A fatal development by Uwe Froschauer, 9/29/2024

A fatal developmentAuthorizing the use of long-range weapons against Russia means NATO’s entry into the war against Russia. So far, the NATO countries have always claimed that NATO or its members were not parties to the war – which, at least, was doubtful until now. However, by allowing the use …

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A deadly billion-dollar grave by Wolfgang Sachsenroeder

If war is the “father of all things,” then profit is its grandfather. For it was profit that first created the pressure on states to acquire more and more and ever more expensive weapons… From today’s perspective, an end to all wars seems unlikely. What has proven to be such …

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Economist John K Galbraith on Conventional Wisdom, 1958

    These quotations are from “The Concept of the Conventional Wisdom” in “The Affluent Society” by John Kenneth Galbraith (1958): The first requirement for an understanding of contemporary economic and social life is a clear view of the relation between events and the ideas that interpret them… Economic life …

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Fifty Shades of Yellow by Wolfgang Sachsenroeder

The warnings of the “China Hawks”, which have been disseminated in intensive media campaigns, conferences and publications, have had a decisive influence. The latest in a series of anti-communist lobby groups was the Committee on the Present Danger: China, which was founded in 2019. It sees the USA as existentially …

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Global capitalism’s extermination impulse by William I Robinson, 8/19

  Debates Global Capitalism’s Extermination Impulse By William I. Robinson 19 Aug2024   14Share 0 Comment 26Love The unspeakable savagery of the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the absolute impunity of the Israeli genocidists and their Western sponsors have sent shock waves around the world and sparked a global intifada …

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Warlike and maladjusted by Roberto J De Lapuente, 9/18/2024

In Germany, war and the willingness to finally be ready for war are discussed as if it were the mundane question of whether to accept a neighbor’s invitation to a barbecue next Saturday or to stay away…. Readiness for war is mentioned in passing, as if it were the most …

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The Nutty 90s

by Tristan Hughes The Nutty 90s is on pages 27-33 DO THE 1990S hold the key to understanding today’s authoritarian populism? That’s intellectual historian John Ganz’s contention in his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. In a post-2016 …

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Prevent Nuclear War at all Costs!

“Prevent a world war with nuclear weapons at all costs!” – Exclusive interview with Dmitri Trenin [This interview posted on September 25, 2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=121947.] Russia has nowhere to retreat to because the West is fighting an existential battle against the country. Moscow …

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Ahead of the social explosion

by Tyler Durden, 6/7/2024 Capital concentration and mass impoverishment are among the mega-trends of the era, as are the despair and political weariness of millions. The unemployed and the “working poor” are among the steadily growing “occupational groups”; the psychosocial health of an entire nation is at an all-time low. …

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