Ian Angus's Blog, page 173

Another view of Veblen

Michael Perelman says Thorstein Veblen has become more relevant than ever.

Fukushima: A disaster manufactured in the imperial boardrooms of capital

Chris Williams:Conscious actions by the ruling elite, not natural causes, led directly to the triple nuclear meltdowns. The decisions they made were dictated by the prime directive of capitalism: there is no higher power than the God of Profit.

WPD: Gates to coercive contraception

Betsy Hartmann: On World Population Day, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosts an international meeting that blames poor women for the social ills caused by the rich and powerful. Human rights activists fear this heralds a serious backslide to the bad old days of coercive contraception and population control.

US heatwave: “This is what global warming looks like”

So many temperature records were being broken that there is no point in listing or even attempting to summarise all of the June monthly records

David Rovics sings “The Commons”

This wonderful song by U.S. singer/songwriter David Rovics has been running through my head

An ecosocialist perspective for UK Greens

The political strategy of the Green Party assumes that politics just means fighting elections. This is a doomed approach. We will only win elections by building a movement, and we will never build much of a movement by simply fighting elections.

B.C.’s carbon tax is a failure … and Australia is following suit

As predicted when it was introduced, B.C.'s carbon tax has hurt the poor, while doing nothing to cut emissions. Here's an update ... and a video of Simon Butler speaking on Australia's equally bad plan

Bookchin on Bookchin: An appeal for support

An appeal for support to "Bookchin on Bookchin," a documentary on the life and ideas of a legendary political thinker, philosopher, anarchist and environmental activist.