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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
“Studies on the history of the German-Soviet war all too often ignore the simple fact that (!) the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, was primarily motivated by economic objectives, namely to conquer ‘living space in the East,’” writes historian Rolf-Dieter Müller. Joseph Goebbels declared that it was a “war for grain and bread, for a fully stocked breakfast, lunch, and dinner"...
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2025 11:02am PDT
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
Doctors Without Borders, the UN refugee agency UNHCR, and the International Labor Organization ILO are all based in Geneva. The city is the European hub for UN and non-governmental organizations. With funding cuts not only from the Trump administration, a wave of layoffs is rolling toward humanitarian workers this spring....
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2025 7:54am PDT
The dismissal of Swedish Dockworkers Union (SDU) spokesperson and national deputy chair Erik Helgeson is a blatant act of retaliation for the union’s legally-sanctioned boycott of military cargo to and from Israel. This dismissal represents an attack on trade union rights, freedom of speech, and the democratic decision made by dockworkers across Sweden....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2025 11:02am PDT
En 2023, Luis Santamaría del Río, uno de los miembros fundadores de la Red Iberoamericana de Estudio de las Sectas (RIES), publicó el libro A las afueras de la cruz. Las sectas de origen cristiano en España (Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, BAC).
El siguiente artículo trata sobre una de las sectas que aparece en su obra de forma destacada: la Iglesia Antigua Católica y Apostólica.
Una secta ultraconservadora y prácticamente sedevacantista....
Posted: Mon, May 12, 2025 9:36am PDT
Society decides on proportions that are relevant for the whole
country. These exist, for example, between work and consumption,
between public services or public goods and private consumption, and between the requirements for efficiency at work and the development of human skills in the workplace....
Posted: Sat, May 10, 2025 4:35am PDT
Building more roads, modernizing seaports, improving airports and
train stations, and constructing power plants in the country where
construction is most expensive is a huge undertaking that many people fail to grasp....
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2025 4:39am PDT
Those who conform, go with the flow, and say little in opposition rise to the top. Those who are not yet sufficiently conformist are corrupted. A great deal of lobbying is carried out to bring members of parliament into line and make them vote the way they want them to. Then the revolving door starts turning, so that after their political career, they get a comfortable, warm, and well-paid job....
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 1:09pm PDT
The President of the United States has set fire to the global trading
system and is now sitting back, seemingly calm in the face of the
conflagration that has engulfed the global economy.
Donald Trump's actions show that he has not really understood how dangerous his attempt to change the world order is....
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2025 10:24am PDT
"A lot of money makes you lonely. It disconnected me from the
world to a certain extent. Many rich people talk about their mistrust
that those around them only want their money. You're constantly
preoccupied with money, with material things."
“It's not right that average earners pay more taxes than the wealthy” Sebastian Klein...
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2025 10:34am PDT
'De-risking', also known as ‘debanking’, is when a bank or payments company closes or refuses to open accounts for customers. The European Bank Authority in Paris, FR reports that ‘debanking’ is the 'third most relevant issue' for European Union consumers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 25, 2025 10:14am PDT
It is conceivable that capitalism 2.0 will conserve natural resources more than it has done in the centuries since the First Industrial Revolution, and that patriarchy will come to an end. As long as it continues to exist, however, the following will remain, even under these changed conditions: profit maximization, periodic overaccumulation, crises, and wars....
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2025 4:57am PDT
Less than 1 month after POTUS 47 declared "Liberation Day" and boasted that he will--via his tariffs-on-steroids!--win a trade war with China, he has just admitted that the tariffs(up to 245%!) are "too high." Duh, it doesn't take an Einstein to know that all parties lose in a trade war. Especially with Donald's gang of clueless economic gurus, they quickly learned that America is much more dependent on China than the other way around....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2025 9:41pm PDT
A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization....
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2025 4:02am PDT
There will be an international panel against repression on April 26, 2025 that will link up workers and countries around the world...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2025 10:20am PDT
Without restructuring the rentier financialized economy to move it back toward the original business plan of industrial capitalism,...his program will fail to re-industrialize America. Indeed, it threatens to push the U.S. economy into depression – for 90 percent of the population, that is....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2025 1:34am PDT
The international financial markets have already reacted: stock prices plunged worldwide, as did gas and oil prices – the latter despite an unchanged supply situation. The 15% decline within a few days indicates that the markets are expecting a decline in demand – in other words, a global recession. All the tariffs were reduced to a maximum 10%....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2025 6:31pm PDT
The legal definition of full-time work dates from 1975 and is thus almost 50 years old. The world has changed dramatically since then: where people used to type on a typewriter and send letters by post, digital exchanges now take place in real time. Where products used to be put together piece by piece by hand, highly automated manufacturing processes now run....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2025 4:07am PDT
Today, the US is trying to regain its lost strength through protectionism. By raising tariffs, the US is admitting that it has lost its once superior competitive advantage. But it is questionable whether the recipe will work again in today's different situation....
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2025 6:10am PDT