Capitalism

Nov. 16, 2021

Finance is uniquely positioned to save the planet, but has already financed 1.5֯ C of warming

Carbon Tracker, the London Financial Analytics shop, told us about this in 2019. Maybe because Covid-19 intervened, we didn't fully absorb it.

But in Canada we now have this!!

Dec. 7 - Canada announces $200 million for "nature-based solutions"

Dec 7, 2021

(Reuters) - Kellogg Co (K.N) said on Tuesday a majority of its U.S. cereal plant workers have voted against a new five-year contract, forcing it to hire permanent replacements as employees extend a strike that started more than two months ago.

In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Karl Marx observed that class struggle can create circumstances and relationships that make “it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part.”1 Donald Trump can be viewed as one such grotesque mediocrity, inflated to “heroic” proportions by his reactionary followers. Unwilling to accept defeat, Trump attempted to seize power after losing the 2020 presidential election.

Dec. 5, 2021

Dec. 5, 2021

Dec. 5, 2021

An unusual special election in Seattle’s District 3 on December 7 will decide whether avowedly socialist City Councilor Kshama Sawant will be recalled from her position. The fact that Sawant’s seat is under dire threat is indicative of the contempt that Seattle’s business interests hold for her and her policies: The considerable victories Sawant has won for working people have made her the target of some of Seattle’s most powerful forces.

Dec. 2, 2021

So much for trying to get sympathetic media notice for progressive causes. Good thing we have the Burnaby Now, the National Observer, this new publication--The Maple, and a few others. I don't know much about small media in other parts of BC and Canada. But big media, like all big corporations, serves the "iron law of profit," not us.

     Gene McGuckin

Nov. 12, 2021

December 6, 2021