Recognition of the army’s atrocities in Gaza has moved into mainstream Israeli discourse. This alone cannot end the war — but it‘s a profound shift.
Archiv: öffentliche Meinung / Bewusstsein / Willensbildung / (public) opinion / awareness
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of America’s Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have “become the evil we deplore.” But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by “information warfare” to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a “disguised, quiet, media free” way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our country’s wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them – before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
Interfax-Ukraine to host discussion ‚Peace deal prospect. Is there one?‘
On Monday, March 31, at 12.00, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency will host a discussion entitled „Peace deal prospect. Is there one?“ Participants include political expert Kostiantyn Matviyenko; PhD in Political Science, expert of the United Ukraine Think Tank Ihor Petrenko; political scientist, co-founder of the National Platform for Resilience and Cohesion Oleh Saakian (8/5a Reitarska Street). The event will be streamed on the Interfax-Ukraine YouTube channel. Admission requires registration on the spot with press ID cards.
In its fight against fascism, Israeli academia remains blind to a basic truth
After leading the protest movement against the government’s planned judicial overhaul at the beginning of 2023, Israeli academia quickly fell into line after October 7. From militant speeches and op-eds defending a “just war” to the mass enlistment of Israeli students in the reserve service, the academy broadly supported the war in its first months.
What my academic colleagues fail to grasp, but what my activist friends understand clearly, is that the Israeli government’s ongoing assault on democratic norms and institutions cannot be separated from its genocidal oppression of the Palestinian people. They make up the two lobes of the same right-wing brain.
Transaktionen und Bestände (unkonsolidiert)
(October 17, 2024)
Private Haushalte
Geldvermögen insgesamt
8.814,7 (Milliarden Euro)
(…)
Nichtfinanzielle Kapitalgesellschaften
(unkonsolidiert)
Geldvermögen insgesamt
8.779,8 (Milliarden Euro)
(…)
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of America’s Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have “become the evil we deplore.” But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by “information warfare” to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a “disguised, quiet, media free” way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our country’s wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them – before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
New Left and Antiwar Movement History and Geography
Antiwar and countercultural activism by millions of young people of every backgound turned campuses and cities into both battle grounds and zones of social and cultural innovation while helping to bring down two presidents and rearranging both the Democratic and Republican Parties. The impact of these movements registered widely: in the military which had to be redesigned to operate without conscription; in mass media which scrambled to recapture a generation that had discovered underground newspapers; and especially in the new ways that many Americans would from then on view their nation‘s institutions and role in the world.
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The Pareto Project is a privately funded open source project based in Switzerland building publishing solutions for everyone to use, to develop and to build on.
Ohne neutrale Medien ist keine Demokratie möglich
Dieser Artikel kann kein Entwurf für ein Gesetz sein. Niemand würde ihn lesen. So verlockend die Idee ist, sich intensiver mit Details auseinanderzusetzen, so will dieser Artikel in erster Linie die Diskussion anregen, wie die Grundvoraussetzungen für Demokratie wieder neu für Deutschland erfunden werden können. Medien sind die Basis für eine Demokratisierung der deutschen Politik. Irgendjemand muss die Diskussion beginnen.
Wir haben das Problem, dass in Deutschland die im Grundgesetz vorgesehene Gewaltenteilung durch einen Konsens der „staatstragenden“ Parteien, und deren Gesetzgebungen der letzten Jahrzehnte, systematisch beseitigt wurde. Um eine Chance zu haben, dies zu ändern, muss zuerst die inoffizielle vierte Säule der Gewaltenteilung aktiviert werden. Der Rest folgt dann automatisch. Aber gerade wegen dieser Wichtigkeit für die Kontrolle des Staates, werden sich die politischen Parteien mit allen Mitteln dagegen wehren.
Transaktionen und Bestände (unkonsolidiert)
(October 17, 2024)
Private Haushalte
Geldvermögen insgesamt
8.814,7 (Milliarden Euro)
(…)
Nichtfinanzielle Kapitalgesellschaften
(unkonsolidiert)
Geldvermögen insgesamt
8.779,8 (Milliarden Euro)
(…)
Nichtfinanzielle Unternehmen (Nichtfinanzielle Kapitalgesellschaften) – Was sind das?
