Monatsarchive: Juni 2019

The myth of democracy goes hand in hand with the myth of transition as, according to neoliberal orthodoxy, where there are markets, there is democracy and freedom of enterprise and individuals. The feasibility of democratic rule in a polity where … Weiterlesen →

Die Zeit: Für Habermas ist der Hinweis auf die „Komplexität“ moderner Gesellschaften zur faulen ideologischen Ausrede geworden, zu einer Art Selbstentwaffnung politischer Eliten, die den Mut zur gestaltenden Politik verloren hätten. Anstatt alles dafür zu tun, die transnationale Zusammenarbeit zu … Weiterlesen →

Henry Giroux: Timothy Snyder is right in arguing that “To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, … Weiterlesen →

The myth of transition is a myth that cuts across the logic of capitalist empire expansion generally speaking. The relationship of the (post-)Soviet states and the IMF, World Bank, EBRD, and later the WTO, has produced not only damaging policy … Weiterlesen →

We are awake now. We are not dreaming. „This is not who we are“ suggests there is some other United States in existence, that we are just pretending, just rehearsing in preparation for some future actual performance where we will … Weiterlesen →

Bernie Sanders: Sixteen years ago, the US committed one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the history of our country by attacking Iraq. That war was sold to the American people based on a series of lies about weapons … Weiterlesen →

These responses from @BernieSanders represent a rare and important pushback by a major figure in our politics against the way in which the media uses empty language to diminish the significance of acts of war by presidents who disregard the … Weiterlesen →

Wikipedia: Declassified CIA documents show that the United States was providing reconnaissance intelligence to Iraq around 1987–88 which was then used to launch chemical weapon attacks on Iranian troops and that the CIA fully knew that chemical weapons would be … Weiterlesen →