Sisyphus47
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January 23, 2016
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Writing, culture, Politics, European Union, History, Iraq, History, Syria, History, Ukraine, Life, Women
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Afghanistan, Europe, Germany, Iraq, Society, Syria
A perfect example of the sheer stupidity of western leaders without any experience of conflicts, let alone of a culture that is alien to Europe… Those pretend “refugees” are likely to be deserters from the Syrian, Afghan or Iraqi armies, more interested in predation on European gullible than fighting for their countries. In Germany the scandal of so-called refugees from Afghanistan – 13 years of NATO’s antics! – has been going on for years at the expense of German taxpayers… In the meantime the German government refuses entry visas for genuine (European) refugees from the Ukrainian civil war.
DER KAMERAD
Death threats against welfare workers, aggressive behavior, lies, forged documents, verbal abuse, misogyny, sexual attacks, and even physical assaults—these are the daily burdens which German social workers in the “refugee centers” have to face, according to a disillusioned employee who has broken her silence.
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Sisyphus47
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August 31, 2014
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History, Capitalism, Writing, culture, Politics, European Union, History, History, Russia, History, Social History, Life, Society
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20th Century history, Alexander Dugin, Cold War, Eurasianism, Fascism, Globalization, Kiev, Russia, Society
To date the clearest account of the present conflict of values.
By: Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson
Russian Nationalism and Eurasianism:
The Ideology of Russian Regional Power
and the Rejection of Western Values
Dugin
he recent flurry of writing on Russian politics, nationalism and Alexander Dugin shows the contemptible inability of western savants to apprehend any idea beyond the cliche’s of stagnant neo-liberalism. Worse, “Russia specialists” in academia are now tripping over themselves trying to “analyze” Dugin and the Eurasianist idea. Bereft of the vocabulary to understand the concept, they merely apply fashionable labels from western political thought onto Russia in a pathetic and pretentious attempt to show how “dangerous” such ideas are to “European values.”
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Sisyphus47
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March 29, 2013
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Politics, British Politics, History, Capitalism, History, Social History, Life, Society
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Finance Capital, London, Neoliberalism, One Hyde Park, Social Inequalities, Society, Speculation, Vanity Fair
Sisyphus47
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May 2, 2011
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History
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Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, History, Society
It was bound to end, sooner or later. Back in 2004 Madeleine Albright already asked: “Do you imagine they have Bin Laden somewhere in a cage?” This was shortly before the November elections, and not long after the US Military had got hold of Sadam. One may wonder about the timing, what with the Libyan fiasco in the making, no real good news in Afghanistan, and of course the near deadlock in Congress. It remains that one evil has bitten the dust and few people will shed tears.
This won’t hurt the President’s prospects of reelection either. Whether it helps in the current conflict is another matter. UBL may have had currency in some circles but we may be correct in doubting any serious influence with the Afghan insurgency. Al Qaeda was a foreign import, straight from that evil nest of all evil in the Arab peninsula, and, sadly, the machinations of the State department back all these years during the Soviet war.
In a way this may invite some of us to reflect on the state of our world. UBL never faced a criminal court of law as he and his henchmen should have. I for one will regret it.
