In no man’s land by Ueli Keller, 3/14/2025

In no man’s landDemocracy is in upheaval, old certainties are dissolving, and the outlines of a new, more humane world are not yet visible. “The secret of change lies not in fighting the past, but in directing all energy towards building the new” (Socrates). Why is it that party politics …

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Ukraine War: Who is Responsible for this Catastrophe? by Klaus-Dieter Kolenda, 3/25/2025

Ukraine War: Who is Responsible for this Catastrophe? By: Klaus-Dieter Kolenda [This article posted on 3/25/2025 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://globalbridge.ch/ukraine-krieg-wer-ist-fuer-diese-katastrophe-verantwortlich/.] Political scientists Benjamin Abelow, John Mearsheimer and Glenn Diesen and economist Jeffrey Sachs explain why the US and the West bear the main responsibility. The …

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Democracy or Doom by Bertram Burian, 2/28

Both examples, Palestine and Ukraine, show: The threat that arises from the negation of real democracy is clearly before all of our eyes:In both Ukraine and Israel, proto-fascist regimes are in fact at work under the guise of a government that supposedly defends liberal-democratic freedom. Genocide and the provocation of …

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Here’s what tariffs are and how they work

by Paul Wiseman – 3/3/2025 By  PAUL WISEMAN Updated 11:56 PM PDT, March 3, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Tariffs are in the news at the moment. Here’s what they are and what you need to know about them: Tariffs are a tax on imports Tariffs are typically charged as a …

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Vienna Social Housing for the US

Mayors speak out against tariffs     WATCH: Mayors from U.S., Canada and Mexico speak out against tariffs at trade summitPBS NewsHour, March 28 AND Vienna-Style Social Housing Will Happen in the US. Here’s Why.Devin Silvernailhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XLZr1KrD4  

Blame Canada by Timothy Snyder

Blame Canada Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory   Timothy Snyder Mar 16, 2025 When Trump announces an aggressive policy, he attaches to it a grotesque justification. The nonsensical fiction is supposed remain in our minds, as a button to be pushed, so that we accept violence. We will have trouble …

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Trump does not have a mandate by Peter Dreier, 12/20/2024

Americans still do not support Trump’s ideas, nor was Republicans’ victory resounding. Let’s start with Trump’s electoral victory. His popular vote margin was one of the tiniest in American history. He won 49.9 percent of the vote compared with Kamala Harris’ 48.3 percent. Trump’s 1.6 percent edge is the third …

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Greed as a Motor of Modern Society by Nikolaus Egel

Aristotle had already criticized it in his Nicomachean Ethics as Pleonexia, the constant urge to get more, with powerful words throughout history. Aristotle’s criticism of greed, pleonexia, the desire to have more than you ever need, is based on an understanding of the political which our society no longer shares… …

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