Supporters of the Iraq War dominate the UK's public institutions, despite its dismal failure. Why? Because it's the touchstone for adherence to the neo-liberal consensus and all its dogmas, writes Craig Murray, from TTIP to austerity and the corporate takeover of public services. But now, with the rise of Corbyn and the SNP, the deep state is finally facing a real challenge.
… Support the Iraq war, hold the keys to worldly power Craig … Murray | 3rd September 2015 Comment Politics War Corporations iraq-war-demo-2003-cut.jpg Supporters of the Iraq …
As protestors gather to oppose yet another illegal war in the Middle East, Colin Todhunter asks why David Cameron is so keen to bomb. Of course there's access to oil and routes for gas pipelines, but beyond that, it's about re-entrenching militarism into our national culture, and re-asserting the dominance of capital over people.
… Syria: an illegal war for energy, capital and empire Colin Todhunter | 28th November 2015 Comment War UK USA Turkey Russia Un Politics Middle … gather to oppose yet another illegal war in the Middle East, Colin Todhunter asks …
This Saturday War on Want holds its Frontlines conference in London on the global conflict between communities and corporations, writes Paul Collins. Featuring a host of inspiring speakers, it will forge new alliances and new strategies of resistance.
… The new frontlines of war Paul Collins | 20th March 2014 Ethical … Corporations wow-celestine.png This Saturday War on Want holds its Frontlines conference in … people, Celestine Akpobari, will address War on Want's conference, The New Frontlines …
The true nature of western civilization is hard to grasp from within, says Professor John McMurtry, because we perceive it through media whose primary purpose is not to convey the truth, but conceal it. What is actually playing out is a global war of empire and capital against the Earth and her people, backed up by the omnipresent threat of overwhelming force.
… John McMurtry | 4th February 2016 Comment War USA Corporations Trade Climate Change … it. What is actually playing out is a global war of empire and capital against the Earth … globalization. They talk only of 'climate warming', not destabilization of planetary …
With the International Monsanto Tribunal beginning this week (14-16 October) in The Hague, MICK GRANT reports from Vietnam with this special investigation for The Ecologist five decades after the company's lethal herbicide Agent Orange first devastated the country - and discovers the agribusiness giant is sneaking its way back into Vietnam with modern herbicides and 'Roundup-Ready' GMO crops.
… Vietname Health Pesticide Toxics Corporations War Farming agent orange 6-cut.jpg With the … like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death. As Monsanto … experimental form of chemical and biological warfare, designed to strip foliage and deny …
There are many good reasons to criticise Donald Trump, writes John McMurtry. But none of these matter to the US media, political and corporate powers determined to keep him out of the White House. With his radical talk of halving military spending, controlling Big Pharma and exiting 'free trade' agreements, Trump is a direct threat to the parasite capitalism that's destroying America.
… 2016 Comment US Politics Finance Corporations War Health Trade 5440388253_6b88990134_o.jpg … the US corporate stakes behind the foreign wars the US state has initiated since 1991. … its endless new untested weapons and foreign wars both of which Trump opposes. But the …
Three in one: EFSA set to re-licence glyphosate based on secret industry studies; Monsanto moves against IARC verdict that glyphosate is a 'probable carcinogen'; and new science shows that FDA principle of GMO 'substantial equivalence' is bunk.
… GMO and glyphosate wars rage Oliver Tickell | 16th July 2015 News … is bunk. News on the GMO and glyphosate 'war' under way between citizens and scientists … which predict metabolic disruptions, towards modernizing the safety assessment of …
Journalism in the United States is a dying profession, says Paul Craig Roberts, recipient of the International Award for Excellence in Journalism 2015. Corrupted by corporate wealth and power, and intimidated by a repressive state, the mainstream media have assumed a new role as messengers of fear, hatred and naked aggression that's driving the world to nuclear war.
