QUORA on tariffs

Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to contentUsing Gmail with screen readers         18 of 1,025 Quora on tariffs Inbox Marc Batko <marc1seed@gmail.com> 6:01 AM (6 hours ago)     to me, Bill Mike Fink·Lives in Miami, Portland, Pittsburgh (1976–present)Apr 21Did Trump not have a clue that countries …

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Capitalism 2.0 by Georg Fulberth, 1/29/2025

It is conceivable that capitalism 2.0 will conserve natural resources more than it has done in the centuries since the First Industrial Revolution, and that patriarchy will come to an end. As long as it continues to exist, however, the following will remain, even under these changed conditions: profit maximization, …

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Trump’s Inverted View of America’s Tariff History

by Michael Hudson, 4/14/2025 Without restructuring the rentier financialized economy to move it back toward the original business plan of industrial capitalism,…his program will fail to re-industrialize America. Indeed, it threatens to push the U.S. economy into depression – for 90 percent of the population, that is. Trump’s Inverted View …

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In no man’s land by Ueli Keller, 3/14/2025

In no man’s landDemocracy is in upheaval, old certainties are dissolving, and the outlines of a new, more humane world are not yet visible. “The secret of change lies not in fighting the past, but in directing all energy towards building the new” (Socrates). Why is it that party politics …

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Ukraine War: Who is Responsible for this Catastrophe? by Klaus-Dieter Kolenda, 3/25/2025

Ukraine War: Who is Responsible for this Catastrophe? By: Klaus-Dieter Kolenda [This article posted on 3/25/2025 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://globalbridge.ch/ukraine-krieg-wer-ist-fuer-diese-katastrophe-verantwortlich/.] Political scientists Benjamin Abelow, John Mearsheimer and Glenn Diesen and economist Jeffrey Sachs explain why the US and the West bear the main responsibility. The …

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Democracy or Doom by Bertram Burian, 2/28

Both examples, Palestine and Ukraine, show: The threat that arises from the negation of real democracy is clearly before all of our eyes:In both Ukraine and Israel, proto-fascist regimes are in fact at work under the guise of a government that supposedly defends liberal-democratic freedom. Genocide and the provocation of …

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