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Marta Harnecker on “The Best Homage We Can Pay Fidel”

Marta Harnecker on “The Best Homage We Can Pay Fidel”

February 20, 2024

“Over half a century ago, as Latin American households were celebrating the start of a new year, some good news arrived from Cuba: a guerrilla army with a social base among the peasantry triumphed on the Caribbean island, liberating the country from the tyrannical Batista regime. A political process began that not only aimed to overthrow a dictator, but sought to follow a consistently revolutionary line: genuinely transform society for the benefit of the great majority….”

Ottawa Valley Faces Ian Angus (and the Anthropocene)

Ottawa Valley Faces Ian Angus (and the Anthropocene)

February 20, 2024

in which Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, talks to Jennifer Estendorp of Inside Ottawa Valley
“What is the Anthropocene you ask?
‘Geologists divide the history of our world into increments, based on what they know about eras,’ explained Ian Angus, local author. ‘Currently, we’re in the Holocene epoch.’

“Facing the Anthropocene: climate change is a ‘global emergency’”

February 20, 2024

This summer, a panel of geologists voted to recognize today as an age where human activities match or exceed natural forces and are globally significant. They named it the Anthropocene. On September 13, Ian Angus, an author and eco-socialist activist, spoke at a colloquium organized by UBC’s geography department, addressing this proposed geological epoch and introducing his new book, Facing the Anthropocene.

Ian Angus Calls Out “A new and disturbing era in human history”

Ian Angus Calls Out “A new and disturbing era in human history”

February 20, 2024

“A growing number of scientists, environmentalists and other experts have come to the conclusion that the human race has had such a deep and fundamental impact on the planet that we have effectively entered into a new geological age in the history of the Earth. They argue that the changes that have been brought about by human activity over the past 200 years, but more specifically since the end of the Second World War, has had a permanent effect on our ecology. We have, they say, moved from the Holocene to the Anthropocene epoch, one which future scientists will be able to pinpoint just by studying these effects on our environment....¶ Ian Angus will hold a book launch for Facing the Anthropocene at Octopus Books, 251 Bank Street, 2nd floor, Ottawa, on September 27 at 7 pm.”

John Bellamy Foster on Why He and Paul Burkett Wrote Marx and the Earth: an interview with Junge Welt

John Bellamy Foster on Why He and Paul Burkett Wrote Marx and the Earth: an interview with Junge Welt

February 20, 2024

Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, is the author of several books MRP books, including The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. Recently, with Paul Birkett, he wrote Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique (Brill Publishers), to be released in the U.S. December 13. John Bellamy Foster was interviewed by Christian Stache from the Berlin-based daily, Junge Welt.

New! The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? by John Marciano

New! The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? by John Marciano

February 20, 2024

On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years—through November 11, 2025—commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, “more than 58,000 patriots,” who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 3 million Vietnamese—soldiers, parents, grandparents, children—also died in that war will be largely unknown and entirely uncommemorated.

“Slaughter in Vietnam Haunts Bob Kerrey’s Appointment to Fulbright University”—John Marciano via Truthout.org

“Slaughter in Vietnam Haunts Bob Kerrey’s Appointment to Fulbright University”—John Marciano via Truthout.org

February 20, 2024

The struggle over memory and truth about the Vietnam War continues. It reemerged in May when President Obama announced the opening of Fulbright University in Vietnam, and that Bob Kerrey would chair the board of trustees. Fulbright is the first private university in Vietnam, with ties to the Kennedy Center at Harvard and the US State Department. What does this recent appointment and the controversy surrounding it teach us about the War in Vietnam?

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