Es mag uns heute oft schwer vorstellbar erscheinen, aber Nationalstaaten sind kein Naturgesetz.
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/das-letzte-schweizer-dorf-ohne-pass-und-staat-cavaiones-langer-weg-zur-zugehoerigkeit

Die SVP-Blochers vergiften die Schweiz. Diesmal wortwörtlich.
https://www.woz.ch/2527/verschmutztes-trinkwasser/emser-giftbruehe/!Y4RF79M88B6T

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (2008)

At a more general level, one should bear in mind that global capitalism does not automatically push all its subjects towards hedonist/permissive individualism, and the fact that, in many countries that recently entered the road of rapid capitalist modernization (like India), many individuals stick to the so-called traditional (pre-modern) beliefs and ethics (family values, rejection of unbridled hedonism, strong ethnic identification, giving preference to community ties over individual achievement, respect for elders...) in no way proves that they are not fully "modern", as if people in the West can afford direct and full capitalist modernization, while those from less developed Asian, Latin American and African countries can only survive the onslaught of capitalist dynamics through the help of the crutches of traditional ties, i.e., as if traditional values are needed when local populations are not able to survive capitalism by way of adopting its own liberal-hedonist individualist ethics. Post-colonial "subaltern" theorists who see in the persistence of premodern traditions global capitalism and its violent modernization disruptive of traditional ties are here thoroughly wrong: on the contrary, fidelity to premodern ("Asian") values is paradoxically the very feature which allows countries like China, Singapore, and India to follow the path of capitalist dynamics even more radically than Western liberal countries. A reference to traditional values enable individuals to justify their ruthless engagement in market competition in ethical terms ("I am really doing it to help my parents, to earn enough money so that my children and cousins will be able to study...")

Slavoj Zizek, The Impasses of Today's Radical Politics (2014) in Crisis & Critique (Vol.I, Issue I)

Sonntag, 13. Juli 2025

- FRANKREICH/#NEUKALEDONIEN: Bisheriges französisches Überseegebiet Neukaledonien im Südpazifik soll nach Einigung bei Treffen in Paris künftig semi-autonomer Staat werden, der mit Frankreich assoziiert bleiben soll; auch FLNKS-Unabhängigkeitspartei unterzeichnet Abkommen nach langem Widerstand; zur Umsetzung Bestätigung des neukaledonischen Regionalparlamentes sowie Verfassungsänderung in Frankreich nötig (dS #SBrändle); Innenpolitik wäre somit künftig Sache Neukaledoniens, während Außenpolitik weiterhin "im Interesse Frankreichs" gemacht werden muss; durch Stabilisierung Neukaledoniens soll zudem #Nickel-Handel wieder zunehmen (rnz #PDecloitre); Teil des Abkommens ist auch neues Wahlgesetz, gegen das 2024 in Neukaledonien gewaltsame Proteste ausgebrochen waren, da es auch zugezogenen Franzosen+ nach 10 Jahren Wahlrecht gibt (rfi)

- WESTASIEN: Indirekte Verhandlungen zwischen ISRAEL und Hamas über 60-tägige Waffenruhe stocken wegen ungeklärten Streitpunkts des Ausmaßes des israelischen Truppenabzuges aus #Gaza in der Zeit (dS #APA)

- TOGO: Behörden erlassen vor nächste Woche geplanten Protesten mehrere Haftbefehle gegen Anführer der M6.6-Protestbewegung, die sich gegen Präsident #Gnassingbé richtet (apa)

- USA/EUROPA: Regierung Trump kündigt 30%-Strafzölle für Waren aus MEXIKO und EU-Ländern ab August an (ev #SSManzanaro #TMoller-Nielsen)

- ARGENTINIEN: Big-Mac-Index, der internationalen Vergleich von Lebenshaltungskosten ermöglich, setzt Argentinien auf weltweit 2. Platz hinter die SCHWEIZ (taz #JVogt)

- CHILE: Regierung #Boric leitet Enteignung des Areals der ehemaligen deutschen Nazi-Foltersekte Colonia #Dignidad ein, um dort Gedenkort zu errichten (am21 #AEngelhardt)

Alabama is sending incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies—including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. The state takes 40% of wages and often denies parole to keep people as cheap labor.

