Ian Angus's Blog, page 167

Anti-fracking movement growing in New York

Campaign urging direct action against hydraulic-fracturing wins broad support; thousands of fracktivists march in state capital

Vandana Shiva: Industrial agriculture causes hunger

Hunger and malnutrition are man-made, hardwired in the design of industrial and chemical agriculture. But healthy and nutritious food for all can also be designed, through food democracy.

Bangladesh: Floods + capitalism = starving children

Unprecedented floods have destroyed homes, livelihoods and crops ... and the resulting poverty and debt is creating a generation of undernourished children

Racism in a fancy green wrapper

Why I refused to speak at a public meeting in Washington

Seven years after: The 2012 Katrina Pain Index

Introduction by Ian Angus Five years ago, on the second anniversary of Hurrican Katrina, I wrote the following, under the headline How capitalism ‘solves’ a climate crisis — There have been many debates, on this blog and elsewhere, about whether global warming can be “solved” in a capitalist framework. Many people have proposed plans to

Iraq: Mission accomplished for Big Oil?

How the American disaster in Iraq paved the way for Big Oil’s rise — and now for its possible fall.

The green economy (not!): Capitalism’s final frontier

The "Green Economy" treats the economy as more important than the ecological system on which the economy depends. Nature is redefined as "natural capital" as a prelude to more intense exploitation.

Making a killing from hunger

21st Century Barbarism is driven by men in suits

Le mythe de la souveraineté du consommateur

The Swiss ecosocialist journal A l'encontre (La Breche) translates "The myth of consumer sovereignty" — Chapter 11 of Too Many People?

Still no cleanup of Mohawk land poisoned by GM and Alcoa

“It’s just another form of genocide. When it comes to Indians, they don’t give a shit. All they like to do is take, take, take, and destroy.”