Monthly Archives: September 2019

The Political Theology of the New Right by Rolf Schiederhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/29/18826912.phpThe new right-wing movements try to create a state of emergency with the help of apocalyptic rhetoric enabling them to suspend rules and procedures. Apocalypticists long for the final struggle between … Continue reading →

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2019/09/437804.shtml by Jurg Muller-Muralt Lying is part of the human condition. But democracy is in peril when politicians make lying into a “business principle.” Lying is a second nature for Trump. Trump lies strategically and doesn’t have a bad conscience. … Continue reading →

The C.E.O. – A Fun Poem Fun poem by Rene Sonsmann from the Smirking Chimp. I love poetry. Always have. So here goes. THE C.E.O. The company’s share price had failed to perform And anxious fund managers demanded reform. The … Continue reading →

BEYOND NAFTA 2.0Toward a Progressive Trade Agenda for People and Planet Ethan Earle, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, and Scott Sinclair, eds. – July 2019DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT (English), 84 pp http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/beyondnaftaenglishfinaljuly17.pdf

by Franz Segbers, academia.edu “This economy kills!” The pope and the ecumene of 350 churches decry the neoliberal economy of exclusion. The economy serving life could supersede the idolatry of money-multiplication and plutocracy. The poor and marginalized are subjects in … Continue reading →

Trump’s punitive attacks on several trading partners, above all China, are changing suddenly into a destruction of the multilateral structures of the world market. With the policy of “America first,” the president wants to restore or develop the past hegemony … Continue reading →

Sanctions and Double Standards by Fabian Goldman, Florian Zollmann and Hans Blix, August 2019 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/03/18825920.php Sanctions are war with other means-and not an alternative to war. The civilian population pays the price with their bodies and their lives. Export prohibitions … Continue reading →