240 are translated articles on neoliberalism. political theory, unwinnable wars, and history. Democracy stands or falls with critical, independent journalism! August 2022 to October 2024 1.        Hiroshima is everywhere. The never-ending struggle by Leo Ensel & Andreas Zumach 2.       Oregon: The toughest heat protection law in the US by Daniela Gschwing 3.       Opportunity instead of…

Apart from the 1,600 Palestinian fighters killed on 7 October, according to the same sources, 45 times more Palestinians have died during the Israeli military’s attack on Gaza than Israelis died on 7 October, including fatalities reported by the Palestinian health ministry (steadily rising) and people still thought to be buried under rubble (more than…

Michael Klundt on children in Gaza: “They are being punished collectively” [This interview posted on 10/19/2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.telepolis.de/features/Michael-Klundt-ueber-Kinder-in-Gaza-Sie-werden-kollektiv-bestraft-9980680.html,] Children in Gaza: NGOs and researchers warn of violations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Children in Gaza suffer from war and deprivation. Expert Michael Klundt sharply…

Streaming live on October 1, 2024 Claudia Sheinbaum Swearing-in LIVE: Mexico’s First Female President Sheinbaum Inauguration | Mexico News LIVE | CNBC TV18 Claudia Sheinbaum takes office Tuesday as Mexico’s first female president in the nation’s more than 200 years of independence. The 62-year-old former Mexico City mayor and lifelong leftist campaigned on a promise…

10/1/2024 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/18/18870079.php Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election was based on his successful staging as an anti-establishment candidate. His predecessor, Barack Obama, had pursued a course of “internal devaluation” of costs and wages as a way out of the global financial crisis. Since then, income and wealth inequality, precariousness in the labor market have…

August 2022 to October 2024 Indybay.org is our only indymedia site that is working. Anyone can comment immediately and join the counterculture fighting for democracy, critical and independent journalism. It is time for all progressives to unite against the fascist Republican Party! Trump is a pathological liar, a pathological narcissist only intent on his own…

A fatal developmentAuthorizing the use of long-range weapons against Russia means NATO’s entry into the war against Russia. So far, the NATO countries have always claimed that NATO or its members were not parties to the war – which, at least, was doubtful until now. However, by allowing the use of long-range weapons against Russia,…

If war is the “father of all things,” then profit is its grandfather. For it was profit that first created the pressure on states to acquire more and more and ever more expensive weapons… From today’s perspective, an end to all wars seems unlikely. What has proven to be such a good business is hard…

These quotations are from “The Concept of the Conventional Wisdom” in “The Affluent Society” by John Kenneth Galbraith (1958): The first requirement for an understanding of contemporary economic and social life is a clear view of the relation between events and the ideas that interpret them… Economic life like other social life does not conform…

The warnings of the “China Hawks”, which have been disseminated in intensive media campaigns, conferences and publications, have had a decisive influence. The latest in a series of anti-communist lobby groups was the Committee on the Present Danger: China, which was founded in 2019. It sees the USA as existentially and ideologically threatened by the…