Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Soweit in der Bundesrepublik der Revolte der Studenten historische Bedeutung zuerkannt wird, gilt das Todesdatum von Benno Ohnesorg als ihr eigentlicher Beginn. —Ulrich Chaussy, »Rudi Dutschke«, (München: Droemer, 2018), 226.

The Philadelphia and San Francisco papers are continually full of sports news. Beloved, classic, iconic restaurants close. Grocery stores sell out of new viral treats. San Francisco has frequent pieces about Disneyland. Quite literally bread and circuses.

Left-wing politicians, commentators and activists have increasingly become divided into a number of groups, all equally useless from the point of view of real social change. One group has replaced class politics with politically correct incantations on the rights of … Weiterlesen →

Like a lecturer making his first appearance before the public, he saw everything that was before his eyes, but apparently only had a dim understanding of it (among physiologists this condition, when the subject sees but does not understand, is … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: Climate breakdown and wildlife loss are deepening the EU’s “chocolate crisis”, a report has argued, with cocoa one of six key commodities to come mostly from countries vulnerable to environmental threats. More than two-thirds of the cocoa, coffee, soy, rice, wheat … Weiterlesen →

Drop Site: Microsoft has quietly implemented a policy blocking employee emails containing the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” or “genocide” on its internal Exchange servers, according to No Azure for Apartheid, a group of pro-Palestine Microsoft employees. The automated filter, which silently … Weiterlesen →