3600. Summary and Index for the Last 99 Posts

By the Editors, August 3, 2022

Assistant Editor Panther

Of the last 99 posts, 25 were about socialism and ecosocialism, 14 were crises of the anthropocentric industrial capitalist civilization, five were specifically about climate change, 13 were about "capitalism," eight about science and seven about philosophy. 

Hyperlinks to posts follow:

3501. A Critical Theoretical Assessment of the U.S. Socialist Workers Party: Past and Present (Farsi edition)

3502. What Our Use of Animal-Based Slurs and Endearments Says About Us

3503. Mariela Castro: “I Am Convinced That the New Family Code Will Be Approved by the Majority of Cubans”

3504. The Cuban Government Denounces US Support for the Israeli Crimes in Gaza

3505. Twenty Firms Produce 55% of World’s Plastic Waste, Report Reveals

3506. Cosmotechnics and Ontological Turn in the Age of the Anthropocene

3507. Animal Agents? Historiography, Theory and the History of Science in the Anthropocene

3508. Actor-Network Theory: A World of Networks

3509. Book Review: All Things Great and Small: The origins and fates of atoms and galaxies are closely intertwined

3510. Christopher Stone, Who Proposed Legal Rights for Trees, Dies at 83

3511. The Mycelium Revolution Is upon Us

3512. Henry David Thoreau: Walking

3513. The Case Against Zoos 

3514. Relations of Power and Nonhuman Agency: Critical Theory, Clever Hans, and Other Stories of Horses and Humans

3515. John Ray (1628-1705): Father of Natural History in England

3516. What Is Agency?

3517. Leading Scientist Warns an Irreversible Arctic Tipping Point May Already Be Triggered

3518. Decoupling Debunked – Evidence and Arguments Against Green Growth as a Sole Strategy for Sustainability

3519. UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’

3520. Warming Assessment of the Bottom-Up Paris Agreement Emissions Pledges

3521. Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Short Run: The Rate and Sources of Economic Growth Matter

3522. We Have to Rescue Animism: A Conversation with Colombian-Born Anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna

3523. Crushing Climate Impacts to Hit Sooner Than Feared: Draft UN Report

3524. Consequences of the Drought in California: Rattlesnakes Everywhere

3525. Earth Tipping Points Could Destabilize Each Other in Domino Effect: Study Finds

3526. Sumak Kawsay: Ancient Teachings of Indigenous Peoples

3527. The Case for Ecocentric Socialism

3528. Cuba: A Scream

3529. Thousands March in Cuba in Rare Mass Protests Amid Economic Crisis

3530. The Hot New Millennial Housing Trend Is a Repeat of the Middle Ages

3531. On Degrowth

3532. Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

3533. Global Warming: Planning Not Pricing

3534. Eco-Anarchism, Not Eco-Socialism

3535. This ‘Shazam’ for Birds Could Help Save Them

3536. A Soil-Science Revolution Upends Plans to Fight Climate Change

3537. A Green Critique of the Global Alliance for a Green New Deal

3538. The Coming War on China

3539. Land Transformation by Humans: A Review

3540. Study Shows How Humans Have Transformed Earth, And Still Do

3541. Against the Grain Podcast: Isaac Newton, Marx, and Magic

3542. The UN Sounds Red Alert on the Climate Crisis: Interview with Kamran Nayeri (in Farsi)

3543. The Animal Origin of SARS-CoV-2

3544. Video: Interview with David Kubrin about "Marxism and Witchcraft"

3545. An Interview with Louis Proyect

3546. Drought? This Is What Climate Change Looks like in the West

3547. Do We Need to Shrink the Economy to Stop Climate Change?

3548. The Case for Ecocentric Socialism (Farsi edition)

3549. Book Review: Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

3550. Climate Change Policy: Honest Government Ad about Netzero by 2050

3551. The Strange Tale of Newton’s Papers

3552. Dimensions of the Scientific Method

3553. A definition of Life

3554. 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

3555. On David Graeber and David Wengrow's New History of Humanity

3556. How Wild Turkeys Took Over New England

3557. On David Kubrin’s Marxism & Witchcraft

3557. On David Kubrin’s Marxism & Witchcraft

3558. How to Stop the Sixth Extinction: A Critical Assessment of E. O. Wilson’s Half-Earth (Farsi edition). چه‌گونه انقراض ششم را متوقف کنیم؟ / کامران نیری

