Sozialer Protest statt rechten Lügen (tags)
Gegen Sanktionen, gegen Waffenlieferung, gegen die Preisexplosion – unter diesem Motto will Markus Beisicht mit seiner Gruppe „Aufbruch Leverkusen“ am 04. Dezember durch Köln demonstrieren.
Da es in der Vergangenheit vermehrt zu Unklarheiten über das Verhältnis des OAT Köln zum Antifaschistischen Aufbau Köln/Brühl kam möchten wir in diesem Statement unsere Position zur Täterschutzthematik und zur Zusammenarbeit mit dem Antifaschistischen Aufbau erklären.
Angriff auf Kameras in Köln Kalk (tags)
Angriff auf die neu installierten Kameras in Köln Kalk
InfoSnippet: How much SED is inside AfD and CDU and how much NDPD is inside FDP? (US/GER) (tags)
In addition to the question of how much NSDAP there was in the CDU, you will find answers to the questions asked in the title through links with text excerpts ...
InfoSnippet: How much SED is inside AfD and CDU and how much NDPD is inside FDP? (US/GER) (tags)
In addition to the question of how much NSDAP there was in the CDU, you will find answers to the questions asked in the title through links with text excerpts ...
Walkthrought: continuity of German national socialist History of Psychiatry (tags)
Hobby Intelligence Service (HobbyIS) Introducing to Who is who in the German History of Psychiatry (Google translated Wikipedia de) which still influencing ICD and DSM diagnosis catalogues...
Alternatives to capitalism: Buen vivir (tags)
Capitalism is seen primarily as a system of institutional and racist oppression, and it implies a way of life that sees nature only as a raw material to be exploited. The claim is thus to break with the capitalist mode of production and life in order to create "other forms of life."
The long struggle for a post-capitalist society (tags)
The (Corona) crisis has relentlessly exposed the inability of neoliberal capitalism and its political personnel to meet the elementary needs of the people. Even if it is not felt to the same extent in Germany due to the depressing political conditions: the neoliberal offensive is in a deep existential crisis.
Alternatives to Maximizing Profit and The Fragility of Power (tags)
We must look for the "signs of the times" that point to the coming of the Kingdom of God or, as John Holloway puts it, the signs "of the presence of the material power of the cry." The world of struggle against the instrumental power that oppresses and exploits often seems invisible.
Herbert Marcuse: The One-Dimensional Man (tags)
"Manipulation of needs" is one of the control instruments. Rulers change needs through manipulation. False needs are needs imposed from above like production and consumption of useless things. The need for freedom no longer exists in developed capitalist countries.
DIARY OF A CON MAN . 31 (tags)
" Le journal d´anne frank, est.il authentique ? "
Right-wing Populism: A Wave of Nostalgia (tags)
For decades, western societies were marked by pluralization, individualization, and liberalization. Why are attitudes and pressures of society against these trends becoming dominant? Right-wing populism is anti-liberal.
Is Economic Speculation a Form of Structural Violence? (tags)
According to neoclassical economic theory, the financial markets return to equilibrium. Problems only occur because of state intervention. The roaring twenties led to an enormous stock euphoria. In 2018, companies inflate their stocks in a $70 billion stock buy back program.
In Praise of Taxes by Nicola Liebert (tags)
Our tax system p[romotes private wealth and impoverishes the community. Even if no one pays them gladly, most are aware taxes int he interest of the community are sensible. "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society" (Oliver Wendell Holmes, former Supreme Court justice).
The Unending Story of the Achievers (tags)
All personal and corporate success depended on state investments in roads, schools, hospitals, community centers, airwaves, food safety and water quality. The achievers' myth ignores this, Austrian researcher Bruno Rossmann explains.
Growth Criticism and Social-Ecological Transformation (tags)
Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people. Words can be like spears breaking frozen souls. (Kafka) Education is the great transformer (John Kenneth Galbraith). Economics as taught today is like brainwashing. (Ulrich Thielemann) Incentives to investing in the real economy are vital after the phase of credit- and bubble prosperity.
10 Strategies of Manipulation Revisited (tags)
Sylvain Timsit shows how society is influenced and what information is deemed relevant. http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.org/2012/03/05/sylvain-timsit-ten-techniques-for-the-manipulation-of-public-opinion/
Prevent the Comeback of the Cold Warriors! (tags)
What lessons were learned from Vietnam, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Iraq and Afghanistan? Can countries become incapable of learning? Is preemptive war, confusion of offense and defense, a Hitlerian perversion? Does cooking intelligence create cynicism instead of public spirit?
Reduced working hours is the only logically and historically consistent answer to the annual productivity increases that are above the real growth rates of the economy and without reduced working hours lead to a decline of work volume and unemployment.
