The international significance of Germany s federal election and the campaign of the Socialist Equality Party wsws.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wsws.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An anti-Semite is not someone protesting against the crimes of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, who has struck an alliance with extreme right-wing parties, has one foot in jail and can only stay in power through endless provocations. An anti-Semite is someone who equates “the Jews” with the policies of the Israeli government.
Amintiri despre profesorul Gheorghe Pleş rasunetul.ro - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rasunetul.ro Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Falling astronauts. 14 April 2021
There is a surprising amount of art on the moon. There s a whole museum, allegedly - although it s very hard to confirm it s really up there. Who s going to check? You? Me?
The Moon Museum is pretty small as museums go - it s a piece of ceramic wafer, 19 by 13mm in size. It contains tiny images from six artists, and it s attached - allegedly - to the Apollo 12 Lunar Module, Intrepid. That means it s been up there and open to visitors since November 1969.
Nice museum! What about sculpture? There s some sculpture on the moon too. I first discovered the Fallen Astronaut several years back in the beautiful, mind-expanding Phaidon book, Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World. Buy this book. I am not being paid to say that. I am compelled. Universe is one of those books I would rescue from my house if it was burning - a massive thing that shuffles together images from space exploration and scientific study with artefa
In a world that seems to be divided between neoliberal orthodoxy and identitarian dogmas, it is possible to miss the waning presence of traditional social democracy. Born of the radical Left in Marx’s own time, social democrats worked, sometimes with remarkable success, to improve the living standards of working people by accommodating the virtues of capitalism. Today, that kind of social democracy learned at home from my immigrant grandparents and from the late Michael Harrington, one time head of the American Socialist Party is all but dead. This tradition was, in retrospect, perhaps too optimistic about the efficacy of government. Nevertheless, it sincerely sought to improve popular conditions and respected the wisdom of ordinary people.