… Roberts, recipient of the International Award for Excellence in Journalism 2015. … that's driving the world to nuclear war. As Jesus told the people of Nazareth, a … In the United States journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the …
According to classical economics Adam Smith's 'invisible' hand' of free markets produces the greatest good for us all, writes JP Sottile. But what happens when rip-roaring 'external costs' are left out of the equations? Wars, repression, pollution, resource destruction and climate change. And because that invisible hand is connected to Mother Nature, it's coming back to strike us.
… Climate Change Corporations Energy Oil War tornado-hit-cut.jpg According to classical … costs' are left out of the equations? Wars, repression, pollution, resource … issue driving up the earth's temperature and warping the world's already misshaped markets. …
Africa is being opened up like a tin of sardines to a new wave of resource extraction, writes Colin Todhunter. Masked under the soubriquets of 'investment', 'growth' and 'free trade', a handful of vast global corporations are systematically plundering the continent's mineral wealth and leaving desolation in their wake, backed to the hilt by that ever-faithful servant of capital - the UK government.
… July 2016 News Africa Mining Corporations War Economics Western Sahara Morocco … the message from a damning new report from War On Want ' The New Colonialism: Britain's … conflict by means of a referendum have been thwarted by Morocco. The International Court of …
Just as the chemical industry and its shills once proclaimed the safety of DDT, they are doing the same today with the herbicide glyphosate which has penetrated throughout the food chain, writes Evaggelos Vallianatos. And once again it is a toxic lie that threatens species, ecosystems and people. It's time to demand a new kind of agriculture, and a future free of all pesticides.
… was a courageous man. At the peak of the cold war, in 1953, he complained of maladies … didn't use it properly." (Biskind 1953). The warnings of Biskind went nowhere. The Pentagon … agriculture borrowing the Pentagon's chemical warfare strategy for American farmers. …
Mission accomplished in Iraq? It is now, writes Mike Whitney. A million deaths on, a once peaceful, independent country has been transformed into a petro-economy of never ending civil chaos and terror, where multinational oil corporations rule supreme.
… in history? Mike Whitney | 7th June 2014 News War Oil Iraq USA Fossil Fuels Corporations … to restore its oil industry after decades of war and neglect." As Antonia Juhasz, oil … of oil. "Earlier this year, Emerson was awarded a contract to provide crude oil …
The opposition of Ecuador's Shuar People to large scale mining and hydroelectric development in their ancestral forests has triggered a full-scale military occupation of their lands in the Amazon cloud forest, writes Jake Ling, accompanied by a surge in state-sponsored murder and violence - for which Chinese and Canadian mining companies must share responsibility.
… without any kind of explanation. An arrest warrant for Wachapá was never presented. … and arbitrarily detain people without warrants or evidence. Under a massive military … air and land troops - equipped with four war-tanks, surveillance drones, aerostatic …
The UK government is punishing renewable energy for its success in generating 25% of the country's electricity, writes Stuart Parkinson. But there's no austerity when it comes to the bloated military-nuclear industrial sector, no matter how egregious its failures or extreme its cost overruns. Our future prosperity is being sacrificed - and its costing taxpayers billions.
… Renewables Politics Economics Corporations War wind-sunset-cut.jpg The UK government is … industrial policies represent a slide back towards a Cold War-style ‘military-industrial complex' and …
G4S, the UK government outsourcer that supports Israeli security functions in the West Bank, will now supply 'custodial services' to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, writes Clare Sambrook. Shocked? You shouldn't be. G4S is impervious to public criticism and defies international law with impunity.
… Sambrook | 13th August 2014 Activism Law War USA Cuba Corporations Human Rights … Garcia has played a significant role in the 'War on Terror', serving as a stop-over for CIA … (Boycotts, Divestments & Sanctions) and War on Want , calling upon G4S customers and …
With its 800 bases in 80 countries, the US's global military domination is often seen as an altruistic exercise to ensure world peace and harmony, writes Pete Dolack. It is, of course, the opposite: the essential underpinning of the US's predatory economic power, always ready to strike down any challenge to the rights and privileges of its corporate conquerors and financial oligarchy.
