#history #photography #Depression #DustBowl #NewDeal
Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-kept-and-the-killed
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2021/11/16/whats-behind-the-cop26-fraud-the-guardian/
#Net-zero is popular among #polluters for good reason – it’s #toothless compared to #emissions #restrictions and a #carbon #tax. There are three reasons #Cop26 proved such a spectacular #debacle: A #planet-wide #collective #action #problem over “ #free-riding”. A #global #coordination #failure. And… #capitalism!
#yanisvaroufakis #varoufakis #fraud #climate #crisis #greenhouse-gas #fossil-fuels #renewable #energy #european #newdeal
One of the arguments advanced in favour of copyright-based compensation is that:
Wage income ultimately provides for both 1) the living costs of workers and their families as well as 2) opportunity risks and costs of production. (Adam Smith's 240+ year old five-factor analysis of components of wage prices remains excellent, cogent, and relevant.)
Under FDR's New Deal, the Federal Writers Project directly hired and supported numerous American writers, many of whom went on to become classics of the country's literary canon, among them Zora Neale Hurston, Kenneth Rexroth and John Cheever, Saul Bellow, Studs Terkel, Nelson Algren and Richard Wright.
Contrast with Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, who found himself blacklisted and unemployable in San Francisco, with a nickel and a revolver to his name. The nickel for if he was unable to come up with money, the revolver for when he had to spend the nickel. Even after achieving literary success, Clemens struggled with money troubles for his entire life, succeeding largely on the support of his father-in-law.
An LA Times article on the FWP:
#writing #writers #authors #authorship #copyright #NewDeal #FederalWritersProject
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/08/jeremy-corbyn-climate-crisis-global-warming-ipcc-un-report-column
'The #political and #economic #system we live in does not produce #climatechange by accident but by design, #rewarding big #polluters and #resource #extractors with #superprofits. But it doesn’t have to be like this, and our reaction must be one of #hope rather than #fear. If we take on the #powerful, removing the #systemic #incentives to #burn the #planet for a quick windfall, we can do things differently.'
#jeremycorbyn #corbyn #climate #crisis #class #issue #code #red #humanity #ipcc #cop26 #globalwarming #politics #uk #policy #environment #green #newdeal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-QMk3ZTp9k
#prof #richardwolff #wolff #rjeskow #zerohour #conversation #infrastructure #new #system #us #society #dysfunctional #politics #neglect #empire #declining #economic #capitalism #crash #profit #unemployment #newdeal #mass #transit #share #collective #purpose #solidarity
L’Élysée accueille cette semaine un sommet France-Afrique où le président français veut exposer sa vision d’un « New Deal » pour le continent. Pour Milan Rivié, du Comité pour l’abolition des dettes illégitimes, c’est un simple coup de com’. Tribune. https://www.bastamag.net/Sommet-France-Afrique-Macron-Elysee-neocolonialisme-tribune-CADTM-New-Deal
#Dette #France #Afrique #FranceAfrique #NewDeal #Macron #Neocolonialisme #Tribune
