- Break away from conventional trickle-down economics.
A future-friendly economics is necessary, and possible.Poverty is man-made, and not inevitable.
Produced by a myopic worldview, there is an alternative.
Monthly Archives: May 2018
Why has the US gone mad?
Why has the US gone mad? by Alexander Unzicker and Olivier Zajee, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/29/18815311.php Donald Trump blames scapegoats. Why does the US permanently seek new conflicts, send terrorists to Syria, organize the Ukraine coup, escalate with North Korea and threaten … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-militarism, Political Theory
Leave a comment
They Knew What They Did: Texaco in Ecuador
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/24/18815205.php The world has created a system where businesses only have rights but no obligations. There is no international tribunal that can make businesses liable for human rights violations. What is perverse is that Texaco knew they polluted the land. … Continue reading
Work and Digitalization and A Corpse Governs Society
On the 2018 Day of Labor, many were worried. No one can deny digitalization affects work. Artificial intelligence greatly changes professions and whole branches. Well-paid jobs become scarcer. Rebuilding the social state seems necessary for demographic and digitalization reasons. Capital’s … Continue reading
Posted in Neoliberalism, Political Theory
Leave a comment
The Endless War by Jacob Reimann
The Endless War by Jacob Reimann, May 7, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/14/18809181.php According to the ACLU, the Corker-Kaine bill is “broader and more dangerous than the current law.” Article 1 of the US Constitution grants Congress the exclusive right to declare war. … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-militarism, Political Theory
Leave a comment
China’s 6.9% Growth: The Superiority of the Plan by Fred Schmid
China’s 6.9% Growth: The Superiority of the Plan by Fred Schmid, 1/28/2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/08/18809039.php China has brought hundreds of millions out of poverty thanks to the opening of the economy. In 1978, 90% of the 800 million Chinese lived below the … Continue reading
Happy Cinco de Mayo and Happy 200th birthday of Karl Marx!
Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard offer indispensable perspectives on history and human possibility. Bonhoeffer said the ultimate is the goal of the penultimate and that the language of proclamation enters crossway to the language of time. We are living in late-stage capitalism … Continue reading
Systematic Lies and Disinformation by Mathias Brockers and Gotz Aly
Systematic Lies Disinformation From Above by Mathias Brockers and Gotz Aly, April 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/04/18808955.php “In October 1962, John F. Kennedy, a level-headed president, sat in the White House and spoke with the Soviet leader Khrushchev through a “back channel” behind … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-militarism, Political Theory
Leave a comment
Detente Policy and Media Hysteria by Antje Vollmer
Detente Policy and Media Hysteria by Antje Vollmer, April 24, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/01/18808878.php Antje Vollmer is a Green politician who was vice-president of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2005. She urges a robust public debate over the new hard-line German … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-militarism, Political Theory
Leave a comment