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Die FAZ beim Leichenfleddern, holt einen toten, vertriebenen Juden heim ins Reich.

How the prudent wording of a Russian victory in Ukraine reads, FTFirst:

Under cover journalism.

Under the cover of a misleading headline the journalist does his daily work, concluding: “A lot of stuff in the E.U. is not about Russia, the war or defense, and for these issues the balance of power hasn’t changed so much,” he said. “France and Germany are still pretty central to these economic debates.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/world/europe/eu-nato-power-ukraine-war.html

Why Europe is doomed to toe the American line.

Chomsky says: "If Europe strikes out on its own, it will come as a radical reorientation of the world system." So, what's holding up this “radical reorientation”?
Listening to Adam Tooze on the Eurotrash podcast, you get a first answer. Talking about the cultural/professional background of the European elite, Tooze has this to say about the German “elite”: “a coalition of medium-sized businesses and conservative lawyers and a bunch of provincial universities”.
Tooze also says the Germans have no significant presence in internation institutions and very often don’t show up, to the great frustration of other participants, in international meetings.

 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-8-euro-part-2-75842366

Angela “buying-time” Merkel.

Could there have been a more foolish intent? Buying time for Ukraine to be slaughtered. But the

unintended consequences a far worse: Europe’s condition downgraded from ally to vassal, a vassal without energy, raw materials and export markets; Russia with a strengthened sense of nation and Asia closer to Russia.

 

Kurdistan.

The Syrian government source told The Cradle there is growing conviction that Washington’s intentions are to continue using Kurdish divisions and separatist goals to maintain political instability in Syria for many years to come, and to keep the country hostage to international and regional ambitions and to post-war chaos.

Drowning in debt is different from drowning in water.

Money and the climate crisis, Panel with

Adam Tooze | Columbia University

Avinash Persaud | High Level Expert Group on Climate Finance, Special Envoy to the Prime Minister of Barbados

Anna Gelpern | Georgetown University

Brad Setser | Council on Foreign Relations

Mona Ali | SUNY New Paltz

Rishikesh Ram Bhandary | BU Global Development Policy Center

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ94Q3a8Tg0

Big Pharma theft.

"Data for the 474 corporations included in the S&P 500 Index in January 2022 and publicly traded from 2012 through 2021 reveal that these corporations distributed $5.7 trillion as share repurchases during the 2012-2021 fiscal years, representing 55 percent of net income, and $4.2 trillion as dividends, an additional 41 percent of net income (see Table 1). The vast majority (we estimate about 95 percent of the total) of the share repurchases were done as open-market repurchases (OMRs) of common shares, the purpose of which is to manipulate the company’s stock price."

 

Three actions to curb Pharma excess profits:

1. Ban stock buybacks

2. Disconnect executive pay form stock-price performance

3. Place stakeholder reps on corporate boards

4. Reform the corporate tax system

5. Support collective and cumulative care

 

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/sick-with-shareholder-value-us-pharmas-financialized-business-model-during-the-pandemic

Glenn Greenwald on why MSM fails us.

https://greenwald.locals.com/upost/3173605/system-update-join-us-tonight-12-7-at-7pm-et