Category Archives: 2011

The West Must Take the First Steps to Russia by Gabriele Klone-Schmalz, April 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/14/18808465.php “Russia acts out of a strategic defensive and does not pursue an aggressive, expansive policy. It will defend itself against a policy of Nato that … Continue reading →

The young Turks are beating major media operations, 6 minutes by Laura Flanders, The Nation, LF Show with Ana Kasparian and Steven Oh March 8, 2017 https://youtu.be/6ca0LK3v8Bc

War on Facts The Fatal Consequences of Fact Resistance by Adrian Lobe, 1/26/17 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2017/02/434251.shtml The media that should have upended and embarrassed the propagandist legitimated him with billions of free advertising. The egomaniac could see China as merely the dust … Continue reading →

The Canadian looney is around 75-cents to the dollar so Canada is like a big discount shop for Americans. A week ago Trump described Canada as a “Big League deficit country” turning reality upside down. In truth, Canadians are super-warm-hearted, … Continue reading →

Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the IMF, is a professor at MIT Sloan, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and co-founder of a leading economics blog, The Baseline Scenario. He is the co-author, with … Continue reading →

The Crises of Today’s Economy by Ulrike Herrmann and Stephan Schulmeister http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2016/09/433137.shtml Struggling for basic rights through middle-class revolutions and for the social state through workers’ movements are the most important examples of the emancipation process. The market is not … Continue reading →

The Sanders landslide was flipped into a Clinton victory. Read the 99-page report from electionjusticeUSA.org. Election Justice – Protecting your voice in Democracy! electionjustice.net The warmonger repeated lies about Saddam having weapons of mass destruction and then nuclear weapons. The … Continue reading →

to read the articles by Heidrun Bluhm and Andrej Holm translated from the German, click on http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2016/06/432565.shtml Cooperation and competition strengthen each other. Creating a non-profit or cooperative housing sector is the only remedy to gentrification and commodification as rental … Continue reading →

Under TTIP, TPP and TiSA, corporations can sue states for lost profits. The German Judges Union calls additional protection of foreign investors “nonsense” that undermines democracy and the constitutional state and could lead to an avalanche of lawsuits and the … Continue reading →

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2016/04/431999.shtml The common good is abused. The struggle against tax havens is a struggle for the rule of law and democracy. Apple, Google, Amazon, Boeing, GE and scores of other corporations shift tens of billions of taxable profits to tax … Continue reading →