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The eco-politics of the sublime: nature, environmentalism, and Covid-ecology
A conception of the sublime, liberated from its racist, sexist and domineering classic form, should form a part of any ecosocialist imaginary.
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Fake ‘shoplifting surge’ is just the latest in crime wave propaganda
The issue has become one of the key fronts in the development of law and order rhetoric. It is part of the backlash from pro-police elements of society to prevent any changes at all to the country’s hyper militarized, mainly ineffective, racist, and brutal system of policing and the accompanying system of mass incarceration.
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Defund the global climate wall
To create a safer, more sustainable world, the United States needs to divert border money toward climate action.
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Opening this article voids warranty
Repair, as an act of reclaiming technology, is ongoing in the Global North and South with complementary driving forces and problems.
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As we run out of time to save the planet, COP26 ends in ‘utter betrayal’
Following two weeks of negotiations, the UN climate summit COP26 concluded with the Glasgow Climate Pact.
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Canadian imperialism and the responsibility to ‘Voluntour’
The term ‘voluntourism’ is a portmanteau of the words ‘volunteer’ and ‘tourism’ and refers to a practice in which people, often young upper or middle-class white women in the Global North (Bandyopadhyay and Patil 2017, 645), pay an organization to coordinate their trip to a country in the Global South.
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Friends of Cuba: oppose U.S. intervention
Seizing on small protests over shortages on the island in July, the U.S. is now trying to build anti-government feeling with worldwide protests against socialist Cuba, including one in London—we must show our support instead, writes NATASHA HICKMAN
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Climate conspiracy theorists say it is suspicious that every single research paper says the EXACT same thing
A group of climate change conspiracy theorists has uncovered a set of strange patterns and repeated terminology in research papers which they say is highly suspicious.
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COP26 was a failure. But the people’s alternative can still be a success
Has COP26, which has wound up in Glasgow after two weeks of political showboating and grassroots protest, been a failure?
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Debunking myths about Nicaragua’s 2021 elections, under attack by USA/EU/OAS
The U.S., EU, and OAS are launching a new coup attempt against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, refusing to recognize its 2021 elections. The Grayzone observed the vote on the ground, and dispels myths aimed at discrediting the process.
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U.S. threatens regime change in Nicaragua
Nicaragua has been a target of U.S. aggressions since the 1850s. The Biden administration’s attack on the newly elected government is the latest chapter in a long and sordid history. Eyewitness accounts of the electoral process reveal the manipulations and lies concocted by the U.S. and its corporate media partners in this latest regime change effort.
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Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity —A Discussion of the Deutscher Prize 2020
This session is a discussion of the Deutscher Prize Winning Book 2020 ‘The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity’ – John Bellamy Foster
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Why are you asking us to compromise on our lives?
Nothing useful seemed to emerge from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at COP26 this week. The leaders of developed countries made tired speeches about their commitment to reversing the climate catastrophe.
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Manufacturing stagnation
Intellectual property, industrial organization, and economic growth.
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UN-backed banker alliance announces “green” plan to transform the global financial system
The most powerful private financial interests in the world, under the cover of COP26, have developed a plan to transform the global financial system by fusing with institutions like the World Bank and using them to further erode national sovereignty in the developing world.
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Sandinistas win by a landslide! U.S. dirty tricks fail in derailing Nicaraguan democracy
On Monday, the results of the election were announced: the FSLN won by a landslide with 75.92% of the vote. Voter turnout was 65.23% of all eligible voters, higher than in the last U.S. election where voter turnout is measured by registered, not eligible voters.
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The Facebook team that tried to swing Nicaragua’s election is full of U.S. spies
A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is between Facebook and the national security state.
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We have been lied to! Caleb Maupin from polling place in Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s electoral process far proceeds that of which the U.S. media has led the people of the United States to believe.
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Miami’s ultra-right and its coercion against Cuban artists
Havana, Nov. 4 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Cuba highlighted today the methods of pressure that the extreme right of Miami, U.S., exerts on Cuban artists to take sides against the government of the island.
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Venezuela vaccinates 67% of its population against COVID-19
Despite the U.S. blockade against Venezuela, the socialist government led by President Nicolás Maduro has been carrying out a successful mass vaccination drive against COVID-19