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Research by Tim Wise (GDAE-Tufts University) is conclusive and fully resonates with claims by Africa’s biggest grassroots movement, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa: the corporate capture of food systems should be rejected. Donors and government funding must shift to agroecology. This is an interview hosted by Lynn Fries of GPEnewsdocs.
BRICS: An Anti-Imperialist Fantasy and Sub-Imperialist Reality? – Patrick Bond (pt 1/2)
Patrick Bond, political economist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, and Director of the Centre for Social Change, discusses the recent BRICS summit in Johannesburg. The BRICS countries continue to call for greater representation within Bretton Woods institutions, while their opposition to US-dollar hegemony has been feeble at best. Patrick Bond lays out the complicity of the BRICS and soon-to-be BRICS+ elite in corruption networks as they profit from Big Oil and Gas contracts and accelerate environmental disasters. This is part 1 of 2.
Exposing Apocalyptic Economics with Steve Keen
Steve Keen has been exposing the ways mainstream neoclassical economistsâincluding winners of the so-called Nobel Prize in Economicsâ have been arriving at their absurdly optimistic numbers regarding climate change, and theyâre terrifying. In this interview with Colin Bruce Anthes, Keen goes through prevalent examples in detail and argues that these numbers and the methods behind them must simply be thrown in the garbage.
Why Autoworkers Care About Climate Change – Frank Hammer on Reality Asserts Itself (pt 4/4)
This interview was originally published on October 11, 2013. In the final segment of this Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Frank Hammer says all workers should face up to the dangers of climate change and insist that we move toward a green economy.
Massive Protests in Panama Against Canadian Mining Company
Protesters have practically shut down Panama for over two weeks now in an effort to keep the Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals from operating Central America’s largest open-pit copper mine. Michael Fox tells the story and analyses its implications.
The Miners Strike Taught Me to Think Critically – Gabriel Byrne on RAI Pt 2/4
On Reality Asserts Itself, actor Gabriel Byrne says that in the â70s, being Irish in London was like being a Muslim now; PM Thatcherâs campaign to crush the miners union in 1984 helped him understand how the media were anti-working class and anti-union â with host Paul Jay. This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced December 24, 2017.











