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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 …

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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 …

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https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/31/18879445.php Trumponomics represents something of an attempt by the leading capitalist power to find an emergency exit from the order it created itself, based on the free movement of goods and capital. The fact that the dollar will probably lose its previous function as a safe haven for private money …

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https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/30/18879437.php The resurgent Poor Peoples Campaign calls for a moral reorientation of the US, where exploitation, social warfare against the poor, and real warfare over resources and power are currently part of “business.”… This market fundamentalism is destroying society. Fascist legacy Structures and mentalities from the Third Reich have outlived …

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https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/30/18879436.php   The strong weak man Donald Trump lacks the competence and the power to deliver on his foreign policy promises. He wanted to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. It didn’t work. He wanted to persuade the Israeli government to de-escalate. It went wrong. Shortly after the …

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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 …

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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 …

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https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/29/18879401.php Shortly after taking office, the Trump administration launched a campaign against the best American universities and the scientific system as a whole. Back in 2019, the current Vice President J.D. Vance had already publicly declared: “If we want to do what we want to do for our country and …

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The dominance of the US dollar as the global reserve currency has been gradually declining for years, but Donald Trump’s policies could rapidly accelerate de-dollarization and the transition to a more multipolar international financial order, warn even mainstream American economists like Barry Eichengreen and Kenneth Rogoff. Political economist Ben Norton …

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https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/27/18879306.php Dependence on the existing power structures must be replaced at all levels—money, energy, electricity, food, medicine, and so on—by regional, local, self-sufficient, and crisis-proof structures. The power of the system must be stopped. The power of the media must be curtailed. The power of wealth must be curtailed… Strategy …

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