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Table of Contents and a Short Biography
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 –…
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The end of omnipotence by Jorg Kronauer https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/05/18867824.php
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…
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The Enemy and the Libidinal Economy of the Apocalypse by Fabio Vighi, 6/24/2024 https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-enemy-and-the-libidinal-economy-of-the-apocalypse
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…
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Another imperialist scam by the USA by Alfred de Zayas, 6/20/2024
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…
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Regaining peacekeeping capabilities by Uwe Froschauer, 6/21
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…
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Ukraine: Expansion of the battle zone by Tomasz Konicz
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…
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20 Neoliberal Myths
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…
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Remember you were once strangers in Egypt! by Marc Batko
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…
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A Map without Utopia is worthless by Marc Batko – June 2024
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…
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Military poisoning of society by Bernhard Trautvetter
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…