Ian Angus's Blog, page 157

3 things NOT to expect at the Doha climate talks

When the handmaidens of the 1% meet, don't expect progressive results

Is capitalism ‘obsessed’ with growth?

Are fish obsessed with water?

Rich nations renege on climate finance

The countries most responsible for climate change have broken their promises to help the poorest countries cope with it

Lies, damned lies, and Canadian pipeline studies

A government study of tar sands corrosion ignores real pipeline conditions

Weekend reading, 15

Patrick Bond on sub-imperialism ... UN on emissions gap ... World Bank on 4 degrees ... ProPublica on U.S. pipeline safety ... Anti-Capitalists on capitalist realism ... Age UK on cold and the aging

Toronto conference lays basis for pipeline challenge

Teach-in delivers a clear grass roots message: there is now a strong basis for organizing education and broad collective action to stop Enbridge from piping tar sands oil across southern Ontario.

The unbearable light-mindedness of coal barons

The cynical thoughts of an ecovandal

We’re overpopulated with oil tycoons and coal barons

Simon Butler tells a populationist meeting that the super-rich are the real ecological vandals

Venezuela accelerates land reform

Since the beginning of 2011, over 2.7 million acres have been rescued from large landowners and redistributed to small farmers or turned into cooperatives

What went wrong with ‘real socialism’?

An important new book examines what went wrong with 20th Century socialism, why it went wrong, and how we could avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future.