Open Call for Dekoloniale Berlin 2023 | Berlin Art Link
Jan. 24, 2023 Dekoloniale Memory Culture in Berlin is inviting artists, architects, designers, directors, performers, fashion designers, writers and urban practitioners to apply for the Dekoloniale Berlin Residency 2023.During this year's exhibit, the cultural centre will examine the history of Berlin districts Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf, as well as the bordering parts of Schöneberg that used to be part of Charlottenburg.
Olaf Scholz: Putin has not achieved a single goal in Ukraine DW 12/14/2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin has failed in his mission to divide Europe, damage democracy and take Ukraine quickly, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told lawmakers in Berlin.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that Vladimir Putin had made a fundamental miscalculation by sending troops into Ukraine, adding that the Russian president had not achieved "a single goal" set before the attack.
Scholz: Putin has not achieved a single goal in Ukraine DW 12/14/2022
23 minutes ago23 minutes ago Russian President Vladimir Putin has failed in his mission to divide Europe, damage democracy and take Ukraine quickly, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told lawmakers in Berlin.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that Vladimir Putin had made a fundamental miscalculation by sending troops into Ukraine, adding that the Russian president had not achieved "a single goal" set before the attack.
How did people imagine Ukraine before Feb. 24, 2022?If pressed, some might have conjured mail-order brides and shaven-head gangsters roaming one big post-Soviet Chernobyl.But most probably didn't think even that; instead, they didn't imagine Ukraine at all.The country popped up on most people's radar only in connection to Western political scandals and Russian war making.
Daniel DePetris: On the Ukraine war, it's the West vs. the rest
From the moment Russian forces began their widespread missile barrage against Ukrainian targets in February, the United States and Europe have sought to rally the world on Ukraine's behalf.
Jim Mellen, an Original Member of the Militant Weathermen, Dies at 87
Jim Mellen, a Marxist former college professor and ideological firebrand who in the 1960s became a founding member and philosophical leader of the Weathermen, the headline-grabbing brigade of far-left revolutionaries, died on Feb. 17 at his home in Zirahuen, Mexico.He was 87.His wife, Terry Baumgart, said the cause was chronic pulmonary obstructive disease.
'Hijab Butch Blues' challenges stereotypes and upholds activist self-care
Binaries be damned: What if God is genderless?What if God is trans?In the new memoir Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H takes what Leslie Feinberg started in 1993 with Stone Butch Blues a complex depiction of gender and labor politics in 1970s-era America and makes it true and holy.To Lamya, God isn't a man or a woman.
Adam Carrington: New Zealand's sad, silly rejection of Shakespeare
"Thou art the cap of all the fools alive."So says Apemantus to the title character in the William Shakespeare play "Timon of Athens."He might also direct his insult at New Zealand's arts council.After 30 years, it has chosen to end government funding for Shakespeare in Schools, a program in which students interact with the Bard's works through acting, directing, costume design and other creative forms of engagement.
David Lammy attacks twisted lies' of Empire that turned millions into slaves
Labour would strengthen co-operation with the European Union with a new security pact to complement Nato's role, Mr Lammy added.We will seek to work with allies and partners to create a new international law of ecocide to criminalise the wanton and widespread destruction of the environment, Mr Lammy said.They were wrong in the 1990s with their endless damaging quarrels about Europe, Mr Lammy said.David Lammy has attacked the twisted lies of Empire that turned millions into slaves, in one of the fiercest condemnations by a senior British politician.
Latvian PM calls on EU to end all tourist visas for Russians
Latvia's prime minister, Krišjānis Kariņš, has called on EU leaders to stop all tourist visas for Russians, reigniting the debate about further tightening sanctions against Vladimir Putin's Russia.
France: No nation can stay 'indifferent' on Ukraine war
French President Emanuel Macron admonished countries Tuesday not to stay neutral about condemning Russia's war in Ukraine as he declared that Moscow's invasion amounts to a new form of imperialism.
No nation can stay indifferent on Ukraine war, Macron says
French president Emanuel Macron has told countries not to stay neutral about condemning Russia's war in Ukraine as he declared that Moscow's invasion amounts to a new form of imperialism.
France: No nation can stay 'indifferent' on Ukraine war
UNITED NATIONS - French President Emanuel Macron admonished countries Tuesday not to stay neutral about condemning Russia's war in Ukraine as he declared that Moscow's invasion amounts to a new form of imperialism.
The United States began in revolt against empire, answering the call of Thomas Paine: "O ye that love mankind!Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!" "Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.Freedom hath been hunted round the globe," Paine declared in Common Sense, his 48-page condemnation not just of King George III but of the whole business of colonialism.
