Monthly Archives: March 2019

The human right of housing is subverted by the right of speculation. When speculation is unbridled, sharks are protected against the sardinsardines. This article by the Swiss emeritus professor Arnold Kunzli is translated from the German in Neue Wege. Housing … Continue reading →

The Crisis of Democracy by Joachim Hirsch, February 2019 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2019/03/437301.shtml Decisions affecting social development are in the hands of private investors and state policy depends on their actions. The increasingly unequal income- and wealth distribution is the result of a … Continue reading →

by Sheri Berman, March 11, 2019 https://www.socialeurope.eu/capitalism-and-democracyFor most on the left the story of the last decades goes something like this. During the postwar era the ‘primacy of politics’ was the rule:

The head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Univ said Trump may be in pre-dementia – unable to finish a sentence without drifting off into distraction. The people ahead of the government change their minds. The 245 Democratic votes to revoke … Continue reading →

Public Good or Private Wealthby Werner Raza and Willy Sabautski http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2019/03/437227.shtml Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International, summarizes the interests of Oxfam International in a few sentences:The deep and growing chasm between the rich and the poor is not … Continue reading →