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By Richard Heinberg / 26 March 2016
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Climate change may be the biggest threat facing humanity, but the way we’re currently going about fighting it just ensures that, even if we prevail, another threat will follow, and another, and another.
To explain why, it’s helpful to review a philosophical debate that’s simmered throughout the past couple of centuries. With the advent of modern science came a general predisposition toward an... Read more
By Harvey Wasserman / 26 March 2016
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Harvey Wasserman provides the facts that demonstrate the hypocrisy of the U.S. lecturing Cuba about human rights.
By Jerome Roos / 18 March 2016
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An in-depth assessment of the current malaise of the international left and speculations on a way forward, rooted mainly in struggles over everyday life (reproduction of capital), restoring the commons, and renewing democracy. From the founder of ROAR Magazine (roarmag.org), but this is a more accessible link to the article, I think.
By Kate Raworth and Giorgos Kallis / 18 March 2016
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A debate on the future of the 'degrowth' paradigm, starting with a critical UK-based economist, with a response by a Greek co-author of a recent collection on the subject
By Kris de Decker / 17 March 2016
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We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn't always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
By Dave Lindorff / 13 March 2016
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Scientists have for decades recognized climate change as an existential crisis facing mankind, but the US media, hamstrung by a self-inflicted obsession with presenting “both sides” of every story even when there is only one, have only begun recognizing its gravity. And a huge barrier still prevents climate change from being honestly reported.
That barrier is a mainstream journalistic inability... Read more
By Serge Halimi / 13 March 2016
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An excellent overview of the current relationships between electoral and extraparliamentary movements, mainly from a European perspective.