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Dear Matriots
Marc Batko
2022-06-17 2:54 PM
The fire of youth will never be put out. Don’t let them break your spirit. We are only called to plant the seed, to be truth-tellers and story-tellers, to redefine and expand work, to revive our welcoming tradition and decry the tradition of fear. (text/plain)
The definitive end of the commons as we know it
Roberto J De Lapuente
2022-06-16 2:07 PM
What we are witnessing is the end of the polity as we know it. The ultimate extinction of public spirit. Parallel societies will remain. We will probably have to live with division. And die. (text/plain)
The red giant's plastic problem
Theresa Crysmann
2022-06-14 3:22 PM
A tattered Coca-Cola flag flutters on the beach of Ixia on Rhodes: every year, the beverage company produces more than 100 billion single-use plastic bottles. Many of them end up in the sea...In a few years, there is likely to be more plastic swimming in the oceans than fish. (text/plain)
The window of opportunity is closing
Klaus Dorre
2022-06-11 4:07 PM
Oscar Wilde wrote: "A map of the world in which Utopia is not marked is not worth looking at, for it undercuts the shore on which mankind will eternally land." "Disobedience, for anyone versed in history, is man's true virtue. Through disobedience came progress..." (Wilde 2014) (text/plain)
The cost of Trump’s chaos just keeps accumulating
PB
2022-06-09 11:41 PM
On January 20, 2021, Donald Trump departed the White House on a helicopter that took him to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where he delivered the final remarks of his presidency to some of his supporters. Before boarding Air Force One for the flight to Mar-a-Lago, his gilded palace in Florida, Trump promised them, “We will be back in some form.” (text/plain)
Tax evasion and avoidance and Democracy at a tipping point
Silke Otsch and Boris Ginner
2022-06-09 7:45 PM
The biggest losses from tax evasion and avoidance are caused by multinational corporations, followed by wealthy individuals. Sums in the triple-digit billions up to one trillion. Euros are evaded annually in the EU. 21-32 trillion US dollars are undeclared via tax havens (text/plain)
From Reagan to Trump
Ingo Schmidt
2022-06-08 3:31 PM
The 1960s, when incomes rose for almost all workers, ended with a massive wave of strikes. Since the 1980s, the incomes of most Americans have fallen, working hours have risen massively, and job security has become a foreign word. But strikes have been extremely rare. (text/plain)
Between two worlds
Kai Ehlers
2022-06-06 1:45 PM
Putin is our new tsar, quite simply. I call him an authoritarian modernizer who stands in the balancing act between neoliberalism and monarchist tradition and wants to reorganize the country from this position. (text/plain)
No to Nato and war - Yes to peace
Tilo Graeser
2022-06-03 4:09 PM
"Peace is too important to be left to politicians," the publicist stressed, which is why a strong peace movement is still needed. Historian Peter Brandt then spoke in favor of a European security architecture that includes Russia. (text/plain)
The historic push of East Central Europe into Nato
Jorg Muller-Muralt and Alfred Weber
2022-06-01 2:44 PM
What is the end of the war song? It is and was destruction, death, human suffering and traumatized populations. And in our time, in addition, it is the suspension of the necessary global and joint efforts of all nations in the fight against the threat of climate catastrophe. (text/plain)
We need a real debate on the Ukraine war
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Peter Vonnahme
2022-05-29 8:51 AM
The longer the war in Ukraine continues, the greater the risk of a nuclear accident or incident. And given the strategy of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration to "weaken" Russia through large-scale arms shipments. The United States and NATO are in a proxy war with Russia. (text/plain)
HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS
William Hoffman
2022-05-29 5:00 AM
Alabama Bill SB184 protects most children from unnecessary genital surgeries.
