Author Archives: Michael Wehle

In addition to the €16.50 ticket fee, there is a wait for entrance. American voices discuss the location of coffeeshops while waiting. Gaza does not exist here.

Hey, do you remember Pershing Summer? Remember the Reagan Administration, Grenada, El Salvador? I know I do. I also remember The Call and Modern Romans. Back there in 1983 I think Michael Been nailed it. Garth Hudson of The Band … Continue reading →

Spiegel: 😀 Spiegel, faithful Atlanticist that it is, now apparently feels jilted.

Volodymyr Ishchenko: I’m afraid that even the war in Ukraine might, in a few years, look like something we recall the way we recall Brexit or Trump’s election or COVID: shocks that seemed unimaginable, but then every year we get … Continue reading →

You know, people comment on something by saying “I have no words”, and most of the time this just sounds to me trite, just cheap rhetoric. But here – here I really don’t know what else to say.

Donald Tusk: “Man musste irgendetwas tun” Mit dieser Geste hatten eigentlich alle irgendein Problem. Für den Ersten Sekretär der Kommunistischen Partei Polens, Władysław Gomułka, war der Besuch Willy Brandts die Krönung seiner jahrelangen Bemühungen um die Anerkennung der Oder-Neiße-Grenze. Das … Continue reading →

Pawel Moscicki: Although after the collapse of the USSR it was decreed that class struggle no longer existed and did not describe any reality, it did not end. Only Capital is winning this battle so decisively that the struggle itself … Continue reading →

The Platz was pretty high energy, full of defiant kids. Those of us older than 30 being represented by an Aufstehen group is amusingly appropriate. The aufstehen-berlin.com – note the “.com” 🙂 site is really worth a look. It recounts … Continue reading →