Monatsarchive: Juni 2019

Habermas turns 90

Die Zeit: Für Habermas ist der Hinweis auf die „Komplexität“ moderner Gesellschaften zur faulen ideologischen Ausrede geworden, zu einer Art Selbstentwaffnung politischer Eliten, die den Mut zur gestaltenden Politik verloren hätten. Anstatt alles dafür zu tun, die transnationale Zusammenarbeit zu … Weiterlesen

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Neoliberal Fascism

Henry Giroux: Timothy Snyder is right in arguing that “To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, … Weiterlesen

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The end point of mankind’s ideological evolution

The myth of transition is a myth that cuts across the logic of capitalist empire expansion generally speaking. The relationship of the (post-)Soviet states and the IMF, World Bank, EBRD, and later the WTO, has produced not only damaging policy … Weiterlesen

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US Dept of State „Tweet“ 26.06.2019

We are awake now. We are not dreaming. „This is not who we are“ suggests there is some other United States in existence, that we are just pretending, just rehearsing in preparation for some future actual performance where we will … Weiterlesen

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Beale 25.06.2019

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Bernie Sanders on war with Iran

Bernie Sanders: Sixteen years ago, the US committed one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the history of our country by attacking Iraq. That war was sold to the American people based on a series of lies about weapons … Weiterlesen

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These responses from @BernieSanders represent a rare and important pushback by a major figure in our politics against the way in which the media uses empty language to diminish the significance of acts of war by presidents who disregard the … Weiterlesen

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US involvement with Iraqi use of gas in Iran-Iraq War

Wikipedia: Declassified CIA documents show that the United States was providing reconnaissance intelligence to Iraq around 1987–88 which was then used to launch chemical weapon attacks on Iranian troops and that the CIA fully knew that chemical weapons would be … Weiterlesen

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USS Stark

Wikipedia: On 17 May 1987, an Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet launched two Exocet missiles at the USS Stark, a Perry class frigate. The first struck the port side of the ship and failed to explode, though it left burning propellant in its wake; the … Weiterlesen

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Võidupüha

Sunday, June 23 is victory day (Võidupüha) in Estonia, marking the anniversary of the 1919 Battle of Võnnu (near Cēsis, Latvia) over German forces, part of the Estonian War of Independence.#Estoniahttps://t.co/0LVN41yrtr — Estonian News (@errnews) June 23, 2019

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Concern

New York Times: But a senior Trump administration official said there was concern inside the United States government about whether the drone, or another American surveillance aircraft, or even the P-8A manned aircraft flown by a military aircrew, actually did … Weiterlesen

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Szczecin

1970 Strike Memorial

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