Archive for December 10th, 2009
The Enlightenment and climate change
Posted by John, December 10th, 2009 - under Metabolic rift, Socialism, The enlightenment.
Tags: Anthropogenic gobal warming, Capitalism, Climate change, Global Warming
Comments: 2
We socialists sometimes say we are the children of the enlightenment. I might add some of us think we are not just its children but its true inheritors. What was the Enlightenment and why is it relevant today? The development of capitalism in the bosom of feudal Europe created the need for an understanding of the world around […]
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Return to a secret country
Posted by John, December 10th, 2009 - under John Pilger.
Tags: Aborigines, Apartheid, Australia
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Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Aborigines has changed little. White Australia must offer its first people universal land rights and a proper share of resources argues John Pilger in the New Statesman. I remember the boys dressed in army surplus, the girls in hessian, silhouettes framed in beach shanties, staring across an abyss. You were […]