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 […]
Is Eco-Socialism a Viable Option to Global Disaster Capitalism?
By Sutapa Chattopadhyay Today, our democratically elected governments are grounded in the conviction that markets should be the sole organizing force of political, social, and economic decisions: an ideology that entirely dislodges welfarist, democratic and uncommodified values from the state. Over the last four to five years, for example, ordinary people throughout Europe have protested […]
Occupy Sandy Should Not Act as an NGO to Replace Bad Governance
By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery Sandy and Katrina Expose the Third World Within the Empire The last natural disaster to have had a major impact on the United States was hurricane Katrina. The fiasco of dealing with Katrina’s aftermath was a big blow for the Bush administration. This exposed a broken social system where […]
Climate Change: Hurricanes and Typhoons Kill Mainly the Poor
While Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Caribbean and the US eastern seaboard, Typhoon Son-Tinh tore through the Philippines, China and Vietnam, killing more than 35 people. As expected from climate change predictions, floods caused most of the damage to life and property. It should be noted however, that these ravages of climate change were, for the […]
The Pulse of Climate Change
The first thing Haitian children learn about the geography of their country is that it is at “the center of the greater Antilles, with Cuba to the west, Jamaica to the southwest, and Puerto Rico to the east.” Would one expect less of a people who had the temerity to fight the only successful slave […]