Nichtfinanzielle Unternehmen, auch bekannt als nichtfinanzielle Kapitalgesellschaften, spielen eine bedeutende Rolle in der Wirtschaft. Zu diesen Unternehmen zählen verschiedene Kapitalgesellschaften wie Aktiengesellschaften (AG) und Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH), sowie Personengesellschaften wie Offene Handelsgesellschaften (OHG) und Kommanditgesellschaften (KG). Darüber hinaus umfassen sie rechtlich unselbstständige Eigenbetriebe des Staates und private Organisationen ohne Erwerbszweck, beispielsweise Krankenhäuser und Pflegeheime, sowie Wirtschaftsverbände.
Gesamtwirtschaftliche und sektorale nichtfinanzielle Vermögensbilanzen
(February 2009)
Vorbemerkung
Mit der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1392/2007 1) wurden erstmals Nichtfinanzielle Vermögensbilanzen in das Lieferprogramm der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (VGR) an das Statistische Amt der Europäischen Gemeinschaften (Eurostat) aufgenommen. Die Bereitstellung entsprechender Daten ist jedoch mit Ausnahme der Angaben zu Wohnbauten freiwillig.
(…)
1.2 Inhalt und Aufbau nichtfinanzieller
Vermögensbilanzen
Nichtfinanzielles Vermögen, oft auch veraltet oder vereinfacht als Sachvermögen bezeichnet, sind alle Vermögensgüter, also in jedem Falle Aktiva.
(…)
Übersicht 2 gibt die Liste der Variablen und deren Klassifikations-Codes für die Tabelle 26 – Nichtfinanzielle Vermögensbilanzen – des ESVG-Lieferpro-
gramms wieder.
(…)
1. Produzierte Vermögensgüter
2. Anlagegüter
3. Sachanlagen
4. Wohnbauten
5. Nichtwohnbauten
6. Nichtwohngebäude
7. Sonstige Bauten
8. Ausrüstungen
9. Nutztiere und Nutzpflanzungen
10. Immaterielle Anlagegüter
11. Suchbohrungen
12. Software
13. Urheberrechte
14. Sonstige immaterielle Anlagegüter
15. Vorräte
16. Wertsachen
17. Nichtproduzierte Vermögensgüter
18. Nichtproduziertes Sachvermögen
19. Grund und Boden
20. Bodenschätze
21. Freie Tier- und Pflanzenbestände, Wasserreserven
22. Immaterielle nichtproduzierte Vermögensgüter
Geldvermögensbildung und Außenfinanzierung in Deutschland im zweiten Quartal 2024
(October 17, 2024)
Das Geldvermögen der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland ist im zweiten Quartal 2024 um 136 Milliarden Euro gestiegen und betrug zum Quartalsende 8.815 Milliarden Euro.
Happy New Year. Our Society Is Every Bit As Diseased As You Suspect It Is.
The public is becoming more and more restless and agitated because they can sense that something’s wrong but can’t say what it is, like a dementia patient with a urinary tract infection. This agitation is erupting in ways which range from the crazy to the very lucid, from hate crimes and racist movements to mass protests against genocide and an expanding awareness that a better world is possible.
Our job at this point in history is to try to steer this growing restlessness toward health and clarity. To help people understand where the real bad guys are, to highlight the manipulations and abusive systems at play here, to assure everyone that their growing sense that something is very wrong is absolutely correct, and to help them see exactly what’s causing it.
Iranian press review: China and Russia criticised over response to Israeli strikes
(November 2, 2024)
The daily continued to criticise the stances of these two countries, comparing them to some European nations that have tense relations with Iran.
As western sanctions against Iran have increased in recent years, Tehran has strengthened economic ties with Moscow and Beijing, with one key outcome being the sale of cheap oil to China.
South Africa Is Suspended By U.N. Assembly, 91‐22
(Nov. 13, 1974)
The vote of 91 to 22 was taken to uphold a ruling by the Assembly‘s President, Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, suspending South African participation.
