India: Can Ecosocialism Protect Indigenous People from Capitalist Exploitation?
By Sutapa Chattopadhyay In developing nations, from the mid-20th century onwards, the state and global planners have sanctioned development through subjugation of the local poor. This is done by controlling and commodifying their space, and by centralizing and privatizing commonly held resources by forcibly disassociating the poor from their material bases and livelihoods in the […]
Israel’s Attack on Gaza Could Be the Opening Salvo of World War III
Chief Rabbi Sacks: “I think it’s Got to Do with Iran” Overnight Israel carried more than 150 air strikes on targets in Gaza. Israel has the intention to “break Hamas,” and is meanwhile indiscriminately punishing the Palestinian people using the usual pretext of “stopping more missile attacks on Israel by Hamas militants.” But the tensions […]
Can Europe Spark a Global Revolution Against Shock Capitalism?
What are the American people doing? Greece, Italy, France, Ireland, Spain, England…. all of them have people in the streets. All of them are protesting. All of them are calling for strikes and trying to force the overthrow of not just their government but the entire financial system that would enslave them.
Spain’s Sado-Monetarism: Will it Lead to Revolution? – Part I
The facts As a measure of austerity supposedly meant to rescue Spanish economy, stifled by the debt and by a deep recession, on July 10, 2012, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced a set of public spending cuts and tax increases amounting to €65 billion in two years and a half. The cuts are affecting key […]
Will We Ever Overcome the Collective Madness of War?
World War I was called “the war to end all wars.” The soldiers who fought the first modern war were under the illusion that they would be the last ones to die in the name of the human collective psychosis that is warfare. I avoid getting into personal stories when I write on News Junkie […]
