Donald Trump and George OrwellOn the conjuncture of the dystopian novel 1984 with the election campaign and the presidency of Donald Trump By Patricia Hammer and Magdalena Kanther. [This article posted in April 2018 is translated from the German on the Internet, http://www.portalideengeschichte.de.] Preliminary remarks: The text documents the results of the module “Research Project:…

Digital Demagogue: The Critical Candidacy of Donald J. Trump by Amy E. Mendas Tue, Jul 23, 2024 6:02AM Over the last several months, businessperson Donald Trump has taken the lead in the Republican primary race. His flamboyant personality and unusually aggressive speech has drawn much attention and criticism. Journalists and academics have posited that Trump’s…

The existing late capitalist ideology in the center of society, the tattered national identity, is being driven to barbaric extremes in reaction to the crisis. Neo-liberalism, with its social Darwinism and economic nationalism, provided the springboards that the new right used. The center will not holdby Tomasz Konicz [This article posted on June 23, 2024…

Challenging Truths by Marc Batko  (marc1seed@yahoo.com, www.freetranslations.foundation) 1. Man is born free and is everywhere in chains. (Rousseau) 2. Prejudices, stereotypes, lies and myths are real, invisible chains. 3, Self-righteousness, the rat race, the ladder of success, and normalized war are like leaf-blowing music. 4. Pharisees, experts in laws, often miss the weightier matters of…

That humanity can dominate nature “is an illusion.” The laws of thermodynamics remain in place. “Consequently, a growth-centered capitalist economy finds itself trapped in futile attempts to completely decouple itself from nature — aiming for a 100% circular, service-oriented and zero-waste existence. Capitalism can’t overcome the laws of physics by Systemic Disorder [This article posted…

20 Neoliberal Myths     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…

Table of Contents     1.  A total mockery of international law – Norman Pesch – 10/2023     2.  On Peace and Security – Dietrich Bonhoeffer – 1934         3.  How can we regain peace and how can we keep it? – Eugen Drewermann 4.  What is literature for? – Gunter Grass 5.  Fascism 101 – Walden Bello –…

Russia is ready to start peace talks with Ukraine. ..What has been missing is the West’s willingness to accept Ukraine’s neutrality… As soon as the West is willing to recognize an end to its accustomed omnipotence, the global South – as was clearly evident in Astana – will be ready to engage in what would…

The West continues to avoid introspection by invoking the Other as pure evil. While the terminal crisis of capitalist civilization is truly global, and no emancipatory model can be seen on the geopolitical chessboard, it is also evident that today’s anti-Russian sentiment stems from a consolidated ideological framework. Seen from the West, Russians have always…

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…