The principle of hopelessness by Johannes Simon, 8/7/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/29/18879402.php A vast field of rubble. There is much speculation about the motives behind Israel’s warfare. While those who hate Israel make little effort to differentiate and crudely see Jewish “supremacy” at work, others assume that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fueling the chaos in order to avoid the legal …

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The spirits he summoned by Jan Tolva, 7/31/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/29/18879403.php To prevent parliament from deciding to release the Epstein files, House Speaker Mike Johnson sent lawmakers into an early summer recess. However, when it comes to child abuse and sex with minors within their own ranks, the US right wing in particular often becomes very quiet very quickly. This …

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Trump’s battle against universities and science by Ulrich Grothus, August 2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/29/18879401.php Trump’s battle against universities and science The US government is currently waging an unprecedented frontal assault on its own country’s universities and research system. But what is its aim? By Ulrich Grothus [This article posted in August 2025 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/trumps-kampf-gegen-hochschulen-und-wissenschaft/.] Shortly after taking …

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The new Trumponomics by Ernst Lohoff, 5/5/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/31/18879445.php Trumponomics represents something of an attempt by the leading capitalist power to find an emergency exit from the order it created itself, based on the free movement of goods and capital. The fact that the dollar will probably lose its previous function as a safe haven for private money …

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Fascist legacy by Jairo Gomez Garcia, 11/6/2019

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/30/18879437.php The resurgent Poor Peoples Campaign calls for a moral reorientation of the US, where exploitation, social warfare against the poor, and real warfare over resources and power are currently part of “business.”… This market fundamentalism is destroying society. Fascist legacy Structures and mentalities from the Third Reich have outlived …

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The strong weak man by Tom J. Wellbrock, 7/8/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/30/18879436.php   The strong weak man Donald Trump lacks the competence and the power to deliver on his foreign policy promises. He wanted to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. It didn’t work. He wanted to persuade the Israeli government to de-escalate. It went wrong. Shortly after the …

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The spirits he summoned by Jan Tolva, 7/31/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/29/18879403.php To prevent parliament from deciding to release the Epstein files, House Speaker Mike Johnson sent lawmakers into an early summer recess. However, when it comes to child abuse and sex with minors within their own ranks, the US right wing in particular often becomes very quiet very quickly. This …

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The principle of hopelessness by Johannes Simon, 8/7/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/29/18879402.php A vast field of rubble. There is much speculation about the motives behind Israel’s warfare. While those who hate Israel make little effort to differentiate and crudely see Jewish “supremacy” at work, others assume that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fueling the chaos in order to avoid the legal …

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Trump’s battle against universities and science

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/29/18879401.php Shortly after taking office, the Trump administration launched a campaign against the best American universities and the scientific system as a whole. Back in 2019, the current Vice President J.D. Vance had already publicly declared: “If we want to do what we want to do for our country and …

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