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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 …
Christians remember and live out the exodus narrative by resisting domination and fascism! Resistance and courage as lifelong challenges must be learned as the US must learn to acknowledge the bestiality of slavery and colonialism that was even practiced by Jefferson and other founding fathers. Those far away were brought …
A Map without Utopia is worthless! by Marc Batko [This essay posted on June 16, 2024 is available on the Internet at freetranslations.foundation.] This quote from Oscar Wilde is a fitting beginning for this essay on remembrance and hope, memory and present fixation. Beware of post-modernism that says the present …
Military poisoning of societyby Bernhard Trautvetter[This article posted on 5/23/2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=115584.] Military, political and social leaders are misrepresenting the emergence of the Ukraine war with half-truths – with the help of such misinformation, a restructuring of society is being driven forward and …
Multiple crisis and catastrophe One crisis follows another. In capitalism, that is the normal state of affairs. However, the climate crisis has a new quality: is catastrophe capitalism now on the horizon?By Alex Demirović [This article posted in October 2022 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/vielfachkrise-und-katastrophe/.] 3/2022Capitalocene …
The Ukrainian attack on global security by Hans-Peter Waldrich marc1seed@yahoo.com Ukraine’s attack on modules of the Russian early warning system not least endangers our own security. Leo Ensel, conflict researcher and journalist, calls for a “Copernican revolution in security policy”. “In the nuclear age, security is only possible together with, …
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens spoke to first-year law students at Georgetown University about his career, the work of the Supreme Court, and his book, Six Amendments. Please read Justice Stevens vigorous dissent to the 2010 Citizens United case on corporate personhood. Justice Stevens died at 99.
by Marc Batko Truth is not only in English Invitation to a New Beginning by Marc Batko Articles from Germany, Austria and Switzerland have convinced me that policy mistakes in foreign affairs, economic thinking, reducing working hours, education, distribution, affordable housing and combating poverty reflect state failure, market failure or …
What does the recognition of the state of Palestine by Norway, Ireland and Spain mean?Facts Three European countries have announced that they will recognize Palestine as a state. What does this mean for a possible peace process? What does it mean for the concrete situation of the Palestinians – and …
