Monatsarchive: Juli 2025

„I’m not happy with Putin“

This is less than a minute of video. The man speaking is the President of the United States. It’s really beyond words. People use this phrase „beyond words“ rhetorically, but here, for me, I mean it quite literally. Now English … Weiterlesen

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Illustrative purposes only

Looking at train tickets for different classes I came across this disclaimer and thought it was pretty funny.

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Zweifel an Rechtmäßigkeit israelischer Angriffe

I read this headline, and read it again. Man, I just couldn’t believe it! And indeed, when one reads the secondary headline and the photograph caption everything becomes clear: being discussed is Iran, not Gaza.

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Palestine Action

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Emerson Lake & Palmer, Zürich, 04.12.1970

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July 3, 1988

Wikipedia: Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, … Weiterlesen

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July 3, 1979

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How the West Pushed Russia Into China’s Arms

Brian McDonald: Russia’s relations with Western Europe now lie in rubble; ending over three decades of attempts to build “a common European home.” That leaves a proud, wounded power available at a discount, ripe for Chinese influence in ways the Kremlin itself … Weiterlesen

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America’s Worsening Solar Gap With China

Juan Cole: China is emerging as the world’s first electrostate, the advanced superpower of this century, which could well be the Chinese century. Trump’s doddering old tattered America, blighted with toxic fracking pools and oil spills, crowned with opulence for … Weiterlesen

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