We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to a dangerous extent. On the other hand, it is also a social crisis: several billion people are deprived of access to basic goods and services. More than 40 percent of the human population cannot afford nutritious food; 50 percent do not have safely managed sanitation facilities; 70 percent do not have necessary health care.
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The pandemic is demonstrating that we can resist neoliberalism
Pierre Bordieu considered the neoliberal era to be one of the significant retrenchments in our civilisation: … the failure of the state as the guardian of the public interest. Read here
EU politics
Peoples Dispatch: Workers shut down Italy again in solidarity with Palestine
Hundreds of thousands joined a new general strike across Italy, in solidarity with the people of Gaza and the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read Article HERE Demonstration for Gaza in Crotone. Francesco Placco, CC BY-SA 4.0 […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Copyright Directive: how competing big business lobbies drowned out critical voices
This is without a doubt a brilliant piece of research. Unfortunately it is also extremely long. Do have a go at it. After five minutes of reading you will have the gist of it and […]
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