Capitalism
Capitalism Meets Scientism: A Too Convenient Marriage?
We badly need policy reform to change the approach that led to the vast exaggeration of the pandemic by public health officials, elected officials, and our media.
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Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op
The world’s two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now.
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Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System
How many of people’s mental health diagnoses are really just them struggling to function in a capitalist system that is amoral, destructive, overwhelming, overbearing, unsatisfying, and bereft of meaning?
Read More Why Is the World Going to Hell? Netflix’s the Social Dilemma Tells Only Half the Story
The Social Dilemma offers us an opportunity to sense the ugly, psychopathic face shielding behind the mask of social media’s affability. But for those watching carefully the film offers more: a chance to grasp the pathology of the system itself that pushed these destructive social media giants into our lives.
Read More The Unspoken Premise Of Modern Capitalism Is That The World Will Be Saved By Greedy Tech Oligarchs
The world is still very much locked into zealous worship of the great god known as capitalism. And it is choking the world to death.
Read More Ads All Tell Us To Kill Our Future. Worth Discussing?
Every time you avoid what the market economy wants you to do, you help push towards a better system, towards an evolution beyond this shithole machine.
Read More Capitalism Is Double-Billing Us: We Pay From Our Wallets Only for Our Future to Be Stolen From Us
There can be no escape from the death wish of capitalism without recognising that death wish, and then demanding and working for wholesale change.
Read More A Wrong Turn At Albuquerque: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Political blogger and activist Caitlin Johnstone shares her thoughts of the day about U.S. Empire and the precarious state of our society.
Read More Planet of the Humans: Review by Richard Heinberg
The recent film, “Planet of the Humans,” has led to some serious controversy within the world of alternative energies. One of the world’s leading advocates for making the shift away from fossil fuels offers his perspective.
Read More On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View
The coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the globe, and is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of resources and dangers to their personal health
Read More Climate Action: Only the Most Radical Approach Will Work
Capitalism’s drive for profit at all costs is responsible for the climate crisis. In order to have a hope of halting the damage and coping with what is already locked in, we will have to move beyond capitalism towards a society where the needs of the mass of people come first.
Read More This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It’s the First Extermination Event.
From the “insect apocalypse” to the “biological annihilation” of 60 percent of all wild animals in the past 50 years, life is careening across every planetary boundary that might stop it from experiencing a “Great Dying” once more. But this atrocity has no goelogical analogue. To call it the “sixth extinction event” is to make what is an active, organized eradication sound like some kind of passive accident. We are in the midst of the First Extermination Event.
Read More The Capitalists Are Afraid
Capitalists know the reigning ideology of neoliberalism no longer has any credibility. Its lies have been exposed. They also know they are to blame.
Read More Living in Two Worlds: Capitalism Pretends All Is Well While the World Is Burning
Global capitalism demands we pretend all is well, while climate and political realities already reveal the end game we are living in. The U.S. government, along with many others in the western world, has lurched into overt authoritarianism, while climate chaos accelerates at a breakneck pace.
Read More Empire, the Deep State, and the Doomsday Machine
America’s hegemonic reign has given rise to three converging crises for humanity… An expenditure representing a small fraction of the annual US military budget could virtually eliminate such deaths, yet no such effort is forthcoming.
Read More Jane Goodall on Climate Change: ‘Something’s Got to Give’
At the age of 26, Dr Jane Goodall pioneered new ways of researching animals including by living with them. Now, aged 85 and a UN Messenger of Peace, she travels more than 300 days a year to share the urgency of taking action on climate change on behalf of all living things and the planet we share.
Read More The Great Reckoning
In essence, the postmodern age was ending, though few seemed to know it — with elites, in particular, largely oblivious to what was occurring. What would replace postmodernity in a planet heading for ruin remained to be seen.
Read More US Imperialism from Manifest Destiny to the New American Century
Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong have explored the albatross of myths, legends, lies and damn lies around America’s neck in their book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.
Read MoreCapitalism Isn’t ‘Broken’. It’s Working All Too Well – And We’re the Worse for It
Capitalism is not broken. It is working all too well, concentrating money in the hands of the few by exploiting the work of the many. Runaway climate change, war, mass migration, widespread poverty and ever-increasing authoritarianism are the inevitable results of an economic system that rewards corporate actors for their absolute commitment to profit, regardless of the broader consequences.
Read MoreVenezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution in the Crosshairs of US Imperialism
This article explores the contributions, shortcomings, and lessons of the Bolivarian Revolution’s two decades, in the context of the US regime-change efforts from its inception to current attempts by the US to install the unelected Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president.
Read MorePaul Hawken: Will Unregulated Corporate Capitalism Be Our Downfall?
Paul Hawken, one of the most important environmental authors, activists, thinkers and entrepreneurs of our era, has dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. Below, read an edited version of his talk from 2002, where he spoke passionately and eloquently on corporate capitalism and control, wealth disparity, social injustice and how each of those issues plays into ongoing environmental degradation.
Read MoreTrumpism Goes Global
Trumpism is still a growing global phenomena. It can be halted, but only with a radial programme which is local and global. It won’t be easy. But it’s certainly possible. If not us, then who, if not now, then when?
Read MoreLet’s Be Clear, Says Mexico Environment Minister, ‘Parasitic and Predatory Neoliberalism’ to Blame for Climate Crisis
In a scathing rebuke to the elite capitalists and politicians who largely control the global economic and energy systems, Mexico’s newly-appointed environment secretary on Wednesday pointed a stern finger at the “parasitic and predatory neoliberals” for being the key culprits behind the planetary climate crisis.
Read MoreThe Bilderbergers in Switzerland
The conferences of the Bilderbergers are the most secretive events, managed by those who pull the strings behind world leaders – politicians, corporate CEOs, big finance, and other business execs, artists, and the who-is-who of the world elite. And we are talking of the western world. Other than about ten attendees from Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria and Estonia, participants are North Americans or Europeans. The rest of the world doesn’t count.
Read MoreAfter Years of Abuse, the Earth Has Sent Its Bill Collectors
This planet’s macro-ecological system does have an undeniable sense of accounting … and it keeps a running tally. From alpha-gal syndrome to herbicide resistance, from rising seas to superstorms, we’re watching Mother Nature’s accounting system repeatedly expose the fatal flaw driving economic growth during the Anthropocene era. That flaw is the fallacy of externalities.
Read MoreClimate Change: ‘We’ve Created a Civilisation Hell Bent on Destroying Itself – I’m Terrified’, Writes Earth Scientist
To understand you are in a prison, you must first be able to see the bars. That this prison was created by humans over many generations doesn’t change the conclusion that we are currently tightly bound up within a system that could, if we do not act, lead to the impoverishment, and even death of billions of people.
Read MoreWhy Billionaires Have No Right to Their Wealth
Not a day goes by without a new article with details on the unprecedented growth in income inequality and its dire consequences. Something is missing, though. No one is proposing measures that would take away wealth from the 600 or so U.S. billionaires and the 20,000 families with hundreds of millions. Why not?
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