(2023-09-11). Economic growth in G7 versus BRICS: a reality check. nationofchange.org Like rose-colored glasses, anti-systemic glasses make economic problems appear less dangerous, narrower, and more limited in effects than they actually are.
(2023-09-11). No Parties On A Dead Planet: It's Time We Reimagine Burning Man. popularresistance.org For the past 37 years, people have flocked to Burning Man to celebrate art, radical self expression and community. The first iteration of Burning Man began in 1986 when a small group of friends met on a San Francisco beach with an eight-foot statue of a man they built with scrap lumber. They soaked the statue in gasoline and burned it, symbolizing the destruction of the powers that be. | The world does not look today as it did in 1986: As about 72,000 "Burners" lined up in their cars and campers to take reprieve from the grind of capitalism and attend this year's Burning Man, which now conven…
(2023-09-11). Review: "Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Fuel Capitalism" mronline.org 
Nicolas Graham's book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke…
(2023-09-10). Oral History of Political Prisoners Shows Enduring Power of Revolutionary Hope. truthout.org Political prisoners "are our messengers, our dreamers, and our pioneers," writes celebrated Marxist and abolitionist Angela Davis in the preface to Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners. "They teach us that we do not have to accede to existing modes of organizing our collective existence. They remind us that there is life beyond racial capitalism… |
(2023-09-11). Remembering Salvador Allende and the Chilean Counterrevolution. fpif.org When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism by peaceful means, I decided to do my doctoral dissertation on Chile. In May 1972, I went to take a crash course in Spanish in Cuernavaca in the Mexican state of Morelos, the birthplace of the legendary peasant leader Emiliano Zapata whose life had been made into a movie starring Marlon Brando that I had seen and liked as a teenager. After three weeks, I felt that the course had substantially improved the rudimentary Spanish I had from high school in the Philippines. So, I flew…
(2023-09-10). Russia Targets Kyiv with Drone Barrage as Ukraine Takes Aim at Crimea. news.antiwar.com The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses downed a series of Ukrainian drones targeting the Crimean Peninsula on Sunday. The same day, Ukraine reported intercepting dozens of Russian drones in the skies above Kyiv. Voice of America — the US state media outlet — reported that Ukraine was targeted with over three dozen Russian …
(2023-09-10). Russia Targets Kyiv with Drone Barrage as Ukraine Takes Aim at Crimea. news.antiwar.com The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses downed a series of Ukrainian drones targeting the Crimean Peninsula on Sunday. The same day, Ukraine reported intercepting dozens of Russian drones in the skies above Kyiv. Voice of America — the US state media outlet — reported that Ukraine was targeted with over three dozen Russian …
(2023-09-11). US Admits to Sending Radioactive Weapons to Ukraine that Left Thousands of Iraqi Babies Deformed. globalresearch.ca
(2023-09-10). UK set to station US nuclear bombs on British soil, 15 years after their removal. wsws.org Plans to restore nuclear weapons to Britain's east coast are an escalation in the US-NATO war drive against Russia and confirm the UK's status as a leading participant.
(2023-09-10). UK set to station US nuclear bombs on British soil, 15 years after their removal. wsws.org Plans to restore US nuclear weapons to Britain's east coast are an escalation in the US-NATO war drive against Russia and confirm the UK's status as a leading participant.