by DGR News Service | Jul 8, 2022 | ANALYSIS, The Problem: Civilization
Editor’s note: Globalization is the process of increasing global integration between countries and regions. This increased connectivity is largely driven by trade. Enabled by the explosion of fossil fuel use over the past 150 years, global trade networks have...
by DGR News Service | Jul 3, 2022 | NEWS
Editor’s note: Deep sea mining could begin in about a year. But opponents of deep sea mining are taking their arguments onto the world stage at the U.N. Ocean Conference in Portugal and increasing numbers of Pacific leaders have added their voice to deep sea...
by DGR News Service | Jul 1, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Mining & Drilling
Editor’s note: The shock doctrine is a concept proposed by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein and is outlined in her book, The Shock Doctrine. The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, published in 2007. Its central proposition is that the capitalist markets take advantage...
by DGR News Service | Jun 27, 2022 | NEWS, The Solution: Resistance
Editor’s note: Beginning in April 2021, activists in Northern California have been engaged in a sustained campaign to protect the Jackson Demonstration State Forest from logging. Jackson is the largest State forest in California, stretching over nearly 50,000...
by DGR News Service | Jun 25, 2022 | ANALYSIS, The Problem: Civilization
Editor’s note: Marxism and Collapse is a new organization formed “for information and debate on the scientific sources surrounding the existential problems facing humanity in the short term (ecological crisis, energy collapse, overpopulation, resource...
by DGR News Service | Jun 20, 2022 | NEWS
Editor’s note: Lithium is among the hottest commodities today. As oil prices spike, electric vehicles (EVs) are sold out at dealerships and huge numbers of pre-orders serve as massive interest-free loans for EV corporations. But supply chains remain an obstacle...
by DGR News Service | Jun 17, 2022 | ANALYSIS
Editor’s note: As the climate catastrophe worsens, chaos and contradiction reigns. Grassroots people’s resistance to the fossil fuel industry is growing, but so is government repression, and investment in coal, oil, and gas continues to grow (last year,...
by DGR News Service | Jun 13, 2022 | NEWS, Protests & Symbolic Acts
Editor’s note: In Nepal, as in many parts of the world, male violence against women is relatively common, yet often goes unreported and unpunished. Today we bring you an interview with Ruby Khan, a working-class Nepali woman who marched 520km (320 miles) and...
by DGR News Service | Jun 10, 2022 | ACTION, The Solution: Resistance
Editor’s note: Too often, activists fail to understand tactics and strategy, especially when we are matched against business people, law enforcement, and even military professionals. This makes us easy to out-think, outmaneuver, and defeat. It is essential that...
by DGR News Service | Jun 6, 2022 | ACTION, Culture of Resistance, The Solution: Resistance
How to Become and Activist and Organize Your Life for Resistance By Max Wilbert There is a spectrum of involvement in political organizing. It begins with awareness of the issues. Then, a person may wish to volunteer and contribute to a cause. Eventually, if...
