Wonderland
“In Penza, the FSB does not even bother to hide what they are doing. Officers show up at the remand prison there, and take their man to another room, where they have a generator and electrical wires set up.”
“In Penza, the FSB does not even bother to hide what they are doing. Officers show up at the remand prison there, and take their man to another room, where they have a generator and electrical wires set up.”
We’re probably incapable, as a society, of forming even a tenuous temporary popular front in the case of extreme emergency. We can’t even appeal, it seems, to the basic precept that genocide is bad. That’s scary.
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Anti-imperialists may believe they are on the right side of history. But history has already shown the results of opposing a liberal order through red-brown populist collaboration.
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The political signaling of this ban on an internet platform is clear: it is not merely an attack on a specific structure but against the entire left.
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“Monumental propaganda” is made to short circuit all of Russian/Soviet history, especially the country’s triumphs, to the current regime and its ruler for life.
War, Revolution, and “Patriotic” Revisionism in 2017 Petersburg Read More »
Bashar al-Assad wanted to remove the moderates so he could say, “See? It’s only me or the extremists.” But there are still moderate Syrians, many of them. If their numbers are fewer, we need to ask ourselves why. Where did they go?
People getting paid thousands of euros each month to slip “Truth” into the shrinking gaps between ads think people practicing journalism out of conviction are untrustworthy, lol.
“No, that’s not a tree.” Read More »
Advertising is fuel for our capitalist economy based on consumption and exponential growth, which obviously is non-sustainable. That can’t help but cause problems for the environment—and is arguably also responsible for resource wars and widening inequality.
“Memories are not simply images we experience as individuals but mass-produced fantasies we share with one another.”
War Stories: Art, Propaganda, and the Memory Industrial Complex Read More »
Ein Aufruf zur öffentlichen Debatte mit den deutschsprachigen, linken Medien zum Thema “Syrien und die westliche Linke”.