Recommended articles for Friday, March 1, 2019

• Carbon Taxes Won’t Stop Climate Change by Brian O'Boyle from Rebel (Republic of Ireland). The author gives you the history of the carbon tax fix in Ireland offered by Irish capitalists to cope with global warming. This is the same story, except for details, throughout the capitalist world; and their fix has not changed, nor was it meant to, the destabilization of our climate.

• What's next for US-North Korea ties after Hanoi summit failure? by Faras Ghani from Al Jazeera.

• Salvador Allende’s grandson calls for international solidarity as Venezuela faces US-backed coup, a 5:57m video from The Canary (Britain).

Pablo Navarrete reports from Venezuela, where Pablo Allende – grandson of former Chilean President Salvador Allende – gives a chilling summary of how the US and its allies have destabilised left-wing governments in Latin America and beyond to further their own imperialist interests.

• Michael Cohen hearing: A criminal administration, a reactionary opposition by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site. (I view nearly all governments to date as being illegitimate because they were originally installed by violence in order to serve a tiny ruling class.)

As Al Capone once said, "Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class."