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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
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
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
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
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
What amazes me most? The persistent and absolutely effective ability to repress things instead of dealing with them openly. This culture of restraint, of not speaking, of talking behind people's backs. And linked to that is this culture of old boy networks and small, interconnected power groups – and how impossible it is to break that down....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2025 7:55am PDT
“we declare a goal of forcing Toll to cease abetting genocide and renounce all contracts with Thales, NIOA and any other weapons manufacturers.”...
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2025 6:03am PDT
The combination of power and money in German journalism is leading to the end of professional ethics – or to a citizens’ income.
Voters are once again wondering where the critical reporting is. What about the profession of journalists who leave the mainstream? What consequences does a citizen’s income have for one’s own professional activity?...
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2025 4:02am PDT
Our so-called civilized world is anything but sustainable, and little can be achieved with simple means. The global financial system is on the verge of collapse, agriculture is engaged in large-scale exploitation, and privatized transport and healthcare companies are beholden to their shareholders and profits. And the Greens still have to work on olive-green sustainability criteria for NATO....
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2025 3:57am PDT
Linnemann fails to mention the implied “solidarity” with those who earn capital income, who – with increased capital or, depending on the case, skimming rates – are hardly called upon to finance the welfare state anyway, and are thus spared, and this is intentional. This seems to be a matter of course to him. And to name it could raise uncomfortable questions....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2025 10:36am PDT
Climate change, social inequality, and industrial interests threaten the right to water. Without water, there is no life. But who actually decides how much of it people get? Who gets to live and who has to die? Corporations are making water scarce: through privatization, through its priority use for industrial purposes, through pollution and even poisoning...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2025 1:22am PDT
The promise to deport millions of immigrants is a central part of Trump's Make America Great Again program. In both presidential campaigns, he described immigrants as “terrorists, murderers, rapists” or “mentally ill.” After his re-election, he promised to close the border between the US and Mexico and deport several million people....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2025 1:10am PDT
The class struggle has vanished from the global political stage. It will not return through nostalgia for the good old days and their colorfully painted enemy stereotypes. It will return through the fight for peace, here and abroad, for health and clean water, for decent housing and smart textbooks, for free work and free time....
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2025 1:31am PDT
By entering the war, the US is making a new nuclear agreement with Iran a distant prospect. […]This military escalation, accompanied by mutual threats, puts an end, for the time being, to new diplomatic initiatives aimed at bringing Iran's nuclear program back under international control....
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2025 6:07am PDT
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
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
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
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
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
Somali Social Media Influencers of Kabtan Ayub and Yacqub Siyaaf...
Posted: Sat, Jul 5, 2025 7:54pm PDT