Media: Please quarantine Trump until January 20!!! Renewing Trump’s 2017 tax cuts will cost $5 trillion!!! In 2017, Trump’s two tax heists gave $8 trillion to corporations and households with over one million dollars!! Unlike all previous tax bills, there were no hearings!! The doors were locked and lobbyists took …
Life is not possible without an opening to the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos. Once contact with the transcendent is lost, existence in the world ceases to be possible. –Mircea Eliade, quoted in The Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James Cone The swan that floats and …
Is the West Blind to Reality? King Midas and the Prophets by Marc Batko (marc1seed@yahoo.com; freetranslations.foundation) Back in 2009, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote “Brightsided” and warned her compatriots about over-optimism and ignoring the signs of systemic, structural failure. By repeating the materialist mantra “more, bigger, and faster,” the suffering around us …
The Humor of Jesus by Marc Batko (Portland OR, marc1seed@yahoo.com, https://www.freetranslations.foundation.] After being raised as a reformed Jew and studying Buddhism, Catholicism and Protestantism, I was overwhelmed by the incomparable Jesus as the Lord, Messiah, and long-awaited end-time eschatological prophet. In his path-breaking book “Theology of Hope,” the German theologian …
1. What are a soft landing & a hard landing? 2. Does Trump-dominated media distort digital & information economy? 3. What to do if Trump denies his ignorance and arrogance? 4. How is endogenous destruction different from exogenous destruction? 5. Do societies self-destruct when housing & taxation fail? 6. …
The US made the Ukraine war into a proxy global war threatening the planet. Since 2000, the US has refused to hear Putin’s insistence on Russia’s sovereignty and security rights. Described as NATO’s eastern expansion, NATO increased from 16 to 30 states and encircles Russia on its western border. Sec …
Challenging Truths by Marc Batko (marc1seed@yahoo.com, www.freetranslations.foundation) 1. Man is born free and is everywhere in chains. (Rousseau) 2. Prejudices, stereotypes, lies and myths are real, invisible chains. 3, Self-righteousness, the rat race, the ladder of success, and normalized war are like leaf-blowing music. 4. Pharisees, experts in laws, often …
20 Neoliberal Myths 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 …
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 …
by Marc Batko Truth is not only in English Invitation to a New Beginning by Marc Batko Articles from Germany, Austria and Switzerland have convinced me that policy mistakes in foreign affairs, economic thinking, reducing working hours, education, distribution, affordable housing and combating poverty reflect state failure, market failure or …