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The true costs of capitalist wealth
Norbert Trenkle
2021-12-20 1:04 PM
What drives the capitalist mode of production is the endless compulsion to increase abstract wealth, or, put more simply, the compulsion to turn money into more money... Society is richer than it knows, because it does not take all kinds of wealth factors into account in GDP. (text/plain)
Félix Valero Revenga, blanquea con un cómic al inquisidor Lope de Vega
valladolidnews
2021-12-20 11:55 AM
Félix Valero Revenga blanquea
con un cómic al inquisidor Lope de Vega
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Aleth
2021-12-17 11:10 PM
The defective patient
Michael Huter and Christian Schubert
2021-12-16 8:47 PM
The health care system keeps people sick because it does not view them holistically... When it comes to chronic illnesses, conventional medicine fails because it sees the human being as a machine. A new biopsychosocial medicine sees the human being as a whole. (text/plain)
The wrong climate strategy of the United Nations
Daniel Tanuro
2021-12-16 12:51 AM
To stay below 1.5 °C, net global CO2 emissions must be reduced by 59 percent by 2030 and 100 percent by 2050. 80.2 percent of these emissions are due to the burning of fossil fuels.
In 2019, these fuels still met 84.3 percent of humanity's energy needs. (text/plain)
Punishing the Poor, 211 pp
Lois Wacquant
2021-12-14 3:56 PM
"The Keynesian state, coupled with Fordist wage work...whose mission was to protect the most vulnerable populations...has been succeeded by a state that one might dub neo-Darwinist, in that it erects competition and celebrates unrestrained individual responsibility..." (text/plain)
The Last Stage of the Middle Class
Robert Kurz
2021-12-12 4:35 PM
Money capital is fleeing into the speculative financial markets because investments in new factories have become unprofitable. While growing parts of society are impoverished or even impoverished outside of production, only a simulative accumulation of capital through financial bubbles takes place... (text/plain)
Russia wants a treaty with NATO on eastern enlargement
Michael Maier
2021-12-12 11:37 AM
There is now a need for "a treaty that prevents NATO from standing on the Russian border:" "We need to start negotiations on the new NATO expansion plans." Conceding such a "red line" to the Russians has so far been rejected by NATO (text/plain)
Whistleblower Network on Assange
nachdenkseiten.de
2021-12-11 4:29 PM
" If the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still to be worth anything, all politicians in Western liberal democracies must stand up and speak out. Those who - quite rightly - stand behind Alexei Nawalny must also stand up for Julian Assange. The credibility of our rule of law is at stake here. " (text/plain)
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Aleth
2021-12-09 9:50 PM
Femicides in Juarez…. Not in Texas..
Uchenna Okeke
2021-12-09 6:21 PM
The unsolved murders of 370 women that occurred in the city of Juarez, Mexico. (text/plain)
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bg
2021-12-08 5:46 PM
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bg
2021-12-08 5:46 PM
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bg
2021-12-08 5:46 PM
The planet is bursting
Kerstin Chavent
2021-12-07 10:36 PM
It's not the number of people on Earth that matters, but how they live. (text/plain)
The Rich's Deal
Susi Stuhlinger
2021-12-06 12:13 PM
The richest percent of the world's population accounts for fifteen percent of global emissions, which is twice as much as the entire poorer half of the world's inhabitants together are responsible for CO2. Once again, the rich countries benefit from the deal negotiated in Glasgow. (text/plain)
NSA Kept Watch Over Democratic and Republican Conventions, Snowden Documents Reveal
the intercept
2021-12-04 4:05 PM
also see http://artificialtelepathy.blogspot.com/ (text/plain)
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bill gallagher
2021-12-03 7:01 PM
Keeping Business Alive: The Government Will Pay
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
2021-12-02 2:25 PM
A buyer-of-last-resort program would alleviate the hardship of workers and businesses. It would maintain the cash flow for families and businesses, so that the coronavirus shock has no secondary impacts on demand — Business activity is on hold today, but with an intravenous cash flow, it can be kept alive (text/plain)
Promoting Sustainable Economics
Gerd Zeitler
2021-12-01 1:48 AM
The protagonists of neoliberal globalization seek to fight the devastations – for which they bear responsibility – by the same means that cause the devastations. Now is the time to seize the opportunity and build up economic policy pressure to enforce the development of an economic order that is sustainably oriented... (text/plain)
The Obsolescence of Man
Gunther Anders
2021-11-29 4:11 PM
The history of technology has become history itself. Technology is the single subject of history.
Contemporary humanity looks neither forward nor back. Rather, during its tempestuous flight, its eyes remain closed or in the best cases, are fixated on each present moment. (text/plain)
The road to barbarism
Robert Kurz
2021-11-26 4:11 PM
Capital is losing its capacity for productive investment and is turning to the financial markets, which are more profitable. It is with this money that the war machine and the trade deficit are financed. The US is under great pressure to constantly show that it is in control. (text/plain)
System Transformation or Barbarism
Tomasz Konicz
2021-11-24 10:54 PM
Overcoming capital is thus a necessity for survival. Consequently, the climate question is not a question of burden sharing, it is not a question of social security. The global exploitation process of capital, in which resources and energy are burned to make more money... (text/plain)
Climate Change 2021, 40 pp
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2021-11-24 3:41 PM
It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. A.1.1 Since 2011, concentrations have continued to increase in the atmosphere, reaching annual averages of 410 parts (text/plain)
What will it be like after the pandemic?
Thomas Schwendener
2021-11-21 5:29 PM
From the March outbreak to the end of May 2020 alone, over forty million people filed initial claims for unemployment benefits. Images of endless lines in front of soup kitchens went around the world. In the meantime, the USA threatened to sink into chaos. (text/plain)
Everything was in a mist...
George Orwell, 1984
2021-11-18 8:38 PM
The Trojan Horse and Away from the Herd
Simone Hoerrlein and Daniel Sandmann
2021-11-16 1:15 PM
In "Away from the Herd," the author compares the modern plight with docile submissive people in WW1. "Tagore criticizes modern civilization, which is crushed by materialism. He compares it to a giant giraffe: intelligence has grown into excess and has departed from the heart, the body is wasting away. (text/plain)
The Forever War
Peter Klemm
2021-11-11 4:29 PM
Women's rights were to be strengthened and a Western-style form of government was to be implanted. In fact, according to the U.S.'s own statements, the hijackers of those planes that flew into the World Trade Center towers were primarily Saudis. The docile oil country of Saudi Arabia was never attacked. (text/plain)
Earth Democracy
Vandana Shiva
2021-11-10 12:31 PM
We are part of the universe and the earth and must live in accordance with the laws of the universe as well as the earth. The most basic law is the realization that we share the planet with other beings and that we have a duty to care for our common home. (text/plain)
akela nm today all day
bg
2021-11-09 10:33 PM
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