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10/10/22
Author: 
Ben Norton
President Luis Arce

A lot of talk these days about "saving humanity." Bolivia has a pretty good initial checklist of what that is going to require. As always, when dealing with the future, capitalism stands in the way.

             -- Gene McGuckin

Sept. 27, 2022

10/10/22
Author: 
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Bild: kremlin.ru/CC BY-SA 4.0/wikimedia.org

Sept. 28, 2022

Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski famously describedUkraine as a “geopolitical pivot” of Eurasia, central to both US and Russian power.  Since Russia views its vital security interests to be at stake in the current conflict, the war in Ukraine is rapidly escalating to a nuclear showdown.  It’s urgent for both the US and Russia to exercise restraint before disaster hits.  

10/10/22
Author: 
David McNally
What Is the Meaning of Revolution Today?

June 16, 2021

BEYOND THE NEW REFORMISM

The concept of revolution poses a major challenge for Marxists today. The practice of revolution raises even larger ones.

06/10/22
Author: 
Holly Dressel
globe and seaweed

Oct 6 2022

In seaweed, climate capitalists see green

A boom in seaweed farming is being sold globally as a climate solution, but some Indigenous nations and local harvesters are sounding an alarm

In the inlets between Vancouver Island and the archipelago of the Georgia Strait, floats one of the largest seaweed farms in North America. 

06/10/22
Author: 
Eugene Kung - Staff Lawyer, West Coast Environmental Law
The Trans Mountain Illusion
Government by lies and theft!!! Taxpayer-funded ecocide!!!
 
Oct. 6, 2022
Enough magic tricks – we're exposing the math on #TransMountain. Watch to learn how the federal government is using corporate shells to hide TMX's full financial picture from the public.
03/10/22
Author: 
Andrew Lodge
This drone photo shows the extensive damage caused by post-tropical storm Fiona in Port aux Basques, N.L. Fiona is yet another stark reminder of the havoc that awaits the planet and our species, writes Andrew Lodge. (Yan Theoret/CBC News)

Sept. 30, 2022

This column is an opinion by Andrew Lodge, the medical director at Klinic Community Health, a community health centre in downtown Winnipeg. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.

03/10/22
Author: 
Associated Press
A Yaqui Indigenous wears a bandana over his mouth as he walks through dust past the cemetery where slain water-defense leader Tomás Rojo is buried in Potam, Mexico, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Sept. 29, 2022

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country in the annual report by nongovernmental organization Global Witness.

01/10/22
Author: 
Chris Hedges
“The Bankruptcy of the Liberal Ass.” Illustration by Mr. Fish.

Sept. 30, 2022

01/10/22
Author: 
Kenny Stancil
Spanish Finance Minister María Jesús Montero addresses the senate on December 9, 2021 in Madrid. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Sept. 30, 2022

The country's finance minister said that looming changes are bound to make the tax code "more progressive, efficient, fair, and also enough to guarantee social justice and economic efficiency."

Spain's leftist coalition government on Thursday announced a series of downwardly redistributive fiscal reforms—including a temporary "solidarity" tax on the nation's 23,000 wealthiest residents—that lawmakers hope will ease the cost-of-living crisis hurting millions of working people.

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