In one year, rich countries take $2 trillion more from poor countries than they return in aid and investment. The countries that brag most about their foreign aid are enabling mass theft.
AID IN REVERSE
How poor countries finance the rich
Archive | War, Imperialism
Katrina, militarization and climate change
Militarized and profit-making approaches to climate emergencies and other crises pose a serious threat to environmental justice, civil rights and democracy
U.S. veterans: Dismantle the anti-climate, pro-war economy
Former soldiers challenge the war on our planet at Minnesota conference addressed by leading climate scientist James Hansen
Pentagon Pollution, 1: War and the true tragedy of the commons
The U.S. military is the world’s biggest and most destructive polluter. Stopping the war machine is an essential part of saving the earth.
Pentagon Pollution, 2: Military waste sickens land and people
The U.S. military generates more toxic waste than the five largest US chemical companies combined.
Pentagon Pollution, 3: Chemical warfare and Agent Orange
Four decades after the U.S. military fled Vietnam, millions of children and adults still suffer the devastating effects of its deliberately ecocidal assault
Pentagon Pollution, 4: A biological bargain with the devil
The “war on terror” includes massive federal funding for secret research on the most lethal bacteria and viruses with no known cure
Pentagon Pollution, 5: The deadly impact of depleted uranium
The use of depleted uranium weapons in the Balkans and Iraq has left a long-term legacy of cancers and birth defects among civilians
Pentagon Pollution, 6: Weapons of mass destruction in slow motion
During and after the Pentagon’s wars, landmines and cluster bombs kill and maim, while blocking resettlement and agriculture in the poorest regions
Pentagon Pollution, 7: The military assault on global climate
The U.S. military is the single greatest institutional contributor to the growing natural disasters intensified by global climate change.
Following up on Luxemburg and ‘Socialism or Barbarism’
My explanation of the origin of an important revolutionary slogan has been widely accepted.
The origin of Rosa Luxemburg’s slogan ‘socialism or barbarism’
Historians have offered various explanations, none of which really work. Ian Angus traces an important socialist slogan to its unexpected source.
Responding to capitalist disaster, in 1914 and today
World War I began 100 years ago. Today’s ecosocialist movement has much to learn from the revolutionaries who campaigned to stop that catastrophe.
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
More proof that the U.S. military is the world’s worst and deadliest polluter
Is the climate sick of us?
Video: Ian Angus, interviewed in Lisbon in 2010
Climate colonialism, illustrated
99% of disease caused by climate change occurs in developing countries, and 88% of that affects children under age 5
Invasion of Iraq causes epidemic of birth defects
“You’ve thrown the worst fear that can ever be hurled, Fear to bring children into the world”
Iraq: Mission accomplished for Big Oil?
How the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq paved the way for Big Oil’s rise — and now for its possible fall
Israel’s environmental colonialism and eco-apartheid
By greenwashing the occupation, Israel hides its apartheid behind an environmentalist mirage, and distracts public attention not only from its brutal oppression of the Palestinian people, but from its large-scale degradation of the earth upon which these tragedies unfold.
Pseudo-green NGO offers to greenwash arms dealer
Is Conservation International any more than a green Public Relations agency? (more…)