Welcome to anti-reality by Michael Sailer, 9/11/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/03/18881209.php What our elites are trying to make us believe is pure mockery — but anyone who dares to point this out clearly must face accusations of mocking the state. Our author would rather read a Donald Duck comic. What he sees there is at least an honest fake and …

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Mindfulness as propaganda and narcotic by Thomas Meyer, 10/14/2024

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/05/18881261.php In the neoliberal regime, people are forced to see themselves as entrepreneurs of their labor in order to always be able to meet the imperatives of the market, with the goal of “self-determinedly” submitting to the capitalist exploitation process and its constraints. In Western democracies, such self-enslavement is understood …

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War or genocide: The growing consensus on Israel’s Gaza offensive by David Goessmann, 8/13/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/12/18881436.php Israel was called upon by the International Court of Justice to take all measures to prevent genocide. Among other things, it must prohibit and punish incitement to genocide, allow aid and services to reach Palestinians in Gaza, and secure evidence of crimes committed in Gaza. War or genocide: The …

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Western colonialism in Gaza by Jonathan Cook, 9/24/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/06/18881274.php We are facing a moment of truth. And Gaza is the wake-up call… The role of Zionism was to normalize atrocities against dark-skinned people — indeed, to give these crimes a moral purpose — while breathing life into colonialism’s favorite narrative: the “clash of civilizations” between Western progress and …

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The unaffordable welfare state by The Trade Union forum – 10/16/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/31/18881099.php Work is condensed and surplus employees are transferred to the state, i.e., the taxpayers, for support. It is the logic of capitalism itself that is responsible for many of the social upheavals of our time. It is not “the poor” who are too expensive for society—it is capitalism. It …

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Away with NATO! by Craig Murray, 7/10/2018

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/31/18881098.php NATO is a proven useless institution. Its largest active military operation—12 years in Afghanistan—led to military defeat in 80 percent of the country, the establishment of a regime with extremely limited influence, and a booming heroin export industry that finances the criminal underworld in virtually all NATO countries. Away …

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A Country for Old Men by Tomasz Konicz, 3/18/2025

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/03/18880414.php “Nothing would fundamentally change” if he were elected, Biden assured wealthy donors in June 2019. There has been no reduction in the social divide in the U.S. that continues to grow because of the crisis: the private healthcare system remains dysfunctional, homelessness is at an all-time high, the cost …

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