Cooperatives and the Good Life (tags)
The rights of businesses in exploiting resources end in the rights of nature according to the constitution of the bien vivir. This understanding of the person-nature relation surpasses the rationalist model of rule over nature realized in capitalism's globalized praxis. Art 395 of Ecuador's constitution affirms sustainability.
Worldwide Economic Crisis: Two Opposite Models as Answers (tags)
In a large part of the population, there is a consensus that capitalism has no answers to the great social challenges of social security, hunger and climate change. An alternative investment program (emphasizing children, culture and climate change) gives a long-term answer.
The Next Crash is Brewing (tags)
The economic way of thinking enforced for a quarter of century is one of the structural factors that helped this "economy of depression" breakthrough. This dominant doctrine denies the role of demand and concentrates on the problems limiting the supply of goods & services
Detroit - Es gibt keine Bombe (tags)
Am 25. Dezember 2009 wurde der 23-jährige Nigerianer Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab auf dem Detroit Metropolitian Airport in Romulus, USA festgenommen. Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab reiste mit dem Flug 253 der "Northwest Airlines" von Amsterdam, Niederlande in die USA. Während des Fluges entzündete Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab sich selbst, dieses Entzünden empfanden die mitreisenden Passagiere als Bedrohung, überwältigte Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab und löschten ihn hierbei.
URANIO AG: Source of Future Energy (tags)
URANIO AG is tomorrow's energy source!
23 Theses on the Capitalist Crisis (tags)
Since the middle of the 1990s, the real economy only grew on account of the expansion of credit. After the dot.com crisis, the floodgates were opened. In the next four years, the Fed brought more dollars in circulation than in the whole 200-year US history.
The Great Ruin by Joseph Stiglitz (tags)
The war has destroyed the economy, society and sovereignty of the country. The economic misery is only an integral element of the general debacle. Paul Bremer issued laws abolishing import duties and lowering corporate taxes. Privatizing state enterprises violated Hague Convention of 1902.
Welfare State and Inner Security (tags)
The punitive side of welfare state reform is read as a success. Problems result because firstly there is not enough work and secondfly thoser integrated in work can often hardly live from that. Massive exclusion and precariousness exist everywhere.
Peak Oil: The Global War for Oil (tags)
Despite optimistic estimates, the market seems to accept peal oil since the rich oil companies are not investing in new refineries. The 150-year American expansion explains the military option. Speculation caused the tenfold increase of a barrel of oil from $10 (1998) to $100 (2008).
Fountainhead, Berlin Germany (tags)
An intercultural organization based in Berlin Germany.
Fountainhead, Berlin Germany (tags)
An intercultural organization based in Berlin Germany.
Fountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany (tags)
An overview of an intercultural Berlin Germany based organization
The news media in times of crisis and war reproduce and do not question the consciousness and attitudes of the elites. Wars are seen as exceptional situations by the media in which patriotism outweighs the journalistic self-image of critically distanced reporting.
George W Bush: Flight from Reality (tags)
The doctrine of answering every defeat in Iraq with a new offensive is a grave mistake, worse than in Vietnam.. The battle between the executive and the legislture has begun.
Military-Industrial Complex (tags)
The fusion of the new American patriotism with religious fundamentalism developed into the most powerful legitimation resource for continuing the MIC. Stability and containing conflict are obviously not the goals of the neoconservatives.
Rightwing Anti-Capitalism (tags)
The interests of the working class are no longer defended by the dominant parties. On the background of this representation crisis (cf Gramsci), rightwing populist parties have electoral successes all over Europe.
Fountainhead: XXI Black International Cinema Berlin Germany, St. Louis Mo. 2006! (tags)
Overview of an international, intercultural film festival presentation at the St. Louis Art Museum & Berlin Germany 2006!
Fountainhead: XXI Black International Cinema Berlin Germany, St. Louis Mo. 2006! (tags)
Overview of an international, intercultural organization based in Berlin Germany producing: annual film festival, cinema distribution, weekly television program, publishing, dance theatre.
Fountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany (tags)
Overview of an international, intercultural group producing: annual film festival, weekly television program, cinema distribution & dance theatre.
Right In Der Arnold's Face! (a pro-immigrant parody) (tags)
In the spirit of '43!
Fountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany (tags)
An overview of the annual XX Black International Cinema Berlin festival, THE COLLEGIUM Television Program, publishing & cinema distribution information!!
Actiondays "No to the war on iraq" (tags)
Woldwide actiondays against war will be at 14. 15. and 16. march 2003. The organisations of peace hope that the war against Iraq will never be reality, but they take precontions for a day X – the day of a possible attac against iraq. Then there will be actions against the war all over the world from 17 to 19 a clock.
Latuff: persona-non-grata in German-spoken IMCs (tags)
I'm honoured to be a frequent contributor for many Independent Media Centers, but did you ask yourself why my posts are usually hidden and alleged to be anti-Semitic by German-spoken IMCs? Norman G. Finkelstein can explain it to us (in English and German).