Abortion rights are economic rights.
Source: Opinion | Overturning Roe Would Be an Economic Catastrophe for Women | Asha Banerjee
Tag: catastrophe
China speeds toward environmental catastrophe
from marxmail: China, capitalism, catastrophe
The Wealthy Countries are getting Past the Pandemic, but the Poor are in Catastrophe, which is a looming Catastrophe for the Wealthy
By Rajan Menon | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Fifteen months ago, the SARS-CoV-2 virus unleashed Covid-19. Since then, it’s …
Rich People Are Fueling Climate Catastrophe — But Not Mostly Because of Their Consumption
Rich people have enormous carbon footprints. But the fundamental problem with their climate impact isn’t what they consume — it’s that they own the means of production, and it’s extremely profitable for them to pollute.
Source: Rich People Are Fueling Climate Catastrophe — But Not Mostly Because of Their Consumption
The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing –
It is difficult to overstate the grip of COVID-19 on India. WhatsApp bristles with messages about this or that friend and family member with the virus, while there are angry posts about how the central government has utterly failed its citizenry. This hospital is running out of beds and that hospital has no more oxygen, while there is evasion from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Cabinet. More
Source: The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing – CounterPunch.org
The COVID-19 catastrophe has deep roots in American politics — and was totally preventable
This disaster belongs to Trump, of course — but the Tea Party’s nihilistic hatred of government got us here
Trump’s crime against humanity
R48G: Trump’s crime against humanity and the need to put a stop to it as soon as possible, a desperate situation
April 17th, 2017 ·
We have about ten years left to prevent irreversible catastrophe on the climate change front and yet just at this point we are treated to Trump’s effort to deprive us of our last chance. It is hard to fathom the depth of wilful ignorance here, and of the capitalist world suffused in false ideology.
We have the right to revolt here, and in fact this has moved into the realm of duty. We can eschew revolution for an evolutionary path, or pursue both, and we can also aggressively point out to a
deceiving liar who has flipflopped on all the issues he began with that he can do a flipflop on the issue of
climate.
1848+: The End(s) of History 