Capitalism and its official ideology – namely neoliberalism that calls itself a science – regard economy and market identical. According to this belief natural resources that are necessary for the existence of mankind are free "inputs" that do not enter into company or even national economy calculations, since they have no costs – at least to a certain point. The article follows the path how basis principles of the bourgeois economy led to the absurd situation of present days when the growing ecolThe original article John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark: The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction Monthly Review, November 2009.

Supporters of the so-called green capitalism became recently more active. The main supporters of this ideology are certain multinational companies and organisations and its program aims no less than to match the capital-system based on endless accumulation with a sustainable environment. The base of this optimist (or unreal) approach is the trust in the omnipotence of the advance in technology. Nevertheless, due to the dimension of the ecological problem it is unlikely that diffuse market mechanisms are ablOriginal article Victor Wallis: Beyond Green Capitalism Monthly Review, February 2010.

Certain solidarity already existed between countries of Latin-America even before the establishment of modern ways of cooperation. It was – and is – based on the common culture, language, the similar social structure and unsolved problems and last but not least on having a common power ruling them.

Supranational alliances reshape the centre-periphery relations in Latin America and the Caribbean, causing internal fractions in the economic and political links of the continent and claiming for a new geopolitical approach. The author focuses on countries that in fact able to position themselves as semi-peripheries. Mexico supports the US interests thus becoming its subordinated periphery, Brazil has its own ambition for power in the North-South play, thus questions and redefines its relationship to the su