Is the West Blind to Reality? King Midas and the Prophets by Marc Batko 12/6/2024

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 …

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Failing to address the issue by Trade Union Forum, 11/14/24

The sole focus on the migration issue is a clever way of distracting attention from the social imbalance in Germany, with increasing inequality and injustice. The misguided answers of the parties fail to meet the needs of the people, who are turning to the right-wing populists in ever greater numbers …

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Trump on neocons dragging us into wars, Nov 18, 2024

Donald Trump vs the Neocons: his Nov. 18 speech 2 days ago This quote from Donald Trump is WONDERFUL. It should be widely circulated: US Trump warning against Neocons Nov 2024 Gilbert Doctorov, Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 19 November 2024 Napolitano: 8:49: Here’s the gentleman who’s going to take …

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The Cure is the Sickness by Jorg Goldberg, 2001

“Good policy” in the sense of the Washington Consensus can be paraphrased with these ten principles. The key to development successes lies only in a correct policy mix. Development backlogs, continuing poverty and so forth are referred back everywhere to “bad policy” in the sense of disregarding the ten principles. …

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The Humor of Jesus (revised) by Marc Batko, 11/20/2024

The Humor of Jesus by Marc Batko (Portland OR, marc1seed@yahoo.com, https://www.freetranslations.foundation.] After being raised as a reformed Jew and studying Buddhism, Catholicism and Protestantism, I was overwhelmed by the incomparable Jesus as the Lord, Messiah, and long-awaited end-time eschatological prophet.  In his path-breaking book “Theology of Hope,” the German theologian …

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The Maelstrom of the Market On the Embedding of Society in the Market Form by Franz Schandl, 11/5/2024

The Maelstrom of the MarketOn the Embedding of Society in the Market Form “Nothing is better suited to obscure our viewof social interrelationsthan economic prejudice.”(Polanyi) by Franz Schandl [This article posted on 11/5/2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.streifzuege.org/2024/der-mahlstrom-des-marktes/.] Rarely has a book inspired me as much …

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Kamala Harris’ Brilliant Campaign

by Mark Karlin, 11/1/2024′   Fahrenheit 11/9 | A Film by Michael Moore | 2018 | Full Movie   Fahrenheit 11/9 | A Film by Michael Moore | 2018 | Full Movie https://youtu.be/_heq6CkeMH8?t=3697 On Friday, November 1, 2024 at 02:46:47 PM PDT, mark karlin <markkarlin@gmail.com> wrote: Ever since the Sunday …

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The 101 Worst Things About Trump’s Presidency by Robert Reich

robertreich@substack.com The 101 worst things about Trump’s shambolic presidencyby Robert Reich[This article posted on November 1, 2024 is available on the Internet, robertreich [at] substack.com.] No one should forget! Friends, Some people seem to have forgotten how bad a president Trump was, so I made a list of the worst …

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