Nepalese workers poisoned by local and global pollution
Driven from their farms by climate change, brickworkers near luxurious Kathmandu are dying slowly in an air pollution disaster zone Source
View ArticleClimate disasters displaced 32 million people in 2012
Over 32 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 by climate- and weather-related events Source
View ArticleClimate colonialism, illustrated
99% of disease caused by climate change occurs in developing countries, and 88% of that affects children under age 5 Source
View ArticleCapitalism: A Structural Genocide
Book Review: Capitalism is responsible for a class-based genocide that targets the poor, particularly in the global south Source
View ArticleThe great ‘poverty reduction’ hoax
Global poverty is much worse than the UN’s spin doctored story. The global poverty headcount has increased, and the triumphalist narrative is a lie. Source
View ArticleThink apocalyptic – and turn despair into action
Contrary to the critics of ‘catastrophism,’ building an effective counterforce to the multiple crises we face requires us to get apocalyptic. Source
View ArticleThe origin of Rosa Luxemburg’s slogan ‘socialism or barbarism’
Historians have offered various explanations, none of which really work. Ian Angus traces an important socialist slogan to its unexpected source. Source
View ArticleFollowing up on Luxemburg and ‘Socialism or Barbarism’
My explanation of the origin of an important revolutionary slogan has been widely accepted. Source
View ArticleGlobal inequality is much worse than we’ve been told
New analysis of global inequality shows that the income gap between people in rich and poor countries is far wider than policymakers are willing to admit. Source
View ArticleModern slave ships overfish the oceans
‘Seafood caught illegally or under conditions of modern slavery is laundered by mixing it with legally caught fish before it enters the supply chain.’ Source
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