toward Russia
There’s fake news. And then there’s fake history. Fake news lies about the world as it is. But fake history is the context for fake news. Fake history sanctifies abominations past and present. Fake history erases the struggle over thousands of years between those many who produced the planet’s wealth and the greedy few who […]
We defend the Constituent Assembly
The national leader of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), the economist João Pedro Stédile, is at the frontline for the liberation of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He predicts that if Lula’s candidacy is prevented, a political crisis will become even more acute.
More than universal healthcare: the meaning of socialism
Young people are turning to socialism, and Democratic Party politicians are adopting the term. But what is socialism?
Science for the People Revival, Geoenginnering Discussion, New York City, July 28, 2018
This is a video from the Science for the People Event in New York City on July 28. It includes a talk by Fred.
Racism and the logic of capitalism
The emergence of a new generation of anti-racist activists and thinkers battling police abuse, the prison-industrial complex and entrenched racism in the US, alongside the crisis over immigration and growth of right-wing populism in Europe and elsewhere, makes this a crucial moment to develop theoretical perspectives that conceptualise race and racism as integral to capitalism […]
