Climate Crisis
George Monbiot – Surface Tension
Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey. Read here
Media
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Corporate welfare abounds
A couple of examples of why corporations can do what they want. Read here
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – COP26: the biggest finance greenwash event in history
Some of the worst financiers of the worst polluters helped write the script – and more, they will implement the decisions after the summit in Glasgow. Read here
Fake News
John Pilger – Why Julian Assange’s Inhumane Prosecution Imperils Justice for Us All
Julian Assange is a truth-teller who has committed no crime but revealed government crimes and lies on a vast scale and so performed one of the great public services of my lifetime. John Pilger is […]
Climate Crisis
Michael Mann: On the climate crisis, delay has become the new form of denial
But the D-word du jour is delay. And we’ve become all too familiar with the lexicon employed in its service: “adaptation,” “resilience,” “geoengineering” and “carbon capture.” These words offer the soothing promise of action, but […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Advertising should be on the agenda at COP 26 – because it drives out excess consumption with the sole intention of making us miserable
Richard Murphy taking a look at a further aspect of necessary change to reduce useless consumption and therewith CO2. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Chartered accountant. […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – Still a Big Con
How Big Polluters are using “net zero” to block meaningful action at COP26 Read here
EU politics
Jonathan Cook – After Corbyn, Israel lobby turns its guns on UK academia
The Jewish Chronicle warns that the dismissal of Prof David Miller is ‘just the beginning’ Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan Cook’s website To read […]
Media
James Muldoon – Regulating Big Tech is not enough. We need platform socialism
Facebook won’t let state oversight trump shareholder interest, so alternatives – based on common ownership and community control – are needed James Muldoon is senior lecturer in political science at the University of Exeter and Head […]
Media
Jonathan Cook – Haugen isn’t really a ‘Facebook whistleblower’ – and it’s dangerous to imagine she is
It’s dangerous to call Haugen a Facebook ‘whistleblower’. Whistleblowers pay a heavy price for standing up for truth, for humanity, for life. She is simply shoring up one of several elite paths to more deceit, […]