February 20, 2024
DN: This week the International Geological Congress in Cape Town received word of a coming recommendation that a new geological epoch needs to be official declared. The new epoch, called the Anthropocene, indicates the unprecedented level of human impact on the Earth… What’s an epoch and why are they and you calling to name a new one?
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.”
February 20, 2024
Monthly Review Press author Gerald Horne talks to Counterpunch about Colin Kaepernick, the national anthem, and standing up for remaining seated.
February 20, 2024
Brought to you by the A-Infos Radio Project: Gerald Horne, author of Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic and Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow, talked, on September 4, to Community Public Radio’s Don DeBar about the G-20, the Alt-Right, Brexit, the US Presidential election, globalization, and just about everything else.
February 20, 2024
Burnaby, British Columbia: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15.
Come to Simon Fraser University and hear Ian Angus talk about his new book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
7:00–9:00PM, Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Woodward’s, 149 W. Hastings St.
February 20, 2024
Alan Wieder, author of Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation, talks to Milwaukee’s Riverwest Radio on Fearless Reader Radio (September 7, 2016). (Contains BONUS EXCERPT of Studs Terkel’s 1980 radio interview with Toni Morrison.)
February 20, 2024
John Smith, author of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis, talks to Daphna Whitmore of the online publication, Redline: Contemporary Marxist Analysis
February 20, 2024
MRP author Alan Wieder talks about his book, Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation with Rick Kogan, host of “After Hours” on Chicago radio station WGN.
And if you’re in Chicago, come hear Alan at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Tuesday Tuesday, September 13 at 6:00PM for his book release!
February 20, 2024
“István Mészáros, a well-known Marxist theorist, has material which can be interesting to anarchists. He has an insightful analysis of the current stage of capitalism and the state. He makes Marx’s ‘withering away of the state’ central to his program, and he rejects electoral party politics. But paradoxically, he also supports the late Hugo Chavez’s attempted use of the Venezuelan state to move to socialism. How can we understand this and respond to it?…”
February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne, author of Confronting Black Jacobins and Race to Revolution, talks, via Sputnik News, to Brian Becker on Loud and Clear about Colin Kaepernick and the historical legacy of the Star-Spangled Banner.
