https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/29/18880306.php “The pension system already costs an insane amount of money… And these costs will become much, much higher.” January 14, 2025) This is another blatant lie. However, it is cleverly disguised, because who would deny that €390 billion is a lot of money? The lie lies in concealing the …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/28/18880292.php War is the escalation of something that has always been there. Long before war begins, it has already been there, preparing itself in our culture in the form of excessive subjugation and exploitation of all living things, as has become a matter of course in our society. This takes …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/13/18879822.php Distributive injustice is represented in its own way in all crises. This is very striking in the climate crisis and in the economic division of labor. When it comes to climate change, future generations are completely powerless against us. Young people are also largely unable to act against the …
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 …