marc1seed https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/12/05/18882009.php “Our era must therefore be seen as an era of creeping de-civilization of violence, persistently carried out by the powerful. In other words, we are living in a time of radical counter-enlightenment. No event in the Western world illustrates this more relentlessly than Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. The …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/12/28/18853626.php Debt relief is absolutely essential. Making persons morally liable who are materially in debt is a mistake. Condemning the helpless and broken is completely wrong. They urgently need help. Forgiveness of material debts and moral offenses is one and the same for Jesus. Human existence is crucial. Astonishment. The …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/30/18881896.php The federal government does not implement the will of the people, but ensures approval or at least tolerance of policies in the interests of the power elite. Merz says: “We have been living beyond our means for years.” No, Mr. Merz. This system and its politicians are living beyond …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/27/18881832.php The growth spiral gotten out of hand and degenerated into a financial bubble that has led to a financial crisis… The International Energy Agency in Vienna expects oil prices to reach $200 per barrel in the foreseeable future. The idea that we are automatically striving for qualitative, i.e., resource-conserving …
https://www.wealthofthecommons.org/contents About the book Contents Contact The Wealth of the Commons A world beyond market & state Contents Acknowledgments Introduction, by David Bollier & Silke Helfrich Part I: The Commons as a New Paradigm My Rocky Road to the Commons, by Jacques Paysan The Economy of Wastefulness: The Biology …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/23/18881771.php Public spending by Marc Batko, 11/23/2025 Trump and Musk were certainly wrecking balls or Reverse Robin Hoods, dismissing 400K federal workers in February, ending USAID that distributed $35 billion in food and medical aid and employed 10,000 in 2024, closing the Department of Education, and shriveling after school programs, …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/23/18881752.php Once we understand that we humans exist only in interwoven connection with our environment, we also understand that new horizons of thought and action can only arise in interaction with a changed environment, i.e., with a changed material and economic everyday life. “Society shapes us significantly,” says Robert Maurice …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/19/18881624.php Beyond the illusion of a harmonious “we” Emilia Roig [This article posted on 8/26/2025 on neue wege is translated from the German on the Internet, https://neuewege.ch/jenseits-der-illusion-eines-harmo-nischen-wir.] What does belonging mean in a world built on exclusion? How can we create a united “we” without denying differences? A plea …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/19/18881621.php His visions of state-run grocery stores, free public transportation, and free daycare centers could only be realized through higher taxes on the wealthy, which would have to be decided at the state level in New York. Mamdani’s promise to freeze rents and introduce a minimum hourly wage of $30 …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/17/18881578.php The escalation of repression has had an unintended consequence: it has fueled deep and growing skepticism toward the state, especially among those segments of the population most disillusioned with the status quo. In many cases, this disillusionment has driven people not to the left, but to the populist or …