1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    writes the SRF. The cocktail effect, i.e. the effects that a variety of environmental toxins have on a person, has not yet been examined. * Russia | raw materials | Resources | Economy The Ukraine war and its consequences for Russia The situation in eastern Ukraine is getting worse. Fights leave massive damage to people and material. The outlook for Russia is bleak. Officially...

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    the Union's parliamentary motions. The book "Building blocks for climate justice - 2023 measures for a solidarity-based future" published in 8 by the Leipzig concept work New Economy is proof that the trend of cosmetic exploitation of wonderfully progressive-sounding terms such as "climate justice" or "transformation" can be countered. People...

  3. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    Financing strategy for Germany's natural gas independence. The expert council, a voluntary association of experts, is coordinated by the Institute for Sustainable Economics (ZOE) and financed by the Climate Finance Fund. The interdisciplinary group met in February 2022, the month Russia invaded Ukraine. A year later...

  4. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    the results in his reports. Hundreds of scientists are involved. They come from climate and marine research, but also from the fields of economics, statistics, social sciences and health. The core team consists of 30 to 40 researchers and experts. Every five to six years the IPCC publishes so-called assessment reports...

  5. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    Actually, Stefan K. should also be heard in the investigative committee on Friday. However, the policeman had sent a sick note in advance of the meeting... * Prosperity | economics | Right-wing extremism Economists warn about right-wing extremism: Right-wing extremism eats up wealth. Economic concerns strengthen the ultra-right - but the ultra-right also harms the economy. The result:...

  6. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    less to ensure the possibility of providing growth without increasing the risk of destruction. Rees' thesis is that with the growth-based capitalist economy and population growth, people have long been exploiting the ecosphere far beyond the possibilities of regeneration and that this overshoot despite the switch to the use of renewable energies...

  7. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    In 1965, the first Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah wrote his work Neocolonialism - The Last Stage of Imperialism for the first time, an economic analysis of the political economy of neocolonialism with the claim of a continuation of Lenin's theory of imperialism and his work Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism... [. ..] Criticism of the IMF and World Bank In...

  8. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    ever faster, much faster and harder than expected a year ago, a global crisis of the previous hegemony of progress is expanding, a multifaceted crisis complex that extends to the economy, ecology, politics and the social sphere and must also be seen in the Ukraine war . The previous plasters that helped in normal times no longer stick... *...

  9. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    Land systems as an important building block for compliance with the 1,5 °C upper limit are becoming more of a focus in climate policy... ** Wikipedia Jevons paradox In economics, the Jevons paradox is an observation by William Stanley Jevons, according to which technical Progress that allows the more efficient use of a raw material ultimately leads to increased use of this raw material...

  10. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    Land systems as an important building block for compliance with the 1,5 °C upper limit are becoming more of a focus in climate policy... ** Wikipedia Jevons paradox In economics, the Jevons paradox is an observation by William Stanley Jevons, according to which technical Progress that allows the more efficient use of a raw material ultimately leads to increased use of this raw material...

  11. Newsletter XXIII 2022 - June 01st to 09th - News+ Noam Chomsky: From Class Struggle to Green Revolution

    Professor of Linguistics at MIT and currently Professor at the University of Arizona. He has published approximately 150 books in the fields of linguistics, political and social theory, political economy, media studies, US foreign policy, and international affairs. Political scientist CJ Polychroniou asks the questions. It's the second part of an interview with Noam...

  12. Newsletter XIV 2022 - April 01st to 07th - News+ Media: The truth and all the other victims

    Attack, including media. He is successful with it. But is that good? *** Top of page News+ Background knowledge *** News+ April 01st Corona | Putin | Information War | Media | WiP Economy of Attention - 1 | 2 The first part was about the audience's attention in the face of different scenarios, but with comparable effects. The conclusion: If...

  13. Newsletter XIII 2022 - March 26-31 - News+ A month of war in Ukraine: developing a tragedy

    Release of radioactivity worldwide, only the disaster in Chernobyl in 1986 with 5,2 million Tbq brought even more poison into the world. Media | Freedom of the press | Information War | WiP Economy of Attention - 1 | 2 It's been a damn long time... Forty-three years is a long time, and things can slip through the sieve. 43 years ago, a nuclear accident occurred in Harrisburg...

  14. Newsletter IX 2022 - February 28th to March 06th - News+ Farewell to Russian gas – who wins, who loses

    – United War Resisters (DFG-VK) • German Peace Society – United War Resisters (DFG-VK) Münster • Parents’ Association Residual Risk Emsland • Ethecon – Ethics & Economics Foundation • Greenkids eV • Initiative 3 Rosen eV, Aachen • IPPNW eV – International Doctors for the prevention of nuclear war • Platform against nuclear dangers (PLAGE) Salzburg, Austria • RECH –...

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