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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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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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by Paul Wiseman – 3/3/2025 By  PAUL WISEMAN Updated 11:56 PM PDT, March 3, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Tariffs are in the news at the moment. Here’s what they are and what you need to know about them: Tariffs are a tax on imports Tariffs are typically charged as a …

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Mayors speak out against tariffs     WATCH: Mayors from U.S., Canada and Mexico speak out against tariffs at trade summitPBS NewsHour, March 28 AND Vienna-Style Social Housing Will Happen in the US. Here’s Why.Devin Silvernailhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XLZr1KrD4  

  Debates   16 Aug2021 A year and a half after the arrival of Virus, some may have started wondering why the usually unscrupulous ruling elites decided to freeze the global profit-making machine in the face of a pathogen that targets almost exclusively the unproductive (over 80s). Why all the …

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Blame Canada Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory   Timothy Snyder Mar 16, 2025 When Trump announces an aggressive policy, he attaches to it a grotesque justification. The nonsensical fiction is supposed remain in our minds, as a button to be pushed, so that we accept violence. We will have trouble …

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Americans still do not support Trump’s ideas, nor was Republicans’ victory resounding. Let’s start with Trump’s electoral victory. His popular vote margin was one of the tiniest in American history. He won 49.9 percent of the vote compared with Kamala Harris’ 48.3 percent. Trump’s 1.6 percent edge is the third …

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China has two advantages: 1) it leads in automation, accounting for 70% of all industrial robots installed, which boosts productivity and thus per capita incomes; 2) it has a huge potential market thanks to the Belt and Road Initiative, which involves Central Asia, West Asia, the Middle East and North …

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Aristotle had already criticized it in his Nicomachean Ethics as Pleonexia, the constant urge to get more, with powerful words throughout history. Aristotle’s criticism of greed, pleonexia, the desire to have more than you ever need, is based on an understanding of the political which our society no longer shares… …

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The idea was that the rich would benefit first, but the poor would eventually benefit as well. This is the famous trickle-down theory, which was never better described than by Harvard professor John Kenneth Galbraith, who claimed that this was what was called the “horse and sparrow” theory in the …

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