Monthly Archives: February 2020

In fifteenth-century Russia, when it was occupied by Mongols, a farmer and his wife walk along a dusty country road. A Mongol warrior on horseback stops at their side and tells the farmer that he will now rape his wife. … Continue reading →

New York Times: President Trump on Wednesday named Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany who quickly antagonized the establishment after arriving in Berlin in 2018, to be the acting director of national intelligence overseeing the nation’s 17 spy agencies. By … Continue reading →

BBC: Children facing uncertain future, experts warn No country offers a child both the chance of a healthy upbringing and an environment fit for their future, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. A child flourishing and futures profile: a new … Continue reading →

In the last few years, troubles in our global-capitalist paradise have exploded at four levels, with four figures of the enemy: the renewed fundamentalist-terrorist threat (the declaration of war against ISIS, Boko Haram …); geo-political tensions with and between non-European … Continue reading →

Noam Chomsky, 03.02.2020: The core of Sanders’s “politico-ideological gestalt” is his long-standing commitment to the interests of the large majority of the population, not the top 0.1 percent (not 1 percent, 0.1 percent) who hold more than 20 percent of … Continue reading →

“block all promoted advertising on @Twitter until they restore @wikileaks”? Desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess.

Guardian: After verifying his identity with a biometric fingerprint scan, the machine dispensed Durban with three pills for each of his four daily visits, in line with his prescription. “It means I don’t have to go and buy iffy dope,” … Continue reading →

SZ: “Der Westen gewinnt”, hat US-Außenminister Mike Pompeo wieder und wieder versichert. Für eine gute Nachricht konnte das nur halten, wer das Neusprech der Ära Trump nicht versteht. Der Sieg jenes Westens, den Pompeo feiert, ist das glatte Gegenteil jenes Westens, in … Continue reading →

FAZ: Schäuble gestand immerhin zu, die demokra­tischen Gesellschaften des Westens stünden in einem „Stresstest“. Doch sah er die Verantwortung dafür eher beim gesell­schaft­lichen Wandel als bei dem gegen­wärtigen Amtsinhaber im Weißen Haus oder bei Herrschern in anderen Gegenden der Welt. … Continue reading →

taz: Wagenknecht wirft den linken Parteien vor, ihre Politik und soziale Basis verändert zu haben: Sozialdemokratische Parteien in Europa hätten das neoliberale Politikmodell übernommen – das sich nun in einem wachsenden Niedriglohnsektor und explodierenden Mieten widerspiegele. Zudem brächten die stark … Continue reading →