How US Policy Has Trapped Migrant Workers in an "Open-Air Prison" in Mexico
I first met Jones Carme on an evening in March 2022.He was in front of his apartment on the outskirts of Tapachula, Mexico, a tropical city of some 350,000 people in Chiapas, just 20 minutes from the border with Guatemala.Tapachula was founded by the Aztecs in the 15th century, and just as it was then, the region today is an agricultural hub and a major producer of crops like corn, coffee, mangoes, and bananas.
Pentagon Leaders Admit Defense Funding "Wish Lists" Are a Bad Practice
Defense officials have been required to submit a budgetary "wish list" every year since 2017.Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks with reporters on her way to a closed-door lunch meeting with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2023, in Washington, D.C.Drew Angerer / Getty Images As the U.S. defense budget continues to soar to record heights, even the Pentagon is coming out against the requirement that defense officials submit mandatory funding "wish lists" each year, a practice that tacks on tens of billions of dollars to already sky-high budget requests.
Civil Rights Organizations File Amicus Brief in Support of EFF Lawsuit Against Discriminatory SFPD Surveillance
Intern Taylor Fox contributed to this blog post.At the height of the George Floyd protests in 2020, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) thousands of demonstrators in real time by using a business district's network of over 300 cameras.The SFPD targeted protests against police brutality led by Black people and other people of color, chilling future racial justice protests by making people less likely to come out in the future out of fear of reprisals from police.
A lieutenant for Suella Braverman? Back off everyone: that job has my name on it | Nels Abbey
Dear home secretary, Today's Politico politics briefing alerts me to the fact that you're looking for help on LinkedIn.There have been 92 applicants so far, apparently.But I'm sorry, that help is me.For it has been my lifelong dream to play a front-seat role in the debasing of British politics and expanding the reach of extreme conservatism.
France and Germany renew alliance strained amid war in Ukraine
France and Germany on Sunday committed to giving Ukraine "unwavering support" and to strengthening the European Union, as they sought to overcome differences over defence, energy and economic issues on the 60th anniversary of their post-Second World War friendship treaty.he German government's entire cabinet was in Paris for joint meetings with their French counterparts, and about 300 MPs from the two countries came together at the Sorbonne University during the day of ceremonies and talks.
Biden to rally world leaders against Russian attempts to annex Ukraine regions
Joe Biden will use his speech at the United Nations on Wednesday to rally the world to stand firm in the face of Russian plans to hold referendums in occupied parts of Ukraine and possibly introduce widespread conscription, which the US described as signs of desperation unlikely to halt Ukrainian military gains.
Macron says Russia's 'act of aggression' is undermining peace and calls 'neutral' nations complicit.
In some of his strongest remarks against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron of France called Moscow's war a return to "imperialism" in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Russian patriarch cancels event where he was to meet pope
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has cancelled his planned attendance at an interfaith meeting in Kazakhstan next month where he was expected to meet with Pope Francis, a top Orthodox official said.
he move is seen as a sign of further deterioration in relations over Russia's war in Ukraine.
Dessau: Lanzelot review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week
Paul Dessau was one of the most significant composers in the German Democratic Republic.Having grown up in Germany, Dessau spent the second world war years in the US, composing film scores before returning to the newly formed GDR in 1948, where he worked with Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble.Though his first opera, The Trial of Lucullus, was condemned by the Communist party for its formalism soon after its 1951 premiere, Dessau rapidly became an influential figure in the musical life of the GDR.
The Written World and the Unwritten World by Italo Calvino review exquisite flights of imagination
Italo Calvino, novelist, essayist, critic, editor, publisher, lived a life that seemed made of words.Like his Baron in the Trees, the legendary aristocrat who escaped in childhood to the upper canopy of a forest, he often seemed reluctant to be grounded on terra firma, much preferring flights of imagination.
American journalism reckons with its colonialist tendencies
I met a friend, David Cheruiyot, this fall on a conference trip in Denmark.During a walk across Aarhus, David remarked that the self-contained nature of American journalism often struck him as odd but funny.We mused how this quality in American journalism led it to assume that every American crisis is the world's crisis.
Tens of thousands of men have ended up in places like Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet territory, that normally see few refugees but are willing to take them.
Key points Sir Keir Starmer made in his Labour conference speech
Sir Keir Starmer (Peter Byrne/PA) Like in 1945, 1964 and 1997 this is a Labour moment where the party can provide the leadership this country so desperately needs.Sir Keir Starmer vowed to create a publicly-owned energy company, boost home ownership and create a more stable economy.The Labour Party is the credible alternative to the Tory Government, with Sir Keir vowing to get us out of this endless cycle of crisis.Here is a quick look at the key points Sir Keir made during his second in-person conference speech as Labour leader: A vow to set up a publicly-owned Great British Energy company within the first year of a Labour government, to provide jobs, growth and green power.
France's Macron urges world to put 'maximum pressure' on Putin
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 20, 2022.(Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)