{"article":{"id":117231,"heading":"45 Translated Articles to Celebrate the De-Selection","author":"marc","created":"2004-09-28 10:57:51","modified":"2013-11-11 00:30:52","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:30:52","article":"

45 new translated articles are now available at www.mbtranslations.com.

These articles are antidotes to the phraseology and vagueness that often empty public discussions and presidential debates.

Hope like the immigrant is often unwelcome, an interruption prompting new paradigms and new consciousness. Tolerance is learned, not innate. With new eyes and new hearts, difference is a strength and enrichment, not a threat. Wealth and worldly distinctions should be relativized and trivialized, mere garments and thorns that can corrupt and ruin souls and lives.

Poverty stimulates fear, not only compassion. Let us not become bitter in bitter times. Let us not be steamrolled into vulgar materialism, fatalistic nihilism and passivity. Let us not envy wealthy police chiefs or corrupt politicians but live in parallel worlds with inclusive values, future-friendly priorities and convictions, a new consciousness of peace, openness and revolution and an ethic of resistance and solidarity.

Don’t hate the media, become the media. Marcos and the Zapatistas speak of one world where many worlds fit, a world where everyone has a place. Can we learn from the global south, from the poor of Chiapas, from the struggling people of Brazil and Venezuela, from the social market economy and the Canadian mosaic? Humility, self-criticism and interconnectedness open up a new world that is completely repressed by those captive to the system and its TINA (There is no alternative) mythology.

The future ought to be anticipated and protected in the present, not extrapolated from the present (Jurgen Moltmann).

May we finally put the horse before the cart and mend our own pockets before reducing countries to parking lots! May we face the contradictions and injustices in the market economy and not only decry the dangers of the planned economy! May hope and memory, fantasy and festivity, be welcome in a future-friendly world of peace and justice, not marginalized as troublemakers or “disturbers of the peace”! There are many and realistic alternatives that promote equality and justice where workers are more than cost-factors and nature is more than a free good, external or sink.

Hoping for peace with justice, Marc Batko



ECONOMIC ETHICS

1. Altvater, Elmar - High Priests of Economic Nonsense

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=418<\/a>

2. Altvater, Elmar - Inflationary Deflation

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=419<\/a>

3. Argirakos, Dimitrios - Marx Reloaded

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=426<\/a>

4. Attac - The North Drags the South

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=428<\/a>

5. Batko, Marc - Beware of Tabloid Journalism!

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=400<\/a>

6. Batko, Marc - Can the Militarist See Outside the Box?

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=402<\/a>

7. Batko, Marc - First Gentleness, Then Severity

8. Batko, Marc - Nature as Healer and Teacher

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=427<\/a>

9. Batko, Marc - Rewriting History

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=433<\/a>

10. Batko, Marc - Social Security is Not for Sale

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=416<\/a>

11. Beck, Ulrich - Brave New World of Work

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=401<\/a>

12. Beschorner, Thomas - Economics and Ethics

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=408<\/a>

13. Brockhoff, Thomas - Saving the Rocky Mountains

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=407<\/a>

14. Bulmahn, Edelgard - Education is not a Commodity

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=409<\/a>

15. Duchrow, Ulrich - The God of the EU Constitution

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=415<\/a>

16. Ehle, Jurgen - Comparative Anthropology

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=404<\/a>

17. Fischbach, Rainer - Knowledge as a Commodity

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=423<\/a>

18. Goldberg, Jorg - The Cure is the Sickness

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=405<\/a>

19. Harribey, Jean - Growth and Development

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=417<\/a>

20. Hengsbach, Friedhelm The Young Must Have a Chance

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=442<\/a>

21. Kosch, Stephen - The End of Oil

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=399<\/a>

22. Krugman, Paul - Radical Marionette

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=432<\/a>

23. Kurz, Robert - Fuel of the World Machine

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=412<\/a>

24. Kurz, Robert - Secondary Illiterates

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=436<\/a>

25. Kurz, Robert - Weather Map of Globalization

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=440<\/a>

26. Morris, Craig - The Limits of Growth

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=424<\/a>

27. Olbrich, Thomas - The Fairy Tale about Growth

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=410<\/a>

28. Roth, Rainer - Social Cuts

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=437<\/a>

29. Scheer, Hermann - Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Museum

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=429<\/a>

30. Schnulte, Hannelis - You Cannot Serve God and Mammon

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=441<\/a>

31. Schui, Herbert - Productivity and Prosperity

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=431<\/a>

32. Stiglitz, Joseph - The Roaring Nineties

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=435<\/a>

33. Tamayo, Eduardo - The Right of Development in Danger

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=434<\/a>

34. Ulrich, Peter - The Civilized Market Economy

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=403<\/a>

35. Wolf, Winfred - 30 Hours is Enough

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=398<\/a>



ANTI-MILITARISM

1. Crome, Erhard - It Can Happen Here

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=422<\/a>

2. Czempiel, Ernst - Globalization Strikes Back

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=414<\/a>

3. Engdahl, William - George W. Bush and his Watergate

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=439<\/a>

4. Engdahl, William - Is Despair Spreading in Bush Camp?

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=421<\/a>

5. Golub, Philip - The True Costs of the Iraq War

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=438<\/a>

6. Kreye, Andrian - George W. Bush is his own Enemy

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=413<\/a>

7. Pany, Thomas - Prince of Errors

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=430<\/a>

8. Pirker, Werner - Democratic Imperialism

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=406<\/a>

9. Richter, Horst - Lonely Hero

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=425<\/a>

10. von Sponeck, Hans - The Iraq Policy of the US

http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com\/articles.php?filenum=420<\/a>

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