Against homeless people, not against homelessness by Jan Tolva, 8/21/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/14/18879866.php In the US, 8.2 percent of the population, or around 27 million people, have no health insurance. Access to adequate health care is completely inadequate, especially for mental health problems. But even in cases of chronic pain, for example, many people are left to fend for themselves. Against homeless …

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Is anything moving forward? by Oliver Schott, 9/4/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/14/18879867.php It is a commonplace that the catastrophes of the 20th century put an end to optimism about progress. Instead of prosperity and freedom for all, or at least for most, it brought unimaginable destruction of human life and totalitarian regimes the likes of which the world had never seen …

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The Winding Up of the Aid Organization USAID by Detlef Umbach, 7/29/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/15/18879883.php The Agency for Effectiveness DOGE, led by Elon Musk until his departure, investigated USAID for wasting public funds because Musk was convinced that it was “a criminal organization” [1]. Donald Trump had declared that this agency was run by “a group of insane radicals” [2]. The global aid organization …

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You don’t shoot at judges by Holger Elias, 5/15/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/18/18879991.php The tragedy of our present is not that the law is too weak. It is that it is too often sacrificed – on the altar of political expediency. “You don’t shoot judges,” Carl von Ossietzky once wrote. Today, one would have to add: You don’t delegitimize them – unless …

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Peace-ecological incompetence by Bernhard Trautvetter, 5/1/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/18/18879992.php This is how the propaganda of the NATO countries in particular is proceeding in the Ukraine war. The wisdom that a war always has a history is ignored…It becomes clear that those responsible are manipulating the public to their own ends by ignoring NATO’s breach of European treaties through …

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Business as Usual – On the ongoing madness of the capitalist mode of production by Thomas Meyer, 7/12/2023

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/12/18879805.php Mattick states that crises are related to the dynamics of exploitation in capitalism: On the one hand, the aim is to achieve maximum “profitability” – because making money is the driving force behind capitalist production – and on the other hand, in order to prevail in competition, costs must …

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Trump’s tariff policy – declaration of surrender by Ingar Solty, 8/29/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/12/18879803.php Trump’s tariff policy – declaration of surrender by Ingar Solty The core of the groundbreaking analyses of critical international political economy was that the state was the godfather of the globalization of capitalism, indeed that it had always been and still was its central actor. The only state that …

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Times of Twilight by Rudolf Hansel, 7/31/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/10/18879696.php The global economy is being converted to a war economy at horrendous cost because Russia and other major Eastern powers allegedly pose a threat. Arbitrariness and violence reign supreme. Russia has always been a thorn in the side of the capitalist system. But the peoples are not responsible for …

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