Author Archives: Michael Wehle

Wake them all up! And what if they start to swear at me? Our duty is to let everyone know – let them swear. Tell them that I told you to wake them. One must have a conscience. —Chingiz Aitmatov, … Continue reading →

Ingar Solty, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: Die politische Klasse hat die Gewissheit verbreitet, dass der ökonomisch, militärisch und natürlich auch zivilisatorisch haushoch überlegene demokratische Westen der Gerechtigkeit in diesem Krieg leicht zum Sieg verhelfen könne – und zugleich die paradoxe Ideologie, das … Continue reading →

Wikipedia: It is farther from the sea than any other individual country … Kyrgyzstan is occasionally referred to as “the Switzerland of Central Asia”. Peak Jengish Chokusu, at 7,439 m (24,406 ft), is the highest point and is considered by … Continue reading →

Maria Stepanova, Equator: My task is to understand and to analyse what is happening today in Russia – and in the wider world (which is gleefully following in Russia’s stead). This task still seems vital to me, although I know … Continue reading →

Craig Murray: Abandoning the primacy of freedom of navigation is absolutely a radical policy departure for the UK – driven, like so many other changes to traditional British legal positions, by the Starmer regime’s extreme support for Israel. … The … Continue reading →

On the Straßenbahn this morning.

Regime and personal survival are often overlooked as pundits and scholars alike try to build elaborate models of an ideology that drives Russia’s elite. But all the way back to the first unfairly contested reelection of Putin in 2005, perpetuating … Continue reading →

Therefore, to make the theoretical assumption that criminal groups do something other than commit crimes, that law enforcement agencies do something other than enforce laws, and that there is no hierarchy among coercive agencies is to posit a Hobbesian state … Continue reading →

Russia is in fact the posterchild for full-blown authoritarian neoliberalism and in many respects the neoconservative and neo-traditionalist discourse emanating from the center is intended to distract and displace opposition within the country to the terrible life-chances of all but … Continue reading →