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Die «Enthüllungen» über Jeffrey Epstein sind für Trump eine tickende Zeitbombe https://www.watson.ch/!390067427

Wo Sprayer:innen nachts aktiv waren, rückt in den Morgenstunden die Graffitireinigung der Stadt Zürich an – und schafft wieder freie Flächen. Einblick in einen sich selbst erhaltenden Kreislauf. https://www.woz.ch/!YPNWHH9YGE82

"Never Forget Srebrenica / 11 July 1995"

Almost 30 years has passed since Europe was shaken by the genocide of more than 8000 muslim boys and men in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica, at the hands of Bosnian Serb troops during an operation of ethnic cleansing, witnessed by UN peacekeeping troops

In the midst of the conflict in the Balkans during the 1990’s, the small city of Srebrenica, in Eastern Bosnia, was established as a “safe area” by the UN for civilians fleeing fights between Bosnian government and separatist Serb forces, during the breakup of Yugoslavia.

On 11 July 1995, Serb forces attacked Srebrenica lead by Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić, conducting a ten-day operation to take over Srebrenica and subject it to ethnic cleansing. More than 8000 people were killed, mainly Bosnian muslim boys and men.

#neverforgetsrebrenica

Making Sense of the PKK’s Self-Dissolution

https://crimethinc.com/Jasna2025

On May 12, 2025, the PKK announced its dissolution after more than four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish government. On July 11, PKK fighters participated in a ceremony signifying disarmament. What will this mean for Kurdish movements for liberation and for the Middle East in general?

"It is not just the fate of an armed group at stake, but of a political project that has redefined the parameters of struggle throughout the region."

Der Historiker Fritz Bartel bricht mit dem gängigen Narrativ über das Ende des Kalten Krieges: Der Kapitalismus triumphierte, weil er sein Wohlstandsversprechen an die Bevölkerung brechen konnte – der Sozialismus zerbrach daran.

https://jacobin.de/artikel/fritz-bartel-gebrochene-versprechen-kalter-krieg

On this day 14 July 1789, during the French revolution, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille, a notorious prison, and a symbol of power and the old order.As a huge crowd attempted to gain access to the prison, the garrison station within started to fire cannons onto people in the streets, killing and wounding many.This caused outrage. Russian revolutionary, Peter Kropotkin, who wrote a groundbreaking grassroots history of the revolution, recounted what happened next:"As to the people, as soon as the news of the firing spread through the town, they acted without any one’s orders, guided by their revolutionary instinct. They dragged the cannon which they had taken from the Hôtel des Invalides to the Hôtel de Ville... "The firing by this time had been going on for more than three hours. The people, not in the least dismayed by the great number killed and wounded, were maintaining the siege by resorting to various expedients. One of these was the bringing up of two cartloads of straw, to which they set fire, using the smoke as a screen to facilitate their attack on the two entrances, the greater and lesser drawbridges. The buildings of the Government Court were already in flames."The cannon arrived just at the moment they were wanted. They were drawn into the Government Court and planted in front of the drawbridges and gates at a distance of only 90 feet. It is easy to imagine the effect that these cannon in the hands of the people must have produced on the besieged. It was evident that the drawbridges must soon go down, and that the gates would be burst open. The mob became still more threatening and was continually increasing in numbers."The moment soon came when the defenders realised that to resist any longer was to doom themselves to certain destruction."You can get a new edition of Kropotkin's history here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-great-french-revolution-1789-1793-peter-kropotkinPic: Painting of the events by Jean-Pierre Houël

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