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UN; Sudan; Marx; Denmark; economy; Spain; 9/11
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Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster: A `realistic' answer to the
ecological crisis <http://links.org.au/node/2510>
/"What is clear from ... Magdoff and Foster, is that 'what every
environmentalist needs to know about capitalism' is that: 1) it is
the root cause of the environmental crisis, 2) capitalism is
incapable of solving it, either by going green or by becoming
non-growth.'/
*John Bellamy Foster,* co-author with Fred Magdoff of /What every
environmentalist needs to know about capitalism, /will be a featured
international guest at the*second World at a Crossroads: Climate Change
-- Social Change Conference
<http://climatechangesocialchange2011.wordpress.com/>*, Friday,
September 30 -- Monday, October 3, 2011. Read an exclusive excerpt from
/What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism/ *HERE*
<http://links.org.au/node/2429>.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2510>
Solidarity statement: Free Baba Jan and all political prisoners!
<http://links.org.au/node/2509>
*[If your organisation can sign this statement, please send your
name/organisation to politic.ofthep...@gmail.com
<mailto:politic.ofthep...@gmail.com> to support this statement. .]*
/*Free Baba Jan and all political prisoners! */
/*Reparations for the victims of police violence!*/
/*Reparations for the victims of the landslide of July 4!*/
September 22, 2011 -- Last August 11, Pakistan police used live bullets
against people demanding payment of compensation allowances following a
devastating landslide which had happened a year before in the valley of
Hunza, on July 4, 2010. This landslide, in the region of
Gilgit-Baltistan, destroyed several houses and important roads. The
local administration abandoned the affected community and pocketed
compensation payments intended for several affected families.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2509>
Revolutionary health care in Cuba and Venezuela: Beyond Western
'sickness-based' medicine <http://links.org.au/node/2505>
/*Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the
World's Conception of Health Care*/
By Steve Brouwer
New York, Monthly Review Press, 2011, 245 pp.
Review by *Don Fitz*
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2505>
Democracy Now! debate: Does UN statehood bid advance or undermine
Palestinian struggle? <http://links.org.au/node/2508>
September 23, 2011 -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to
officially submit a statehood request to the United Nations in defiance
of U.S. and Israeli threats... While supporters have hailed the bid as a
step forward in the struggle to end the Israeli occupation and bring
peace to the Middle East, critics call it a ploy by the Palestinian
Authority to cling to power while undermining the rights of Palestinian
refugees. We host a debate with two leading Palestinian analysts: *Ali
Abunimah*, co-founder of the website /The Electronic Intifada/ and
author of /One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian
Impasse/, and *Mouin Rabbani* of the Institute for Palestine Studies and
the webzine /Jadaliyya/.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2508>
Cuba: Voluntary work abolished -- a step forward?
<http://links.org.au/node/2506>
By *Luis Sexto*, Havana
September 7, 2011 -- Voluntary work in Cuba, as a practice on weekdays
or Sundays, has been abolished. In view of this action, neither original
nor daring, one might suppose that the decision by the Cuban Trade Union
Confederation (CTC) to end voluntary work, except in times of disaster
or when enterprises face acute needs, has earned the implicit approval
of most Cubans.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2506>
Cuban Five: Judge issues cruel and bizarre ruling
<http://links.org.au/node/2504>
Judge Lenard order's René González to live in Miami on supervised
release
By *Jose Pertierra*
September 19, 2011 -- On September 16, a US federal district court judge
made a bizarre ruling concerning one of the Cuban Five defendants who
completes his jail sentence on October 7. Judge Joan Lenard ruled that
René Gonzalez, who has already served 13 years in a federal penitentiary
for being an unregistered agent of the Cuban government, will be forced
for the next three years to live in Miami on what is called "supervised
release".
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2504>
Challenges for independent South Sudan; Behind the clashes in Blue
Nile, South Kordofan and Darfur <http://links.org.au/node/2503>
By *Explo Nani-Kofi*
September 6, 2011 -- The crisis in Sudan is a crisis of capitalism in
post-colonial Africa but manifests itself through the way capitalism
specifically functions in Sudan.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2503>
Why Karl Marx was right <http://links.org.au/node/2502>
By *Lee Sustar*
September 13, 2011 -- Economist Nouriel Roubini, whose predictions of
the financial crash of 2008 earned him the nickname "Dr Doom", has
referred his patients to a specialist in capitalist crisis: Dr Karl Marx.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2502>
Denmark: Right-wing government defeated, Red-Green Alliance triples
seats <http://links.org.au/node/2501>
By *Inger V. Johansen* and *Line Barfod*
September 20, 2011 --The result of the September 15 parliamentary
elections in Denmark means that the right-wing government of the last 10
years has finally been ousted. A new government will be formed under
the leadership of Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the leader of the Social
Democrats. The core parties of this government will be the Social
Democrats and the Socialist People's Party (SPP), who for some years
have formed a close partnership with the aim of strengthening the
possibilities for an alternative government.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2501>
Martin Hart-Landsberg: Troubling economic trends for US workers
<http://links.org.au/node/2500>
By *Martin Hart-Landsberg *
September 15, 2011 -- The US Census Bureau just published new data
revealing trends in living standards as of 2010. The trends are
troubling to say the least. Median household income (adjusted for
inflation) fell to US $49,445 (see below). That means that the median
household in the United States now earns less than it did a decade ago.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2500>
Spain: 'Hot' autumn of protest brews <http://links.org.au/node/2499>
By *Dick Nichols*, Barcelona
September 11, 2011 -- In Spain the signs are unmistakable: a "hot
autumn" of political and social conflict is brewing in the run-up to the
November 20, 2011, general election. Polling night will reveal how much
the growing social resistance, brought onto the streets since May
largely by the 15-M movement of "indignants", has shaken up the
political scene.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2499>
US rulers turned 9/11 outrage into blank cheque for endless war
<http://links.org.au/node/2498>
By *Rupen Savoulian*
September 17, 2011 -- Near where I live in Sydney, there is a war
memorial commemorating all those people from the area who have died
serving the Australian armed forces in wars overseas. There are columns
for each war Australians have participated in, followed by the names of
those who never returned. For instance, there are columns for World War
I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), the Korean War (1950-53), and
also the "International Campaign against Terrorism (2001-- )". Notice
that last one? Unlike the others, the war on terror has no end date.
* Read more <http://links.org.au/node/2498>
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