3559. How Veganism Can Help Save the World (Farsi Edition)

3560. Film. Review: ‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s Primer on Climate Denial Illustrates 5 Myths that Fuel Rejection of Science

3561. Film Review: Don’t Look Up Doesn’t Get the Climate Crisis

3562. Miyazaki Anime: Animism for the Anthropocene

3563. U.S. Science No Longer Leads the World

3564. Despite U.S. Embargo, Cuba Aims to Share Homegrown Vaccine with Global South

3565. Capitalism, Automation, Socialism: Karl Marx on the Labor Process (Farsi Edition)

3566. Scientists Fear Soaring Methane Levels Show Climate Feedback Loop Has Arrived

3567. How Russian and Western Counterparts Work Together to Enrich Themselves

3568. Climate Change Is Harming the Planet Faster Than We Can Adapt, U.N. Warns

3569. U.S. Foreign Policy Think-Tank Discusses War with Russia and China

3570. How Close Are We to Climate Tipping Points?

3571. Workers’ Organizations in the Russian Revolution: Factory Committees, Trade Unions, and the Struggle for Rower

3572. Humanity at Crossroads

3573. Now Let's Do the American Oligarchs

3574. Plants Humans Don’t Need Are Heading for Extinction, Study Finds

3575. Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

3576. Overextending and Unbalancing Russia: Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options

3577. ‘He Goes Where the Fire Is’: A Virus Hunter in the Wuhan Market

3578. Temperatures in Eastern Antarctica Are 70 Degrees Warmer than Usual

3579. Humanity at Crossroads (Farsi Edition)

3580. Microplastics and climate crisis

3581. The People's CDC

3582. Climate Change and Wars

3583. U.S. Military Consumes More hydrocarbons than Most countries -- Massive Hidden Impact on Climate

3584. On the Web of Life (Revising the concept of the Tree of Life)

3585. On Degrowth (Farsi Edition) در باب رشدزدایی / کامران نیری

3586. Socialism in the 21st Century: Why It Is Needed and Some of Its Salient Features

3587. RAND Corporation Policy Brief: Overextending Russia

3588. A Marshall Plan for Ukraine?

3589. Where Have All the Insects Gone?

3590. The World Has No Choice but to Care About India’s Heat Wave

3591. Video: An Inconvenient Woodpecker

3592. Climate Change: Time Is Running Out

3593. Biden’s War Strategy in Ukraine — Russia’s Defeat, Rejection of a Negotiated Settlement

3594. How Nonhuman Animals Perceive the World

3595. Socialism and Ecological Survival: An Introduction

3596. Queer Animals Are Everywhere; Science Is Finally Catching On

3597. Marxism, Science, and Science Studies: Marx and Engels to COVID-19 and COP26

3598. Rosa Luxemburg and political economy

3599. James Lovelock Dies at 103

FAIR USE NOTICE

This web log (blog) contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of political, social, economic, foreign policy, human rights, scientific, cultural, educational, health and legal issues. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml . All the materials contained in these pages are properly attributed. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you have to contact the copyright owner.

3500. Summary and Index for the Last 99 Posts

 By The Editors, May 10, 2021

Assistant Editor, Siah

Of the last 99 posts, 25 were about socialism and ecosocialism, 14 were crises of the anthropocentric industrial capitalist civilization, five were specifically about climate change, 13 were about "capitalism," eight about science and seven about philosophy. 

Hyperlinks to posts follow:

3401. The Great Climate Migration

3402. George Monbiot: The Origins of Modern Day Racism, George Floyd Killing, and Environmental Destruction

3403. A Local Community Living a Culture of Being: Weaving the Bridge at Q’eswachaka

3404. A Quarter of Bangladesh Is Under Water, Millions Have Lost Everything

3405. Book Review: Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency

3406. The Crisis of Civilization and How to Resolve It: An Introduction to Ecocentric Socialism (Farsi edition)

3407. Vivir Bien: Old Cosmovisions and New Paradigms

3408. Book Review: Cuban Health Care; The Ongoing Revolution

3409. Book Review: Seeing Like a State

3410. The Dangerous Delusion of Basic Income

3411. The Enlightenment and Its Critics

3412. Critique of Instrumental Reason

3413. ABC of Materialist Dialectics

3414. Book Review: Dialectics of Nature

3415. Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires?

