by Mark Swilling | Jan 7, 2017 | Blog
Today I posted three items on FB which are clearly linked in ways that I would love to explore further. The first is an article in the UK’s Guardian newspaper that reveals that wind power generated more energy in 2016 than coal power, and that coal power...
by Mark Swilling | Jan 5, 2017 | Blog
Beautiful article about John Berger at 90 – how I so clearly recall reading Ways of Seeing during first year sociology in 1979 when all my social science lecturers at WITS were Marxists – how clear things were through those red lenses – click for...
by Mark Swilling | Jan 5, 2017 | Blog
Solar power already the cheapest energy in many places, could soon become the cheapest globally – buy of course, as usual, ESKOM still lives in denial and the Zuma-Gupta cabal want to buy nuclear from the Russians – click for link to FB post
by Mark Swilling | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog
Repost from FB: How the British right wing hoodwinked working class people by exploiting their fears to mask a far more sinister neoliberal project. What happens when they realize they were ripped off? Same applies to the lies used by Trump to get elected to screw the...
by Mark Swilling | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog
A truly remarkable brilliantly written critical overview of the root cause of the current global political crisis in historical perspective. A quote from Musil’ The Man Without Qualities about why we face the outbreak of irrationalism the world over says it all:...
by Mark Swilling | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog
Eve Annecke talking at TEDxCapeTownWomen on becoming invisible, and how to be a worthy ancestor at the interface between a loving universe, her African roots and a world made mad by too much visibility. As is always the case with Eve, every word and every idea in this...
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