Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It seems that the rumbling story about HSBC’s Swiss branch has achieved what political pollsters know as “cut through” – meaning that it’s of interest to voters as well as to those reporters who are sentenced to watch Prime Minister’s Questions each week.
This is the vicious circle of capitalism, which is speeding up the destruction of the commons, driven by a world economy based on consumption and growth.
The attraction of profit in the short-term overwhelms longer-term considerations, even for the most “enlightened” of businesspeople.
…Rates of global inequality are simply unprecedented. And neoliberalism is to blame.
History books usually study social movements of the second half of the nineteenth century from the point of view of the split between anarchists and Marxists.
A conversation with Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything, and Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive.
Climate activists, she believes, need to take a similarly clear moral stance. And as she writes, ‘the climate movement has yet to find its full moral voice on the world stage, but it is most certainly clearing its throat’.
What is more relevant to me than the fiction of property is the precise nature of the social agreements that define and underlie property.
Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate is coming out just as the UN is meeting on climate change, and a massive rally to protest the lack of progress on global warming is shaping up in Manhattan on Sunday.
Everybody talks a lot about economic inequality, but there don’t seem to be many credible proposals out there, let alone ones that have political legs.
This raises the question: To what extent can the Transition movement avoid the pain, hardship, and conflict historically associated with significant social movements…?
One should be grateful to one’s critics–it is much better to be criticized than ignored.