3416. Book Review: The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution

3417. Book Review: The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution

3418. Poetry: There Is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods

3419. Leon Trotsky: What Is Fascism and How to Fight It?

3420. On Nature

3421. Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California

3422. Social Progress Index: The United States Is Number 28 and Dropping!

3423. Richard Smith on China's Engine of Environmental Collapse

3424. Lysenko Comes to the CDC: Exploring the Relationship Between Science and Politics

3425. Rosa Luxemburg's Birds

3426. California's Apocalyptic Second Nature

3427. Comparing the U.S. and China’s Response to COVID-19

3428. Book Review: Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat

3429. Dear News Media, Stop Covering the US as If It’s a Democracy

3430. Karl Marx's Speech on the Seventh Anniversary of the International Workingmen's Association (First International)

3431. The Law of Uneven and Combined Development

3432. Their Trotskyism and Ours

3433. A Critical Theoretical Assessment of the U.S. Socialist Workers Party: Past and Present

3434. Workers Cooperatives in Cuba

3435. The Deep Anthropocene

3446. US Election: Women, the Young, the Working Class, the Cities and Ethnic Minorities Get Rid of Trump

3447. Engels’s Emergentist Dialectics

3448. America’s Labor Crisis

3449. Film Review: Kiss the Ground

3450. Does Relying on Science Strengthen Authoritarianism or Weaken It?

3451. Where Americans Find Meaning in Life

3452. What Is Civilization?

3453. Film Review: My Octopus Teacher

3454. Film Review: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

3455. Film Review: Burma Soldier; City of Life and Death

3456. Book Review: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

3457. Core Questions in Domestication Research

3458. Quantum Physics: A Very Short History

3459. How Stalinism Saved the US Democrats

3460. A reply to John Molyneux and Michael Löwy on Degrowth

3461. Suzanne Simard: How Do Trees Collaborate?

3462. Engels’s Emergentist Dialectics

3463. Santa and Magic Mushrooms

3464. The Long-Lasting Effects of COVID-19

3465. Americans Remain Distrustful of Mass Media

3466. Riot on the Hill

3467. Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories

3468. No, America Has Not Entered the Weimar Era

3469. Report: It’s Up To Us! Sonoma County Climate Summit

3470. Book Review: Capitalism and Environmental Collapse

3471. House Cat Origin Traced to Middle Eastern Wildcat Ancestor

3472. Book Review: We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World

3473. Our Wild Companions: Domestic cats in the Anthropocene

3474. The Spread of Cats Worldwide

3475. Michael Goldhaber on the Digital Age and Attention Scarcity

3476. Michael Goldhaber: Attention as Money

3477. Paul Le Blanc: Leninism in the United States and the Decline of the Socialist Workers Party

3478. How 5 Corrosive Conspiracy Theories Made Our Fight Against COVID-19 Even Harder

3479. New Lancet Report: 40 Percent of US COVID Deaths Could Have Been Avoided

3480. Mass Extinctions Are Accelerating, Scientists Report

3481. Oldest-Known Rock Art in Australia is 17,300-Year-Old Kangaroo in the Kimberley, WaspNests Show

3482. We Need to Rescue Rosa Luxemburg From the Soap Opera Treatment

3484. Global Heating Pushes Tropical Regions Towards Limits of Human Livability

3485. Russian Cities Will Join International Caravan Against US Blockade of Cuba

3486. Food Systems Are Responsible for a Third of Global Anthropogenic GHG Emissions

3487. Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass

3488. Plummeting Sperm Counts, Shrinking Penises: Toxic Chemicals Threaten Humanity

3489. The Lancet: Behind Cuba's successful pandemic response

3490. Nearly All Havana to Receive Experimental Cuban COVID-19 Vaccines

3491. Julio Antonio Mella and Trotskyism

3492. Reciprocity

3493. The Rise of Capitalism and the Productivity of Labour

3494. Big Meat and Dairy Companies Have Spent Millions Lobbying Against Climate Action, a New Study Finds

3495. Biden-Kerry International Climate Politricks

3496. Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide At Record High Levels Despite Reduced Emissions in 2020

