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Tag Archives: Natural Resources
Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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For Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org Readers ask me how they can learn economics, what books to read, what university economics departments to trust. I receive so many requests that it is impossible to reply individually. Here is my answer. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Classical Economics, Debt, Economic Rent, Economics, elites, environment, External Costs, financial crisis, Financialization, J Is for Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, privatization, Supply-side Economics, Taxes, unemployment
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Five Ways to Curb the Power of Corporations and Billionaires
By Jeremy Lent Source: Patterns of Meaning We need to rein in the destructive power of corporations and billionaires before it’s too late. These five ideas would do that, while leaving global capitalism intact. Ultimately, only a complete transformation of our … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged 1%, Asset Caps, Billionaires, capitalism, Charter Renewal, Corporate Charters, Corporate Crime, Corporate Globalization, Corporations, corporatocracy, Ecocide, Economics, elites, environment, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Overconsumption, Plutocracy, Species Extinction, Trade Tax
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500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
By Robert J. Burrowes I would like to tell you something about human depravity and illustrate just how widespread it is among those we often regard as ‘responsible’. I am going to use the Democratic Republic of the Congo as … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Child Labor, Colonization, Conflict Minerals, Congo, Corporate Crime, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dictatorship, Economics, Exploitation, Forrest Group International, Global Witness, Natural Resources, Rare-Earth Minerals, State Crime, Violence
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I Participate
By Jonathan Bessette Source: Adbusters Recall that you’re sitting in a rapid transit vehicle, carried along the sky-line above cement highways, paved in homage to the Romans, who designed a system of militarized paths stretching everywhere, causing everything to lead … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Health, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Revolution, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology, Work
Tagged civilization, Conformity, Consciousness, Corporate Globalization, Corporatism, Dystopia, Economics, environment, industrial society, Information, Jacques Ellul, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, Occupy Movement, Philosophy, politics, Revolution, Science fiction, Technological Society, technology
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Weird Parallels: Helium Waste and 19th-Century Logging
By Kowality Jesus Source: Disinfo.com There is plenty of regret to go around about the wholescale waste of the immense virgin forests in pre-20th century America. These forests represented a cheap, high-quality building material to early Americans and a profitable … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Economics, Environment, History, Science, society, Technology
Tagged Conservation, environment, Helium, Logging, Natural Resources
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