Monthly Archives: May 2019

The US under President Trump: Gravedigger of International Law by Stefan Talmon

The US under President Trump: Gravedigger of International Lawby Stefan Talmon, 3/27/2019 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2019/05/437527.shtml Prof. Stefan Talmon is the director of the Institute for International Law at the University of Bonn The US collaboratively built international law and its institutions and … Continue reading

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We the Scattered in the Insult Society

We the Scattered in the insult SocietyHans-Peter Martin, Sept 24, 2018 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2019/05/437504.shtml Hans-Peter Martin is the author of “Game Over. Prosperity for a Few, Democracy for No One, and Nationalism for Everyone” (2018). Now it is Game over for the … Continue reading

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What is a Crisis? A Retrospect on the 2008 Economic and Financial Crisis

by Walter Otto Otsch and Styephan Puhringer, 5/2/2019 What is a Crisis? Retrospect on the 2008 Economic and Financial Crisisby Walter Otto Otsch and Stephan Puhringer, May 2, 2019 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2019/05/437484.shtmlThe economic guild interprets crisis through an ideological lens. The financial … Continue reading

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Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the Wealth Tax

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the Wealth Tax by Roman Berger and Thomas Piketty, March 2019http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2019/05/437468.shtml Warren’s proposal earmarks a 2% tax on wealth between $50 million and a billion and a 3% tax on wealth over a billion. Between … Continue reading

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Please Disrupt Capitalism! and The Return of Hope

Please Disrupt Capitalism! and The Return of Hopeby Andreya Schneider-Dorr and Horst Eberleinhttp://portland.indymedia.org/en/2019/05/437450.shtml The old quotation from Gramsci describes our plight: “The old dies and the new cannot come into the world. It is the time of the monster.” The … Continue reading

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