3497. Villagers & Pillagers: Who Will Survive the Collapse?

3498. Pacific Northwest’s ‘Forest Gardens’ Were Deliberately Planted by Indigenous People

3499. Climate Scientists: Concept of Net Zero Is a Dangerous Trap

FAIR USE NOTICE

This web log (blog) contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of political, social, economic, foreign policy, human rights, scientific, cultural, educational, health and legal issues. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml . All the materials contained in these pages are properly attributed. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you have to contact the copyright owner.

3400. Summary and Index for the Last 99 Posts

By Kamran Nayeri, July 23, 2020

Summer intern, Buck, Assistant Editor

Of the last 99 posts, 20 were on topics in science and philosophy, 17 were on topics in socialism and ecosocialism, 15 were about the COVID-19 pandemic, 11 were about climate change and global warming and related policy discussion and 11 about capitalism, imperialism, and Zionism. There were seven posts each on the crisis of civilization, Cuba and the Cuban revolution food and agriculture. Five posts were on police criminality and Black Lives Matter movement.  A dozen other topics were also touched upon including four poems. 

Hyperlinks to posts follow:

3300. Summary and Index for the Last 99 Posts

3301. Plekhanov: An Alternative Assessment

3302. Nearly 500 Million Animals Lost In Australia’s Devastating Wildfires

3303. Lukacs’s Marxist Aesthetics

3304. France at a Crossroads

3305. Was Marx an Ecosocialist? A Reply to Kohei Saito

3306. Misrepresenting Marx’s Ecology: A response to Daniel Tanuro’s “was Marx an ecosocialist?

3307. There's Literally a Million Times More Microplastics in Oceans Than We Realize

3308. Food at Risk as Third of Plants Face Extinction

3309. How Britain Helped the Islamic Republic of Iran to Destroy the Pro-Soviet Union Tudeh Party

3310. In Defense of the Green Party

3311. The Revolutionary Ideas of Antonio Gramsci

3312. The Return of Karl Kautsky?

3313. Notes on a Novel Coronavirus

3314. Animals and Cars: One Million Animals Are Killed on U.S. Roads Every Day

3315. Neanderthal Genes Hint at Much Earlier Human Migration From Africa

3316. Humans Are Hardwired to Dismiss Facts that Don’t Fit Their Worldview

3317. Eric Blanc’s Ersatz Socialism

3318. For Thousands of Years, Egypt Controlled the Nile. A New Dam Threatens That

3319. On Trump's Political Base: Audacity of Hate

3320. The Road to Peace: Reflections on the Occasion of the 41st Anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution

