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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…

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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…

Debates Global Capitalism’s Extermination Impulse By William I. Robinson 19 Aug2024 14Share 0 Comment 26Love The unspeakable savagery of the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the absolute impunity of the Israeli genocidists and their Western sponsors have sent shock waves around the world and sparked a global intifada of solidarity with Palestine.  Palestinians are struggling…

In Germany, war and the willingness to finally be ready for war are discussed as if it were the mundane question of whether to accept a neighbor’s invitation to a barbecue next Saturday or to stay away…. Readiness for war is mentioned in passing, as if it were the most normal thing in the world.…

by Tristan Hughes The Nutty 90s is on pages 27-33 DO THE 1990S hold the key to understanding today’s authoritarian populism? That’s intellectual historian John Ganz’s contention in his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. In a post-2016 election daze, liberals often projected…

The US made the Ukraine war into a proxy global war threatening the planet. Since 2000, the US has refused to hear Putin’s insistence on Russia’s sovereignty and security rights. Described as NATO’s eastern expansion, NATO increased from 16 to 30 states and encircles Russia on its western border. Sec of State James Baker promised…