Monthly Archives: March 2017

Europe turn left!

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Marc

www.europeturnleft.eu Topics overview Introduction into the thematic areas – Europe swing to the right – fight back! – Fortress Europe – refugees welcome! – Neoliberalism in Europe – stop austerity – New social movements in Europe – organize the change … Continue reading →

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Trumponomics: causes and prospects by L. Randall Wray

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Marc

The odds on a Trump resignation are 11:10, almost even money – for the sake of the Trump brand! Trumponomics: causes and prospects by L. Randall Wray real-world economics review https://rwer.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/trumponomics-end-globalization-and/ As I wrote in 2012, “Here in the U.S., … Continue reading →

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For a Positive Narrative of the Left by Michael Brie

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Marc

For a Positive Narrative of the Left by Michael Brie, 3/4/17 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/22/18797615.php Whether the dislocations and cyclical crises since 2008 will lead to its final farewell is a question that drives parts of the middle-class and not only the left. … Continue reading →

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Marc

Trump is determined to reduce government to chaos! http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/13/1642640/-Cartoon-Campaign-flashback The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter, Harpers, November 1964 http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ “The megalomaniac’s view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the … Continue reading →

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For an Unconditional Basic Income by Thomas Straubhaar

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Marc

For an Unconditional Basic Income More Prosperity for Everyone by Thomas Straubhaar, 3/9/17 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/20/18797557.php The basic income corrects the distribution effects of the labor market. It takes something from the higher paid to give to those who earn little or … Continue reading →

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The Social State and the FDR Rescue

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Marc

Here are several thoughts from philosophy and theology when the strong winds shake everything but the Wall Street banks. You can watch “Capitalism: A Love Song,” “We’re Not Broke,” “War Made Easy,” “Iraq for Sale,” “War on Whistleblowers,” “Fish Out … Continue reading →

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Without Social Democracy, Capitalism Will Eat Itself by Karin Pettersson

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Marc

Without Social Democracy, Capitalism Will Eat Itself by Karin Pettersson, Feb 10, 17 https://www.socialeurope.eu/2017/02/without-social-democracy-capitalism-will-eat/ The Golden Age has now been gone longer than it lasted and the world it sprung from doesn’t exist anymore. Once a balance was struck between … Continue reading →

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Video: “Forget Shorter Showers,” 11 min

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Marc

Video: “Forget Shorter Showers,” 2015, 11 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2TbrtCGbhQ

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Bernie Sanders: “Despair is not an option”

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Marc

to read the interview with Bernie Sanders published in The Guardian, March 10, 2017, click on https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/10/bernie-sanders-interview-trump-democratic-party-resistance The senator talks about his fight to make the Democratic party more attractive to working-class people – and on taking his progressive populism … Continue reading →

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The “Security Conference” – A Fraudulent Labeling by Walter Listl

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Marc

We say: No more world war fantasies and war preparations. Peace instead of NATO – Human dignity instead of the military – Reason instead of Trump. THE ‘SECURITY CONFERENCE” – A FRAUDULENT LABELING By Walter Listl [This address at the … Continue reading →

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