The U.S. Strategy of Controlled Anarchy: Syria, Ukraine, and Beyond

Interview with Michael Hudson and Richard D. Wolff, 12/15 The U.S. Strategy of Controlled Anarchy: Syria, Ukraine, and BeyondDecember 15, 2024 [This interview posted on 12/15/2024 is available on the Internet, https://michael-hudson.com/2024/12/the-u-s-strategy-of-controlled-anarchy-syria-ukraine-and-beyond/.] America has turned on one so-called ally after another, you know, starting with Saddam Hussein, who was put …

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CBO: Extending Trump Tax Cuts Will Cost Nearly $5 Trillion

CBO: Extending Trump Tax Cuts Will Cost Nearly $5 Trillion5/8/2024americansfortaxfairness.org New estimates from the Congressional Budget Office put a price tag of nearly $5 trillion on extending all the Trump-GOP tax law, mostly scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Trump Does Not Have MandatePeter DreierDecember 11, 2024Talking …

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Canada Resists the US Tariffs!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GLOVES OFF: Canada’s leader hits Trump with knockout blowBrian Tyler Cohen12/11 – 8 minhttps://youtu.be/4TkhRs8fveA?t=31 Canadian MP DESTROYS Trump in FLOOR SPEECHMeidasTouch12/11 – 11 minhttps://youtu.be/CsnzmM7bEAU?t=90 Canada Claps Back, HUMILIATING Trump While Forming New Partnerships Worldwide12/8 – 8 minhttps://youtu.be/1MykqBJPIBE?t=87

Is the West Blind to Reality? King Midas and the Prophets by Marc Batko 12/6/2024

Is the West Blind to Reality?  King Midas and the Prophets by Marc Batko (marc1seed@yahoo.com; freetranslations.foundation) Back in 2009, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote “Brightsided” and warned her compatriots about over-optimism and ignoring the signs of systemic, structural failure.  By repeating the materialist mantra “more, bigger, and faster,” the suffering around us …

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Failing to address the issue by Trade Union Forum, 11/14/24

The sole focus on the migration issue is a clever way of distracting attention from the social imbalance in Germany, with increasing inequality and injustice. The misguided answers of the parties fail to meet the needs of the people, who are turning to the right-wing populists in ever greater numbers …

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Trump on neocons dragging us into wars, Nov 18, 2024

Donald Trump vs the Neocons: his Nov. 18 speech 2 days ago This quote from Donald Trump is WONDERFUL. It should be widely circulated: US Trump warning against Neocons Nov 2024 Gilbert Doctorov, Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 19 November 2024 Napolitano: 8:49: Here’s the gentleman who’s going to take …

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The Cure is the Sickness by Jorg Goldberg, 2001

“Good policy” in the sense of the Washington Consensus can be paraphrased with these ten principles. The key to development successes lies only in a correct policy mix. Development backlogs, continuing poverty and so forth are referred back everywhere to “bad policy” in the sense of disregarding the ten principles. …

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The Humor of Jesus (revised) by Marc Batko, 11/20/2024

The Humor of Jesus by Marc Batko (Portland OR, marc1seed@yahoo.com, https://www.freetranslations.foundation.] After being raised as a reformed Jew and studying Buddhism, Catholicism and Protestantism, I was overwhelmed by the incomparable Jesus as the Lord, Messiah, and long-awaited end-time eschatological prophet.  In his path-breaking book “Theology of Hope,” the German theologian …

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The Maelstrom of the Market On the Embedding of Society in the Market Form by Franz Schandl, 11/5/2024

The Maelstrom of the MarketOn the Embedding of Society in the Market Form “Nothing is better suited to obscure our viewof social interrelationsthan economic prejudice.”(Polanyi) by Franz Schandl [This article posted on 11/5/2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.streifzuege.org/2024/der-mahlstrom-des-marktes/.] Rarely has a book inspired me as much …

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