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26/10/22
Author: 
David Harvey
Crises of Capitalism

Here's a very excellent video adaptation of a 2010 David Harvey presentation which explains the 2008 economic crisis and how the financialization of capital (among other things) helped to contribute to that crisis.

In this RSA Animate, celebrated academic David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order. Can we find a more responsible, just, and humane economic system?

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20/10/22
Author: 
Associated Press
Vehicles are seen on a flooded road in Lokoja, Nigeria, on Thursday. Nigeria experiences annual flooding, especially in coastal areas, but this year's floods are the worst in more than a decade. (Ayodeji Oluwagbemiga/Reuters)

Oct 17, 2022 

More than 1.3 million people have been displaced by heavier than usual rains

The death toll from floods in Nigeria this year has increased to 603 as local authorities race to get relief items to hundreds of thousands being evacuated from their submerged homes.

More than 1.3 million people have been displaced by the disaster, which has affected people across 33 of Nigeria's 36 states, the country's Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs said late Sunday.

20/10/22
Author: 
The Associated Press
Hundreds of homes have been flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia’s southeast. With more rain in the forecast, officials expect river levels to remain dangerously high for days.

Website editor: Extreme weather -  In BC drought.  In Australia floods.

Oct 14, 2022

Man found dead inside submerged car in New South Wales, 2 others reported missing

Homes were flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia's southeast on Friday with rivers forecast to remain dangerously high for days.

18/10/22
Author: 
Al Jazeera English; Reuters
France begins nationwide strikes, copes with major disruptions

Oct. 18, 2022
French trade unions have begun a nationwide strike to demand higher
salaries amid the highest inflation in decades, one of the biggest
challenges to President Emmanuel Macron since his reelection in May.

Tuesday’s strike, which primarily affects public sectors such as schools
and transportation, is an extension of the weeks-long industrial action
that has disrupted France’s major refineries and put petrol stations’
supply in disarray.

15/10/22
Author: 
Aden-Jay Wood DIGITAL PRODUCER
Julian Assange

Oct. 13, 2022

Mr Assange has been held in London’s Belmarsh Prison since being taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London three years ago

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been selected as one of three finalists for a prestigious EU human rights award.

The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded each year by the European Union Parliament to an individual or group who has dedicated their lives to the defence of human rights.

Category: 
15/10/22
Author: 
Nick Corbishley
Thousands gathered in Italy to protest rising cost of living, low wages and inflation.

Oct. 11, 2022

The long-anticipated “hot autumn” begins as the European economy teeters on the edge of a largely self-inflicted stagflationary depression.

Last Friday (October 7), the 82-year old French writer Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the panel described as an “uncompromising” 50-year body of work exploring “a life marked by great disparities regarding gender, language and class”. A feminist and politically committed writer, Ernaux is the first French woman to win the award.

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