Daily Archives: October 2, 2021

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, OCTOBER 4, 2021

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ANDREAS MALM Books on Capitalism, Politics, and Climate http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-oct-4-2021.html Fossil Capital.    2016The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World.  2018.Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century.  2020.With the Zerkin Collective.  White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism.  Verso, 2021. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm.  Verso, 2016.Publisher’s description How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end […]

42. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, October 6, 2021

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Dick: J. K. Galbraith and US Autonomous Militarism and Empire.Alfred McCoy’s Books: In the Shadows of the American Empire; To Govern the Globe. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-october-6-2021.html Autonomous Militarism and Empire, Dick Bennett“Such military activities [invasions of many smaller, weak countries even though they posed no security threat to the US], however remote from any rationally established need, served in an important way the broad purpose of the military establishment.  They were visible justification of its eminence and power. . . .the autonomous power of the military establishment.”  (John Kenneth Galbraith, The Culture of Contentment, 1992, p. 140; chapters 10 and 11, “The Military […]