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“Ordinary acts of capitalism are criminal in nature. Deliberately pouring mercury into indigenous peoples’ water basins, for decades, consciously poisoning people with asbestos mining and processing, and putting ignitions in cars leaving them knowing their switch often people get killed.” — Harry Glasbeek
LeftStreamed on Nov 15, 2018
Book launch of Harry Glasbeek’s latest release – Capitalism: A Crime Story.
Glasbeek is an award-winning author of many titles and is a law professor who once taught a notoriously popular course at Osgoode Law School: The Corporation as Criminal. His latest books have been called “profound and fascinating” by Linda McQuaig. He has also been lauded as a “fearless, daunting crusader for the public good in the face of corporate greed” by economist Jim Stanford.
Recorded in Toronto, 16 October 2018.
From the archives:
MFTN: ‘Tis the Season To Wage Boycotts!
Who Pays the Price for Amazon’s Free Shipping? + Alternatives by Lo
Chris Hedges: Late Stage Capitalism Is Killing America, Parts 1-3
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire, featuring Michael Hudson
How Capitalism Controls You by The Anti-Social Socialist
Howard Zinn: Hidden History of The American Working Class
Chris Hedges: The Exploitation of Laundry Workers
Chris Hedges and David Harvey: Enough is Enough of This Capitalist Fraud
What is Wage Slavery? by The Anti-Social Socialist
Corporations Are A Mixture Of Humanity’s Greatest Nightmares
William K. Black: Pollution Kills 9 Million People a Year
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Could not agree more. The “problem,” to use a euphemism, is that it is probably too late to save all species from the extinction wrought on life by capitalism as well as by the human arrogance that deems our species as having “dominion” over the entire Earth. While there is life, I suppose there is hope. But very little now. See Bill McKibben’s most recent article late November 2018.
Thanks, ecantarow.
Here’s McKibben’s article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet
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