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 Diego Garcia What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the cold war, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.’     Francis Fukuyama Since the end of the cold war, Liberal democracy as we know it has been almost universally championed as the ideal endpoint for all nation states. Colonizing nations engineered their colonies to mimic this form of government under the notion that it is somehow more civilized, more ‘modern’ than anything these countries previously had. In truth, the ‘modernity’ of nation-states and Liberal Democracy is an idea that was profoundly and deliberately manufactured by imperialism, partly to justify it.  Nowadays, the model is still championed, but Britain and the USA’s reaction to revolts in the middle-east highli

Kicking off the Agricultural Green Party debate by Anandi Sharan on February 9 Marx wrote in Capital that “Freedom, in this sphere [the realm of natural necessity] can consist only in this, that socialized man, the associated producers, govern the human metabolism with nature in a rational way, bringing it under their own collective control rather than being dominated by it as a blind power; accomplishing it with the least expenditure of energy and in conditions most worthy and appropriate for their human nature”. [In Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environm... ] No one should be misled into thinking that environmental politics is anything new. He criticised everything from the destruction of soil to the waste of human excrement in London which was tipped into the sea instead of being recycled. Let us read the first passage again: “Freedom, in this sphere [the realm of natural necessity] can consist only in this, that socialized man, the as

Towards a green and socialist Republic of India A cap and share of greenhouse gases! A national guaranteed minimum wage! The world is in the process of adapting to inevitable and rapidly accelerating runaway climate change. The Green Party of India proposes a Cap and Share of India's Greenhouse Gas Emissions to reduce India's emissions to Net Zero Green House Gas Emissions by 2020. The money raised from selling permits to the few large primary producers of oil, coal and gas ( who are licensed by the Government of India to extract the country's fossil fuel mineral resources) will be used to finance a National Guaranteed Minimum Wage to enable a peaceful transition to decentralised ecological production based on frugality, science and a correct pricing structure to eliminate looting by government sponsored corporate Raubwirtschaft. Th purpose is, to find our way to realising the dream of the socialist Republic of India in order, as Marx said to achieve : "

The BBC appeals to the Klu Klux Klan demographic Three racist Cocks “Why would you want a Mexican car? Because cars reflect national characteristics don’t they,” Hammond said. “Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.” Richard Hammond And then Clarkson stepped in to support and reinforce Hammond, who continued, referring to Mexican food as 'refried sick'.Clarkson said the Mexican ambassador would be to lazy to complain. Answering to criticisms after the programme, Hammond was facetious. ' It can't be racist, we're the factual programme of the year.' Now this could be seen to be funny. But the truth is it is deeply sinister. It is deeply sinister because one of the major consumers of Top Gear are punters in the United States. And when people in the United States are prejudiced against Mexicans they don't just ma

Green Party of India expresses its total and complete solidarity with the people of Egypt. Get out Hosni Mubarak! Resign instantly!  India and Egypt are ancient friends and nothing should stand in the way of solidarity between the people. Banning the internet  shows the power of social media network technology -- nothing will stop the people of India and nothing will stop the people of Egypt. The culture of the people is freedom! Freedom is culture! Get out Hosni Mubarak! Get out Manmohan Singh! Get out Posco! Let us be realistic. Revolution is inevitable in India because climate change is already happening. Capitalism and finance have lost their supremacy, America is declining and has nearly fallen, the competition for oil is wrecking the developed countries, they are hanging on by the skin of their teeth but they will not out last this year, developing countries see the developed world as having stood in the way too long, and the elites in the developing countries h