A Country for Old Men by Tomasz Konicz, 3/18/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/03/18880414.php “Nothing would fundamentally change” if he were elected, Biden assured wealthy donors in June 2019. There has been no reduction in the social divide in the U.S. that continues to grow because of the crisis: the private healthcare system remains dysfunctional, homelessness is at an all-time high, the cost …

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Welcome was yesterday

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/22/18880122.php Perhaps one lesson to be learned from the events of 2015 is that migration cannot be prevented in the long term by political measures, no matter how harsh they may be. Merz will also learn this. Welcome was yesterday The year 2015 in Germany was marked by the so-called …

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Return to “reverence for life,” by Ortwin Rosner, 9/18/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/28/18880292.php War is the escalation of something that has always been there. Long before war begins, it has already been there, preparing itself in our culture in the form of excessive subjugation and exploitation of all living things, as has become a matter of course in our society. This takes …

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Against homeless people, not against homelessness by Jan Tolva, 8/21/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/14/18879866.php In the US, 8.2 percent of the population, or around 27 million people, have no health insurance. Access to adequate health care is completely inadequate, especially for mental health problems. But even in cases of chronic pain, for example, many people are left to fend for themselves. Against homeless …

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Is anything moving forward? by Oliver Schott, 9/4/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/14/18879867.php It is a commonplace that the catastrophes of the 20th century put an end to optimism about progress. Instead of prosperity and freedom for all, or at least for most, it brought unimaginable destruction of human life and totalitarian regimes the likes of which the world had never seen …

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