Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-08 Diskussionsfäden heath bunting
My position is that state actors bombing civilians is the main issue. understood, but none of this will be resolved without factoring in sub and super state actors nation states are bound by international laws - judicial sub and super state actors get to do what they want - extra-judicial

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-08 Diskussionsfäden Chris Oakley
You're not drawing me into that well-trodden rabbit hole. My position is that state actors bombing civilians is the main issue. Don't worry, I'll be leaving the group. I've really heard enough. On 08/03/2022 16:26, heath bunting wrote: chris what is your position on the west supported white

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-08 Diskussionsfäden heath bunting
chris what is your position on the west supported white helmets ? (i ask as the syria dirty war is a prelude to the ukraine war) do you think they are heroes, as portrayed in the oscar winning documentary about them ? or do you think they harvested organs from the people they 'rescued' for

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-08 Diskussionsfäden contact
Right. I think we've heard it all now. I'm not sure how we're supposed to read this. Is this culture jammin? Best poetry? Or deranged nonsense? It's an argument that dosen't even stand up to its own internal logic, if it can be called that. It's also pretty offensive on many levels. It

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-08 Diskussionsfäden heath bunting
Personally, I would prefer to start the conversation with the simple question, what is required so that everybody can live in peace and freedom? And rather than assume a trope like the "spheres of influence" as a given, I would only want to discuss how this war can be stopped, and how a

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-07 Diskussionsfäden Andreas Broeckmann
Dear Lanfranco, I would like to come back briefly to your long argument, and make two points. Am 02.03.22 um 19:42 schrieb Lanfranco Aceti: Like you, I very much like facts, but I think you might be too confident in the 'innocence of NATO' I didn't say, and I didn't mean to say that NATO

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-05 Diskussionsfäden heath bunting
dan Going against the propaganda machine, is simply not possible, its too vast, too huge, too extended and it molds reality in every possible way. Counterpropaganda even when supported by private parties and governments has little or no effect. and to make it just worse, in case you get

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-04 Diskussionsfäden Hanna Haaslahti
Hello from Helsinki and many thanks for opening up this thread! As many of my fellow citizens, I have grown up with constant fear of our ominous and unpredictable neighbor, Russia. Being a small nation at the direct geographical contact with the moody giant has shaped the psychology of

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Arkadiusz Półtorak
Just a quick reminder to all that complain about NATO propaganda - NATO is not a monolithic political entity. It is an alliance and thus, by definition, it includes representatives of united but incongruous bodies. To equate NATO with the United States and present it in a perfectly symmetrical

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-02 Diskussionsfäden Lanfranco Aceti
Dear Carsten, I wanted to say that I totally agree with you. I am shocked by the war rhetoric and its poisonous influence. It makes it more difficult for me to write since I am a slow and careful writer, particularly when posting online in these threads and on these topics. The reason is that I

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-02 Diskussionsfäden carsten stabenow
depends on how you define ‚disinformation‘ crimethInc has a clear history, easily to track (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimethInc.) thanks andreas for opening up the discussion here! i’m personally shocked by the war rhetoric from all sides. i worked the past 25 years with artists from

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-02 Diskussionsfäden Matias Schüttenberg
Is this the same desinformation campaign from Social Networks?? Has someone researched on this subject there? On 2 Mar 2022 10:39, "Nicolas Montgermont" wrote: Hello everyone, Maybe it is good to have the point of view of some political groups in Ukraine and Russia. Here is an article from

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-02 Diskussionsfäden Nicolas Montgermont
Hello everyone, Maybe it is good to have the point of view of some political groups in Ukraine and Russia. Here is an article from some anti anti-authoritarian ukrainian groups that is two weeks old:

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-03-02 Diskussionsfäden Spyros Boukas
Hi everyone, I would like to share some thoughts that I have had since last week. I apologize in advance for my English :) This is a world war that didn’t start last week. It has started many years ago. It has started straight after the end of the ‘’cold war’’ that was not cold at all. It

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Lanfranco Aceti
*April 5, 2021* https://www.cato.org/commentary/joe-bidens-ukraine-policy-repeat-george-w-bush-georgia *April 21, 2021* https://www.cato.org/commentary/time-cure-americas-clientitis-over-ukraine Dear Andreas, and everyone else, I hope you are well... Nice to see that you still can keep this

