Monatsarchive: August 2019

I find this phenomenon pretty amusing.

Chuck Park: …what I have not seen is organized resistance from within. To the contrary, two senior Foreign Service officers admonished me for risking my career when I signed an internal dissent cable against the ban on travelers from several majority-Muslim countries … Weiterlesen →

Neither ‘totalitarianism’ nor ‘fascism’ is a ‘clean’ scholarly concept. Both terms have, from the beginning of their usage, served a double function: as an ideological instrument of negative political categorization, often serving in common parlance as little more than ‘boo-words’; … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: Keeping San Francisco safe from violent ideologies and one-gloved men with large suitcases, March 2016.

The recent populist uprising; the more recent „Debs Movement“; the thousand and one utopian and chimerical notions that are flaring up; the capitalist manoeuvres; the hopeless, helpless grasping after straws, that characterize the conduct of the bulk of the working … Weiterlesen →

Craig Murray: Judge Koeltl also notes firmly that while various contacts are alleged by the DNC between individuals from Trump’s campaign and individuals allegedly linked to the Russian government, no evidence at all has been put forward to show that … Weiterlesen →

That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt. It must be continually remembered. It was possible for this to happen, and it remains possible for it to happen again at any minute. Only in knowledge can … Weiterlesen →

In Nazism, the historian faces a phenomenon that leaves him no way but rejection, what­ever his individual position. There is literally no voice worth considering that disagrees on this matter. . . . Does not such fundamental rejection imply a … Weiterlesen →