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Christ among the rubbleAn evangelical pastor in Bethlehem laments that Christians in the western hemisphere have become accomplices to the massacre in Gaza. “Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.” So said Jesus according to the Gospel. Now the people in Gaza are…

Democracy is now fictitious. There is the all-powerful business elite that has merged with the state and its claims to “identity”. US admirals are paid thousands of dollars a day by Australian taxpayers for “advice”. Across the West, our political imaginations have been soothed by PR and distracted from the machinations of corrupt politicians who…

The Hartmann Report Discover more from The Hartmann Report A Daily Newsletter of Renaissance Thinking about Progressive Politics, Economics, Science, and the Issues of Our Day Over 70,000 subscribers Continue reading Sign in Daily Take The Rise & Fall of the Second Trump Reich: Tick Tock… A dystopian tale that conforms to Trump’s many campaign…

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/01/25/18862483.php In the neoliberal variant of capitalism, postmodern pluralism dominates and with it a reason that is no longer trusted to understand the whole.. For instrumental reason, the actual world is always the best of all possible worlds since the question of a better world cannot arise in it. No problem arises that makes another,…

One of the more tragic elements of the culture of silence is that the dominated often internalize the oppressor – they become their own dominators, and behave toward themselves and each other much as the oppressor behaves toward them. This internalization is often created and maintained by the education system that is controlled by the…

The USA is responsible for what is happening in Ukraine with this provoked war, which is currently being overshadowed in the media by the Middle East conflict, just as it has determined developments in Europe for more than a hundred years…It is becoming apparent that Germany is being systematically destabilized and ruined. The division of…

Your post can be found athttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/01/09/18861739.php International Education & Student Activism The education crisis – just a symptom of general social failure by Bernd Liske Tue, Jan 9, 2024 6:14AM One aspect of our society, which is oriented towards self-interest rather than the common good, is that the systemic relevance of education is increasingly taking…

www.la.indymedia.org Since 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, humankind has made a tremendous leap backward. We are witnessing the systematic dismantling of the welfare state, the atomization of the working class, the collapse of union membership, the abandonment of any attachment to republican principles. Mainstream discourse encourages us to resign. November 1999, online…

We need to have a transformative vision that can compete with that of the far right, one based on genuine equality and genuine democratic empowerment that goes beyond the now discredited liberal democracy. Some call this vision socialism. Others would prefer another term, but the important thing is its message of radical, real equality beyond…

The Bremen study group on Alternative Economic Policy has been publishing analyses since 1975. Sustainable infrastructure Investments, de-carbonization, environmental safeguards, work protections and welfare regulations are primary as well as resisting profit maximization and environmental destruction.