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COP28: Where fossil fuel industries go to gloat
Call it a drugs summit for narcotics distributors promoting clean-living; a convention for casino moguls promising to aid problem gamblers. The list of wicked analogies is endless.
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Carbon capture’s publicly funded failure
Carbon, Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCS or CCUS) has a 50-year history of failure.
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Relying on carbon capture and storage could Unleash ‘carbon bomb’
“We need to cut through the smoke and mirrors of ‘abated’ fossil and keep our eyes fixed on the goal of 1.5°C,” said a co-author of a new analysis.
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How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change
Historical responsibility for climate change is radically shifted when colonial rule is taken into account, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.
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The dangerously appealing style of the Far Right: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2023)
Before he won Argentina’s presidential election on 19 November, Javier Milei circulated a video of himself in front of a series of white boards.
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Despicable derailment of UN Climate negotiations
Capitalism is taking humanity to disaster with a tiny minority doing most of the damage.
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COP28: The mirage that capitalism can solve its destruction
The COP28 summit taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 30 November to 12 December is a colossal illusion, a mirage in the desert.
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IPCC rebellion
It’s 35 years since formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities.”
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The dark side of SpaceX’s flight of innovation
While Elon Musk grabbed headlines again after Starship’s second test flight, his workers continue to toil under high stress and the lack of safety.
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How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Some recent data
Here is a list of studies, surveys and polling results that shed some light on popular perceptions of post-growth and post-capitalist ideas.
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A new mood in the world will put an end to the Global Monroe Doctrine: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
No war in recent years–not even the ‘shock and awe’ campaign used by the United States against Iraq in 2003–has been as ruthless in its use of force.
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We are Spartacus
Julian and David are Spartacus. The Palestinians are Spartacus. People who fill the streets with flags and principle and solidarity are Spartacus. We are all Spartacus if we want to be.
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The dystopian AI future some fear is the present-day reality others live
Whether you’re reading the news or watching a movie, you are likely to encounter some form of warning or buzz about AI.
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On the perpetration of mass-death events
The holocaust now visited on Palestine by U.S./Israel is unique in many ways. Rates of killing and maiming exceed those of previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the perpetrators announce their genocidal intent with unusual frankness, and Western media and official apologists are especially shameless.
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The issue is not racism but the Pan European White Supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy!
Racism should not be thought of as a matter of personal feeling or opinion, but of an exploitative system that is hundreds of years old.
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The intimate embrace between Liberalism and the Far Right: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2023)
One of the curiosities of our time is that the far right is quite comfortable with the established institutions of liberal democracy.
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Everyone is Hitler, when it suits—just not Western leaders
A few signs depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Adolf Hitler were postered in Sydney over the weekend. The police reportedly are investigating and urging people to contact Crime Stoppers if they have any “information in relation to the incident”.
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Averting a rendezvous with disaster
‘Cultural environmentalism’ alone will not solve the climate crisis, as, couched in the language of passivity, it avoids the urgent need for planned and targeted action, says ZOLTAN ZIGEDY.
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People across the globe disrupt “business as usual” for Palestine
International actions organized in solidarity with Palestine demanded an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and an end to all aid to Israel.
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Three waves of historical fascism
Though much marxist theory has explored the recurrent cycles and patterns of historical capitalism, not enough attention has been given to the tendency of moments of politico-economic crisis to become an ideological contestation between fascism and communism in the context of a crisis of liberalism.