When one listens to Republicans spouting crap, one can quickly see how China will soon be in pole position geopolitically. Americans are doing this to themselves. – © Mark Alexander
Friday, June 02, 2023
The Lincoln Project: Indictment Requiem
When one listens to Republicans spouting crap, one can quickly see how China will soon be in pole position geopolitically. Americans are doing this to themselves. – © Mark Alexander
Democracy Now! Top US & World Headlines — June 2, 2023
En Ouganda, le président promulgue une loi anti-LGBT+, accusée de violer « de manière flagrante les droits humains »
LE MONDE : Dans la nouvelle version du texte, une disposition fait de « l’homosexualité aggravée » un crime capital, passible d’une condamnation à mort. Plus tôt cette année, l’ONU avait dénoncé un « texte discriminatoire, probablement le pire au monde en son genre ».
Le président ougandais, Yoweri Museveni, a promulgué une loi anti-LGBT+ prévoyant de lourdes peines pour les relations homosexuelles et la « promotion » de l’homosexualité, a annoncé, lundi 29 mai, la présidence. Ce texte avait suscité l’indignation de nombreuses organisations non gouvernementales et des menaces de gouvernements occidentaux.
« Le président a approuvé le projet de loi anti-homosexualité 2023. Il devient désormais la loi anti-homosexualité 2023 », a annoncé la présidence ougandaise dans un bref communiqué publié sur son compte Twitter officiel. » | Le Monde avec AFP | lundi 29 mai 2023
Ugandas Präsident unterzeichnet Anti-LGBTQ-Gesetz: Anfang Mai hatte das Parlament das umstrittene Gesetz auf den Weg gebracht. Es erklärt „schwere Homosexualität“ zu einem Kapitalverbrechen, für das die Todestrafe drohen kann. »
Le président ougandais, Yoweri Museveni, a promulgué une loi anti-LGBT+ prévoyant de lourdes peines pour les relations homosexuelles et la « promotion » de l’homosexualité, a annoncé, lundi 29 mai, la présidence. Ce texte avait suscité l’indignation de nombreuses organisations non gouvernementales et des menaces de gouvernements occidentaux.
« Le président a approuvé le projet de loi anti-homosexualité 2023. Il devient désormais la loi anti-homosexualité 2023 », a annoncé la présidence ougandaise dans un bref communiqué publié sur son compte Twitter officiel. » | Le Monde avec AFP | lundi 29 mai 2023
Ugandas Präsident unterzeichnet Anti-LGBTQ-Gesetz: Anfang Mai hatte das Parlament das umstrittene Gesetz auf den Weg gebracht. Es erklärt „schwere Homosexualität“ zu einem Kapitalverbrechen, für das die Todestrafe drohen kann. »
Anti-LGBTQ+ Law in Uganda That Threatens the Death Penalty Sparks International Outcry
Uganda's Museveni Defends Anti-LGBTQ Law
Thursday, June 01, 2023
Putin, der Präsident im Kokon
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Für Russlands Präsidenten häufen sich die schlechten Nachrichten. Er gibt sich unbeeindruckt. Doch sein Bild der Stärke bekommt immer mehr Risse.
Die Einschläge kommen immer näher, immer schneller. Doch Wladimir Putin reagiert auf die wiederholten Einfälle Bewaffneter ins Grenzgebiet zur Ukraine und auf Drohnenangriffe, mittlerweile sogar auf Moskau, demonstrativ gelassen. Oft schweigt Russlands Präsident schlicht, jedenfalls nach außen. » | Von Friedrich Schmidt, Politischer Korrespondent für Russland und die GUS. | Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2023
Jordan: Royal Wedding: Crown Prince Hussein Marries Rajwa Al Saif
Royal fever sweeps Jordan ahead of crown prince's wedding: Photos of bridal party of Crown Prince Hussein’s fiancee, Rajwa Al Saif, go viral as celebrations break from modest traditions »
EN FRANÇAIS :
Au cœur du mariage du prince Hussein de Jordanie et Rajwa Al Saif : récit d’une journée historique »
Brexit Will Be Known as ‘Historic Economic Error’, Says Former US Treasury Secretary
THE GUARDIAN: Larry Summers says departure from EU ‘contributed to higher inflation’ and calls economic policy ‘substantially flawed’
Larry Summers told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme Brexit has ‘reduced the competitiveness of the UK economy’. Photograph: Manuel Bruque/EPA
Brexit will be remembered as a “historic economic error”, which damaged the UK economy and has helped to drive inflation higher, according to the former US treasury secretary Larry Summers.
