Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Barack Obama in Philadelphia, November 5, 2022 Interestingly enough, it turns out truth and facts and logic and reason and basic decency are introduced by a late-night television comedian and have a postal code tattoo:

Philadelphia Inquirer: Oprah says if she lived in Pennsylvania, she’d vote for Fetterman over Oz in U.S. Senate race ”I said it was up to the citizens of Pennsylvania … but I will tell you all this, if I lived … Weiterlesen →

I would like to quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s famous Harvard Commencement Address delivered in 1978. He said that typical of the West is “a continuous blindness of superiority” – and it continues to this day – which “upholds the belief … Weiterlesen →

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, New Left Review: Analyses of climate change, in particular, demonstrate how intimately the history of capitalist development is tied to the extraction of fossil fuels. Many authors point out that saying human actions cause climate … Weiterlesen →

Susan Watkins, New Left Review: In March, Kiev’s position at the Istanbul peace talks was for (hyper-guaranteed) neutrality and the retreat of Moscow’s forces to pre-invasion lines. In April, the us pulled the rug out from under the Russian–Ukrainian talks, delivering … Weiterlesen →

Jemand fragte den Kapitän in der nächsten Reihe vor Schuchow: »Wie kommt es, daß du so viel über das Leben in der britischen Marine weißt?« »Ja, schau an, ich habe fast einen ganzen Monat auf einem britischen Kreuzer verbracht und … Weiterlesen →

Full transcript and video Borrell says „I suppose that all of you have been reading and re-reading the latest speech of Putin when he declared the annexation. That is a must. Every European citizen must read this speech – and … Weiterlesen →

During sentencing, the prosecution attempted to show that I was a narcissist with a superiority complex. —Chelsea Manning, README.txt, (London: The Bodley Head, 2022), 216.

As the trial began, the courtroom was filled with press; older activists with shaggy beards and tie-dyed shirts; groups like Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Occupy Wall Street; and the Chelsea Manning Support Network, a nonprofit … Weiterlesen →

The prison guards were children. They were soldiers, eighteen or nineteen years old, never having so much as sniffed a deployment but given a badge of authority. —Chelsea Manning, README.txt, (London: The Bodley Head, 2022), 188-189. Interestingly Manning’s longtime partner … Weiterlesen →