ALAI this week - 29/10/2021
Bleak prospects for least developed countries
“The outlook for LDCs is grim”. The latest UN assessment of prospects for the least developed countries notes recent setbacks without finding any silver lining on the horizon.
Anis Chowdhury, Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Food Sovereignty for Climate Justice Now!
An outgrowth of the fossil fuel industry, the transnational food system is one of the primary culprits of the climate crisis, contributing some 44 – 57 percent of global GHG emissions.
La Vía Campesina
America as Tax Haven: It’s Becoming Part of US Foreign Policy
President Biden has been outspoken against tax havens. Opening up the shell companies of Latin America’s oligarch politicians in the United States would match his well-received words with concrete action.
Guillaume Long
The path to a livable future, or will rich corporations trash the planet?
The question is: Can we prevent climate catastrophe within the framework of less savage state capitalist institutions? I think there’s a reason to believe that we can.
Noam Chomsky, Stan Cox
Donziger’s appeal denied
US Congress and international groups demand Chevron stop targeting activists and that the attorney general Garland should release US human rights lawyer.
Amazon Watch
Strategies for sustainability
Clean energy means a lot of extractivism and a different economy that is not focused on growth and not even in its infancy, and the failing behavioural economy does not bring us any closer to a solution.
Francine Mestrum
Canada must withdraw from racist Core Group
The Core Group has heavily shaped Haitian affairs since US, French and Canadian troops overthrew the country’s elected government in 2004 and instigated a UN occupation force.
Yves Engler
Don’t cut the Build Back Better plan—cut the Pentagon’s budget
Coronavirus: Global Collective Commons vs Big Pharma
The struggle to defend the commons is intimately linked to the struggle against the capitalist system as a whole.
Eric Toussaint
The big player absent at COP26 in Glasgow
Earth and nature constitute the Great Player. On their preservation depend all the other projects of the players and the future of our civilization.
Leonardo Boff