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Neoliberal Gospel, Hollow Progressivism, Right-Wing Populism: the Misery of our Times 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
Between knowledge and delusion 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
MAGA, Trump, and the question of fascism in the US 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
Debate – Are we heading for a new 1933? 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
Expertocracies unmasked 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
The hegemon at an impasse 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
Letters to the editor on International Law “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
Why don't we listen to warnings? The horizonless society 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
From hegemon to blackmailer 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
Why are the Lambs Silent?? 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
The Fragility of Power (John Holloway) 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
Your Neighbors are Being Trained by and Working with ICE. Do Something About it. 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
After the bulldozer The political revolution of 2024 will not be a revolution at all if it merely exchanges one Deep State for another, one deception for another, one enemy for another, Iran instead of Russia, one target group for dehumanization instead of another, trans people or immigrants instead of white men. The real revolution is a revolution of love. It is a revolution of peace. It is a revolution of healing....
Posted: Sat, Jun 7, 2025 7:37am PDT
Judge Refuses to Gag Animal Rescuer Prosecutors Had Sought a Gag Order Prohibiting Zoe Rosenberg, 22, From Publicly Discussing Her Case Ahead of High-Profile Felony Trial...
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2025 7:08pm PDT
The system: turning money into more money The label “climate crisis” is not adequate to describe the dramatic
changes that the planet and its inhabitants are undergoing. It is
about something much more comprehensive. The climate justice movement recognized this early on: the cause lies in an economic system that is undermining its own foundations....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2025 12:12pm PDT
The so-called progress There is no escape from the totalitarian movement of eternal progress on its own. Capitalism and the financial system behind it thrive on this pseudo-progress by constantly throwing new goods onto the so-called market—goods that no one has asked for, but which are forced upon people by a powerful propaganda machine called marketing....
Posted: Wed, May 28, 2025 3:32am PDT
The Party of Denialism Republicans are rejecting reality while embracing destruction—just
look at the House budget megabill...The gigantic House budget bill that passed by one vote is denihilism to the max. On climate alone, it would roll back Biden-era clean energy incentives and programs, resulting in over 800,000 lost jobs, increased climate-warming pollution, and rising electricity prices....
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2025 9:12am PDT
Arrest of Agave Farmer Leaders Sparks Outcry Amid Tequila Industry Controversy Two prominent agave farmers, Julián Rodríguez Parra and Salvador Ibarra Landeros, were arrested yesterday in Tequila, Jalisco, following a peaceful protest against multinational tequila producers. The arrests come amid a growing legal battle in the United States. A federal class-action lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of New York accuses Diageo, the global spirits conglomerate, of adulterating its premium tequila brands, Casamigos and Don Julio, with non-agave alcohols....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2025 2:33pm PDT
Austerity as a precursor to fascism Austerity offers the best conditions for generating high profits, while the majority of the population—those who are politically underrepresented—are condemned to abandon any plans or ambitions for democratizing the economy. Low wages and constant austerity measures force them into a “hard life.”...
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2025 12:57am PDT
Trump's Protectionist Trade Policy The White House is currently destroying the US hegemonic system established in the post-war period, as the US can no longer bear the costs of this hegemony, or is no longer willing to do so. Instead, Trump is setting out to build a US empire that no longer relies on a global network of institutions and rules to exercise power, but will presumably assert itself through direct, ultimately military force....
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2025 9:02am PDT