Link to an article by Jonathan Latham:
“Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA”
Bonus link: “They Aren’t All Safe”
Links
Lance Olsen – Why All the Uproar Over the Green New Deal?
Link to an article by Lance Olsen:
“Why All the Uproar Over the Green New Deal?”
Bonus links: “Will A Green New Deal Save the Climate, or Save Capitalism?” and “A Class Struggle Strategy for A Green New Deal” and “The Green New Deal, Capitalism and the State” and “A Green New Deal for Agriculture” and “This Historical Moment Demands Transformation of Our Institutions. The Green New Deal Won’t Do That.” (the Stan Cox quote is willfully obtuse — R. Buckminster Fuller? — but otherwise the article is good) and “How Green is the ‘Green New Deal’?” and “Modern Money Green Economics for a New Era” and “Communism, Fascism and Green Shaming” and “Politics, Democracy and Environmental Rebellion” (“Calls for a stripped down Green New Deal, one that forgoes a robust Job Guarantee, is a ploy to engineer a capital strike where millions of workers will be tossed out of their jobs to ‘prove’ that the economy requires environmental destruction and militarism.”) and “Planning the Green Tech Revolution” and “The Realism and Unrealism of the Green New Deals” and “Bernie’s Green New Deal Is for the Working Class” and The State and Revolution
Yuval Sharon – A Brecht for Our Time
Link to a book review by Yuval Sharon:
“A Brecht for Our Time: On ‘The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht'”
Bonus links: “Brecht Was a Revolutionary” and “Brecht, Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill”
John Steppling – Population Bomb or Bomb the Population?
Link to an article by John Steppling:
“Population Bomb or Bomb the Population?”
Bonus links: “Ashley Dawson: Extreme Cities” (Steppling’s article essentially provides the answer to an audience question that Ashley Dawson stumbled with in this video of an otherwise excellent talk) and “Malthus’ Essay on Population at Age 200” and “Population Explosion” and “Will Limiting Population Growth Solve the Climate Crisis?” and “Ten Reasons Why Population Control Can’t Stop Climate Change”and “Saving Nature: Overpopulation is not the Primary Problem” and “1973: Ernest Mandel on Marxism and Ecology, ‘The Dialectic of Growth'” and The Closing Circle and Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis
Jerome Roos – Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay
Link to an interview with Jerome Roos conducted by George Souvlis:
Bonus links: articles and interviews with Michael Hudson, Super Imperialism, Review of The Global Minotaur, and discussion of “university discourse”
Luke Savage – The Real Working Class Is Invisible to the Media
Link to a review by Luke Savage of the book No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class (2019) by Christopher R. Martin:
Ivan Bruneau, Julian Mischi & Nicolas Renahy – Rural France in Revolt
Link to an article by Ivan Bruneau, Julian Mischi & Nicolas Renahy:
Bonus links: ressentiment and university discourse and The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker and Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right and “For What It’s Worth: The Yellow Vests and the Left” and “A Leftist Plea for ‘Eurocentrism'” and “Sending in the Troops”
Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left
Link to the article:
“Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I”
“Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part II”
“Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part III”
“Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part IV”
This is an excellent multi-part piece on the fundamental problems with Chomsky’s politics — though it does contain a few brief unsupported or otherwise perplexing statements. See also The Idiot Pool
Daniel Immerwahr – A Global, Invisible Empire
Link to an interview with Daniel Immerwahr, conducted by Tanner Howard: