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textBig Suicide Bill by Ernst Lohoff
The law provides for extensive spending on racist persecution. Over $170 billion alone will go toward building the border wall with Mexico and improving surveillance technology at the borders. Funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and its human hunting squads is to be increased by $75 billion...
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2025 11:08pm PDT
textTrump at the inner barrier of capital by Tomasz Konicz
What does Donald Trump want?... The economic uncertainty caused by Trump's protectionism is considered by economists to be an important factor that could contribute to an economic slowdown or even recession in the US. Companies and corporations cannot make reliable calculations, trade between the US and China has largely come to a standstill, and supply bottlenecks are almost inevitable....
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2025 10:40am PDT
textNational Homelessness Law Center condemns Trump’s misguided Executive Order on homelessness by National Homelessness Law Center
Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as a crime, will make homelessness worse...
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2025 10:49pm PDT
textThe handover of power by Tomasz Konicz
Capitalism as a death cult animated by the fetishism of capital, as a secular religion demanding human sacrifice, comes into its own here. Through suffering, through sacrifice—preferably of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society—Germany is to regain the favor of capital in its contradiction-driven momentum as an automatic subject....
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2025 5:07am PDT
textFighting the oligarchs by Lars Quadfasel
The corruption of the Trump administration and the Republicans' planned cuts in social spending provide ample ammunition for Sanders' populist criticism of the power of the wealthy; at the same time, he warns that Trump wants to transform US democracy into an “authoritarian society,” fueling the enthusiasm of Democratic voters and the party's activist base....
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2025 8:18am PDT
textHow the state protects the super-rich by Detlef Koch
Behind the façade of regulatory rhetoric, a system has established itself that protects wealth, organizes redistribution to the top, and systematically undermines democratic influence. We are experiencing a system that serves the interests of a financially powerful minority – not the common good....
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2025 6:03am PDT
textThe USA between disintegration and resistance - a field report by Mandy Trueger
Academics are networking, seeking legal assistance, and publicly questioning the fascist tendencies of the Trump administration. At the same time, tenant collectives, health cooperatives, feminist self-help organizations, and open technology projects are forming in cities such as Denver and Tacoma....
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2025 4:30am PDT
textProvoked protests and violence by the editorial team of Sozialismus.de
Background to Trump's authoritarian deportation policy Even migrants who had shown up for regular interviews with immigration authorities had been arrested, including those with children who are American citizens. Many immigrant families in the US currently fear being torn apart....
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2025 1:15am PDT
textNeoliberal Gospel, Hollow Progressivism, Right-Wing Populism: the Misery of our Times by by pressenza
The impasse is complete and the disaffection is widespread. They are primarily due to the decline of the left and will only be overcome when it finds its bearings again, by tackling economic, social, and political dysfunctions head-on, drawing convincing analyses, and outlining an innovative social project for the community. The conditions call for such a transformation....
Posted: Sun, Jul 6, 2025 6:26am PDT
textBetween knowledge and delusion by Marcus Zeller
Just as a cult can only exist through its believers, every conspiracy, large or small, needs believers. The cult needs people who are faithful, inauthentic, & unfree. By identifying with the conspiracy, I become its victim. There is hardly any room left for my vision of the “good life” because I feel controlled and dependent on circumstances....
Posted: Sun, Jul 6, 2025 6:01am PDT
textMAGA, Trump, and the question of fascism in the US by Carl Davidson and Bill Fletscher
Since the early 1990s, right-wing militias had been increasingly visible in public, especially after the 1995 right-wing terrorist attack in Oklahoma City. The Republican stablishment saw the radical right as a tool it believed it could control while opening the doors to power. As it turned out, the monster they had created soon turned against them....
Posted: Sun, Jul 6, 2025 5:54am PDT
textDebate – Are we heading for a new 1933? by Daniel Kreutz
The rise of the new hard right is a product of the regime of the neoliberal “extreme center.” This has marginalized the political representation of social issues, or rather, of socio-ecological issues, while the dismantling of the welfare state for which it is responsible has increased social inequality. This was and is the dismantling of democracy....
Posted: Tue, Jul 1, 2025 6:16am PDT
textExpertocracies unmasked by Lilly Gebert
According to Ivan Illich, when individual contours become blurred and people are seen only as stereotyped students, consumers, clients, or patients, there is a threat of the dissolution of privacy, which he once described as “disempowerment by experts.” In the soup kitchen of political realism...
Posted: Mon, Jun 30, 2025 1:28pm PDT
textThe hegemon at an impasse by Rudiger Rahls
China's strength lies in the broad industrial base that the country has built up over the past decades, making it the world's largest producer of goods. This position is supported by extensive supply chains and established trade relations with almost all countries in the world....
Posted: Mon, Jun 30, 2025 9:50am PDT
textLetters to the editor on International Law by editors of nachdenkseiten.de
“Double standards in their most bizarre form” occur when comparing the wars between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Iran. International law knows no exceptions or special rules, but is very clear on the prohibition of violence. Those who denounce Russia's violation of international law should not remain silent about Israel's violation of international law....
Posted: Sun, Jun 29, 2025 3:15pm PDT
textWhy don't we listen to warnings? The horizonless society by Santiago Zabala
Donald Trump’s recent cuts in the Department of Health and Human Services—which canceled key programs from child support services to prevention of disease outbreaks—are meant to strengthen a horizonless society, that is, one without institutions, guarantees, and authorities...
Posted: Thu, Jun 26, 2025 12:23am PDT
textFrom hegemon to blackmailer by Ernst Lohoff
Globalized capitalism and free trade are by no means a wonderfully functioning economic system that increases prosperity for all, but rather an irrational and crisis-prone order that primarily produces losers. Trump's policies are a symptom, not a cause, of the crisis of globalized capitalism....
Posted: Tue, Jun 24, 2025 5:25am PDT
textWhy are the Lambs Silent?? by Rainer Mausfeld
Only when we overcome our induced moral apathy, when we are not satisfied with the illusion of being informed, the illusion of democracy and the illusion of freedom do we have a chance of escaping these manipulation techniques. This is not an easy challenge but we have no other choice. The decision is ours....
Posted: Sun, Jun 15, 2025 1:41pm PDT
textThe Fragility of Power (John Holloway) by Julia Lis
The TINA principle (“There is no alternative”) is linked to a way of thinking that sees politics as determined by unavoidable constraints and can only conceive of maxims for action within a given framework of capitalist order. The power of the powerful does not last forever; it will have to bow to the power of the one who saves and liberates the oppressed....
Posted: Wed, Jun 11, 2025 4:10am PDT
textYour Neighbors are Being Trained by and Working with ICE. Do Something About it. by Anonymous
Essay that is a call-to-action for collecting info and acting up on that info on civillian HSI (ICE) agents in local communities....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2025 4:18pm PDT
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