- 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: December 2018
On the Welfare State and Migration The rights-based welfare state: Public budgets and economic and social rights/ Olivier De Schutter, Friedrich Ebert foundation/ November 2018/ 80 pp Tomorrow’s world of migration and mobility Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Geneva, Nov 2017, 64 … Continue reading
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2018/12/436973.shtml On the Refugee Debate by Marco Wenzel, 11/30/2018 The rulers want to divert from the real causes of the refugee wave and from their own misdeeds because the cause of the misery is an exploitation crisis of capital and … Continue reading
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Right-wing Security Risk and “Game Over” by Ingar Solty and Ernst Wolff Right-wing Security Risk and “Game Over” by Ingar Solty and Ernst Wolffhttp://portland.indymedia.org/en/2018/12/436963.shtml Security is their favorite theme because4 they can divert the masses from the fact that their … Continue reading
READY FOR PRESIDENT PELOSI? by Thom Hartmann
Ready for President Pelosi? by Thom Hartmann, Dec 10 www.rawstory.com Trump and Pence could both go down in unprecedented impeachment, Dec 10 https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/ready-president-pelosi-trump-pence-go-unprecedented-impeachment/ So, now that we know that Donald Trump and Mike Pence reached the White House through at … Continue reading
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Driven to Consumption and Money Created out of Nothing
Driven to Consumption and Money Created out of Nothing by Mathais Binswanger, Aaron Sahr, and Branko Milanovic http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2018/12/436940.shtml Growth originally created a material prosperity about which earlier generations could only dream. However, more economic growth does not make people happier … Continue reading
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“We live in a time of radical counter-enlightenment”
“We live in a time of radical counter-enlightenment” Rainer Mausfeld, October 2018 https://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2018/12/127513.html Psychologist Rainer Mausfeld is interviewed about the illusion of being informed, “contempt for the people” and journalists and intellectuals. Political struggle always means the struggler over the … Continue reading
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