Monthly Archives: March 2019

Mike Gravel: The neoliberal obsession is salvation through anti-politics – thus the dreams of Mueller making everything right once more. It’s fundamentally elitism. Salvation from modern capitalism’s profound unfreedom can only come through an embrace of politics as a means … Continue reading →

Spiegel: Komplexitäten haben ohnehin kaum Platz in Amerikas politischer Debatte, was Trump schon lange erkannt hat.

Today’s New York Times. I was traveling from Yalta to Volgograd last July when America’s newspaper of record produced the cartoon below. It was difficult not to see Aleksandr Dugin’s writings on American decadence in a new light. In this … Continue reading →

On June 29, 1971, Sen. Gravel – risking Senate expulsion – began reading the Pentagon Papers into the record so they’d be freely available. It was difficult – 4,000 pages, and the senator has dyslexia – and he was so … Continue reading →

Wie sollten die jungen Deutschen reagieren, die man aufgefordert hatte, Verantwortung zu tragen in der Bemühung um die Rechte aller, als sie erfuhren, daß von Deutschland aus die amerikanischen Bomber starteten, die ihr schändliches Unwesen in Vietnam trieben? Warum konnten … Continue reading →

Guardian: New Zealand’s chief censor has banned a document shared by the man allegedly responsible for killing 50 people in two Christchurch mosques. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 people so far have opted to hand in their weapons following a ban on assault … Continue reading →

It’s simply not enough to go back to “the pre-Trump normal.” Because the pre-Trump normal meant drone strikes, forever, massacres, and mass surveillance. Pre-Trump gave us Trump. The way to escape the hell of Trump is by finding something better, … Continue reading →

BBC: President Donald Trump has overturned decades of US policy by saying it is time to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967.… Israel annexed the Golan in 1981 in a move … Continue reading →

Guardian: “I can’t understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God,” the Utah senator Mitt … Continue reading →