Jeff Sparrow sits down with 麻豆传媒聽to speak about his new book Crimes Against Nature:聽Capitalism and Global Heating.
Jeff Sparrow
鈥淕et the politics out of climate change.鈥 It鈥檚 a slogan heard almost inevitably whenever discussion turns to the looming environmental catastrophe. But, as Jeff Sparrow argues, there鈥檚 no historical parallel for the social change needed to decarbonise the developed world without huge political polarisation.
The far right traditionally grows in the context of political despair when fear is channelled into scapegoating.
鈥淜oran discovered with coffee cup stain on the front cover, US marines deployed to all Starbucks franchises.鈥 The quip, retweeted by celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins, exemplifies the belligerent incomprehension with which so many, including self-proclaimed liberals, have responded to protests against the film The Innocence of Muslims. Rioting over a YouTube clip that offends the Muslim sky fairy? How tremendously foolish! How childish; how superstitious; how very, very silly!
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Anzac Day celebrates forgetting.
Its revival, the transformation of a ceremony nearly extinct in the 1980s into today鈥檚 turbocharged festival, coincides with the excision from national consciousness of the most important aspects of the Great War.
These days when an online conversation turns to international affairs, even here in Australia, it鈥檚 not long before the Ron Paul supporters arrive.
Not since the height of Obamania have so many Australians been so enthusiastic about a聽 US politician. But what makes the passion about Paul even more remarkable is that he鈥檚 a Republican 鈥 and many of his local fans identify as聽progressives.
The open letter below was originally published at the ABC's The Drum Unleashed.
When, after destroying Malcolm Turnbull, the Liberal Party took a surprise turn and embraced Tony Abbott as leader, there were those on the left who greeted the news with combined incredulity and glee.