… to $786 billion, according to a study by the War Resisters League. Veterans' benefits add … the grand total well above $1 trillion . The War Resisters League notes that other … of the 20th century, US President William Howard Taft declared that his foreign policy was …
When we speak of WMD, we usually think of weapons - nuclear, biological, or chemical - that are delivered in a moment, writes Tom Engelhardt. But what of climate change: a WMD on a long fuse, already lit and smoking ...
… congressional votes were changed in favor of war thanks to hair-raising secret … in the Middle East, the "brink" beyond which war has endlessly loomed. And yet there was … he used against Iranian troops in his 1980s war with their country - with the help of …
Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The UK's BG and the US's Noble Energy are lined up to do the dirty work - but first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom.
… stolen gas Nafeez Ahmed | 24th July 2014 News War Middle East Energy Fossil Fuels Economics … in the Gaza Strip is by no means an energy war" , writes Allison Good in The National … Why was Netanyahu simultaneously pushing forward negotiations over Gaza's gas, while also …
The oil industry and oil producers have a long history of market manipulation, writes Karl Grossman, and we see it going on right now with the low oil price that's squeezing fracking and getting America back onto gas-guzzling SUV's. But longer term, solar power is going to win out, and even Saudi Arabia knows it. Its game? To make out big, while the going's good.
… its support of Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Other OPEC-induced 'oil shocks' have … 2010 film Gasland, nominated for an Academy Award, and the subsequent Gasland Part II, both … Maduro charged : "Did you know there's an oil war. And the war has an objective: to destroy …
Naomi Klein famously called for a 'grand coalition' of the progressive left to fight climate change and Earth-destroying capitalism, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And now it's happening, drawing together diverse strands that encompass the fight for social and racial justice, the right to work, health, clean air and fresh water, and our freedom to be alive and thrive on this our one planet.
… but the main theory places the blame on the warming oceans. It is climate change that is … change induced drought have led to the wars in Syria and Mali. It is killing our … response to neoliberalism during the antiwar movement that surged into existence during …
Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots, where indigenous tribes have long lived in harmony with the forest and its wildlife, writes Rod Harbinson. But now they are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off piecemeal to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Now local communities are defending themselves and their land.
… Corporations Indigenous Peoples Conservation War people-beach.jpg Botum Sakor national park … the country, reaching crisis proportions. War widow Mrs Saen Saheng was at home with her … 1993. These Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) awarded to the highest bidder, have placed huge …
Heathcote Williams remembers India's great campaigner Professor Nanjunda's whose direct actions against Monsanto, KFC, McDonalds, Coca-Cola and the WTO inspired a nation and created an unstoppable movement of 10 million ...
… wealth." This was Professor Nanjundaswamy's war cry As he fended off corporate kleptocrats And made war on genetically modified crops And trashed … in direct action." Nanjunda's followers swarmed through the building Ripping open …
First corporations gained legal personhood, writes Don Fitz. Next they seized the right to force 'free trade' on unwilling populations. Now they are making sure that 'corporate rights' trump citizen rights - like the right to wholesome food and a healthy environment. That's where the 'Right to Farm' constitutional amendments come in ...
… rights of persons date to the post-Civil War ear. In the late 1880s the US Supreme … trade' During the decades following World War II, corporations sought to expand their … The first wave of corporatocracy looked inward: It focused on US businesses power that …
Industrial agriculture and industrial food processing have combined to produce something extraordinary, writes Julian Rose: 'KRISS the unrecognisable croissant'. Just don't make the mistake of confusing it with food. Devoid of nutrition, laced with hydrogenated oil and a long list of artificial ingredients, if you care about your own health and that of our planet - give KRISS a miss!
… mostly developed immediately after World War Two, cereals, oil seeds, vegetables and … and nerve gas industries of the Second World War, and subsequently put to use in … crops are sprayed with one or more of these war-stained chemicals between three and eight …