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Karikatur beim 'angry arab'

von dort - http://angryarab.blogspot.de/2015/12/tough-question-for-obama.html
(externer Link zur Grafik über bp.blogspot.com)

... wobei, doch, hierzulande gibt sich "jung & naiv" redlich Mühe mit solchen Fragen - und der klassischen Antwortwiederholung eines Regierungssprechers: "Ich habe dem nichts hinzuzufügen" (Link zu y**tube ;() ...

Und passend gibt es in der jüngsten "Anstalt" eine "Siebert-Sequenz" zum gleichen Thema ... ;-)

“I do not take my mandate from the European people.”

As Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström occupies a powerful position in the apparatus of the EU.

.... when I asked the trade commissioner how she could continue her persistent promotion of the deal in the face of such massive public opposition, her response came back icy cold:
“I do not take my mandate from the European people.”

via fefe

Yanis Varoufakis - der neue griechische Finanzminister!

... ist ein Hoffnungsposten für sich!

www.yanisvaroufakis.eu

Solche Politiker braucht das Land!

Sein Blog ist englisch, so daß man ihm (dem Wirtschaftswissenschaftler nun als Minister) folgen kann ... Er verdient unsere Solidarität!

Tip von fefe

... und da auf deutsch (via Nachdenkseiten) - vor dem Wahlerfolg!
http://www.profil.at/ausland/yanis-varoufakis-griechenland-finanzminist…

Wahlen in der arabischen Welt?

Angry Arab mal wieder, hier als Zeitungskommentar. Leider nur englisch, Übersetzung wäre wohl lohnend.

Yet, Western political hypocrisy was too visible to ignore. Western governments championed, armed, and defended tooth and nail the tyrannical polygamist dynasties of the Gulf and in the regimes of Jordan and Morocco. But the US was quite vigilant in pressing for free elections in countries where the governments are not clients of the US. The US pushed for elections in Iran, but not in Saudi Arabia, in Syria but not in Jordan, etc..
 
The elections in Algeria in 1991 made the intentions of the West clear. Western governments support free elections only if the results are consistent with Western political and economic interests. When the Algerian military junta cancelled the results of the elections, Western governments rushed to reward the anti-democratic rulers with weapons and financial assistance. And in 2006, after several years of redundant rhetoric by Bush officials about the desirability of free elections for the Palestinians (and the elections were not free as money from the US, UK, and Gulf regimes were pumped into the coffers of Fatah) the Bush administration lobbied the world to disregard the results of the elections, and even engineered (just as in 1953 in Iran) a coup by Mohammed Dahlan to take over power by force (Hamas was smarter, and preempted the coup). ..

So weit mein Ausschnitt .. besser ganz lesen:
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/end-electoral-appeal-arab-world

Übrigens .. die Ukraine geht analog: Wenn eine demokratisch gewählte Regierung nicht passt, ist das schnell mal viele Milliarden wert, die für den Umsturz ins Land gebracht werden ...

the fundamentally oligarchical framework that drives American political life

Im "Intercept" zu lesen:

Jeb Bush yesterday strongly suggested he was running for President in 2016. If he wins the GOP nomination, it is highly likely that his opponent for the presidency would be Hillary Clinton.
Having someone who is the brother of one former president and the son of another run against the wife of still another former president would be sweetly illustrative of all sorts of degraded and illusory aspects of American life, from meritocracy to class mobility. That one of those two families exploited its vast wealth to obtain political power, while the other exploited its political power to obtain vast wealth, makes it more illustrative still: of the virtually complete merger between political and economic power, of the fundamentally oligarchical framework that drives American political life. ..

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