Monthly Archives: April 2019

Freedom of the Press is Dead Worldwide When Unpleasant Journalists Can Be Simply Redefined as a “Hostile Secret Service“ by Mathias Broeckers, 4/16/2019http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2019/04/437420.shtml CIA Director Pompeo claims Wikileaks is a “hostile secret service” and Julian Assange is not a journalist. … Continue reading →

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/604567 coupon code – ZB96J The anthology “Alternative Economics: Reversing Stagnation” includes 3 translator’s introductions, 3 poems from the translator, 12 articles by Tomas Konicz, and articles by Ulrike Herrmann, Helmut Martens, Franz Garnreiter, Sven Giegold, Karl Georg Zinn, Mohssen … Continue reading →

“There is a beautiful fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen where the devil builds a mirror that distorts everything beautiful and good into nothing. The most glorious countrysides appear like boiled spinach, the best persons are repulsive or without torsos.. … Continue reading →

The Financial Market Casino Controls Politics by Ernst Wolff, 10/1/2017http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2019/04/437397.shtml Corporations are subsidized with trillions. In their “competition,” small and medium-size businesses are the fools. The lobby-politicians only give the trillions to big corporations. Corporations depend on subsidies. In the … Continue reading →

PLUTOCRACY OR PUBLIC SPIRIT Thomas Piketty, the economist and author of the 700-page “Capital in the 21st century, describes neoliberalism as an “inequality machine” and urges a Wealth Tax to avert plutocracy. Life in the 21st century resembles life in … Continue reading →

Vienna: Housing is a Human Right Vienna: Housing is a Human Right by the German DGB Union, 3/21/19 Housing as a human right is subverted by the right of speculation. The Vienna Housing Fund buys up potential development land and … Continue reading →