Source: Green Left
by Simon Butler
13 February 2010
The December 7-18 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen was supposed to “seal a global deal” to tackle climate change. It failed miserably.
A number of commentators have put forward a simple explanation: China did it.
read more »Click on the link below to view the video, “Unmineable Minds” on YouTube. It is a plea to save Arkaroola from the devastation of mining this world heritage geological feature of South Australia.
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read more »Source: Socialist Aotearoa
Commentary: Omar Hamed, Socialist Aotearoa, Wellington Branch
Despite selling out every night it screens at the cinema on Courtney Place and becoming the highest grossing film of all time, few have picked up on Avatar’s blatant allusions to the historical drama of Bougainville that happened on New Zealand’s doorstep thirteen years ago. The films names, plot and characters are almost direct references to the 1997 Bougainville crisis yet no one seems to have drawn the dots between science fiction and south Pacific fact. Until now.
read more »Written by ILPS Info Bureau
Sunday, 15 November 2009
From: Saibaba G N
PART 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rygJzzutBOg
PART 2
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read more »Source: Vanguard
The fingerprints of US imperialism were all over the Copenhagen Conference, and the handwriting on the flimsy ‘Copenhagen Accord’ also matched that of the main environmental criminal.
Unwilling to accept any responsibility for its historic and current contributions to global climate warming, and determined to resist any restrictions or imposition of costs on its polluting industrial monopolies, US imperialism has, until recently, opposed any effective international action to deal with it. Unable to deny the science any longer, US imperialism was forced to participate in the UN process or lose all credibility.
read more »By Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
Chairperson, International League of Peoples’ Struggle
Human societies have created the bases of our survival, sustenance and advancement through the use of our natural resources in production with rudimentary tools and rising levels of science and technology. Yet in no time in history has environmental destruction been systematically brought about in most parts of the world.
read more »by Renfrey Clarke
Climate change deniers, conservative politicians and right-wing newspaper columnists were all but incontinent with delight. Deluging the internet in mid-November were thousands of documents and private emails that had been exchanged over more than a decade by prominent climate scientists. The materials were posted anonymously after hackers penetrated the server of one of Britain’s main climate change research centres, the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.
read more »Source: International League of Peoples’ Struggles
Statement on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin WallBy Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
Chairperson, ILPS International Coordinating Committee
Since the fall of the Berlin wall on 9 November 1989, the world capitalist system has sunk deeper into crisis. It is now undergoing its most severe crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, with some commentators calling the present crisis “the Greater Depression” in terms of its effects on the jobs and livelihood of the workers and peoples of the world.
read more »by Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
3 October 2009
The leaders of the imperialist powers and the world’s other big economies concluded their G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, USA and declared the capitalist world economy on the path to recovery. They praised themselves for arresting economic decline and stabilizing financial markets, and for starting a reform process towards “strong, sustained and balanced growth in the 21st century”.
read more »by Renfrey Clarke
Not in so many words, mind you – frankness has rarely been the strong suit of News Corporation journalists and editors. The editorial in question, published in Rupert Murdoch’s Australian on September 10, argued in support of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) – in other words, “clean coal”.
“By launching Australia’s Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute earlier this year,” the editorial intoned, “Kevin Rudd recognised that coal would continue to be our major source of power for decades to come….
read more »An oldie but a goodie – Jensen sums it up nicely.
ZNet Commentary Last Sunday: Anti-capitalism in five minutes or less May 15, 2007 By Robert Jensen
[Remarks to the final “Last Sunday” community gathering in Austin, TX, April 29, 2007. For a PDF of all five of the talks in this series, write to rjensen@uts.
by Joanna Souers
Friday, 17 July, 2009 11:27 AM
Dr. Luther Castillo is a dear friend of mine… he is doing amazing things as a doctor in Honduras, and now that the world has turned it’s
back, he’s trying to shed light on the situation…
He asked us to thank all of you for defending the lives of Hondurans
threatened by the coup. He is spending some hours most nights attending
to wounded or to families housed in temporary shelters throughout
Tegucigalpa.
The Chicago Model of Militarizing Schools
Monday 29 June 2009
by: Brian Roa, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
For the past four years, I have observed the military occupation of the high school where I teach science. Currently, Chicago’s Senn High School houses Rickover Naval Academy (RNA). I use the term “occupation” because part of our building was taken away despite student, parent, teacher and community opposition to RNA’s opening. read more »Source: Vanguard May Issue
In the first decade of the 21st Century, scientists of different disciplines are alerting people and governments to a second crisis of capitalism, a crisis bigger than the current economic crisis. That crisis is the destruction of the environment caused by the ‘growth at all costs’ logic of capitalism. The enormity of the crisis is summarised in the following statement by the Swedish Talberg Foundation 2008 Report, Grasping The Climate Crisis; A Provocation:
“The world at present faces a breakdown of the global financial system.
So, what is a quadrillion? It’s a thousand trillion, or one million billion. A bit later in this article, I’ll direct you to an amazing series of graphics that tries to give some sense to these terms.
For the moment, let us just note that the Bank of International Settlements has recently reported that global outstanding derivatives have reached 1.
read more »Source: Global Research
By José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
Eurasia is currently experiencing serious problems derived from financial and economic difficulties such as unemployment, GDP negative growth, currency depreciation, overall economic slowdown and so on. Several members of both the European Union and NATO (Poland, Hungary, Iceland come to mind) are already dealing with a considerable deal of domestic discontent. Some States from the Former Soviet Union (notably Ukraine, Belarus and the Central Asian Republics) and even Russia itself are facing similar problems.
read more »See Mark Fiore’s animated satire on Wall Street’s approach to overcoming economic stagnation and socialism!
... read more »Source: Climate Emergency Network – South Australia
Letter to Michelle and Barack Obama on Global Warming PolicyDear Michelle and Barack,
We write to you as fellow parents concerned about the Earth that will be inherited by our children, grandchildren, and those yet to be born.
Barack has spoken of ‘a planet in peril’ and noted that actions needed to stem climate change have other merits. However, the nature of the chosen actions will be of crucial importance.
read more »Source: International League of Peoples’ Struggle
Written by Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
Sunday, 04 January 2009
Professor JOSE MARIA SISON
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
Since December 27, 2008, the US-supported Zionist Israel has carried out a war of aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza. It has launched air strikes by F-16 jet planes and Apache helicopters and artillery shelling by naval vessels in order to massacre hundreds and injure thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and destroy their homes, mosques, schools, public buildings, oil depots, power plants, water facilities and other infrastructure.
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