Jonathan Michael Feldman, June 2 and 3, 2022 Preamble Fifty years ago, Barry Commoner explained a comprehensive approach to ecological transformation as part of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment: “Somebody is going to have to pay the debt and people are scrambling to see that the other fellow pays. So we’re…
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__________________________________________________________________________ By Jonathan Michael Feldman, May 28, 2022; Updated May 29, 2022 On May 19, 2022, Yuriy Gorodnichenko (a visiting scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco), Bohdan Kukharskyy (City University of New York), Anastassia Fedyk (UC Berkeley) and Illona Sologoub (VoxUkraine) wrote an open letter challenging Noam Chomsky and others for their views on…
By Jonathan M. Feldman, May 25, 2022 Political Parties Assassinating Wolves In this time of militarist juggernaut and knowledge resistance, in which reality dissolves before the structured superficiality of experts, journalists and politicians, it is therapeutic to reveal the wreckless irrationality of society. Case in point: Swedish politicians’ assault on species diversity. While many have…
By Jonathan Michael Feldman, May 17, 2022; Updated May 22, May 24, and June 5, 2022 On Johann Karl Rodbertus, Rosa Luxemburg would write, “the stalwart Prussian prefers to crack the whip of a colonial policy of Christian ethics over the natives of the colonial countries. It is, of course, what one might expect of…
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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 24, 2022 The esteemed Social Democratic debater Daniel Suhonen argues in Aftonbladet (April 23rd) that persons from the 1968 generation have argued against NATO membership even though Russia invaded Ukraine just like the U.S. invaded Vietnam. Therefore, he sees some double standard. Suhonen writes as if U.S. intervention stopped in…
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Internationalists must listen to the voice of all Ukrainians and the peace movement, not simply the Ukrainian (and US) governments By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 17, 2022; Updated April 19, 2022 Deconstruction of Russian State Apologists or Red Herring? On April 13th, the esteemed political thinker Gilbert Achcar wrote an essay entitled, “Contemptuous Denial of Agency in the…
Internationalists must listen to the voice of all Ukrainians and the peace movement, not simply the Ukrainian (and US) governments By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 17, 2022; Updated April 19, 2022 Deconstruction of Russian State Apologists or Red Herring? On April 13th, the esteemed political thinker Gilbert Achcar wrote an essay entitled, “Contemptuous Denial of Agency in…
Aftonbladet and Karl Nehammer’s Diplomatic Mission to Moscow By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 16, 2022; Updated April 25, 2022 Introduction Putin is engaged in a brutal war against Ukraine. This fact, together with the emotions surrounding that fact as mediated by certain frameworks and personalities, partially explains the displacement of the very idea of diplomacy. In addition,…
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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 14, 2022 The Russian Reaction to Finland’s and Sweden’s Move to NATO Weeks into Russia’s barbaric attack on Ukraine, some wonder what the proper policy solution is. Is the solution for countries like Sweden and Finland to deepen military aliances or is the solution to pair them back? Should one…
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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 7, 2022, Updated April 9, 2022 Ecological Xenophobia as Metaphor The photograph above is of the newly named courier firm, Bara Posten. This company used to be called “Ryska Posten” in Swedish, which means “the Russian post.” The reason for the name change, according to one news report, was “to…