The United States has been the main sponsor of Israeli terrorism against the Palestinians since 1946, providing military, political, economic, financial, technical and propaganda support, which makes the United States complicit in Israeli genocide under Article III e of the 1948 Genocide Convention. Another imperialist scam by the USA By Alfred de Zayas[This article posted…

The war could have been settled by the end of March 2022 if the USA had joined in. The question is who is the aggressor here. Vladimir Putin crossed a red line with the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. NATO and the United States under Barack Obama crossed a red line with the…

Russia is vastly superior in this type of warfare – which resembles an industrially operated process of destruction – because the Kremlin can draw on far greater reserves. Putin’s gamble on a war of attrition is paying off. It is not just about the superiority of tanks, artillery and ammunition, or about the increasing Russian…

by Marc Batko 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 the emergency ward by billions…

Christians remember and live out the exodus narrative by resisting domination and fascism! Resistance and courage as lifelong challenges must be learned as the US must learn to acknowledge the bestiality of slavery and colonialism that was even practiced by Jefferson and other founding fathers. Those far away were brought near in Jesus Christ. “There…

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 is everything and dismisses the…

Military poisoning of societyby Bernhard Trautvetter[This article posted on 5/23/2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=115584.] Military, political and social leaders are misrepresenting the emergence of the Ukraine war with half-truths – with the help of such misinformation, a restructuring of society is being driven forward and numerous areas of society are…

Multiple crisis and catastrophe One crisis follows another. In capitalism, that is the normal state of affairs. However, the climate crisis has a new quality: is catastrophe capitalism now on the horizon?By Alex Demirović [This article posted in October 2022 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/vielfachkrise-und-katastrophe/.] 3/2022Capitalocene The capitalist mode of production…

The Ukrainian attack on global security by Hans-Peter Waldrich marc1seed@yahoo.com Ukraine’s attack on modules of the Russian early warning system not least endangers our own security. Leo Ensel, conflict researcher and journalist, calls for a “Copernican revolution in security policy”. “In the nuclear age, security is only possible together with, but never against, the ‘opponent’!”…

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens spoke to first-year law students at Georgetown University about his career, the work of the Supreme Court, and his book, Six Amendments. Please read Justice Stevens vigorous dissent to the 2010 Citizens United case on corporate personhood. Justice Stevens died at 99.