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Risk and Extortion LXXV: Ethnic Cleansing Matters
Ethnic Cleansing as Public Discourse: Applying the UN’s Definition to the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem Note: Gaza is not included here as it is the site of genocide,… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXIV Semantic Politics 2
Genocide and Antisemitism In the ongoing debate over Israel’s actions in Gaza, a profound asymmetry has emerged in the way key legal and moral categories—genocide and antisemitism—are semantically interpreted and… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXIII: Semantic Politics 1
Aligning Truth and Justice versus Anti-Semanticism. I used to believe that because all definitions are arbitrary, there is very little purpose in analysing semantics. This was, however, extremely naïve. Since… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXII: Corporatism
The case of Rheinmetall AG. Thyssen and Krupp are not the only current major German arms manufacturers with a history of alignment with the Third Reich. It is well documented,… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXI: Corporate Giants and the Third Reich
Thyssen and Krupp: Germany’s own export laws contain contradictions: According to German export control guidelines, weapons should not be sold to countries engaged in active conflict or human rights abuses.… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXX: Between Human Rights and Staatsräson
The Planetary Class War. https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gaza-israel-deutschland-100.html Now and then, even in Germany, snippets of sense enter the mainstream media’s otherwise completely uncritical accounts of the genocide in Gaza. Although most of… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXIX: Facebook
The cognitive decline of western imperialism. As soon as Marc Zuckerberg announced that Meta would stop fact checking, I decided to terminate my Facebook account. I hardly used it to… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXVIII: The Death of Propaganda?
For decades, Communication Studies have been primarily occupied with the question of media influence, especially in relation of advertising, marketing, public relations and above all, political propaganda. As both in… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXVII: Pounding the Table
Defending the Indefensible through Semantic Violence The growing rift between public opinion and the state-sanctioned narrative of the genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem and the… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXVI: The End of Democracy
Democracy manages the masses, while oligarchy manages outcomes. This is blasphemy. How dare someone speak like this? Democracy is a sacred good; wrenched from the aristocrats by “the people”, either… Read more.
Disaffected Sociology 