Leading left economists Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis jointly wrote an article for the British newspaper, the Guardian this week. It was headlined as “We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps.” Jason Hickel is professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a visiting senior fellow at LSE. Yanis Varoufakis is the leader of MeRA25, a former finance minister and author of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.
Replacing capitalism – not with socialism, but with democracy?
Tag: Climate Change
Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada + More
‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy
From Brexit to Bannon’s failed Movement, the through‑line has always been fragmentation: dismantling the European Union into smaller, more pliable states that Washington could manage one‑by‑one. Where Bannon faltered, Heritage has stepped in — not only with slogans, but with policy machinery designed to export Trump’s nationalist agenda across the Atlantic.
‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy
Read More »Doblin’s Citizens’ Diplomacy or Psychedelic Colonialism?
Just when I thought Cold War diplomacy couldn’t get weirder, Rick Doblin enters stage left with a proposal straight out of a psychedelic utopia: dose Soviet officials with MDMA to ease nuclear paranoia. Not theoretically. Literally.
Read More »Abundance or scarcity?
Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians. It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party lost the election to Trump (narrow as that result was). The authors, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, writers at very liberal mainstream The New York Times and The Atlantic, respectively, argue that it was because the Democrats and supporters of ‘liberal democracy’ have lost their ability in government to carry out great projects that could deliver the things and services that working people (called the ‘middle class’ in America) need.
With 42% of Project 2025 enacted, Heritage Foundation turns toward Europe
The ideologues behind the blueprint for President Trump to “dismantle the administrative state” in the U.S. are working to shake up Europe, and they hope to dismantle the European Commission and the European Court of Justice.
With 42% of Project 2025 enacted, Heritage Foundation turns toward Europe
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PDF – The Great Reset: Restoring Member State Sovereignty in the European Union
2017: “American-first Principle”-Nazism in 21st Century Rejected
Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) — The Korean Central News Agency released an article “We Reject ‘American-first Principle’- Nazism in the 21st Century” on Monday to shed light on the criminal nature of “American-first principle” touted by the Trump group of the U.S.
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The Scramble for Media in the Global South?
Everything You Think You Know About Coal in China Is Wrong
China’s new coal-fired power plants are cleaner than ours—and stronger on climate change
Full text: Xi Jinping’s speech at the 16th BRICS Summit
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called on BRICS countries to work for high quality development of greater BRICS cooperation, in a speech addressing the 16th BRICS Summit.
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