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vor gut zwei Jahren erlebt das Denken in rein militärischen Kategorien auch in der Bundesrepublik eine Renaissance. Dass kräftig aufgerüstet werden müsse, gilt als unumstößliche Tatsache. Ein sozialdemokratischer Verteidigungsminister will Deutschland wieder „kriegstüchtig“ machen. Ein grüner Wirtschaftsminister trifft sich mit den Chefs deutscher Rüstungsunternehmen zum „Austausch zu...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
difficult. Coalition between right and conservatives unlikely For the ruling Partido Socialista (PS), the elections were a clear defeat. Of the 41 percent that the Social Democratic Party won in the last parliamentary elections in 2022, just under 29 percent remained. The conservative party alliance Aliança Democrática achieved almost one percentage point more...
Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good
Parliament is now fully committed to nuclear energy. On Tuesday, a majority of MPs decided to build four new reactors - twice as many as the government wanted. The Greens, Social Democrats, the socialist SP and the Animal Welfare Party voted against it. Two of the new reactors will probably be located next to the only Dutch nuclear power plant in Borssele in the province of Zeeland...
also reflected in how disciplinedly controversial questions, contradictions and differences were excluded. It was a feel-good oasis for graying old leftists. As sympathetic as the longing for the social democratic peace and social policy of the 70s, which Oskar Lafontaine explicitly refers to, it is questionable whether that is enough to meet the challenges of the present....
Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?
Legislative proposals from Parliament and Senate stalled for the time being Javier Milei lives in a veritable parallel universe. He sees socialists everywhere and categorizes them as “collectivists” just like Christian or social democrats, Nazis or communists. For him, these are all those who attribute important functions to the state. With such an attitude you can fight against an unpopular...
Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support
because they set themselves up to be the AfD light, the alternative of the alternative: they copy their topics, but make them presentable, mainstream right-wing discourses and ideologically push the social democratic parties into a corner. The CDU needs the AfD as an ideological engine. The SPD and the Greens, on the other hand, would implode with a ban in the current mood -...
the policies of the Greens in this coalition. From the perspective of the emancipatory left, this can simply be described as catastrophic. [...] The social democratic lawyer H. Heller was one of the first to coin the term authoritarian liberalism as early as 1934: "As soon as the economy is discussed, the authoritarian state completely renounces its authority, and...
Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?
in the security forces, but apparently this is only directed against the planned amnesty in Catalonia, which is one of exiled President Puigdemont's conditions for supporting the Social Democrats. After several nights in which ultra-right-wing protesters besieged party offices of the Social Democrats (PSOE) in Spain, there have been violent riots since Monday, especially...
* SPD | profit | Lobbyists "The SPD primarily made politics for the top 10 percent" A few years ago, Marco Bülow was seen as the SPD's hope - as the face of a social democracy that does not submit to Merkel and the power. Then he left the SPD. Roberto De Lapuente spoke to him. De Lapuente: Mr. Bülow, when you left the SPD in 2018...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
but are now off the table. While Germany is thinking about ways to limit immigration, Denmark has long since taken action. Ironically, a social democratic government is pursuing what is probably the strictest immigration policy in Europe: When the social democrat Mette Frederiksen became party leader in 2015, she prescribed a new course for her party. Instead of...
merged to form the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") and agreed on the doctor Salvador Allende as candidate: Allende's Socialist Party, the Communist, the Radical and the Social Democratic Party as well as two left-wing splits from the Christian Democratic Party. In the election, Allende only received a relative majority over the conservative candidate Jorge Alessandri, but...
system as the source of their problems and wanted to destroy and overcome this system. But this does not apply to Arevalo or to Milei. "I see Arevalo as a social democrat who wants a capitalism that is more dominated by institutions and less by corruption." And the former presidents of the USA and Brazil, Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, are also...
Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years
voted for nature - the No camp, which campaigned for continued oil production, lost... * Guatemala | Elections | Corruption Guatemala: Arévalo defeats Pact of Corrupts Social Democrat wins runoff election in Guatemala against established candidate Sandra Torres Guatemala has made a decision: Hopeful Bernardo Arévalo wins with around 58 percent...
Republic, the Turkish parliament met on Tuesday for a special session during the summer break to debate an environmental conflict. At the request of the opposition social democratic CHP, the AKP parliamentary speaker had to call the meeting to debate the deforestation of a large forest area under which lignite would be mined...
Nuclear power was left out. Much to the dismay of nuclear power supporters, especially France. [...] However, on Tuesday things took a new turn. With the support of the Social Democrats (S&D), the Conservatives (EPP), the Nationalists (EKR) and the right-wing extremists (ID), Grudler and the supporters of nuclear power secured its inclusion in the uniform list of...
A marginal force in parliament with 3 percent of the vote, it suddenly achieved double-digit results of up to 1932 percent in state elections in Vienna, Lower Austria and Salzburg in 20. The Social Democrats, still the strongest party in parliament, were very concerned about what was happening in Germany. They tried in vain to give the Christian Socialists a common front against the Nazis in...
Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine
Percent of the original loan amount forgiven. For a house that achieves the best efficiency class of 40 after renovation, it is 20 percent... *** March 31st Call for Peace | Social Democrat | Olaf Scholz 200 Social Democrats for Peace Willy Brandt's son writes to Scholz While the Chancellor emphasized in his turnaround speech that since Russia's attack on Ukraine...
Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war
become. He reminds us that the USA went into the Second World War with fewer than 2000 aircraft and then built 300 by the end: something like that has to be achieved, says the Social Democrat. Ammunition is needed, whatever the cost – and that is: subito! Like in 000 And the Greens, who wanted to create peace without weapons for many years, let Sara Nanni, ombudsman of this...
So speed would be the order of the day, but instead a lot of time is wasted. Not even a speed limit on German motorways could be enforced... * Corruption | EU Parliament | Social Democrats | Morocco EU corruption case Eva Kaili: How "Qatargate" becomes "Moroccogate" According to investigators, the secret service and ambassadors of the authoritarian kingdom play a central role in...
the Ukraine war, idiotic logic in the media and a "fascist mood". The former candidate for chancellor and finance minister of the SPD, later a famous dropout from the Social Democrats and leading representative of the left, Oskar Lafontaine, may have written the most controversial book of this winter. Even the title “Ami, it’s time to go!” goes against the usual...
