Ende 2019 hat Putin angekündigt, einen Artikel über die Vorgeschichte des Zweiten Weltkrieges zu schreiben. Der sehr lange Artikel ist am Freitag veröffentlicht worden und sein Inhalt dürfte viele überraschen. Ich habe Putins Artikel übersetzt. Da Putins Artikel in der Tat sehr lang ist, erlaube ich mir dazu ein paar einleitende und zusammenfassende Worte, die aus …
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Nichts ist diesem System so egal wie die Gesundheit von uns allenVon Markus und Eva Heizmann, Bündnis gegen den imperialistischen Krieg Es stellt sich schon seit langem die Frage ob die COVID19-Krise von einer gesundheitspolitischen oder von einer politischen Agenda dominiert wird: Im Schatten des Virus gehen die imperialistischen Kriege gegen Syrien, Palästina, Jemen, Venezuela …
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti ‘s Allegory of Bad Government (1338), fresco in the town hall of Siena, Italy. Photo public domain History teaches us that epidemics are more like revelatory moments than social transformers APRIL 17, 2020 The plague-stricken town, traversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power …
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April 21, 2020 © Photo: REUTERS/Tom Brenner https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/21/what-did-us-intel-really-know-about-chinese-virus/ Hybrid War 2.0 on China, a bipartisan U.S. operation, is already reaching fever pitch. Its 24/7 full spectrum infowar arm blames China for everything coronavirus-related – doubling as a diversionist tactic against any informed criticism of woeful American unpreparedness. Hysteria predictably reigns. And this is just the beginning. A …
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Heraclitus, Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1628. Photo: AFP ‘It is disease that makes health sweet and good’ 3035 ViewsApril 06, 2020 24 Comments by Pepe Escobar How Heraclitus, the Riddler, may teach us to fight Covid-19 He was known as “the Riddler.” Even “the Dark.” Heraclitus of Ephesus was one of a kind. In his heart of hearts …
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March 18, 2020Posted by Silk Road Briefing The eight-member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), including China, Russia, and India, have made the decision to conduct bilateral trade and investment and issue bonds in local and national currencies instead of US dollars. Details, a road map will be finalized and signed at SCO’s Finance Ministers’ …
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April 02, 2020 In the Belt and Road framework, China is supplying much of the world including virus-hit Europe with medicine and healthcare items When President Xi Jinping was on a phone call in mid-March with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conti, before the arrival of a China Eastern flight from Shanghai to Milan full …
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Ground Control (to Major Tom)* April 2, 2020 © Photo: Pixabay.com As much as Covid-19 is a circuit breaker, a time bomb and an actual weapon of mass destruction (WMD), a fierce debate is raging worldwide on the wisdom of mass quarantine applied to entire cities, states and nations. Those against it argue Planet Lockdown …
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March 26, 2020 The past weeks have seen the world swept up by a maelstrom of hysteria, misinformation, and confusion under the guise of a new global pandemic. The oversaturation of information overwhelms the senses and is almost designed to inflame the mass panic, which has taken a life of its own and even …
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“NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE”1 Times of crisis in a business sector can often lead to an overall improvement in the community. Weaker entrants often leave the game …Those that remain therefore have reduced competition ..3 Citizen Empowerment Versus Democratic Rights We face two choices: between „totalitarian surveillance and citizen empowerment“ …
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