Singling out Britain’s departure from the EU as a factor for higher costs, Summers also criticised the UK’s economic policy as “substantially flawed for some years”.
Brexit “reduced the competitiveness of the UK economy, put downwards pressure on the pound and upwards pressure on prices, limited imports of goods and limited in some ways the supply of labour,” Summers told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“All of which contributed to higher inflation,” he added. » | Joanna Partridge | Thursday, June 1, 2023
The Tories once had a fine reputation for being the Party to trust with the economy. Alas, this is no longer the case. The UK economy is no longer safe in the hands of Tories. Brexit has put paid to that notion. – © Mark Alexander
Brexit will be remembered as a “historic economic error”, which damaged the UK economy and has helped to drive inflation higher, according to the former US treasury secretary Larry Summers.
Singling out Britain’s departure from the EU as a factor for higher costs, Summers also criticised the UK’s economic policy as “substantially flawed for some years”.
Brexit “reduced the competitiveness of the UK economy, put downwards pressure on the pound and upwards pressure on prices, limited imports of goods and limited in some ways the supply of labour,” Summers told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“All of which contributed to higher inflation,” he added. » | Joanna Partridge | Thursday, June 1, 2023
The Tories once had a fine reputation for being the Party to trust with the economy. Alas, this is no longer the case. The UK economy is no longer safe in the hands of Tories. Brexit has put paid to that notion. – © Mark Alexander
Reverse Culture Shocks! Revisiting the UK from Germany
"Harry's a Hostage!" Panel Debate Prince Harry's Fight to Stay in the US
May 31, 2023 | |Piers Morgan Uncensored presented by Rosanna Lockwood is joined by foreign policy analyst Nile Gardiner, author and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer and former Head of Royal Protection Dai Davies to discuss Prince Harry's claims of a US Visa being challenged in court after admitting to taking illegal drugs in his book 'Spare'.
Bonnie believes that Harry is becoming a hostage in the middle of this dispute and thinks Homeland Security are right to seal the private documents, despite demands for the records to be public.
Dai also adds that he believes that the Duke of Sussex would be 'foolish' to admit on the witness stand that he has taken a variety of drugs on a regular basis.
Bonnie believes that Harry is becoming a hostage in the middle of this dispute and thinks Homeland Security are right to seal the private documents, despite demands for the records to be public.
Dai also adds that he believes that the Duke of Sussex would be 'foolish' to admit on the witness stand that he has taken a variety of drugs on a regular basis.
Conflict with the Far Right Shrouds Jerusalem’s Pride Parade
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Much of Israel’s L.G.B.T.Q. community feels threatened by the right-wing government and its judicial overhaul plan — even with a gay speaker of Parliament.
The pride parade last year in Jerusalem. | Atef Safadi/EPA, via Shutterstock
One ultraconservative member of the Israeli government had pledged to abolish the Jerusalem Pride and Tolerance Parade. Another far-right minister with a history of homophobia, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who now oversees the police, is tasked with securing it.
The Jerusalem parade is normally a relatively staid annual tradition. But the event on Thursday is taking place at a fraught moment, five months after the most hard-line and religiously conservative government in Israel’s history took power.
L.G.B.T.Q. activists have reported a sharp increase in anti-gay abuse and violence in Israel in recent months, and say that they are expecting a large turnout for this year’s parade and bracing for possible violence.
