Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Hedges on Substack: I was on RT for the same reason the dissident Vaclav Havel, who I knew, was on Voice of America during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. It was that or not be heard. Havel had no more … Weiterlesen →

Brian Garvey, CounterPunch: Beyond the immediate suffering, events taking place right now in Eastern Europe will have an impact on peace issues and defense policy for years to come. Woefully, the peace movement in the United States, limited in its … Weiterlesen →

Spiegel:

SZ: Bisher gibt es keine Belege dafür, dass der Vater selbst in die fragwürdigen Geschäfte involviert war oder davon wusste. Joe Biden machte stets geltend, er beschäftige sich nicht mit den Geschäften seiner Familienmitglieder. Angesichts des großen Werts, den er … Weiterlesen →

Alexander Zevin, New Left Review: This bravado extends to the culture industry at large, where signs abound of a moment akin to that which followed 9/11, when renaming French Fries occupied the dead time between Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. … Weiterlesen →

Intelligentny is a multi-faceted adjective my mother likes to use to characterize people. It is a salad mix of education, culture, intelligence, and manners, plus a certain view of the world that allows an alternative. The Commissar, who yelled at … Weiterlesen →

Daniel Ellsberg, il Fatto Quotidiano: I didn’t want to spend my life in prison, but when it came to risking that to have a chance to shorten a war that was killing hundreds of thousands, ultimately several million people, then … Weiterlesen →

Berliner Zeitung: „Mir ist das ‚Z‘ auch schon in der U-Bahn aufgefallen. Das beunruhigt mich“,  sagt der Berliner. Die Mitarbeiter der Bodo-Uhse-Stadtteil­bücherei bleiben nach erneuter Nachfrage dabei, dass das „Z“ in der Größe sich schon immer auf dem Kunstwerk befunden … Weiterlesen →

Marco D’Eramo, New Left Review: It is not frequently noted that, for over two years, Covid-19 was used to justify the complete closure of China to the outside world: a sealing off which hadn’t occurred since the Qing dynasty attempted … Weiterlesen →