European Union:
The Destructive
Work of Sanctions
The economic outlook for Europe's economy is devastating. Numerous companies are under massive pressure to withdraw from Russia. American elite universities like Yale and Stanford are at the forefront. Under the pretext of "science", they are preparing the ground for an economic raid in Europe.
This analysis was first published on picreadi.com and Meeting Russia Blog.
Climate change and the Ukraine conflict are being used as a pretext
to declare a state of energy emergency in the European Union. This time,
Europe is paying with inflation, recession, creeping expropriation and
impoverishment. However, it is more about securing the energy needs of
the technostructure so that it can further develop its instruments
of domination.
This analysis was first published on picreadi.com and Meeting Russia Blog.
Assuming that the fundamental necessity for (cultural) evolutionary processes exists in communication and cooperation, then within a political system - but also between political systems - the primary task for politicians is communication on a rational, evidence-based basis and cooperation with the aim of reconciling interests as far as possible without the use of violence.
A summary of this Fractal Longread was first published on picreadi.com.
Today, immunisation against the
rational discourse is once again taking place through political and religious
dogmas. The new media supports the (re)production of simple political
explanations. In the globalised digitised world, the answer to political
propaganda and monopolistic opinion spread by empires and media corporations
should not be the use of the same means and methods for the purpose of attrition
warfare.
This Fractal Longread was first published on picreadi.com as well as on Meeting Russia Blog.
It can be assumed that the inconsistent picture of political narratives in connection with Crimea is an expression of the accompanying political garbage can process of European government elites. The political narratives on Crimea are not the result of rational analysis; rather, they arise from the coincidental confluence of wishful thinking, value judgments, day-to-day politics, and the adherence to the order government elites have invented.
A summary of this Longread was first published on picreadi.com.
A picture made world history and an event became an ingenious
media coup ex post. Consensual
construction of meaning and symbolic politics at the end of the Cold War
illustrated by the example of the opening of the border between Austria and
Hungary 1989.
A summary of this Longread was first published on picreadi.com.