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Helen Varley Jamieson
for a feminist & pacifist response, see WILPF's statement: https://www.wilpf.org/call-to-action-no-more-wars-not-now-not-ever-again/ - it's a call for unity around the message of no more wars. however that statement is dated 14th february so before the actual invasion. more current is this

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Andreas Broeckmann
folks, please, refrain from personal insults; it's one of the "red lines" that this co-moderator and co-list-owner draws. best regards, -a __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help:

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Joseph Rabie
> Le 25 févr. 2022 à 11:26, heath bunting a écrit : > > but i became uncomfortable when it was revealed that another source of income > was organ harvesting of captured living serbian police and soldiers Pity you didn't take advantage of that to get a brain with a little more discernment.

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Raivo Kelomees
Hello all, Just to answer your sentence Mathias Fuchs: "The Capitalist West has expanded zones of monetary interest and of military influence towards the East since 1991. NATO countries are at the border of Russia." You write like here, in the East, is some sort of desert or swamp where

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Oliver Grau
Broeckmann ; spectre Betreff: Re: [spectre] a terrible day Dear Andreas, thanks for your thoughtful reply to my quick email. You have a point there, of course, and I would like to draw back the "not innocent" notion. When you ask about the "feminist and pacifist response&quo

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden heath bunting
i don't understand discursive protocols anymore - so tell me to shut-up if i am being out of order, but i feel artists must be able to attempt to speak truth - at least to each other NATO must intervene now to stop this bloody bath to help suffering Ukrainian population. i was involved in

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Mathias Fuchs
Dear Andreas, thanks for your thoughtful reply to my quick email. You have a point there, of course, and I would like to draw back the "not innocent" notion. When you ask about the "feminist and pacifist response", I can only offer a kind of politics that seems to have gone out of fashion:

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Matias Schüttenberg
Nice to make a Thread about the subject. Was it Covid the end of the world. Or is this situation now the end? What a especial times we are facing. And it looks it happens from time to time. So I am not sure till which point technology is helping societies today. Who is to blame? Ukraine has given

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden heath bunting
fortunately, most interested parties in the ukraine conflict are using their standard modus operandi, making studies of previous operations instructive. syria is an obvious example to guide us in narratives management, trusted voices, innocence and outcomes. eva bartlett and vanessa beeley

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden info
I completely agree with Andreas. To support Russia and the tyrant Putin of the Ukrainian genocide is equal to support Hitler or Stalin actions and massive murders. Any doubt who is the real aggressor and criminal on this tragedy means siding with the murderers of the innocent Ukrainian

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden info
I completely agree with Andreas. To support Russia and the tyrant Putin of the Ukrainian genocide is equal to support Hitler or Stalin actions and massive murders. Any doubt who is the real aggressor and criminal on this tragedy means siding with the murderers of the innocent Ukrainian

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Andreas Broeckmann
Dear Mathias, I hesitate because this argument will change nothing, and more knowledgeable people are making it more elegantly elsewhere, I hope. But I want to shortly respond to your claim that "NATO is not completely innocent of what is going on". From my point of view, this is only true

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-24 Diskussionsfäden Mathias Fuchs
Dear friends and neighbours, with all shared emotions about the horrible things that happen in the Ukraine and with particular sympathies for the victims of Russia's invasion, might I still put up a thought for discussion? I saw elderly ladies in the streets of Berlin today carrying signs

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-24 Diskussionsfäden info
Putin and Russian fascism will have to face trial for crimes against humanity, but now what is needed is a strong European and International unity against this brutal and unjustifiable agression to stop, once for ever, the criminal Putin. El 2022-02-24 14:25, Eric Kluitenberg escribió: Yes

Re: [spectre] a terrible day

2022-02-24 Diskussionsfäden Eric Kluitenberg
Yes thank you so much Andreas, I think we all need a bit of time to digest this- what happens here is not just something with unprecedented geopolitical implications, but also runs right through (Ukranian / Russian) families. An unspeakable tragedy… Deeply concerned, Eric > On 24 Feb 2022,