The United States unsuccessfully challenged the ruling, Which was also opposed by Britain, a number of Western Europeans and South Americans, and some others. Nineteen countries abstained.
Abandon Harris – Ceasefire Now
Harris pursues a policy of death in Gaza, and she expects we will vote for her.
We need to work hard to make sure that she will not be elected to the presidency. Not only will this punish Harris, but it will also send a signal to all politicians that you won’t be rewarded with our votes when you engage in genocide. This movement will transform American politics and bring civil rights into US foreign policy.
Abandon Harris – Ceasefire Now
Harris pursues a policy of death in Gaza, and she expects we will vote for her.
We need to work hard to make sure that she will not be elected to the presidency. Not only will this punish Harris, but it will also send a signal to all politicians that you won’t be rewarded with our votes when you engage in genocide. This movement will transform American politics and bring civil rights into US foreign policy.
To Stop Genocide, We need Volunteers!
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Abandon Harris – Ceasefire Now
Harris pursues a policy of death in Gaza, and she expects we will vote for her.
We need to work hard to make sure that she will not be elected to the presidency. Not only will this punish Harris, but it will also send a signal to all politicians that you won’t be rewarded with our votes when you engage in genocide. This movement will transform American politics and bring civil rights into US foreign policy.
Russia sees military coordination with Israel on Syria continuing
(February 26, 2022)
Following the 2015 Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war, Israel set up a „deconfliction mechanism“ with the big power to prevent them clashing inadvertently during Israeli strikes against Iranian deployments and arms transfers in the neighbouring Arab state.
„Our military officials discuss the practical issues of this substantively on a daily basis. This mechanism has proven to be useful and will continue to work,“ the Russian embassy in Israel said in a statement.
this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words
(December 9, 2023)
Oct. 25, 1971 | People’s Republic of China In, Taiwan Out, at U.N.
(October 25, 2011)
On Oct. 25, 1971, the United Nations General Assembly voted to admit the People’s Republic of China (mainland China) and to expel the Republic of China (Taiwan). The Communist P.R.C. therefore assumed the R.O.C.’s place in the General Assembly as well as its place as one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. (…)
The United States, the most significant opponent of the resolution, then argued for the P.R.C. to be admitted separately from the R.O.C., which would have allowed the R.O.C. to retain its spot. The proposal was defeated.
South Africa Is Suspended By U.N. Assembly, 91‐22
(Nov. 13, 1974)
The vote of 91 to 22 was taken to uphold a ruling by the Assembly‘s President, Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, suspending South African participation.
The United States unsuccessfully challenged the ruling, Which was also opposed by Britain, a number of Western Europeans and South Americans, and some others. Nineteen countries abstained.
America‘s new generation of student protesters is giving hope to Palestinians
We raise our hats out of respect for them, as these protests in the universities and streets of the western world and the Global South keep the flame of hope burning in the souls of our people who long for freedom and justice.
These protests indicate profound, radical changes that separate an ageing American generation that blindly supports Israel and a new generation that promotes justice in Palestine and demands an end to the Israeli occupation and to the war on Gaza.
They represent the future of America and its bright face, the emergence of which we have long awaited.
NOTICE: As the night progresses, we have received word from someone arrested inside of Hamilton that NYPD stormed the building and proceeded to tackle and body slam protesters, and attacked them with batons, shields, and sound grenades. We ask all Columbia affiliates in proximity to NYPD to continue recording whatever they can.
Who is Noelle McAfee? All About Emory University Philosophy Professor, Arrested at Campus
Noelle McAfee (age 63, born November 25, 1960) is a prominent political theorist and feminist. Currently, she holds the position of chair in the philosophy department at Emory University, a role she’s held since 2010.
Alongside being a Professor of Philosophy, she’s also a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory.
