[Marxism] Climate and Capitalism, August 9 2010

[Ian Angus]

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CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM
An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the
ecosocialist alternative.
http://climateandcapitalism.com
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August 9, 2010

ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 19
http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2919
Yet another recommended reading list for left greens and green lefts.
BP, Cancun loopholes, Organizing, Zapatistas, Ecuador

CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION AND DESTRUCTIVE WEALTH
THE CASE OF IRA LENNERT
http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2909
There is no question that excessive consumption damages the
environment, but are consumers really driving the runaway train? I
offer the following as an indication that different drivers are in
charge.

DOWNSTREAM COMMUNITY MEMBERS
TO HOLD HEALING WALK THROUGH TAR SANDS REGION
http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2900
On Saturday, August 14th the Keepers of the Athabasca, a network of
First Nation, Metis and settler community members along the Athabasca
river will host a ‘healing walk’ through the tar sands.

WET’SUWET’EN AND UNIS’TOTEN NATIONS
RISE UP AGAINST BIG OIL
http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2894
In this country known as Canada, which is actually the stolen native
land of Turtle Island, Indigenous communities are rising up to join
the tide of resistance to neocolonialism by fighting the imposition of
pipelines and the tar sands in Western Canada.
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Other Recent articles

VIDEO: RAJ PATEL ON THE BATTLE FOR THE WORLD FOOD SYSTEM
http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2882

VULTURE CAPITALISTS VERSUS THE GLOBAL SOUTH
http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2874

POPULATIONISM: A WEAPON OF POLITICAL CONSERVATIVES
http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=2871


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[Marxism] Long article on Tony Judt

[Louis Proyect]

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http://chronicle.com/article/The-Trials-of-Tony-Judt/63449/


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[Marxism] Gay soccer: Arg world champion (Spa) [Just for the fun of it...]

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

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CAMPEON

El seleccionado argentino de fútbol gay se consagró ayer campeón en
los VII Gay Games disputados en la ciudad alemana de Colonia. El
equipo nacional venció en la final 3 a 0 al Seattle Jet City, informó
el presidente de la Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA), César
Cigliutti. “Parece una buena coincidencia que la política argentina
lidere, actualmente, el tema del matrimonio igualitario en América
latina y que, coetáneamente, la selección gane el título mundial de
futbol gay”, expresó Cigliutti. Además de su objetivo deportivo, el
conjunto nacional llevó a Colonia un mensaje que reivindicó la
aprobación de la ley de matrimonio igualitario en el país.

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Néstor Gorojovsky
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[Marxism] What's new at Links: Australia, Asian solidarity with Venezuela, Hiroshima, BDS & left, iPhone, S.Africa, Venezuela, COSATU on SACP, Comintern, Malaysia, S.Korea, water

[glparramatta]

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What's new at Links: Australia, Asian solidarity with Venezuela, 
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Comintern, Malaysia, S.Korea, water

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Australian socialists: `Vote Socialist & Greens, put Abbott's
conservatives last' 

On July 24, 2010, Australia's leading socialist newspaper /Green Left 
Weekly/ spoke to */Peter Boyle/*, national convener of the Socialist 
Alliance, about the political climate of the 2010 federal election, to 
be held on August 21.
*Many progressive people are feeling depressed about the federal 
election. How do you see it?*
The Australian Labor Party and the conservative Liberal Party-National 
Party Coalition are in a "race to the bottom", as Socialist Alliance 
lead Queensland Senate candidate and Murri [Indigenous] community leader 
Sam Watson aptly put it.

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Asian socialists: `Stop the threats against Venezuela now!'


Joint statement initiated by *Socialist Party of Malaysia* (PSM), 
*Working People's Association* (PRP), Indonesia, and *Socialist 
Alliance,* Australia. See below for latest signatures.
[If your organisation would like to sign this statement, please email 
int@gmail.com .]
August 1, 2010 -- We, the undersigned organisations, view with serious 
concern the possibility of military aggression towards the people of 
Venezuela by the Colombian government, which could be supported by the 
United State of America using its seven military bases recently 
installed in Colombia.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Worst single terror attacks in history


/ /By *Norm Dixon*
August 6 and August 9 mark the anniversaries of the US atomic-bomb 
attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In 
Hiroshima, an estimated 80,000 people were killed in a split second. 
Some 13 square kilometres of the city were obliterated. By December, at 
least another 70,000 people had died from radiation and injuries.

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Why the left should support the boycott of Israel -- a reply to the
US Socialist Workers Party 

By* Art Young
*August 6, 2010 -- When Israeli commandos attacked the Gaza Freedom 
Flotilla in international waters on May 31, 2010, murdered nine 
humanitarian aid workers and seized the cargo of badly needed supplies 
for Gaza, they touched off an international storm of outrage that 
continues to this day. The widespread anger has galvanised the 
international movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people, 
drawing in new forces and producing new initiatives.

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iPhone 4: Capitalism, inbuilt obsolescence and `blood' phones


By *Stuart Munckton*
August 1, 2010 -- "Yes, the notable features with iPhone 4 --- both the 
device and the iOS4 --- are mostly tweaks", said a June 22 review on the 
popular site BoingBoing.net. "But what tweaks they are." My eye was 
caught by the admission that the iPhone 4, launched in Australia on July 
29, was almost the same as the iPhone 3. Corporations use "inbuilt 
obsolescence" as part of artificially creating markets. This means the 
products they sell are deliberately made to break down --- so we have to 
keep buying more.

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South Africa loses its 'War on Poverty' 

By *Patrick Bond, *Durban
August 6, 2010 -- Shortly before Pretoria's presidential power change 
from Thabo Mbeki to Jacob Zuma two years ago, the South African state 
announced its War on Poverty. What news from the front, in the immediate 
wake of World Cup host duties that showed observers how very pleasant 
life is for the rich and middle class here?

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Venezuela: Defend and deepen the Bolivarian Revolution with an armed
and mobilised people 

By *Marea Socialista*

July 28, 2010 -- Follo