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- Israel’s environmental colonialism and eco-apartheidBy greenwashing the occupation, Israel hides its apartheid behind an environmentalist mirage, and distracts public attention not only from its brutal oppression of the Palestinian people, but from its large-scale degradation of the earth upon which these tragedies unfold.---READ-->>
- Rio+20 proves capitalism won't save the planetWhile the world’s governments refused to act, 50,000 thousands trade unionists, rural workers, landless peasants and indigenous peoples demonstrated outside. They are the real hope for a mass anti-capitalist movement movement to stop environmental disaster.---READ-->>
- China Miéville on art and politicsA Marxist science fiction writer on how we feel about the art we like or dislike, and how that relates to politics---READ-->>
- Bolivia resolves to nationalize Canadian mining companyDespite attempts by the Canadian company to divide indigenous communities, a new agreement will ensure that Bolivia’s resources are used to benefit the country’s people.---READ-->>
- Another view of VeblenMichael Perelman says Thorstein Veblen has become more relevant than ever.---READ-->>
- Fukushima: A disaster manufactured in the imperial boardrooms of capitalChris Williams:Conscious actions by the ruling elite, not natural causes, led directly to the triple nuclear meltdowns. The decisions they made were dictated by the prime directive of capitalism: there is no higher power than the God of Profit.---READ-->>
- WPD: Gates to coercive contraceptionBetsy Hartmann: On World Population Day, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosts an international meeting that blames poor women for the social ills caused by the rich and powerful. Human rights activists fear this heralds a serious backslide to the bad old days of coercive contraception and population control.---READ-->>
- US heatwave: "This is what global warming looks like"So many temperature records were being broken that there is no point in listing or even attempting to summarise all of the June monthly records---READ-->>
- David Rovics sings "The Commons"This wonderful song by U.S. singer/songwriter David Rovics has been running through my head---READ-->>
- An ecosocialist perspective for UK GreensThe political strategy of the Green Party assumes that politics just means fighting elections. This is a doomed approach. We will only win elections by building a movement, and we will never build much of a movement by simply fighting elections.---READ-->>
- B.C.'s carbon tax is a failure … and Australia is following suitAs predicted when it was introduced, B.C.’s carbon tax has hurt the poor, while doing nothing to cut emissions. Here’s an update … and a video of Simon Butler speaking on Australia’s equally bad plan---READ-->>
- Bookchin on Bookchin: An appeal for supportAn appeal for support to “Bookchin on Bookchin,” a documentary on the life and ideas of a legendary political thinker, philosopher, anarchist and environmental activist.---READ-->>
- Overpopulation theory, illustratedThere are definitely too many other people.---READ-->>
- Why today's radicals must read Marx's Das KapitalMarx’s great work, a huge expose of this monstrous system’s essential tendencies towards crises, is the book that every generation must rediscover.---READ-->>
- Forty years of How Europe Underdeveloped AfricaWalter Rodney’s classic study led to a veritable revolution in the teaching of African history. It remains one of the most compelling and persuasive books to emerge from the bowels of critical resistance to the exploitation of small countries.---READ-->>
- Thirst for power: How coal, nuclear and gas waste our waterOver half of all of the fresh, surface water withdrawn from the environment in the U.S. today is used by power companies. They take the profits, and society pays the price.---READ-->>
- The video Enbridge doesn't want you to seeWhen Enbridge threatened to cancel a $5 million advertising campaign, the Vancouver Province immediately removed this satire from its website.---READ-->>
- Capitalist accumulation, illustratedIn 1896, this artist got it exactly right---READ-->>
- Biofuels and hunger, two sides of the same coinEurope’s pro-biofuel policies are taking food from the mouths of millions of people in central America, causing severe malnutrition and increasing child mortality---READ-->>
- Monbiot: Rio+20 produces 283 paragraphs of fluff190 governments express “deep concern” about the world’s environmental crises, but don’t plan to do anything about them.---READ-->>