An international student movement to free the economics curriculum from its neoclassical straitjacket was launched last week at the University of California at Berkeley. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter...
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If wealth was height, how tall would rich people be?
Video: Barry Healy of Socialist Alliance makes some instructive comparisons…. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)MoreClick to...
Barry Commoner: Capitalism versus the environment
[Quotes & Insights #14] In the last thirty years many thousands of production decisions have been made in the United States. They have determined that automobiles shall be large and sufficiently powerful to travel at a rate of 100 mph; that electricity shall be produced by nuclear power plants;...
Bill Maher: Global warming is not a debate
There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don’t get a vote. Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email...
Suppressed report confirms international violations by Canadian mining companies
Canadian mining companies are involved in more than four times as many violations as the next two highest offenders, Australia and India Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email...
The Ant, The Grasshopper, and a Big Steaming Pile of Manure
(From OldBaldLiberal’s Blog on The Smirking Chimp. C&C doesn’t normally publish articles by self-described liberals, but this deserves to be widely read.) The Ant and the Grasshopper – a Fable from Aesop The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his...
British Green leader to union conference: 'We need to forge an alliance '
“Our current economic system only works by cheating future generations out of their birthright and by exploiting the vulnerable here and abroad” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
Global inequality by the numbers
A graphic exposure of the “consumer democracy” hoax Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Pocket...
Richest nations aim to wreck climate talks
The existing framework will not allow for the urgent action required Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Pocket...
UN Convention meets to decide how to enhance corporate profits by marketing biodiversity
Profit-making and protection of biodiversity are directly opposed and can never be reconciled ++++++++ by Anne Petermann Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project and North American Focal Point of Global Forest Coalition Climate Connections October 17, 2010 Governments from all over the...