marc1seed 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 …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/12/18879804.php The EU and the BRICS countries should make it clear to the US that the future world order is based not on hegemony but on the rule of law within the framework of the UN Charter. Only in this way can Europe and the world be truly secure. Dependence …
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 …
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 …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/08/18879664.php The Beatles in 1964 warned us about Pepperland, anti-music people and the Blue Meanies. Trump with his draconian immigration policy shows us the bestiality of the Blue Meanies, sweeping up workers from hospitals and shopping centers and locking them up in detention centers! Right-wing extremism and Pepperland by Marc Batko …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/08/18879659.php The BRICS countries are anything but an ideologically unified association. They range from the extremely wealthy oil dynasties in the Middle East to socialist Cuba to the mullahs’ rule in Iran. What unites them is their opposition to the global dictates of Western capital. – The new world order …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/29/18879402.php A vast field of rubble. There is much speculation about the motives behind Israel’s warfare. While those who hate Israel make little effort to differentiate and crudely see Jewish “supremacy” at work, others assume that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fueling the chaos in order to avoid the legal …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/29/18879403.php To prevent parliament from deciding to release the Epstein files, House Speaker Mike Johnson sent lawmakers into an early summer recess. However, when it comes to child abuse and sex with minors within their own ranks, the US right wing in particular often becomes very quiet very quickly. This …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/29/18879401.php Trump’s battle against universities and science The US government is currently waging an unprecedented frontal assault on its own country’s universities and research system. But what is its aim? By Ulrich Grothus [This article posted in August 2025 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/trumps-kampf-gegen-hochschulen-und-wissenschaft/.] Shortly after taking …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/02/18879510.php Given the contradiction between the need for labor and the harsh rhetoric of Trump and Vance, it is questionable whether their administration will be able to deport more people than Biden or Obama. Companies will negotiate various exemption programs for the workers they need. They will live in the …