GST Original Articles
By Kim Scipes / 19 September 2023
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The United States in the World: Making Sense of the Past Forty Years (1981-2023)-Part 2--- Kim ScipesNOTE TO READER: This is the second part of a five-part article. It follows the section on “Imperialism,” and is part of explaining essential concepts of this study plus elaborating on how they interact:GLOBALIZATION[1]
Globalization is an on-going process. Using the term means taking a planetary scope, no longer restricting one’s analysis to the level of... Read more
By Kim Scipes / 19 September 2023
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The United States in the World: Making Sense of the Past Forty Years (1981-2023)-Part 1
--Kim Scipes
NOTE TO READER: This is a lengthy article, co-published with Z Network, that is broken up into five parts so as not to make it too overwhelming; the sections differ in length; it will be published on five consecutive days. Each section has its own endnotes and references. Each URL referenced was checked in late July 2023 and is operational unless otherwise noted... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 11 September 2023
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Japan cannot possibly outlive the atrocity of dumping radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. In fact, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is an example of how nuclear meltdowns negatively impact the entire world, as its toxic wastewater travels across the world in ocean currents. The dumping of stored toxic wastewater from the meltdown in 2011 officially started on August 24, 2023. Meanwhile, the country restarts some of the nuclear... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 11 August 2023
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Nuclear reactors are directly in the line of fire of global warming.
In fact, nuclear reactors cannot survive global warming. But that’s only the start of serious issues with the world’s newly found love affair with nuclear energy. This article examines the likelihood of nuclear energy as a fixit for global warming, or is it a victim?
The world is turning to nuclear energy as one solution for raging global warming, which has been in... Read more
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By Chris Bambery / 18 September 2023
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11 September 1973, saw a military coup which did not just overthrow the elected Chilean government but unleashed savage repression, which left 30,000 workers dead and countless others tortured, maimed, without work and hungry. One of the aims of the coup [was] to fragment and dismember one of the most insurgent working classes on the continent. Popular... Read more
By Yves Engler / 17 September 2023
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The private car is an engine of profit accumulation and conspicuous consumption. Class and corporate forces drove the private car’s rise but institutional myopia and crass electoralism help explain its ongoing dominance.
By Bill Henderson / 15 September 2023
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A report this Spring showed that while renewable capacity continues to grow like topsy, emissions continue to rise. We are just building a larger energy capacity, not reducing emissions. Shouldn’t we know that historically new energy sources add to instead of displacing existing sources of energy; that renewables aren’t decreasing fossil fuel use, ... Read more
By Joshua Frank / 14 September 2023
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Its Ocean Drilling Ship, a deep sea mining (DSM) vessel [is] the size of a battle cruiser set to be operational by 2024. Instead of weaponry, however, the ship is equipped with advanced excavation equipment capable of drilling at depths of 32,000 feet. On land, the Chinese already hold a virtual monopoly on metals considered vital to “green” energy... Read more
By AN INTERVIEW WITH ANAND GOPAL / 10 September 2023
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It’s easy to look at the political forces today in the Middle East and assume that political Islam has always been dominant, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Iraqi Communist Party was one of the most powerful actors in Iraqi politics; at its height, it was a cross-sectarian party with tens of thousands of members. The rising Ba‘ath Party eventually crushed... Read more
By Dr Gideon Polya / 10 September 2023
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Mindless, blind growth driven by neoliberal capitalism is destroying the Biosphere and the very basis of Humanity’s existence. “The Future is Degrowth. A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism” by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan [1] is a highly referenced and documented summary of the views of proponents of economic degrowth as... Read more
By Arun Gupta / 06 September 2023
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Will there be bananas under socialism? Ben Burgis in the Promethean-leaning Jacobin aligned with pro-growthers when he wrote that “the instinct by at least some participants in Banana Discourse to trivialize concerns about access to consumer goods as a matter of spoiled Americans not being able to imagine giving up their ‘treats’ is deeply misguided... Read more