Er wünscht der neuen österreichischen Bundesregierung einen schönen Angelobungstag!
Oder: ein Ösi erklärt dem Piefke seine kleine Welt.
(c) Andrea Schaffar
Archive for politics
Thomas Bernhard weiß Bescheid
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, politics, Thomas Bernhard on 17 December 2017 by delclem“Who are the protesters in Ukraine?”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Kiev, Maidan, political movements, politics, protests, Ukraine on 13 February 2014 by delclem
“The following is a guest post from political scientists Keith Darden (American University) & Lucan Way (University of Toronto) addressing the question of who is protesting in Ukraine, and how much support do the protesters actually have. Their conclusion: Ukraine’s protests may not be driven by the far right, but they are not supported by a clear majority of Ukrainians … and neither is a turn toward Europe.” >full text (c) WASHINGTON POST, 2014
Understanding Ukraine
Posted in Uncategorized with tags history, nationaism, politics, riots, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine on 25 January 2014 by delclem
Questions about the country in turmoil you are probably to embarrased to ask >full text (c) WASHINGTON POST, 2014. Another 10 questions (c) Business Insider
“Ukraine: The New Dictatorship”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags dictatorship, Nationalism, politics, Timoty Snyder, Ukraine on 25 January 2014 by delclem
An analysis by the renowned Yale historian Timothy Snyder (c) NYR, 2014
“Bosnia, in Peril Once More”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Barack Obama, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, Nationalism, politics on 8 December 2013 by delclem
“Early in President Obama’s first term, in May 2009, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. paid a visit to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Addressing the Parliament, he told Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian members, ‘My country is worried. (…) We have seen a sharp and dangerous rise in nationalist rhetoric.'”
>full text & illustration (c) NYT, 2013
Anti-Communist propaganda
Posted in Uncategorized with tags anti-Communism, Communism, Europe, political art, politics, posters, propaganda on 14 November 2013 by delclem
“Horror movies and Weird Tales magazine have given us some beautiful, spooky and unnerving works of art. But if you really want a dose of scary brilliance? Check out the posters that warned people of the evils of Communism. These are scarier, and more beautiful, than pretty much any horror art you’ve seen.”
>photo album (c) l09.com 2013
“Scandal in Bohemia”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bohemia, Café Slava, cultural analysis, Czech Republic, politics, Prague, scandal on 10 July 2013 by delclem
The Absinthe drinker’s “temptress seems a fitting muse for a city where the absurdities of the public realm have often encouraged a retreat into the alcoholic and the erotic.” Very good article by one of the leading Bohemists of our day (c) NYT, 2013
Just Identity Issues…?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Die Identitären, Europe, France, Great Britain, party, politics, right-wing extremism on 25 April 2013 by delclem
“A new (dangerous?) breed of activist right-wing extremism is spreading across Europe: Die Identitären.” >text (c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
Mr Paillasse is back in town
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Canada, car manufacturing, Frank Stronach, party system, politics on 14 October 2012 by delclem
The nouveau-riche Austro-Canadian FRANK STRONACH buys himself into Austrian politics almost the same way he did with car manufacturing some decades ago. Will the banana republic in the Alps thus see the rise of a new Berlusconi? Or is it just another melodramatic act in the Austrian state farce?
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Political Manicheanism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Manicheanism, politics, popular art, Right populism on 21 April 2012 by delclem
Political Pop Culture from Austria, or a little follow-up on stupid Rightpopulist propaganda: red is color of the Social Democratic ‘devil’, blue the national ‘forces of light’, spiced up with a bit of redneckism (Volk) under the disguise of grassroot democracy. However, it looks as if the devil were more muscled and in the winning position: intended by the amateur artist Richi Benz who drew this and posted it on facebook?
“Everything ‘national’ has become something really bush-league long ago.”
(THOMAS MANN, Werke, XIII: 743)
delirium clemens 