Climate scientists now believe their predictions about the rate of the global temperature increase have been too conservative, and stronger and more decisive action is needed to reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions.
Subjects Archives: Strategy
India’s farewell to ASEAN as it boards RCEP train
It comes in the specific context of the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership [RCEP] on Sunday—the mega free trade agreement centred on the ASEAN plus China, Japan and South Korea.
Susan Rice, scourge of Africa, may become Secretary of State
Rice has been intimately involved in covering up the deaths of more than six million Congolese, and has cultivated close relations with every U.S.-backed tyrant on the continent.
Silvia Federici: The exploitation of women and the development of capitalism
Federici demonstrates that unpaid labor–especially that of women confined to the domestic sphere and of enslaved workers–is a necessary support for waged labor.
Evo Morales: Lithium was the reason for the coup in Bolivia
The former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, assures that the large deposits of lithium in the Andean country and his government’s attempt to industrialize the reserves were why the coup d’état against him in 2019 occurred.
Joe Biden’s victory is still a loss for humanity
The Biden-Harris administration is good news for corporations, cops, war profiteers and banks too big to fail, but offers nothing to save the people and planet from multiple rises.
China is working to expand its ties to Latin America
In mid-January 2020, 800 people gathered at Mexico’s Ministry of Economy to celebrate “China Day” with a seminar on Chinese-Mexican relations.
A response to Pollin and Chomsky: We need a Green New Deal without growth
Robert Pollin and Noam Chomsky have a new book out, Climate Crisis and the Green New Deal. It’s an important contribution to the emerging GND literature, from two thinkers I respect.
Evo Morales’ sarcasm: “If there was fraud, Donald Trump should go to OAS’s Luis Almagro”
In one of his last interviews before traveling to Bolivia—the return to his homeland is scheduled for November 9—Evo Morales stated his opinion on the United States elections, where there is still no confirmation on who will be the next president.
Bolivia Bolivia’s President-Elect Luis Arce attacked with dynamite
The Socialist leader was attacked while he was at a meeting in La Paz city. There is no report of injuries.
Media silence marks ongoing OPCW cover-up of Syria chemical weapons scandal
“Clearly the U.S. and its allies do not want transparency and open debate about the OPCW Douma investigation, and one can only conclude that this is the case because they know full well that their claims cannot be substantiated. Smears and censorship are the only tactics they have left.” – Propaganda Expert Piers Robinson
U.S. is doing its best to lock out China from Latin America and the Caribbean
Regional governments from both right and left see the BRI as lucrative and free of political interference.
Crossing red lines: why the establishment wants to destroy Corbyn
Corbyn’s anti-war principles and their popular appeal are the biggest threat to the establishment, says Chris Nineham.
The knives come out as Greenwald splits from the Intercept citing censorship
Funded by a billionaire oligarch and increasingly seen as a mouthpiece for the neoliberal establishment, The Intercept suffered its biggest blow yet with the very public departure of Greenwald.
In defense of Jeremy Corbyn
Yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn was suspended as a member of the British Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn is the victim of a monstrous campaign of slander
After years of being slandered, Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from the British Labour Party. It’s a shocking development.
Ecosocialism: an alternative to global capitalism
Over the past four decades or so, various leftists have become more sensitive to the environmental degradation in developed and developing capitalist societies and post-revolutionary societies, particularly in the former Soviet Union and, in recent times, China.
‘Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu’ by Michael Burawoy reviewed by Paul Leduc Browne
Michael Burawoy’s Symbolic Violence is a Marxist critique of the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. This fascinating book explores some of Bourdieu’s contradictions by staging a series of ‘conversations’ between the French sociologist and a range of important, mostly Marxist, thinkers whose writings Bourdieu ignored or dismissed in footnotes, even though he ought to have engaged […]
From a wealthy socialite to an Israeli Govt censor, Facebook’s new “Free Speech Court” is anything but independent
Freedom of speech on the Internet is all but extinct, and on the eve of the 2020 U.S. elections, a de facto “free speech court” is going to make sure it never comes back. On Facebook at least.
What is at stake in the study of settler colonialism?
Settler colonialism, those colonial processes based on the aim of permanently settling metropolitan populations on indigenous lands, and–crucially–the struggle against it, have been at the centre of many of the key political developments of the last three decades.
