Author Archives: Marc

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/24/18855610.php Only the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines ultimately cleared the way for the EU, and Germany in particular, to become long-term buyers of U.S. natural gas surpluses and to keep the price at a profitable level for … Continue reading →

https://la.indymedia.org/news/2023/04/301464.php As is well known, in war the truth is the first casualty, and so it is in the Ukraine war. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, politics and the mainstream in the press, radio and TV have … Continue reading →

https://geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com/p/brazil-lula-china-dollar Brazil’s Lula travels to China and calls to end US dollar dominance by Ben Norton “Why can’t a bank like that of the BRICS have a currency to finance trade relations between Brazil and China, between Brazil and other … Continue reading →

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/03/13/michael-hudson-us-bank-crisis/ Michael Hudson: Why the US bank crisis is not over Economist Michael Hudson argues banks like Silicon Valley Bank have behaved in a selfish and greedy way, yet get de facto US government bailouts, while regulatory capture and campaign … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/15/18855488.php “They have their great, constantly changing I, but none of them has a self, a core, an experience of identity (…) Where there is no real self, there can be no identity” (1). Without awareness of and confidence in … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/01/18855220.php What impresses me is China’s diplomatic engagement. And I say that also in terms of their role in restoring diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Our diplomacy, American diplomacy, seems to me reactive, unimaginative, and ineffective. Chinese diplomacy, … Continue reading →

https://www.konicz.info/2023/02/23/emancipation-in-crisis/ The contradictory capitalist mode of production is thus not only the driving force[11] behind the mounting debt and economic crises,[12] it is also the cause of the unfolding climate catastrophe. It goes without saying that “man-made” climate change is … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/03/27/18855151.php Since Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Corporation, and Signature Bank all toppled within a week in the U.S., and now First Republic Bank has also run into trouble, there are increasing signs that the next big financial crisis, which was … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/03/23/18855083.php War poker by Benoît Bréville [This article posted in Le Monde diplomatique – March 2023 is translated from the German on the Internet, Kriegspoker.] Arms aid to Ukraine must be limited to “defensive weapons,” he said. A “direct confrontation … Continue reading →

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/03/21/18855047.php Financial crisis – it’s crashing again and The time of change by Thomas Walter & Gustav Viktor Smigielski A utopian society will have learned to decentralize power, to keep it manageable and thus controllable, instead of creating supranational institutions … Continue reading →