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Capitalism is a giant scam
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Caitlin Johnstone): One of the most formative moments of my life was when I was running a small eco blog called Earth Mums in the mid-00s which focused on consumer solutions to the problem of environmental destruction. Back then I still believed that while capitalism was…
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The G77+China Havana Summit is a bold step toward building a multilateral world
The G77+China Summit has given the Cuban President a perfect opportunity to strengthen ties with like-minded developing countries and to raise the voice of the Global South against America’s “aggressive imperialist policy.”
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Study finds human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire branches of the tree of life
The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping out vertebrate animal species hundreds of times faster than they would otherwise disappear.
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Degrowth and ecosocialist revolution
It is becoming increasingly clear that humanity cannot resolve the anthropogenic ecological crises without radically restructuring our social relations—a consensus shared by the degrowth movement and revolutionary socialism. Panel Discussion at Socialism 2023
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Freedom at work
There is always a demand for more jobs. But what makes a job good? For that, Immanuel Kant has an answer
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A climate of Insanity
Inherent in the nature of insanity is the fact that those inflicted by it are unaware of their mental state, nor do crowds of people or for that matter political parties, and business elites, leading populations to catastrophe, from the scale of the Johnstown all the way to Aushwitz and Berlin to Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan
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New study identifies United States as ‘Planet-Wrecker-in-Chief’
Planned fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. accounts for more than a third of new oil and gas extraction projects set to begin through 2050, according to Oil Change International.
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In final declaration, G77 rejects “digital monopolies” and calls for “reform” of the financial system
The summit in Havana ends with document that also highlights the role of technology for development.
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Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly, and the Rent Economy
Never before has society had the ability it does today to bring together different communities and resources in order to produce new knowledge. It is social, universal labour, and its private appropriation as intellectual property under capitalism stands in the way of liberating the enormous power of the collective to generate new knowledge and benefit people.
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Capitalism must be stopped, not reformed
The time needed for understanding is delaying the radical decisions that are needed immediately. This premise is fundamental. If we wait for people to understand fully, we do not save ourselves. We do not save the planet.
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Where now for the Climate Movement?
It is just four years on from the global mass mobilisations of young people inspired by Swedish climate activist and Friday for Futures (FFF) founder Greta Thunberg.
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The silences of the Delhi declaration
THE G-20 meeting in Delhi was occurring in the midst of an acute economic crisis of the world economy.
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Beneath the polycrisis is the singular dilemma of humanity called capitalism: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger.
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All planetary boundaries mapped out for the first time, six of nine crossed
For the first time, an international team of scientists is able to provide a detailed outline of planetary resilience by mapping out all nine boundary processes that define a safe operating space for humanity.
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Google spends $10 bn a year to monopolize online searching: U.S. DoJ
This accusation surfaced during the commencement of a historic trial, marking the most significant antitrust case in the U.S. in over twenty years.
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G20 is in need of genuine reform
India being the host country, the triumphalist tom-toming that G20 summit on September 9-10 was a “success” is both understandable and probably justifiable.
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A wasted planet gone on sale
The planet has been laid to waste, and society pays for the waste in both money and lost years of life.
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‘There is nothing green about economic growth in high-income countries’
Lancet study finds ‘green growth’ policies fall far short of what’s needed to prevent dangerous change
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U.S. stoops to conquer Global South with some Indian help
The impact of the G20 Summit in New Delhi on September 9-10 is to be measured by the consensus reached regarding the conflict in Ukraine.
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We’re rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic: don’t ask me to help out
Highlighting the climate crisis is not ‘alarmism’, as critics say. Big Business wants an exclusive focus on climate because it downplays the true reasons for alarm.