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Kant and the current Ukrainian conflict

Boyan Stanislavski
Democracy
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Has a rational person the right to declare that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was an act of unprovoked aggression? Yes and no. It all depends on how you look at it. The systematics of...

Feminazis & Fuckilates – The Language of German Neo-Nazis

Thomas Klikauer
Germamy
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It is not uncommon for the radical right to use specific terms, hateful words, and a kind of ideologically-shaped terminologies. At times, it is rather an antiquated language. Germany’s right-wing extremists are no different in this. More...

Ukrainian counteroffensive: a sign of things to come?

For the first time since February 24, Ukrainian troops with NATO support have achieved tactical success, and on a rather unexpected scale. President Zelensky was able to announce the recapture of the town of Balakleya...

What a witty terrorist attack! Only for a good laugh!

Maciej Wiśniowski
Opinions & comments
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The disgusting cheering and joking reactions of the Polish public to the murder of Daria Dugina must have shocked anyone with even a smidgeon of morals. They are, however, not novel. After a car blew...

West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulati..

Jake Kallio and Benjamin Norton
Analysis & reports
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Western governments and corporations met in Switzerland to plan harsh neoliberal economic policies to impose on post-war Ukraine, calling to cut labor laws, “open markets,” drop tariffs, deregulate industries, and “sell state-owned enterprises to private...

The Supreme Court’s Long March towards the Republic of Gilead

Thomas Klikauer
Gender issues
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The Republic of Gilead is a fictional destination of a crypto-fascistoid state – showing signs of becoming fascistic without yet being fascist – where religio-fundamentalism has mutated into a Divine Republic. The Republic of Gilead is part of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, The...

How toxic universities kick people out

Thomas Klikauer
Analysis & reports
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Many, if not most, universities have become managed, neo-liberalized, managerialized, and very toxic places. Since the advent of neoliberalism – when Thatcher ‘married’ Reagan during the 1980s and this ideology infected universities – university apparatchiks [аппаратчик] have been working very...

France at war

Jerzy Szygiel
Democracy
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“I am confident that Ukraine will turn things around and win this war. This will happen in the next few weeks. We don't brag about our accomplishments, but rest assured that you will hear about...

German capitalism needs its Green Party

Thomas Klikauer
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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And there is nothing new about this. During the previous participation by the Greens in a coalition with the SPD, from 1998 to 2005, the Greens were just as neo-liberal and war-mongering as this time....

From Belarus, with love…

Maciej Wiśniowski
Belarus
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A postcard from Minsk. The sculpture Unbowed Man by Sergei Selikhanov at the Khatyn Memorial site in Belarus. It depicts Yuzif Kaminsky, the only adult to survive the Khatyn massacre of March 22 1943, in...