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14/10/17
Author: 
Vijay Prashad
People wade through a flooded street in Havana, Cuba, on September 10 after the passage of Hurricane Irma. Photo: Ramon Espinosa/AP

One island, a poor socialist state with infrastructure in grave need of modernisation, has slowly emerged out of the chaos caused by a hurricane’s wrath, while the other, a territory of the richest country in the world, cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel. By 

14/10/17
Author: 
George Monbiot
 ‘Magnificent public amenities create more space for everyone at a fraction of the cost of private luxury.’ Photograph: Jack Sullivan/Alamy

The rupture of 2008 presents a chance to throw out our iniquitous system that busts the planet – here are some ideas

We are still living in the long 20th century. We are stuck with its redundant technologies: the internal combustion engine, thermal power plants, factory farms. We are stuck with its redundant politics: unfair electoral systems, their capture by funders and lobbyists, the failure to temper representation with real participation.

03/10/17
Author: 
George Monbiot

Hope lies with a great, neglected sector of the economy, through which we can create a system that is neither capitalist nor state communist.

 

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th September 2017

 

Are you a statist, or a free marketeer? Do you believe that intervention should be minimised, or that state ownership and regulation should be expanded? This is our central political debate. But it is based on a mistaken premise.

13/09/17
Author: 
Sharon Lerner

What's really floating in the flood waters, settling into the soil and water supply? Exxon Mobil Is Still Pumping Toxins Into Black Community in Texas 17 Years After Civil Rights Complaint.

26/08/17
Author: 
Inger V. Johansen and Gitte Pedersen

The sixth Transform!Danmark Conference, focusing on the development of left economic and ecological alternatives, took place in Copenhagen on 18 March. Once again, it focused on sustainable and fair transformation, as well as a changing society in Europe and around the world.

 

23/02/17
Author: 
Denis Delestrac

[Editor: We are aware of how we are using coal, oil, water, arable land, minerals and so on but how many of us have considered sand as a critical and diminishing resource?  You can watch this interesting film at the Knowledge Network site until April 1, 2017.]

https://www.knowledge.ca/program/sand-wars

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