marc1seed The dominance of the US dollar as the global reserve currency has been gradually declining for years, but Donald Trump’s policies could rapidly accelerate de-dollarization and the transition to a more multipolar international financial order, warn even mainstream American economists like Barry Eichengreen and Kenneth Rogoff. Political economist Ben Norton …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/27/18879306.php Dependence on the existing power structures must be replaced at all levels—money, energy, electricity, food, medicine, and so on—by regional, local, self-sufficient, and crisis-proof structures. The power of the system must be stopped. The power of the media must be curtailed. The power of wealth must be curtailed… Strategy …
The Handover of the Keys by Tomasz Konicz First published on January 18, 2025, on konicz.info [This article posted on 1/18/2025 is translated from the German on the Internet.] How the democratic center of crisis-ridden Germany is paving the way for fascism The ease and smoothness with which the fascistization …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/17/18879025.php To the extent that we judge and condemn others and think that they are made of worse stuff than ourselves, we feed the energy that finds its fullest expression in genocide. Sociopathic and narcissistic leaders reflect back to us in extreme form the everyday dehumanization of those we condemn. …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/22/18879174.php In my work, I often move between spaces of community and spaces of justice, and that’s challenging. It’s similar to working parents who feel like they’re failing both at home and at work. And of course, you always have to switch codes and language. But no matter where I …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/25/18879246.php People who are trapped in functional stupidity believe that they are doing good, which makes them completely resistant to correction. In such an environment, those in power no longer need to actively suppress information. They only need to create conditions under which honest information processing becomes impossible. Worse than …
Aphorirsms Against Fascism by Marc Batko, 8/24/2025 One-man rule or one-man circus is like the doors not opening on a train. One-man rule is like burning the books. One-man rule is like closing schools. Do we fix the leak or abandon the house? Trump is the civilization break, the biggest …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/23/18879198.php The pathological narcissist and distractor-in-chief followed his authoritarian playbook of lies, obscenities, threats, and insults and never prepared US communities for these earth-shaking migrations! Prices rise, exports collapse, employment plummets, and trust disappears! Trump must not be allowed to finish his second term! Trump and the US Are Paying …
20.03.2023 Qualitative Break: Why a Radical Critique of W by Norbert Trenkle [This article translated by John de Plume and Neil Larsen is available on the Internet, https://www.krisis.org/2023/qualitative-break-why-a-radical-critique-of-work-is-necessary-today/.] In capitalist society, the compulsion to work is fundamental. To survive in this society we either work for ourselves as self-employed …
https://www.krisis.org/2021/stolen-time/ Eternal growth, maximum profit, and rising share prices are the lifeblood of the economy. Without them, it immediately begins to crumble. The climate crisis reveals that growth programmed for infinity will amount to the destruction of the planet in the medium rather than the long term. Stolen Time Why …