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Feuilletons 30.12.2013 […] wie ihren Vater zu glorifizieren: "So here's the deal. You people are dangerous. Your film is a reckless attempt at continuing to pretend that these sorts of schemes are entertaining, even as the country is reeling from yet another round of Wall Street scandals. We want to get lost in what? These phony financiers' fun sexcapades and coke binges? Come on, we know the truth. This kind of behavior brought […]
Feuilletons 27.12.2013 […] absence was marked by the empty chair he should have been sitting in. Uttering his name is in itself a political act. Perry Link, an eminent American China scholar long blacklisted from re-entering the country, writes that academic colleagues do not mention Mr Liu for fear of jeopardising their ability to work in China. As our Banyan columnist points out in this week's print edition, his name has moved far […]
Feuilletons 06.12.2013 […] Times zum Tod Nelson Mandelas vorbereitet. Bill Keller schreibt: "Except for a youthful flirtation with black nationalism, he seemed to have genuinely transcended the racial passions that tore at his country. Some who worked with him said this apparent magnanimity came easily to him because he always regarded himself as superior to his persecutors." Schon im letzten Jahr brachte Toby Ash in Salon ein […]
Feuilletons 06.12.2013 […] Abkommen mit der EU nicht zu unterzeichnen: "If this is a revolution, it must be one of the most common-sense revolutions in history. But the desire of so many to be able to have normal lives in a normal country is opposed by two fantasies, one of them now exhausted and the other extremely dangerous. The exhausted fantasy is that of Ukraine's geopolitical significance. Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych […] an interest in controlling it, and therefore that smart geopolitics involves turning them against each other. (...) The dangerous fantasy is the Russian idea that Ukraine is not really a different country, but rather a kind of slavic younger brother. This is a legacy of the late Soviet Union and the russification policies of the 1970s. It has no actual historical basis..." […]
Feuilletons 04.12.2013 […] durch britische Parlamentarier. Eine Frage lautete glatt: "Do you love this country?" Rubridgers Antwort: "I'm slightly surprised to be asked the question but yes, we are patriots and one of the things we are patriotic about is the nature of democracy, the nature of a free press and the fact that one can in this country discuss and report these things." We should look at the content of the Snowden […]
Feuilletons 02.12.2013 […] die Briten sich immer mehr den Amerikanern zuwenden. Das ist nicht neu, "but what's news is the sentiment in Europe, where voters are indifferent-to-hostile to the UK, and seemingly prepared for the country to make an exit from the European Parliament. Only 9% of Germans and 15% of French voters polled think that the UK is a force for good in the EU (Poles were more bullish, but still decidedly lacklustre […]
Feuilletons 21.11.2013 […] the main two partners in the 'Five-Eyes' intelligence-sharing alliance, which also includes Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Until now, it had been generally understood that the citizens of each country were protected from surveillance by any of the others." Gespeichert werden Handy- und Faxnummern, Mail- und IP-Adressen britischer Bürger. "The NSA has been using the UK data to conduct so-called 'pattern […]
Feuilletons 20.11.2013 […] The world's richest oil baron is arguing that billionaires should literally be able to buy more votes. A reverend is warning that John F. Kennedy's presidency will lead to Catholic domination of the country. Lee Harvey Oswald is plotting his assassinations..." Die Aushebelung nationaler Datenschutzgesetze durch die international schamlos operierende NSA könnte zur Renationalisierung der Datensammmelei […]
Feuilletons 02.11.2013 […] direct taps into fibre optic cables and the development of covert relationships with telecommunications companies. A loose but growing eavesdropping alliance has allowed intelligence agencies from one country to cultivate ties with corporations from another to facilitate the trawling of the web, according to GCHQ documents leaked by the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden." (Eine Zusammenfassung […]
Feuilletons 27.09.2013 […] Workers described being forced to work in 50 C heat without a supply of drinking water by employers who withhold salaries for several months and retain their passports to prevent them leaving the country. The investigation found sickness is endemic among workers living in overcrowded and insanitary conditions, and hunger has been reported." […]
Feuilletons 07.09.2013 […] not kidnap or attack or maim anyone,' they wrote. 'And yet, he is hunted and cornered like a terrorist. Why? Because he revealed an inconvenient truth about the activities of the authorities of his country. He revealed to the world that the American government systematically controls the behavior of millions of his [fellow] citizens through mass registering and listening to their telephone, Skype, Facebook […]
Feuilletons 31.08.2013 […] Johnson in Lao Shes im Original Mitte der dreißiger Jahre veröffentlichter Science-Fiction-Roman "Cat Country", der demnächst auf Englisch erscheint. Es ist "one of the most remarkable, perplexing, and prophetic novels of modern China. On one level it is a work of science fiction - a visit to a country of cat-like people on Mars - that lampoons 1930s China. On a deeper level, the work predicts the terror […] terror and violence of the early Communist era and the chaos and brutality that led to Lao She's death at the Lake of Great Peace. 'Cat Country' is often called a dystopian novel, but when Lao She took his own life, it was an uncannily accurate portrait of the reality around him." […]
Feuilletons 27.08.2013 […] Sehr entschieden klingt Tim Parks' neuer Blogeintrag über Italien im NYRblog: "Vote me out of jail, or I will bring the country down with me. This, essentially, is the message Silvio Berlusconi -four-time prime minister, owner of the country's three main commercial TV channels, criminal defendant many times over - has just sent to the Italian government, one that clarifies at last the exact nature […]
Feuilletons 24.07.2013 […] aufhört: "Die 'Last Night of the Proms' mit ihrem 'Land of Hope and Glory', Royal Ascot, die Henley Regatta, Wimbledon, das Bootsrennen zwischen Cambridge und Oxford, Gurkensandwiches und Pimm's. Country-Idyll und Großstadtfeier. Die Beatles." Besprochen werden die Ausstellung "Tanz & Tod" im Kasseler Museum für Sepulkralkultur, die Ausstellung "Utopie beginnt um Kleinen" der Triennale Kleinplastik […]
Feuilletons 22.07.2013 […] aber vieles aus den Finger gesogen hatte). Abseits der hochentwickelten, progressiven Zentren hat Mak viel Resignation erlebt: "Das gilt vor allem für das Durchschnittsamerika, das ländliche Fly-over-Country, durch das ich vornehmlich gereist bin. Da ist die Infrastruktur oft auf dem Stand eines Entwicklungslands. Und das Problem ist, dass die meisten Amerikaner keine Ahnung haben, wie unterentwickelt […]
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