3321. Study Finds Parrots Weigh Up Probabilities to Make Decisions

3322. How Big Oil and Big Soda Kept a Global Environmental Calamity a Secret for Decades

3323. Collective Decision Making in Non-human Animals

3324. Marx and the Indigenous

3325. Merkel Says Two-Thirds of Germans Could Become Infected

3326. Why Did the Coronavirus Outbreak Start in China?

3327. Book Review: You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance

3328. Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Telebriefing Resources

3329. Is Our Destruction of Wilderness Responsible for Covid-19?

3330. The Coronavirus Pandemic as the Crisis of Civilization

3331. Herd Immunity Is Epidemiological Neoliberalism

3332. Cuba’s Contribution to Combatting COVID-19

3333. Coronavirus and the Death of ‘Connectivity’

3334. Trump Plan Ratifies Israel as an Apartheid State

3335. Getting Viral: Why COVID-19 Is Such a Threat to the 60+ Population and Why the Response May Make It Worse

3336. COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital

3337. COVID-19 Puts Capitalism On A Ventilator

3338. Nafeez Ahmed on Synchronous Failure and Post-Pandemic Systems Change

3339. Mike Davis: Capitalism Is the Disease

3340. The 1979 Iranian Revolution: Chronology of the Abadan Refinery Strikes in 1978

3341. The Pandemic Is a Portal

3342. Thaddeus Stevens, Revolutionary

3343. Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse

3344. Book Review: Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human

3345. Poetry: Living

3346. Is Factory Farming to Blame for Coronavirus?

3347. China Is Closing Its Wildlife Markets. Let’s Make It Permanent

3348. The Covid-19 Pandemic in Cuba

3349. IMF: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression

3350. Jacobin’s Road Map Within the Catacombs of the Democratic Party

3351. 'Megadrought' Emerging in the Western US Might Be Worse Than Any in 1,200 Years

3352. The Earth Day Fifty Years Ago and Today

3353. Video: David Wallace-Wells on Climate Change and the Future of Humanity

3354. Lecture: Donna J. Haraway on Staying with the Trouble

3355. Film Review: Planet of the Humans

3356. Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’

3357. A Note on the Controversy About "Planet of the Humans"

3358. Richard Heingberg on the Planet of the Humans

3359. Planet of the Humans: A Discussion Piece from an Activist in Sonoma County, California

3360. Biodiversity and Agriculture: Nature’s Matrix and the Future of Conservation

3361. Poetry: Listening to Trees

3362. How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease

3363. Disappearing Fossil Fuel and Animal Agriculture Overnight:Their Relative Impact

3364. Cuba Doubles Down on Testing as Coronavirus Cases Decline

3365. How Many Natures Can Nature Nurture? The Human, Multinaturalism and Variation

3366. Lynn Margulis and the Endosymbiont Hypothesis: 50 Years Later

3367. Lynn Margulis, Biological Rebel

3368. Creating Abundance By Occupying Your Plate

3369. The End of Meat Is Here

3370. America’s Obsession With Cheap Meat

3371. Book Review: Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism

3372. Poetry: Rising (In Honor of World Turtle Day)

3373. Cuba Has Sent 2,000 Doctors and Nurses Overseas to Fight Covid-19

3374. FAIR: US Campaign Against Cuba’s Medical Brigades Targets Healthcare, Not ‘Forced Labor’

3375. The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Are Inseparable

3376. How the Microbiome Challenges Our Concept of Self

3377. The Chickens I Had (Loving Without Limits)

3378. Remembering George Floyd: "No Puedo Respirar - I Can't Breathe"

3379. America's Agriculture is 48 Times More Toxic Than 25 YearsAgo Due to Neonics Use

3380. 164 Activists Were Killed Defending Land and Water in 2018

3381. To Do Away With the Police, We Must Do Away With Locks

3382. 1973: Ernest Mandel on Marxism and Ecology, 'The Dialectic of Growth'

3383. 1983: Ernest Mandel on 'Emancipation, science and politics in Karl Marx'

3384. Consumerism Is the Leading Cause of the Environmental Crisis, Study Finds

3385. The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels

3386. The Coronavirus Pandemic as the Crisis of Civilization (Farsi Edition)

3387. Marx’s Law of Value: A Debate Between David Harvey and Michael Roberts

3388. On Confederate Statues: When and Why They Were Erected?

3389. The Coronavirus Pandemic as the Crisis of Civilization: An Interview in Farsi

3390. In the Autonomous Zones

3391. Black, Radical, and Campesino in Revolutionary Cuba

3392. Trump Is a White Supremacist

3393. The Brain and Genes Co-Evolve With Ecosystems and Culture

3394. How to Stop the Next Pandemic: U.N. Report Links Outbreaks to Climate Crisis & Industrial Farming

3395. Seattle's CHOP Went Out Both with a Bang and Whimper

3396. Book Review: Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba

3397. Beyond the Milky Way, a Galactic Wall

3398. Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

3399. The China-Islamic Republic of Iran Negotiations and the Crisis of Capitalist Civilization

FAIR USE NOTICE

This web log (blog) contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of political, social, economic, foreign policy, human rights, scientific, cultural, educational, health and legal issues. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml . All the materials contained in these pages are properly attributed. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you have to contact the copyright owner.