I’m currently reading Christopher Clark’s book with the whopping title: Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich. In it, Clark discusses how the Nazis “changed history” first by changing … Continue reading →
What people might want to remember today is that the US Justice Department has convicted the sitting president’s closest associates — including his attorney and his former election campaign manager — as criminals. They are sitting in prison for financial … Continue reading →
Press Release: 19 November 2019 Ahmet Altan becomes honorary member of the German PEN Centre The PEN Centre Germany is following with great concern the fate of the Turkish writer and journalist Ahmet Altan, arrested in July 2016 for “supporting … Continue reading →
Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019 — I was talking to a dear, old friend of mine some time ago. She was thinking-out-loud about her current work — for a US food processing giant — and comparing it to the work she … Continue reading →
(c) Topper Sherwood Based upon by a song by Erich Mühsam (1878-1934). A radical poet and writer, Erich Mühsam — like so many other German and Austrian men — had been shattered by his experience in World War I. Mühsam … Continue reading →
US President Donald Trump is currently using US allies in the Ukraine to ‘out’ 2014 business ties between Hunter Biden and a “shady” Ukrainian energy executive, so that the president might bring down Joe Biden as a Democratic contender in … Continue reading →
This segment of the “On the Media” podcast is, simply, excellent. Amazon is being seen for the US monopoly that it is. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/making-america-antitrust-again-on-the-media
Continue reading →It’s fairly clear by now that the sitting US president is an unindicted criminal — his lawyer says so and, unlike other oligarchies, this is not the reason he is in jail. Having been prosecuted by thorough investigators and the … Continue reading →
https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2019/04/American-Dystopia-the-state-surveillance-and-illusion-of-choice-1554257336.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90&fit=crop&w=1440&h=720 This link goes to a great contemporary piece of political art, suitable for framing. A Photo illustration (by): Elise Swain/The Intercept, Getty Images. Do it, Elise & .com. Do it, do it, do it. Love to all, T. .com … Continue reading →
…having Christopher Clark read aloud — just to you — his own current explorations into revolutions of the past. For global readers and thinkers, it “just don’t get much better ‘n this”….
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