Es ist in Deutschland schon seit vielen Jahrzehnten eine unselige Tradition geworden, Missstände zwar irgendwo durchaus in vielen klugen Analysen wahrzunehmen, aber dann genauso weiter zu machen wie vorher und sich dann (bei der nächsten klugen Analyse) kräfigst weiter zu wundern warum denn alles immer und immer schlimmer wird.
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Merkel zur Deutschen Einheit: „Demokratie ist nicht einfach da“
Merkel erinnerte an den mutigen Einsatz vieler Menschen in der DDR bei der friedlichen Revolution 1989/1990. Man dürfe nie vergessen, dass es auch anders hätte ausgehen können.
Sorting Through the Lies of the Racak Massacre and other Myths of Kosovo
(February 15, 2001)
There was the ethnic cleansing. The atrocities. The refugees chased out of Kosovo by the Serb army. The mass graves. The heaps of bodies tossed into vats of sulphuric acid at the Trepca mines.
NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said there were 100,000 Kosovars unaccounted for.
Remember?
If you’re like most people, you have at least a vague recollection of something that seemed to approach a modern-day Holocaust.
Problem is, none of it happened.
What really has happened in Kosovo
(14 May 1999)
In the US-NATO assault on Yugoslavia, accusations of genocide in Kosovo play the same role in the propaganda war as cruise missiles and cluster bombs in the air war. The claims that Serbian troops and paramilitary forces are slaughtering thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians, the comparisons of Slobodan Milosevic to Adolf Hitler, the invocation of the Holocaust–all these serve as weapons, if not to convince, at least to intimidate public opinion.
The purpose of this propaganda, whose tone has been set by the White House, is to block any critical thought or even serious reflection on the part of the American people about the mushrooming conflict in the Balkans.
The ins and outs of Britain’s 47 tortured years with the EU
The United Kingdom had been trying to join the European Economic Community since 1961, but had been rejected twice by French President Charles de Gaulle, who argued that Britain was “incompatible” and harboured a “deep-seated hostility” to any pan-European project.
Once de Gaulle stepped down in 1969, the way was clear for the UK to enter the club on the third time of trying.
EU-Austritt Großbritanniens: Der Brexit-Day ist da
Freitag, 24. Juni 2016. Es ist zwanzig vor fünf am Morgen, als der Moderator der BBC den Briten sagt, was sie wirklich wollen.
„Die Entscheidung von 1975 zum Eintritt in den Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum ist durch das Referendum revidiert worden. Das britische Volk hat gesprochen, und die Antwort heißt: Wir sind raus.“
Dreieinhalb Jahre, zwei Premierminister und zwei Unterhauswahlen später ist es nun so weit.
Today at 11pm, after 30 years of resistance, the great people of the UK will have finally got Brexit done
Forty-seven years and 30 days after we joined. Three decades since the rot set in with the drive towards a United States of Europe. Seven years after David Cameron promised a referendum and 3½ traumatic years since Leave won it. It is hard to exaggerate the magnitude of this moment.
Britain’s long goodbye will leave an unfillable hole in the EU project
Monday January 1, 1973, the day we joined the Common Market, was cold and foggy. Ironically, planes could not fly to the Continent because airports were closed by the weather. But the spirits of the nation were lifted by our entry into the European Economic Community (EEC) after 15 years of knocking on the door. …