Monatsarchive: Januar 2020

From Bernie Sanders‘ Twitter feed – because if you are seriously anti-war in the US you show yourself talking to a late night television comedian.

Guardian: Washington is not willing to bow to Iraqi demands to withdraw its troops and any future discussions with Baghdad will be purely confined to the future structure of its forces in the country, the US State Department has said. … Weiterlesen →

„Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.“ I read on a Facebook group recently that a teacher at my junior high school gave a woman her „only D ever“. I’m not … Weiterlesen →

Grayzone: On January 3, a reader tried to make a donation of $10 to The Grayzone through PayPal. The small donor, a US citizen who lives in California, wrote the following message to accompany the donation: “Thanks for all your … Weiterlesen →

Vīta brevis, ars longa, occāsiō praeceps, experīmentum perīculōsum, iūdicium difficile.

– Khalil Gibran, 1933, “The Garden of the Prophet” Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises … Weiterlesen →

Soleimani doesn't have the blood of British troops in Iraq on his hands, Tony Blair does. They should never have been deployed to a country as illegal occupiers. Blair sent them. Blair killed them. End of.https://t.co/fTkokhQtmU — John Wight (@JohnWight1) … Weiterlesen →

Christiane Hoffmann: Donald Trumps Drohung, iranische Kulturstätten anzugreifen, ist ein Bruch mit grundlegenden Werten der Zivilisation. Sollte er sie wahr machen, stünde er auf einer Stufe mit den Taliban. Europa wäre dann allein im Westen. Die Ermordung des iranischen Generals Qasem … Weiterlesen →