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 …
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/2025/08/29/18879402.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/2025/08/29/18879401.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 …
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 …
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 …
The Handover of the Keys by Tomasz Konicz First published on January 18, 2025, on konicz.info [This article posted on 1/18/2025 is translated from the German on the Internet.] How the democratic center of crisis-ridden Germany is paving the way for fascism The ease and smoothness with which the fascistization …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/17/18879025.php To the extent that we judge and condemn others and think that they are made of worse stuff than ourselves, we feed the energy that finds its fullest expression in genocide. Sociopathic and narcissistic leaders reflect back to us in extreme form the everyday dehumanization of those we condemn. …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/22/18879174.php In my work, I often move between spaces of community and spaces of justice, and that’s challenging. It’s similar to working parents who feel like they’re failing both at home and at work. And of course, you always have to switch codes and language. But no matter where I …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/25/18879246.php People who are trapped in functional stupidity believe that they are doing good, which makes them completely resistant to correction. In such an environment, those in power no longer need to actively suppress information. They only need to create conditions under which honest information processing becomes impossible. Worse than …