The most important thing about Donald Trump isn’t his psychological condition — it’s that he’s a capitalist. And a particular kind of capitalist at that: a lumpen capitalist.
Source: Donald Trump, Lumpen Capitalist
Author: nemonemini
UN Says Climate Genocide Coming. But It’s Worse Than That.
The real meaning of the IPCC report isn’t “climate change is worse than you think.” We knew that. It’s “you now have permission to freak out.”
Source: UN Says Climate Genocide Coming. But It’s Worse Than That.
The biggest threat to free speech no one is talking about | Alternet
Since the repeal in June of Obama-era rules guaranteeing net neutrality, websites like Truthdig, Democracy Now!, Common Dreams and more risk being pushed into an internet slow lane that could severely hamper their readership, if not drive them out of business entirely.
Source: The biggest threat to free speech no one is talking about | Alternet
A year after the country decriminalized domestic violence, women feel the consequences.
Putin the Progressive!!!)
A year after the country decriminalized domestic violence, women feel the
consequences.
Such activists face an outright war on women in Russia. The numbers of dead
are
staggering: 14,000 Russian women die annually from domestic
violence-related injuries.
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IMF is Back in Business in Latin America – Just as Neoliberal as Always
Following a prolonged loss of influence in Latin America in the first decade of the 2000’s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is back again, flexing its muscle in Argentina and Mexico, pushing the neoliberal Washington Consensus, says Vijay Prashad
Source: IMF is Back in Business in Latin America – Just as Neoliberal as Always
‘Cultural Marxism’ might sound postmodern but it’s got a long, toxic history.
http://www.marxmail.org/msg155136.html
NY Times Op-Ed, November 13, 2018
The Alt-Right’s Favorite Meme Is 100 Years Old
‘Cultural Marxism’ might sound postmodern but it’s got a long, toxic history.
By Samuel Moyn
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The Reckoning – Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math (long) – Bill McKibben
If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven’t convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th- century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.
Source: The Reckoning – Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math (long) – Bill McKibben | Portside
