Monatsarchive: Juli 2018

I love this photo! Look at Putin’s expression. What can he be thinking?

The Texan is here with his Ukrainian wife and her parents. They have traveled all over Europe: they have been to Italy, they have been to Greece. Oh, I ask, brightly, does he speak any other languages? Well she speaks … Weiterlesen →

This is the title of an article by David Swanson on CounterPunch today. Really. I kid you not. I read that, and read that again, and thought, by David friggin‘ Swanson. „Is So Great“. I am a long way from … Weiterlesen →

I liked the design of this monument, for a Christian populace. You can see the figure is splitting an atom. It’s a little cockeyed because I didn’t want to step off the walk. The grass is really covered with dog … Weiterlesen →

The Odessa Holocaust Museum is to Holocaust museums as the Odessa Holocaust Memorial is to Holocaust memorials. The entrance is via an alleyway. I stood waiting for the steel door within to open, stepped on something crunchy and looked down … Weiterlesen →

I’m sitting on a park bench looking at this memorial and pondering why I find it uncompelling. I think first off is the figures being smaller than lifesize on a large base detracts, rather than adds, to the monument’s effect. … Weiterlesen →

The mode that since the 1970s has underpinned the global political economy is that of neoliberalism or financialised capitalism, which since the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the ensuing recession has only become further entrenched, and has been assuming overtly … Weiterlesen →

Material on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in the US generally known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact, reminded me of museum displays in Lithuania, Belarus, and Moldova, and how while in the US WW II begins September 1, 1939, in Belarus and Russia … Weiterlesen →