Monatsarchive: August 2024

The best criterion by which to decide whether someone has been forced outside the pale of the law is to ask if he would benefit by committing a crime. If a small burglary is likely to improve his legal position, … Weiterlesen →

Wolfgang Streeck, reviewing Ronen Steinke’s »Verfassungsschutz: Wie der Geheimdienst Politik macht«: Maaßen made public the notes for a speech he had given at a secret international meeting of domestic intelligence services. In them he claimed that the SPD, Merkel’s coalition … Weiterlesen →

On Nov. 9, the day after Donald J. Trump shocked the world, Larry Coryell was sitting in his Orlando home, cussing out the president-elect, fuming about the outcome of the election and plotting an exit strategy for himself and his … Weiterlesen →

Robert McNamara: On August 4th, it was reported another attack occurred. It was not clear then that that attack had occurred. We made every possible effort to determine whether it had or not. I was in direct communication with the … Weiterlesen →

Die Zeit:

The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man It is almost impossible even now to describe what actually happened in Europe on August 4, 1914. The days before and the days after the first World … Weiterlesen →

And yet who was to control the controllers? The Bolshevik leaders assumed that things would be fine so long as public institutions, especially the control organs, drew their personnel mainly from Bolsheviks and pro-Bolshevik workers. But how were the leaders … Weiterlesen →

Seymour Hersh: At 6 am or so, Calley told me that his much admired company captain, a guy named Ernest Medina, who was known to his troops, I would later learn, as “Mad Dog Medina,” was also at Fort Benning … Weiterlesen →