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From Copenhagen to a solution : Desde Copenhague hacia una solución...

From Copenhagen to a solution, “swarming” might save the planet!
New video being launched in London which explains why Copenhagen hadn’t got a chance of presenting a real solution because it touches the infinite growth model of a transnational power base, being anti-consumerism etc.  The film then takes a leap into the past presenting what really [...]

South of the Border, Upside Down World Review

Manufacturing Consent Latin America-Style, Click for article reviewing the reviews

South of the Border Posters; Hernan Reig. Click for my review of the film

1810 stirrings of independence, 1910 the Belle Époque, 2010 the A.B.C.D. of poverty

Plastic waiting chairs await me in the spacious immigration offices built for streams of millions of European poor from Italy, Spain and other nations at war. The huddled masses arrived flea-bitten and seasick in their millions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These fine buildings are reminiscent of the best [...]

Editor's submission to Evo's conference

The Structural Causes of Climate Change

What follows is a discussion of structural problems in the relationship between national economies and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The emphasis is on the role of transnational capital itself, independent of national political economics.

It is argued that in order to prevent further environmental degradation, pollution and climate change, the [...]

Sidelining the ‘Awkward Squad’

Editor’s note:

As someone who shall be going to a conference this month in Bolivia I would like to alert you all about the “Awkward Squad”, countries that think the UN is important and who prefer not to rubber stamp back-door discussions and ‘agreements’ and wait to die so that the no-so-awkward squad can squirm their [...]

Beyond Copenhagen: Common Ownership, Reparations, Degrowth and Renewable Energy Technology Transfer By Kolya Abramsky

The task of collectively taking over the key means of production and decommodifying the major processes through which goods are produced and humans reproduce their existence are immense. The tasks of technology transfer as part of a wider process of reparations combined with degrowth are perhaps even bigger tasks. We are certainly not yet ready, especially in northern countries, where the major emissions cuts have to be made. [...]

Venezuelan President's Speech on Climate Change

Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark, Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez:

Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, Excellencies, friends, I promise that I will not talk more than most have spoken this afternoon. Allow me an initial comment which I would have liked to make as part of the previous point which [...]

Food Inc.

How horribly inconvenient!

A Really Inconvenient Truth, February 5, 2010 · By Saul Landau
Al Gore didn’t even touch upon what the world needs to do to avert a global warming catastrophe.

This op-ed was originally published in Progreso Weekly on 2/3/10.

“The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National [...]