Der falsche Protest
Dann gibt es die Gruppe der verführten und gekauften «Claqueure» als scheinbar begeisterte Mitläufer, deren Käuflichkeit durch machtpolitische Posten und berufliche Karriere gesichert wurde. Deren Charakter entspricht den «Wendehälsen», die sich jeder Macht andienen, um sich Vorteile trotz oder wegen eigener Selbstwertschwäche zu organisieren. Dazu zählen auch Spitzel und Denunzianten. Man kennt diese Typen, die in der Lage sind, von einem Tag zum anderen vom «Nazi» oder «SED-Bonzen» zum «Demokraten» zu mutieren.
Der Denunziant bleibt auch immer der gleiche seelisch Anerkennungsbedürftige, Verstörte und sozial Vergiftete; nur die Inhalte des ehrlosen Verrates wechseln je nach den Herrschaftsinteressen der Verführer. (…)
Ich schätze nach meiner damaligen Erfahrung und den späteren Erkenntnissen etwa 3 Prozent «Besessene» an der Macht, 5 Prozent «Fanatiker», 30 Prozent «Claqueure», 60 Prozent genötigte «Mitläufer» und 2 Prozent Verweigerer.
Rules of procedure: XIV. Admission of New Members to the United Nations
Applications
Rule 134
Any State which desires to become a Member of the United Nations shall submit an application to the Secretary-General. Such application shall contain a declaration, made in a formal instrument, that the State in question accepts the obligations contained in the Charter. [See introduction, para. 8]
Notification of applications
Rule 135
The Secretary-General shall, for information, send a copy of the application to the General Assembly, or to the Members of the United Nations if the Assembly is not in session. [See introduction, para. 8]
Consideration of applications and decision thereon
Rule 136
If the Security Council recommends the applicant State for membership, the General Assembly shall consider whether the applicant is a peace-loving State and is able and willing to carry out the obligations contained in the Charter and shall decide, by a two-thirds majority of the members present and voting, upon its application for membership.
Rule 137
If the Security Council does not recommend the applicant State for membership or postpones the consideration of the application, the General Assembly may, after full consideration of the special report of the Security Council, send the application back to the Council, together with a full record of the discussion in the Assembly, for further consideration and recommendation or report. [See introduction, para. 8]
Notification of decision and effective date of membership
Rule 138 PDF
The Secretary-General shall inform the applicant State of the decision of the General Assembly. If the application is approved, membership shall become effective on the date on which the General Assembly takes its decision on the application. [See introduction, para. 8]
Rules of procedure: I. Sessions
Rule 8
(a) Special sessions of the General Assembly shall be convened within fifteen days of the receipt by the Secretary-General of a request for such a session from the Security Council or from a majority of the Members of the United Nations or of the concurrence of a majority of Members as provided in rule 9.
(b) Emergency special sessions pursuant to General Assembly resolution 377 A (V) shall be convened within twenty-four hours of the receipt by the Secretary-General of a request for such a session from the Security Council, on the vote of any nine members thereof, or of a request from a majority of the Members of the United Nations expressed by vote in the Interim Committee or otherwise, or of the concurrence of a majority of Members as provided in rule 9.
Request by Members
Rule 9
(a) Any Member of the United Nations may request the Secretary-General to convene a special session of the General Assembly. The Secretary-General shall immediately inform the other Members of the request and inquire whether they concur in it. If within thirty days of the date of the communication of the Secretary-General a majority of the Members concur in the request, a special session of the General Assembly shall be convened in accordance with rule 8.
(b) This rule shall apply also to a request by any Member of the United Nations for an emergency special session pursuant to resolution 377 A (V). In such a case, the Secretary-General shall communicate with the other Members by the most expeditious means of communication available.
