Biased ‘news’ coverage of wildlife and the Ebola crisis illustrates the worst prejudices of modern American journalism on the subject of Africa.
Archive | March, 2015
Climate prescriptions that won’t cure the disease
Book Review: In ‘Tropic of Chaos,’ Christian Parenti presents a convincing and disturbing portrait of unfolding planetary crisis, but the solutions he offers don’t match the challenge.
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Syriza program shows another energy is possible … Gates and USAID: Grabbing Africa’s seeds … After Cyclone Pam: Climate action is urgent … Desertec’s renewable energy grab
Should U.S. Marxists support the Greens?
Our job is not to stand across the street yelling at people until they pass resolutions calling for the abolition of surplus value. We must be with the masses, where and when they are willing to struggle.
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Monbiot on why the UN climate talks have wasted 23 years … Pablo Solon on the climate negotiating text … Bakken Oil and market anarchy … A new era of rapid temperature change
Mining, energy, climate, capitalism: Why don’t NGOs connect the dots?
Despite making powerful criticisms of multinational mining corporations, an NGO-organized conference in Cape Town ignored essential links with related struggles
Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology
Real solutions will not come from the industrial model. Agroecology is a key form of resistance to an economic system that puts profit before life.
Bugger the Bankers
A powerful and effective (and true and funny) protest song for our time
Revitalized climate movement draws 20,000 to London protest
The movement that stalled after the failed climate talks in Copenhagen 2009 is back on the streets – bigger, stronger and more confident than ever
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CO2 levels for February eclipsed prehistoric highs … How agroecology can feed Africa … State of Power 2015 … Paris climate talks and the failure of states
The secret history of pollution and the EPA
In ‘Poison Spring’, an insider documents the culture of fraud and corruption that infests the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and endangers the lives of millions
Declaration of South African Food Sovereignty Campaign
Break the power of food corporations. Establish a constitutional right to food. Build food sovereignty from below, based on small scale farming and agroecology, not industrial agriculture
Capitalism versus rational agriculture
Highly recommended reading: Two articles on the contradictions between growing food to meet essential human needs and growing food to produce profit
Climate inaction: The appalling complicity of liberal media
As Earth steadily moves deeper into the danger zone, corporate media responds by giving less and less coverage to climate and the environment