On April 8, 2022 Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed SB184 known as Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (V-CAP). In the Synopsis it states: “This bill would prohibit the performance of a medical procedure or the prescription or issuance of medication, upon or to a minor child, that is intended to alter the appearance the minor child's gender or delay puberty, with certain exceptions.” One of the exceptions is actually male circumcision. (text/plain)
Criticism of US/Nato policy is extremely censored
Glenn Greenwald
2022-05-28 11:08 PM
The benefits of endless fighting in Ukraine are as immense as they are obvious. The military budget is skyrocketing. Archenemies Russia and Putin are punished. They remain embroiled in a war from which Ukrainians suffer the most. (text/plain)
A Radical Peace Economy
Helmut Selinger
2022-05-26 6:27 PM
We live in a time of real militaristic orgies of war and rearmament, not only in Ukraine, Russia and Yemen, also in the US airbase Ramstein in Rhineland-Palatinate. The war against nature on our planet puts continued human existence at risk. (text/plain)
Opinion: What the brewing interstate travel wars over abortion portend
Jonathan
2022-05-26 1:28 PM
The Supreme Court seems ready to undo Roe v. Wade, the landmark case recognizing the right to choose abortion, in a matter of weeks, and blue as well as red states are already preparing for what might be coming next: a conflict between states seeking to facilitate out-of-state travel for abortion and those trying to shut it down. (text/plain)
Address at the Easter march in Berlin
Luhr Henken
2022-05-25 9:06 PM
1), we need to end the war in Ukraine as quickly as possible. The German government should stop adding fuel to the fire. 2): We must prevent "dark eagles" in Europe.3) We must become a broad movement that prevents the rearmament mania in this country. (text/plain)
The "West" and its war aims in Ukraine
editors
2022-05-24 2:23 PM
The Western-oriented countries want to help Ukraine, but not all of them have the same goal in mind. Whereas shortly after the invasion the focus was on defense, since Ramstein the U.S. has been talking about Kiev's need to win the war. (text/plain)
Reduced Working Hours: The 24-hour Week
Daniel Stern
2022-05-23 11:31 AM
There is currently an international trend toward reducing working hours, which is also being driven by politics: In California, a bill is pending in parliament that would reduce working hours in large companies from 40 to 32 hours. (text/plain)
Stress for the soul. Climate change triggers stress and despair
Matthias Becker
2022-05-20 2:34 PM
Psychology understands fear as an arousal that primarily causes displeasure. Fear is never rational, but sometimes it is appropriate and serves as an alarm. Anxiety disorders, on the other hand, according to the common definition, are directed at non-existent dangers... (text/plain)
breakout
destruction man
2022-05-18 6:22 PM
if assange is brought to america for imprisonment there is only one thing for men of conscience to do, break him out in as public manner as possible. stern lessons once again. might as well start planning now. (text/plain)
*Tourists Being Targeted in Fiji, by Police, for Fines, Prosecution, & "Likely" also Exto
anonymous
2022-05-17 8:24 PM
**Crazy Brigadier Quiliho goes Crazy Again!**
**You’d be Crazier than Crazy Quiliho to Visit Fiji While the Police are Targeting "Tourists"** (image/jpeg)
Poems in Honor of the Shaheed, Rachel Corrie
Various
2022-05-17 7:40 PM
Several poems by Palestinian children, in honor of the American Shaheed, Rachel Corrie (text/plain)
The Great Reboot and Investing in death
Gustav Viktor Smigielski and Heinrich Frei
2022-05-16 9:25 PM
The WEF continues to propagate a highly hierarchized society in which the most powerful actors decide how society should develop - far removed from democratic processes. The US is now spending $100K per minute on new nuclear weapons! (text/plain)
From Indymedia to Tahrir Square (IMC History)
imc repost
2022-05-12 7:15 PM
Harry Halpin, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, hhalpin@ibiblio.org
Evan Henshaw-Plath, Planetary, New Zealand, rabble@planetary.social
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3485447.3512282
WWW '22: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon, France, April 2022
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The modeling of the human and Final victory of materialism
Birgit Naujeck and Roland Rottenfusser
2022-05-12 3:41 PM
Birgit Naujeck, clearly opposes 5G, transhumanism, any eugenics, and the disembodiment of our language, which leads to the rewriting of history and gender. The Final victory of materialism coincides with its implosion! (text/plain)
Listening to Rachel C
Friend of Rachel C
2022-05-12 9:21 AM
Thoughts on women's rights etc. (text/plain)
The real Zelensky
Lars Pohlmeier, Hannes Herbst &Teresa Sciacea
2022-05-11 8:22 PM
A possible oil and gas embargo against Russia, for example, will bring the social question to the fore and bring many people to the streets. More and more voices, it is hoped, will then rise up against war and the militarization of our lives. (text/plain)
BASTA VOLI MILITARI SU BARI !!!
novoli
2022-05-08 3:29 PM
caccia militari terrorizzano la città di Bari (text/plain)
The persecution of Julian Assange
Jonathan Cook
2022-05-07 9:35 PM
Melzer has distilled his detailed research into a new book, The Trial of Julian Assange, that provides a shocking account of rampant lawlessness by the main states involved – Britain, Sweden, the US, and Ecuador. (text/plain)
The price explosion of wheat
Christoph Pflueger, Nicolas Riedl & K Chavent
2022-05-07 3:09 PM
Many people in this country develop the willingness to explicitly freeze for an ideal. Whether for freedom of whatever kind or for the climate. Already now one could marvel at signs on "peace demos", on which was written: "Better freeze, than gas from Putin!" (text/plain)
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