Lehava, an extremist organization led by one of Mr. Ben-Gvir’s longtime associates, has planned a counter-demonstration nearby against what it calls the “abomination parade.” Lehava, which promotes strict separation of Jews and non-Jews, has been described by groups promoting religious tolerance as inciting ethnic hatred and even violence, and its leader has called for the expulsion of Christians from Israel. » | Isabel Kershner | Thursday, June 1, 2023
One ultraconservative member of the Israeli government had pledged to abolish the Jerusalem Pride and Tolerance Parade. Another far-right minister with a history of homophobia, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who now oversees the police, is tasked with securing it.
The Jerusalem parade is normally a relatively staid annual tradition. But the event on Thursday is taking place at a fraught moment, five months after the most hard-line and religiously conservative government in Israel’s history took power.
L.G.B.T.Q. activists have reported a sharp increase in anti-gay abuse and violence in Israel in recent months, and say that they are expecting a large turnout for this year’s parade and bracing for possible violence.
Lehava, an extremist organization led by one of Mr. Ben-Gvir’s longtime associates, has planned a counter-demonstration nearby against what it calls the “abomination parade.” Lehava, which promotes strict separation of Jews and non-Jews, has been described by groups promoting religious tolerance as inciting ethnic hatred and even violence, and its leader has called for the expulsion of Christians from Israel. » | Isabel Kershner | Thursday, June 1, 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Erdoğan Re-elected to 5 More Years in Turkey as His Government Grows More Authoritarian & Nationalist
Ugandan Rights Activist: US Conservatives Exported Anti-LGBTQ Hate That Led to "Kill the Gays" Law
Wohlstand für alle: Wie gerecht ist die Vermögensverteilung in Deutschland? | Kontext
Across Europe, the Far Right Is Rising. That It Seems Normal Is All the More Terrifying
THE GUARDIAN – OPINION: Austria, France, Germany, Sweden and now Spain – the firewall between the mainstream and the far right is crumbling
Normalisation is the process by which something unusual or extreme becomes part of the everyday. What once provoked horror and outrage soon barely registers. The way the presence of Donald Trump became a mere fact of political life is perhaps the most familiar example. But the normalisation of the far right is happening across the democratic world.
Once Trump became “normal”, events that seemed even more extreme did too. A 2022 survey found that two in five Americans thought civil war was “at least somewhat likely” in the next decade. One political scientist speaks of the possibility of rightwing dictatorship in the US by 2030.
The same creep of normalisation is happening in European politics. At the turn of the millennium, when Austria’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) – led by Jörg Haider, who had made comments suggesting he was sympathetic to the Nazi regime – entered a coalition with the conservative People’s party, mass protests not only erupted in Vienna but across Europe and in the US. The EU even imposed diplomatic sanctions on Austria. It was understood that an important red line had been crossed; that given Europe’s blood-soaked history, the far right had to be kept firmly outside the tent. » | Owen Jones | Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Normalisation is the process by which something unusual or extreme becomes part of the everyday. What once provoked horror and outrage soon barely registers. The way the presence of Donald Trump became a mere fact of political life is perhaps the most familiar example. But the normalisation of the far right is happening across the democratic world.
Once Trump became “normal”, events that seemed even more extreme did too. A 2022 survey found that two in five Americans thought civil war was “at least somewhat likely” in the next decade. One political scientist speaks of the possibility of rightwing dictatorship in the US by 2030.
The same creep of normalisation is happening in European politics. At the turn of the millennium, when Austria’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) – led by Jörg Haider, who had made comments suggesting he was sympathetic to the Nazi regime – entered a coalition with the conservative People’s party, mass protests not only erupted in Vienna but across Europe and in the US. The EU even imposed diplomatic sanctions on Austria. It was understood that an important red line had been crossed; that given Europe’s blood-soaked history, the far right had to be kept firmly outside the tent. » | Owen Jones | Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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