Challenging Truths by Marc Batko, 7/16/2024

Challenging Truths by Marc Batko  (marc1seed@yahoo.com, www.freetranslations.foundation) 1. Man is born free and is everywhere in chains. (Rousseau) 2. Prejudices, stereotypes, lies and myths are real, invisible chains. 3, Self-righteousness, the rat race, the ladder of success, and normalized war are like leaf-blowing music. 4. Pharisees, experts in laws, often …

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Capitalism can’t overcome the laws of physics by Systemic Disorder, 5/29/2024 https://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2024/05/29/capitalism-cant-overcome-physics/

That humanity can dominate nature “is an illusion.” The laws of thermodynamics remain in place. “Consequently, a growth-centered capitalist economy finds itself trapped in futile attempts to completely decouple itself from nature — aiming for a 100% circular, service-oriented and zero-waste existence. Capitalism can’t overcome the laws of physics by …

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20 Neoliberal Myths by Marc Batko, June 10,2024

20 Neoliberal Myths     1. The market is self-healing and bourgeois society is preserved from tragedy, failure, and collapse.  Nothing needs to be learned from FDR and his New Deal since humility, compromise and correction are signs of weakness. 2. Financial markets return to equilibrium and are not kept alive in …

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Table of Contents and a Short Biography

Table of Contents     1.  A total mockery of international law – Norman Pesch – 10/2023     2.  On Peace and Security – Dietrich Bonhoeffer – 1934         3.  How can we regain peace and how can we keep it? – Eugen Drewermann 4.  What is literature for? – Gunter Grass 5.  Fascism …

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The Enemy and the Libidinal Economy of the Apocalypse by Fabio Vighi, 6/24/2024 https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-enemy-and-the-libidinal-economy-of-the-apocalypse

The West continues to avoid introspection by invoking the Other as pure evil. While the terminal crisis of capitalist civilization is truly global, and no emancipatory model can be seen on the geopolitical chessboard, it is also evident that today’s anti-Russian sentiment stems from a consolidated ideological framework. Seen from …

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Another imperialist scam by the USA by Alfred de Zayas, 6/20/2024

The United States has been the main sponsor of Israeli terrorism against the Palestinians since 1946, providing military, political, economic, financial, technical and propaganda support, which makes the United States complicit in Israeli genocide under Article III e of the 1948 Genocide Convention. Another imperialist scam by the USA By …

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Ukraine: Expansion of the battle zone by Tomasz Konicz

Russia is vastly superior in this type of warfare – which resembles an industrially operated process of destruction – because the Kremlin can draw on far greater reserves. Putin’s gamble on a war of attrition is paying off. It is not just about the superiority of tanks, artillery and ammunition, …

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20 Neoliberal Myths

by Marc Batko 1. The market is self-healing and bourgeois society is preserved from tragedy, failure, and collapse.  Nothing needs to be learned from FDR and his New Deal since humility, compromise and correction are signs of weakness. 2. Financial markets return to equilibrium and are not kept alive in …

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