[Editor: Looks like Naomi Klein's 'Shock Doctrine' at work.]
76 Of The 91 Loans The IMF Has Negotiated Since The Beginning Of The Coronavirus Pandemic Come Attached With Demands For Deep Cuts To Public Services And Policies That Benefit Corporations Over People.
The enormous economic dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique opportunity to fundamentally alter the structure of society, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) i[s] using the crisis to implement near-permanent austerity measures across the world.
How are French workers responding to the multiple challenges posed by a resurgent COVID-19, a neoliberal government incapable of getting to grips with the crisis, and the limitations imposed by the public health emergency on traditional forms of mass protest?
Greta Thunberg leads protests as Covid rules restrict numbers compared with last year
School pupils, youth activists and communities around the world have turned out for a day of climate strikes, intended to underscore the urgency of the climate crisis even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The horizon of post-capitalism is coming into clearer focus — but it remains to be seen if the post-capitalist economy will be authoritarian and oligarchic or democratic and social. Yanis Varoufakis kicks off a panel discussion with PI Council members Vijay Prashad, Ece Temelkuran, and Nick Estes on how we can win the fight for a post-capitalist future.
Photo:Sprinklers in the street in Baghdad, Iraq, where temperatures reached 51C in July. Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images
The wealthiest 1% of the world’s population were responsible for the emission of more than twice as much carbon dioxide as the poorer half of the world from 1990 to 2015, according to new research.
Carbon dioxide emissions rose by 60% over the 25-year period, but the increase in emissions from the richest 1% was three times greater than the increase in emissions from the poorest half.
‘Humanity at a crossroads’ after a decade in which all of the 2010 Aichi goals to protect wildlife and ecosystems have been missed
The world has failed to meet a single target to stem the destruction of wildlife and life-sustaining ecosystems in the last decade, according to a devastating new report from the UN on the state of nature.
