The Enemy and the Libidinal Economy of the Apocalypse by Fabio Vighi, 6/24/2024 https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-enemy-and-the-libidinal-economy-of-the-apocalypse

The West continues to avoid introspection by invoking the Other as pure evil. While the terminal crisis of capitalist civilization is truly global, and no emancipatory model can be seen on the geopolitical chessboard, it is also evident that today’s anti-Russian sentiment stems from a consolidated ideological framework. Seen from …

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Another imperialist scam by the USA by Alfred de Zayas, 6/20/2024

The United States has been the main sponsor of Israeli terrorism against the Palestinians since 1946, providing military, political, economic, financial, technical and propaganda support, which makes the United States complicit in Israeli genocide under Article III e of the 1948 Genocide Convention. Another imperialist scam by the USA By …

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Ukraine: Expansion of the battle zone by Tomasz Konicz

Russia is vastly superior in this type of warfare – which resembles an industrially operated process of destruction – because the Kremlin can draw on far greater reserves. Putin’s gamble on a war of attrition is paying off. It is not just about the superiority of tanks, artillery and ammunition, …

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20 Neoliberal Myths

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 …

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Remember you were once strangers in Egypt! by Marc Batko

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 …

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A Map without Utopia is worthless by Marc Batko – June 2024

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 …

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Military poisoning of society by Bernhard Trautvetter

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 …

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Multiple crisis and catastrophe by Alex Demirovic, October 2022

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 …

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