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$2 Trillion for War Versus $100 Billion to Save the Planet.
The West seems more fixated on spending social wealth on the military rather than addressing the climate catastrophe.
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Existing climate mitigation scenarios perpetuate colonial inequalities
The core countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the rest of Europe (collectively referred to here as the Global North) use on average about 130 gigajoules of energy per capita each year, nearly ten times more than what low-income countries use (13·4 GJ/capita).
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Be moderate…we only want THE EARTH!
We have to recognize that there is a pathway forward for humanity, but that the capitalist world system, and today’s governments that are largely subservient to corporations and the wealthy, are blocking that pathway, simply because it requires revolutionary-scale socioecological change.
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Everything you‘ve always wanted to know about: ‘good’ wars, ‘good’ war criminals, ‘good’ dictators, ‘good’ separatists, ‘good’ oligarchs, ‘good’ money launderers—and their antitheses!
When Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s president, invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, he was a “good” dictator. His invasion of the neighboring country was not only approved by the United States and its Western satellites, but also universally supported by them. Unlike secular Iraq, Iran was led by so-called vicious Islamic clerics.
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The Tories fiddle while the planet burns, but protest is growing – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on unfolding economic and environmental crises, and how we should respond.
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Greenland threatens
It rained for 9 hours at Summit Station/Greenland, 10,530’ elevation.
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On the bicentennial of Shelley’s death: evolution of a working-class poet
Two hundred years ago, on July 8, 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned. He was less than a month short of thirty.
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Heat waves tied to Big Energy capitalism
The population of the world is enduring crises from climate change that, until recently, climatologists thought may only happen decades from now.
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On Marxism and decolonisation
IN 1959, one of the revolutionary leaders in Cuba, Haydée Santamaria, a hundred years old this year, arrived at a cultural centre in the heart of Havana, Cuba.
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Will our children be literate? Will they look forward to the future with dignity?: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)
The world is adrift in the tides of hunger and desolation. It is difficult to think about education, or anything else, when your children are not able to eat.
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Understanding the “middle class”
Who, or what, is the “middle class”? Most people identify themselves as middle class, but what does that mean, and what difference does it make?
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U.S. war hawk John Bolton boasts that he planned coups d’état abroad
The former White House national security advisor under Donald Trump admits his direct involvement in efforts to overthrow legitimate governments around the globe.
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Meet the ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook’s content policy
It is an uncomfortable job for anyone trying to draw the line between “harmful content and protecting freedom of speech. It’s a balance”, Aaron says. In this official Facebook video, Aaron identifies himself as the manager of “the team that writes the rules for Facebook”, determining “what is acceptable and what is not.”
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Marxist, nationalist, feminist: the art and politics of Frida Kahlo
Marxist, Nationalist, Feminist – these are the words that describe not only the political convictions but also the artwork of Frida Kahlo. Although born as Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón outside of Mexico City in 1907, Kahlo eventually shortened her name and frequently told people that she was born in 1910. This was the year that widespread political unrest finally culminated in the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.
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Leverage & interconnectedness are blowing up crypto & DeFi
That’s what’s different this time: Stuff blows up because of leverage and cascades through the crypto space because everything’s interconnected.
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From Hegel to Lenin
As Lenin prepared to understand the First Great Slaughter of the twentieth century, he spent from September to December 1914 absorbing Hegel’s The Science of Logic (1813). Humphrey McQueen begins a six-part exploration of why Lenin thought he had to do so. This first installment, Dialectical Reasoning: ‘The Science of Interconnectedness’ shows why Hegel is still not ‘a dead dog.’
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Communism, the Manifesto, and Hate
We have no reason to succumb to the complex comfort of despair, a lugubriousness by which failure is foreordained. But to stress the repeated failures of the Left is a necessary corrective to its history of boosterism and bullshit, and to stress how appalling these days are, even if we can also find in them hope.
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The United States wants to prevent a historical fact–Eurasian integration: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)
Over the course of the past fifteen years, European countries have found themselves with both great opportunities to seize and complex choices to make. Unsustainable reliance on the United States for trade and investment, as well as the curious distraction of Brexit, led to the steady integration of European countries with Russian energy markets and more uptake of Chinese investment opportunities and its manufacturing prowess.
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We must band together in this age of repression: Abby Martin on resistance and the role of CovertAction Magazine
Time and again, CovertAction Magazine (originally founded as CovertAction Information Bulletin) has been one of the only publications that has been willing to tackle some of the most uncomfortable truths about Deep State crimes against democracy, from CIA backed political assassinations to false flag operations.
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The Future of Work (Part 3) – automation
In this third part of my series on the future of work, I want to deal with the impact of automation, in particular robots and artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs. I have covered this issue of the relationship between human labour and machines before, including robots and AI. But is there anything new that we can find after the COVID slump?