Mit der Petition und einer Kundgebung in Berlin am Samstag, 25. Februar 2023, um 14 Uhr am Brandenburger Tor will das Personenbündnis u.a. dazu beitragen, dass die Hälfte der deutschen Bevölkerung, die für Verhandlungen statt Krieg plädiert, in der Öffentlichkeit endlich Gehör findet. Für Frieden statt Panzer. Es geht ihnen darum, diese Argumente in den Diskurs zu bringen.
Daily Archives: 14. Februar 2023
Manifest für Frieden
Die von Russland brutal überfallene ukrainische Bevölkerung braucht unsere Solidarität. Aber was wäre jetzt solidarisch? Wie lange noch soll auf dem Schlachtfeld Ukraine gekämpft und gestorben werden? Und was ist jetzt, ein Jahr danach, eigentlich das Ziel dieses Krieges? Die deutsche Außenministerin sprach jüngst davon, dass „wir“ einen „Krieg gegen Russland“ führen. Im Ernst?
Präsident Selenskyj macht aus seinem Ziel kein Geheimnis. Nach den zugesagten Panzern fordert er jetzt auch Kampfjets, Langstreckenraketen und Kriegsschiffe – um Russland auf ganzer Linie zu besiegen? Noch versichert der deutsche Kanzler, er wolle weder Kampfjets noch „Bodentruppen“ senden. Doch wie viele „rote Linien“ wurden in den letzten Monaten schon überschritten?
Es ist zu befürchten, dass Putin spätestens bei einem Angriff auf die Krim zu einem maximalen Gegenschlag ausholt. Geraten wir dann unaufhaltsam auf eine Rutschbahn Richtung Weltkrieg und Atomkrieg? Es wäre nicht der erste große Krieg, der so begonnen hat. Aber es wäre vielleicht der letzte.
Die Ukraine kann zwar – unterstützt durch den Westen – einzelne Schlachten gewinnen. Aber sie kann gegen die größte Atommacht der Welt keinen Krieg gewinnen. Das sagt auch der höchste Militär der USA, General Milley. Er spricht von einer Pattsituation, in der keine Seite militärisch siegen und der Krieg nur am Verhandlungstisch beendet werden kann. Warum dann nicht jetzt? Sofort!
Wagner-Chef räumt Gründung von „Trollfabrik“ ein
Russland vor der „aggressiven Propaganda der antirussischen Thesen des Westens“ zu schützen.
Als Trolle werden Internetnutzer bezeichnet, die bewusst Onlinediskussionen stören und die Atmosphäre in Chatrooms vergiften.
Saudi Arabia warns sanctions on Russia could lead to energy shortages
(05.02.2023)
Western sanctions against Russia could result in a shortage of energy supplies in future, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Saturday.
He was answering a question at an industry conference in Riyadh over how trade measures would affect the energy market.
Shell Reports Record Profits As Oil Giants—Including Exxon, Chevron—Cash In On Sky-High Prices After Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
(Feb 2, 2023)
Shell reported an annual profit of nearly $40 billion in 2022, the highest in the firm’s 115-year history.
The figure is more than double the $19.3 billion the firm reported in 2021 and far greater than its previous record of $31 billion in 2008.
Price and Prejudice: A Note on the Return of Inflation and Ideology
With the acceleration of inflation in the post-pandemic recovery, the debate seemed to be limited to whether the inflationary spike would be short-lived or persistent and become imbedded into inflationary expectations. While some Keynesian authors like Paul Krugman initially believed that inflation was caused by cost-push factors including by the sharp rises in energy and foodstuff prices as a result of the Ukraine war, and that it would quickly subside, the debate shifted rapidly and a new consensus according to which inflation was, in part the result of over stimulation of demand during the pandemic coupled with supply side shocks that lowered the potential level of output which provides the main theoretical justification for raising interest rates. Thus, even when most authors accept the notion that snags in the supply chain played a role in the acceleration of inflation, the main cause is to be seen on the excess demand side with the economy beyond its potential output level.
The challenge to conventional wisdom, and its emphasis on demand, has come from left
of center authors, like Robert Reich, that suggest inflation is caused by greedy corporations that have increased their profit margins during a crisis. This has brought back the old debate about the relationship between administered prices and inflation, and the proposition that inflation is directly related to highly concentrated market structures, or what might be termed oligopolistic inflation.
In other words, there is an ideological divide between those that blame inflation in an incompetent government and central bank reaction to the pandemic versus those that suggest that the real culprits are greedy corporations rising their mark up above their costs.
capitalism
Polls conducted during 2010–18 found that a slight majority of millennials held a positive view of socialism and that support for socialism had increased in every age group except those aged 65 or older. It should be noted, however, that the policies actually favoured by such groups differed little in their scope and purpose from the New Deal regulatory and social-welfare programs of the 1930s and hardly amounted to orthodox socialism.
U.S. Quietly Revises Q4 Inflation Up, Bombshell January CPI On Deck
While the rest of America was gearing up for the Super Bowl Sunday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised Q4 inflation numbers higher on Friday.
This is actually huge news.
Preprogrammed algos bought billions in stock off of November and December CPI off of faulty assumptions about inflation going away easily, which sparked the huge rally.
The inflation revisions are a double whammy.
This is the economic buzzword we should all be paying attention to
Over the past year, an alphabet soup of otherwise wonky economic statistics have become household names as American families suffered through the worst inflation in 40 years: CPI (Consumer Price Index), PPI (Producer Price Index), PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditures and ECI (Employment Cost Index).
Stock market news today: Stocks soar as investors look ahead to inflation data
Tuesday‘s CPI reading will come as investors recalibrate expectations for high interest rates will go this year after Fed Chair Jerome Powell implied in a speech last week that the battle against inflation was in its early stages. For much of the year, many were betting the U.S. central bank would pause its interest rate hiking campaign this year.
Israel’s Crisis Must Be Our Call to Action
For fifteen years, J Street has been warning of the dire threat posed to the future of Israel — its democracy, its values and its security — by the agenda of far-right ultranationalists and religious zealots.
We have spoken out about these looming threats because we care so deeply about the state and the people of Israel who are our family, our friends and our colleagues.
We’ve centered our work opposing settlements, demolitions and creeping annexation precisely on the point that never-ending occupation will ultimately take a toll on the occupier, not just on the occupied — and will lead to the erosion of Israel’s very democracy itself.
Sadly, the far-right — and the settlement movement at its core — that has single-mindedly pursued permanent control over the West Bank and dominance over the Palestinian people is now firmly in control of the government of Israel.
J Street Bashers Back Off: AIPAC Backs America and Israel‘s Most Dangerous Right-wingers
AIPAC demands that American Jews leave their consciences and values at the door. But we will no longer automatically back a ‚pro-Israel‘ organization that supports those who subvert democracy – at home and in Israel