Monatsarchive: November 2022

Die Zeit: Der Chef der CSU-Landesgruppe im Bundestag, Alexander Dobrindt, fordert härtere Strafen für radikale Klimaaktivisten und -aktivistinnen. „Klima-Protest darf kein Freibrief für Straftaten sein“, sagte er der Bild am Sonntag. „Es braucht deutlich härtere Strafen für Klima-Chaoten, um einer weiteren Radikalisierung in … Weiterlesen →

Barack Obama in Philadelphia, November 5, 2022 Interestingly enough, it turns out truth and facts and logic and reason and basic decency are introduced by a late-night television comedian and have a postal code tattoo:

Philadelphia Inquirer: Oprah says if she lived in Pennsylvania, she’d vote for Fetterman over Oz in U.S. Senate race ”I said it was up to the citizens of Pennsylvania … but I will tell you all this, if I lived … Weiterlesen →

I would like to quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s famous Harvard Commencement Address delivered in 1978. He said that typical of the West is “a continuous blindness of superiority” – and it continues to this day – which “upholds the belief … Weiterlesen →

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, New Left Review: Analyses of climate change, in particular, demonstrate how intimately the history of capitalist development is tied to the extraction of fossil fuels. Many authors point out that saying human actions cause climate … Weiterlesen →

Susan Watkins, New Left Review: In March, Kiev’s position at the Istanbul peace talks was for (hyper-guaranteed) neutrality and the retreat of Moscow’s forces to pre-invasion lines. In April, the us pulled the rug out from under the Russian–Ukrainian talks, delivering … Weiterlesen →