April 11, 2019 It’s Friday, April 5, 2019, at 9 PM. An entertaining talk show, “Skavlan”. A dialogue between a prime minister and a special forces soldier who has no regret having kicked in doors and “killed a lot” in Afghanistan. He justifies himself by the most primitive and long-ago debunked theory about Good and Evil in this world. And then the prime minister expresses … Continue reading Denmark’s Prime Minister admires a killing soldier’s simplistic view of good and evil
Hillary Rodham Clinton was nominated last night by the Democratic Party as its candidate for the U.S. Presidency. She may well win on November 8.
What a tragedy for Western democracy that the leader of what is still called the free, democratic world cannot produce better candidates than Trump and Clinton through a disgustingly commercialized and corrupt political process where candidates like Jill Stein – did you ever hear of that candidate? – doesn’t have a chance because she cannot mobilize the funds.
As a European intellectual with a life-long commitment to peace and democracy, I find little reason to celebrate.
And why the total focus on a few individuals at the top but not the structures that will run them both, such as the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex (MIMAC); the cancer in many societies, including Russia, that President Eisenhower warned the world about in his farewell speech already in 1961?
How short the media memory! Hillary Clinton’s nomination celebrated all over the mainstream press as a victory for the party – preventing it from splitting – and for all women.
But how can people – women in particular – really believe in such genderism: that she will be a better president for the US and the world because she’s a woman? Hasn’t the world learnt anything from the inverse racism:that Obama would be a great presidentbecause he is black?
How blind the media to militarism, war and other violence: Not one media focuses on the Clinton’s well-documented fascination with violence and war.
It’s time to refresh the memory of the Clintons:
Bill Clinton’s record
From 1994 BC broke all promises made by his predecessors and other Western politician to Gorbachev about “not expanding NATO an inch”. He started out in Tblisi, Georgia. I happened to be there, spoke with the U.S. representative to the country and got a sense what was coming. Later too in Yugoslavia.
There is a straight line from that fatal arrogance to today’s Second Cold War in Europe, Ukraine having – predictably – to be the this-far-and-no-longer country of that mindless and reckless expansion that should never have happened.
Desværre havde hverken Politiken selv eller Berlingske Tidende plads til dette.
Af Jan Øberg, docent Den Transnationale Stiftelse for Freds- og Fremtidsforskning, TFF www.transnational.org
Udenrigsminister Villy Søvndal og MF Steen Gades kronik om at ”Vi har aldrig været tættere på verdensfreden” er selektiv og skæv i forhold til vores de facto problematiske verden. Den kan sikkert få mange danskere til at læne sig endnu mere tilbage i eskapismens hygge for den er jo lige til ”blib båt og gud hvor går det godt…”
OK de har helt ret at der gudskelov kan registreres forbedringer på en række sociale indikatorer som de også nævner. Det er resten, der bør skabe debat.
Den 19. december 2008 havde aviser og hjemmesider historien om de seneste tre dødsfald. Allerede den 20. om morgenen er de borte fra forsiderne. Ved søgning kan man dog læse at i alt 22 danske soldater indtil nu er blevet dræbt i Afghanistan. På Danmarks Radios hjemmeside står der:
Al Burke och jag har tagit initiativ till en ny debatt om förhållandet Sverige-NATO. Huvudsyftet är att föreslå en Medborgarkommission av intresserade och kunniga svenskar som ska utreda hur Sverige med tiden har kommit så nära NATO att många i dag argumenterar för att vi bör gå från förlovning till bröllop. Vad man än tycker om NATO så är det viktigt att säkerhetspolitiken skapas genom … Continue reading Stoppa Sveriges smyganslutning till NATO !
Den 4. oktober, udtalte forsvarsminister Søren Gade profetisk – Det er altid op til Folketinget at bestemme, om Danmark skal være der, men står det til mig, er vi også i Afghanistan om 10 år og stadig med et stort antal, siger Søren Gade til Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten.
TV-Avisen læste udtalelsen op uden én kommentar. Jeg tænkte at den nok lige var tikket ind og at udtalelsen ville skabe debat, nærmest et ramaskrig, de nærmeste dage.
