SOURCE Expectations for the centenary memorial to mark the end of the First World War were always low. Long before the first jumbo-jets carrying world leaders and other dignitaries touched down in Paris, the event was already being discussed in terms that made it feel more like a G20 style summit than a legitimate event to mourn the veterans of the world’s most disastrous war. Yet even with these low expectations in mind, the event’s descent into the hellish pits of vulgarity could not have been fully anticipated. The morose spectacle of the progeny of the aggressive victors of the First World War acting as though there was anything remotely moral, ethical or righteous about their victory was enough to turn the stomach of the most well tempered observer of world events. Adding to this, the very presence of the Russian President was downright maddening as Russia was utterly destroyed by the events following from the country’s undignified exit from the First World War and entry into a blood-soaked civil conflict whose aftermath haunts much of western Eurasia and eastern Europe to this day. To this day, millions of Russians around the world are refugees as a result of the … Continue reading
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-adl-and-kkk-born-of-the-same-murder-100-years-ago/?fbclid=IwAR1cBRT9ZRY15bKH3_us3bddC7Ug4GH00HUvzH0inrnmGOX29XMAm_yiLYo https://forward.com/culture/books/375506/musical-sparks-fresh-tensions-with-blacks-over-infamous-leo-frank-case/ The importance of the Leo Frank case is not just historical. It seems to have marked a turning point. With the founding of the Anti-Defamation League in 1913 Jews in America stopped being simply white people (mostly) and became, as it were, Jews. The evidence that Frank was guilty of murder seems very strong, and he was indeed convicted and sentenced to hang, by a jury including a number of prominent American Jews. But this is not accepted, or is at least pushed under the carpet as “irrelevant”, by the Anti-Defamation League, by Frank’s wealthy Jewish supporters of the time and more or less by the subsequent “historical record”. His supporters’ initial attempts to play the anti-Negro racist card in Atlanta, against all the odds, were not working and it became necessary to detect anti-Semitism behind accusations against Frank. This did not save Frank: his sentence was commuted but he was lynched by what are now called the “deplorables”. The lynching was meant as a lesson to interfering Yankees but, it seems, also reflected genuine moral outrage. Frank nevertheless went on to become “a martyr” and the Anti-Defamation-League commenced a successful career as a lobby willing and able … Continue reading
SOURCE The results of last weekend’s elections in the German state of Hesse have been getting quite a run in mainstream media. The sharp losses suffered by both parties in the Grand Coalition, the Socialists (SPD) and Merkel’s center-right CDU, finally delivered the decisive push that spells the end the reign of the iron lady in Berlin. Not immediately, but in the very foreseeable future, depending on who is elected to replace her at the head of her party in December. Otherwise commentators have called attention to the beneficiaries of the waning strength at the center: the Greens on the Left, and more particularly the Alternativ fuer Deutschland (AfD) on the Right. While the Greens are a long known quantity in German politics by their participation in the coalitions governing several Laender, the AfD is a relative newcomer and analysts noted with anxiety that the latest election returns now put AfD deputies in all of the German federal states, making it finally a nationwide party and eventual claimant to ministerial portfolios following the next German elections which might come already in 2019. What we hear about the AfD in mainstream media tends to be condescending, at best, scornful more commonly. The party’s … Continue reading
Ο Raul “Ilargi” Meijer μιλάει για τον Julian Assange Ο Δήμαρχος Δημήτριος Μούρτζης μιλάει για την Αίγινα, την Ευρώπη των Πολιτών, την ημερομηνία 26η Ιανουαρίου, τον Τζούλιαν Ασάνζ Καποδίστριας-Σπινέλι-Ευρώπη (βίντεο) Συνέλευση Ανεξάρτητων Πολιτών Έκτακτη εκπομπή με την Αντιγόνη Λυμπεράκη Ο Καποδίστριας ως Διπλωμάτης (Παναγιώτης Πασπαλιάρης) Αποκαλυπτήρια προτομής του Ι. Καποδίστρια στη Λωζάννη ΕΠΙΦΥΛΑΚΗ – Μια εικαστική παρέμβαση στο Καποδιστριακό Ορφανοτροφείο Αίγινας Ο Καποδίστριας στην Ελβετία Ο Θεμελιωτής της Ευρωπαϊκής Ιδέας Ο ευεργέτης της Γαλλίας 26 Ιανουαρίου, επέτειος της ορκωμοσίας του Ιωάννη Καποδίστρια στην Αίγινα (26-1-1828). Ημέρα ίδρυσης του νεοελληνικού κράτους. Καποδίστριας, Σπινέλι – Στράτος Πανταβός Σπινέλι – Ιωάννης Κοκκάλας ο μανιφέστο του Α. Σπινέλι … Continue reading
Unity for Assange’s Plight Is Necessary to Build a Movement for Democracy Assange: Last interview before blackout Spinelli: How European are the Italian Communists? Raul Ilargi Meijer on Julian Assange Function of honour and tribute at monument in Tourlos to the executed political prisoners Ioannis Capodistrias, guardian angel of independence of the Vaud Interview with Mikael Book on Nuclear Weapons A Treatise on European Government, on a constitution and the transnational The Role of Altiero Spinelli on the Path towards European Union DiEM25 in the footsteps of Altiero Spinelli EPIFYLAKI: A visual exhibit at the Capodistrian Orphanage in Aegina AEGINA (introduction to the 3-volume history by Georgia Koulikourdi) International Conference: “Capodistrias – Spinelli – Europe” Against Spinelli Dimitris Kazakis For Spinelli Mikael Book Altiero Spinelli’s Testament … Continue reading