95 Theses

After dominating the world since 1945, the US is an empire in rapid decline.  In 2024, the US for the first time began paying more than $1 trillion in interest on its $35 trillion  debt.  Imports are twice exports.  Since 2000, the US trade deficit has averaged an annual $600 billion.  China and BRICS now…

Why Rights for Nature? by Beat Dietschy [This article posted on 12/17/2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.neuewege.ch/warum-rechte-der-natur.] Poisoned rivers and streams, dying out species, endangered ecosystems: Should they not have a right to restoration? The liberation of non-human nature from a state of lawlessness requires their recognition as subjects and bearers…

Media: Please quarantine Trump until January 20!!! Renewing Trump’s 2017 tax cuts will cost $5 trillion!!! In 2017, Trump’s two tax heists gave $8 trillion to corporations and households with over one million dollars!! Unlike all previous tax bills, there were no hearings!! The doors were locked and lobbyists took over!! Congress must reject Trump’s…

Life is not possible without an opening to the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos.  Once contact with the transcendent is lost, existence in the world ceases to be possible. –Mircea Eliade, quoted in The Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James Cone The swan that floats and doesn’t sink represents the intransitory…

by Felix Feistel This article posted on 12/10/2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.manova.news/artikel/der-strategiewechsel.]  The renewed escalation in Syria must be seen in the context of the Russian victories and the test of the Oreschnik medium-range missile. After provocations by the West with ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles, Russia has spoken a…

Sleep of reason gives birth to monstersby Paul Schreyer, 11/22/2024https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/12/27/18871750.php Sleep of reason gives birth to monsters The latest exchange of missiles with Russia must be frightening. A major world war is no longer a theoretical debate, but within reach. What is particularly frightening is how this danger is completely ignored or played down in…

Interview with Michael Hudson and Richard D. Wolff, 12/15 The U.S. Strategy of Controlled Anarchy: Syria, Ukraine, and BeyondDecember 15, 2024 [This interview posted on 12/15/2024 is available on the Internet, https://michael-hudson.com/2024/12/the-u-s-strategy-of-controlled-anarchy-syria-ukraine-and-beyond/.] America has turned on one so-called ally after another, you know, starting with Saddam Hussein, who was put in by the CIA originally,…

CBO: Extending Trump Tax Cuts Will Cost Nearly $5 Trillion5/8/2024americansfortaxfairness.org New estimates from the Congressional Budget Office put a price tag of nearly $5 trillion on extending all the Trump-GOP tax law, mostly scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Trump Does Not Have MandatePeter DreierDecember 11, 2024Talking Points Memo Newspaper headlines have…

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GLOVES OFF: Canada’s leader hits Trump with knockout blowBrian Tyler Cohen12/11 – 8 minhttps://youtu.be/4TkhRs8fveA?t=31 Canadian MP DESTROYS Trump in FLOOR SPEECHMeidasTouch12/11 – 11 minhttps://youtu.be/CsnzmM7bEAU?t=90 Canada Claps Back, HUMILIATING Trump While Forming New Partnerships Worldwide12/8 – 8 minhttps://youtu.be/1MykqBJPIBE?t=87

Is the West Blind to Reality?  King Midas and the Prophets by Marc Batko (marc1seed@yahoo.com; freetranslations.foundation) Back in 2009, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote “Brightsided” and warned her compatriots about over-optimism and ignoring the signs of systemic, structural failure.  By repeating the materialist mantra “more, bigger, and faster,” the suffering around us can be downplayed and later…