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Introduction

I. The Earth: Climate Crisis, Resource Depletion and the Dark Sides of Growth
George Monbiot: Environmental Breakdown and the Search for a New Progressive Narrative
Alice Bows-Larkin, Kevin Anderson: Tipping Points in the Earth System and the Transformation of Society
Vandana Shiva: The Dark Side of Economic Growth
Ugo Bardi: Plundering the Planet. Resource Depletion and the Limits to Fossil Fuels
Maude Barlow: The Fight for Water Justice
Pat Mooney: Russian Roulette with the Planet—Synthetic Biology, Geo Engineering, and other Risk Technologies

II. The Global North: Social Division, the Decline of Democracy and the Crisis of Capitalism
Chris Hedges: A Corporate Coup d’Etat: The US at the Brink of Neo-Feudalism
Amy Goodman: The Silenced Majority
Richard D. Wolff: The Angry Working Class and the Quest for a New Economic Order
Noam Chomsky: How Austerity Destroys a Whole Generation in the US and in Europe
Yanis Varoufakis: Democracy or Collapse of the EU
Srećko Horvat: The Breakup of Yugoslavia and the Future of the EU
Immanuel Wallerstein: The Global Systemic Crisis and the Struggle for a Post-Capitalist World

III. The Global South: Forced Exploitation, War und Resistance
Wangui Mbatia: The Pillage of the African Continent
Yayi Bayam Diouf: “I Want the Body of My Son”—The Destruction of Fishing in Senegal and the Deadly Flight to Europe
Aminata Traoré: The Case of Mali—How 30 Years of Neoliberalism Have Paved the Way for War
Noam Chomsky: The Rogue Politics of the West
Jeremy Scahill: Dirty Wars—How the US Declares the World a Battlefield
Gilbert Achcar: The Arab World between Revolution and Repression
Phyllis Bennis: The Syria Complex and the Blocked Diplomacy

IV. Outlooks
Alberto Acosta: The Rights of Nature and the “Buen Vivir”—Ways Out of the Resource Curse
Michael Albert: Participatory Economy – The Democratization of the Economy
Silvia Federici: The Crisis of Reproduction and the Struggle for the Commons
Alyn Ware: Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons