marc1seed https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/15/18879883.php The Agency for Effectiveness DOGE, led by Elon Musk until his departure, investigated USAID for wasting public funds because Musk was convinced that it was “a criminal organization” [1]. Donald Trump had declared that this agency was run by “a group of insane radicals” [2]. The global aid organization …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/18/18879991.php The tragedy of our present is not that the law is too weak. It is that it is too often sacrificed – on the altar of political expediency. “You don’t shoot judges,” Carl von Ossietzky once wrote. Today, one would have to add: You don’t delegitimize them – unless …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/18/18879992.php This is how the propaganda of the NATO countries in particular is proceeding in the Ukraine war. The wisdom that a war always has a history is ignored…It becomes clear that those responsible are manipulating the public to their own ends by ignoring NATO’s breach of European treaties through …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/13/18879822.php Distributive injustice is represented in its own way in all crises. This is very striking in the climate crisis and in the economic division of labor. When it comes to climate change, future generations are completely powerless against us. Young people are also largely unable to act against the …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/12/18879805.php Mattick states that crises are related to the dynamics of exploitation in capitalism: On the one hand, the aim is to achieve maximum “profitability” – because making money is the driving force behind capitalist production – and on the other hand, in order to prevail in competition, costs must …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/12/18879804.php The EU and the BRICS countries should make it clear to the US that the future world order is based not on hegemony but on the rule of law within the framework of the UN Charter. Only in this way can Europe and the world be truly secure. Dependence …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/12/18879803.php Trump’s tariff policy – declaration of surrender by Ingar Solty The core of the groundbreaking analyses of critical international political economy was that the state was the godfather of the globalization of capitalism, indeed that it had always been and still was its central actor. The only state that …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/10/18879696.php The global economy is being converted to a war economy at horrendous cost because Russia and other major Eastern powers allegedly pose a threat. Arbitrariness and violence reign supreme. Russia has always been a thorn in the side of the capitalist system. But the peoples are not responsible for …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/08/18879664.php The Beatles in 1964 warned us about Pepperland, anti-music people and the Blue Meanies. Trump with his draconian immigration policy shows us the bestiality of the Blue Meanies, sweeping up workers from hospitals and shopping centers and locking them up in detention centers! Right-wing extremism and Pepperland by Marc Batko …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/08/18879659.php The BRICS countries are anything but an ideologically unified association. They range from the extremely wealthy oil dynasties in the Middle East to socialist Cuba to the mullahs’ rule in Iran. What unites them is their opposition to the global dictates of Western capital. – The new world order …