For the defenders of Israel‘s war on Gaza, the game is up
Staunch allies calling themselves friends of Israel are beginning to realise they are also friends of the murderers of western aid workers, friends of genocide and friends of fascism
Bundesregierung: Wir wissen nicht, wer iranisches Botschaftsgelände in Syrien angegriffen hat
(05.04.2024)
Bei der Regierungspressekonferenz am 3. April war auch der israelische Angriff gegen das iranische Botschaftsgelände in Damaskus, bei dem mindestens 13 Personen starben, darunter mehrere Diplomaten sowie der Brigadegeneral Mohammad Reza Zahedi und dessen Stellvertreter, ein Thema. Die Bundesregierung vertrat in der BPK die Linie, dass man nicht wisse, wer für die Tat verantwortlich sei, daher könnte man auch keine Wertung vornehmen. Dies, obwohl bereits einen Tag zuvor das US-Verteidigungsministerium offiziell eingeräumt hatte, dass es sich bei dem Militärschlag um eine israelische Operation gehandelt habe. Wohl einer der seltenen Fälle, in denen die Bundesregierung nicht der Einschätzung der USA folgt.
Israel and U.S. Are on Alert for Iran to Strike Back at Israel
U.S. officials in Washington and the Middle East said on Friday that they were bracing for possible Iranian retaliation for the Israeli airstrike on Monday in Damascus, Syria. U.S. military forces in the region have been placed on heightened alert.
Israeli strike on Iran’s consulate in Syria killed 2 generals and 5 other officers, Iran says
(02.04.2024)
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Israeli airstrike that demolished Iran’s consulate in Syria on Monday killed two Iranian generals and five officers, according to Iranian officials. The strike appeared to signify an escalation of Israel’s targeting of military officials from Iran, which supports militant groups fighting Israel in Gaza, and along its border with Lebanon.
Russia sees military coordination with Israel on Syria continuing
(February 26, 2022)
Following the 2015 Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war, Israel set up a „deconfliction mechanism“ with the big power to prevent them clashing inadvertently during Israeli strikes against Iranian deployments and arms transfers in the neighbouring Arab state.
„Our military officials discuss the practical issues of this substantively on a daily basis. This mechanism has proven to be useful and will continue to work,“ the Russian embassy in Israel said in a statement.
Russia sees military coordination with Israel on Syria continuing
(February 26, 2022)
Following the 2015 Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war, Israel set up a „deconfliction mechanism“ with the big power to prevent them clashing inadvertently during Israeli strikes against Iranian deployments and arms transfers in the neighbouring Arab state.
„Our military officials discuss the practical issues of this substantively on a daily basis. This mechanism has proven to be useful and will continue to work,“ the Russian embassy in Israel said in a statement.
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of America’s Post-9/11 Wars
(26.4.2018)
As Barbara Lee presciently warned her colleagues before she cast her lone dissenting vote in 2001, we have “become the evil we deplore.” But these wars have not been accompanied by fearsome military parades (not yet) or speeches about conquering the world. Instead they have been politically justified by “information warfare” to demonize enemies and fabricate crises, and then waged in a “disguised, quiet, media free” way, to hide their cost in human blood from the American public and the world.
After 16 years of war, about 6 million violent deaths, 6 countries utterly destroyed and many more destabilized, it is urgent that the American public come to terms with the true human cost of our country’s wars and how we have been manipulated and misled into turning a blind eye to them – before they go on even longer, destroy more countries, further undermine the rule of international law and kill millions more of our fellow human beings.
I sued the government over ‚extremism‘ and I know the game Gove is playing
The British public should realise that Muslim scapegoats today, much like the Jewish, Irish or Black scapegoats used by demagogues yesterday, are not their enemies
From February 22 to 26, 2024, Data for Progress conducted a survey of 1,232 U.S. likely voters nationally using web panel respondents.
1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president?
Strongly approve 18
Somewhat approve 21
Somewhat disapprove 16
Strongly disapprove 43
2. Some members of Congress recently proposed the Stop Politicians Profiting from War Act. This bill would ban members of Congress, their spouses, and dependents from trading stocks or having any financial interests in companies that have contracts with the Department of Defense.
Do you support or oppose this proposal?
Strongly support 61
Somewhat support 21
Somewhat oppose 7
Strongly oppose 3
Don‘t know 8
(…)
5. Do you support or oppose the U.S. calling for a permanent ceasefire and a de-escalation of violence in Gaza?
Strongly support 37
Somewhat support 30
Somewhat oppose 12
Strongly oppose 10
Don‘t know 11