Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Ironic autonomy; sonst bist du verloren

Frankly, I don’t think that political awareness is going to prove the best medicine for our current malady. Most people know that financial dictatorship is destroying their life; the problem is knowing what to do about it. It is possible … Weiterlesen

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Death march of American octogenarian liberal commentator/activists

I poke my head into what remains of the American and German peace movements every once in a while, and it’s always disappointing. For years the heads at demonstrations have been a sea of balding pates, white and gray (not … Weiterlesen

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„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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