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01/01/23
Author: 
Warren Montag and Dimitris Givisis
Image Credit: Photo by wiredforlego via Flikr

Dec. 15, 2022

Warren Montag, in this interview with Dimitris Givisis, offers global perspectives for the current capitalist conjuncture.

24/12/22
Author: 
Victor Anderson and Rupert Read
Teaser photo credit: By UN Biodiversity – 22dec07-COP15-Sec-Gen-Media-3206, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=126536988

". . . fooling ourselves is not good for anyone. It’s certainly not good for nature; nor for our long-term mental health." . . . Optimism of the intellect is not what we need at this time. For it amounts to little more than wishful thinking writ large. What we need is courage: to look the very difficult truth in the face. And a profound determination: to work together to start to build a different system; and to pressure this system we live under to transform.

Dec. 20, 2022

24/12/22
Author: 
Rebecca George, originally published by YES! magazine
Teaser photo credit:A mixture of brown, white, and red indica rice, also containing wild rice, Zizania species. By Earth100 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23632640

Website editor: Important and very interesting article.

Dec.20, 2022

Seemingly miraculous varieties that can withstand drought, flood, and saltwater intrusion are the result of centuries of selective breeding by ancient farmers.

Until as recently as 1970, India was a land with more than 100,000 distinct varieties of rice. Across a diversity of landscapes, soils, and climates, native rice varieties, also called “landraces,” were cultivated by local farmers. And these varieties sprouted rice diversity in hue, aroma, texture, and taste.

20/12/22
Author: 
Gerard Dalbon
DSA and the War in Ukraine: Toward a Mass Socialist Anti-War Movement

Dec. 9. 2022

A DSA International Committee organizer talks about DSA’s response to the war in Ukraine, the need for socialist anti-war organizing, and his perspective on the conflict as an Eastern European.

Watch here:

 https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/dsa-and-the-war-in-ukraine-toward-a-mass-socialist-anti-war-movement/

15/12/22
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Two children walk across the land in Ethiopia to get water during the drought. Photo by UNICEF Ethiopia / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0)

Dec.14. 2022

The international gas lobby playbook hinges on rebranding planet-warming natural gas as green and key to energy security, new documents reveal.

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