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13/10/22
Author: 
Óscar Carpintero, Jaime Nieto
 photo credit: Vauban, Freiburg, a sustainable model district. By Claire7373Andrewglaser – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2637411

An informative but not comforting article--recent studies from Spain showing that a) the transition to "green" energy will be much more problematic than most expect, b) the possibility for a future for humanity will require an end to "growth", and c) what is required cannot be accomplished under capitalism. 

                  -- Gene McGuckin 

Oct. 6, 2022

13/10/22
Author: 
Lyndsay Duncombe, Harvey Cashore, Lynette Fortune
Pellets from virgin forests fuel the U.K.'s Drax Power Station, backed by politicians and subsidies

Oct. 6, 2022

Pellets from virgin forests fuel the U.K.'s Drax Power Station, backed by politicians and subsidies

From the highway just south of Prince George, B.C., you can see the logs, thousands of them, piled neatly in rows. 

They were cut from trees in old growth and primary forests in the province's Interior.

This timber won't be used to build homes or furniture, or even to make paper. These logs will be ground and compressed into tiny pellets, shipped to Europe and Asia and burned to produce fuel for electricity.

13/10/22
Author: 
Andrew MacLeod
Both David Eby and Anjali Appadurai are running for the BC NDP leadership. Questions have arisen about how new members have been gathered for Appadurai’s camp.

Oct. 14, 2022

What’s behind the surge of new members? ‘Bad faith’ by Green interlopers? Or New Dems who’ve felt neglected for too long?

The controversy over memberships in the British Columbia NDP is just the latest skirmish in a struggle that goes back decades, says Harold Steves, a former MLA and an honorary lifetime member of the party.

10/10/22
Author: 
Adam McKay
Nothing Is More Precious Than Life - hummingbird on flower

Oct. 2022

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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. 

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