Новости за 27.05.2022

Two years ago, we witnessed the nine minutes and 26 seconds of torture of George Floyd at the knee of former police officer and convicted murderer Derek Chauvin. We also witnessed three other police officers allowing the slow murder to happen almost completely uninterrupted. We already had a hashtag, “I can’t breathe,” after the disturbing video of Eric Garner’s chokehold arrest that resulted in his killing by police officer Daniel Pantaleo, with many other officers standing by and watching. The same summer of Floyd’s murder... Читать дальше...

Here’s what happened this week

As rioters storming the Capitol in 2021 chanted “Hang Mike Pence!,” White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows came out of the dining room next to the Oval Office and relayed to colleagues that Donald Trump was complaining that his vice president was being taken to safety. Trump, Meadows relayed, expressed some kind of support for hanging Pence. That account from Meadows was relayed to the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th and reported by The New York Times... Читать дальше...

Thomas Edison, the historic innovator and thinker, once said: “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

After nine years of conservative rule that turned Australia into an international pariah on climate, you could almost hear environmentalists’ massive sigh of relief at the Labor Party’s victory this week. “The climate wars are over,” freshly minted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said repeatedly after his party won, displacing the conservative Liberal-National Coalition government helmed by Scott Morrison. Albanese’s victory speech highlighted renewable energy and Aboriginal rights, as well as... Читать дальше...

David de Jong opens his book, Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties, with a vignette about an unrepentant heiress. In 2019, Verena Bahlsen, the 26-year-old inheritor of Germany’s most famous cookie company, gave a speech at a conference in Hamburg. Responding to a socialist politician’s suggestion that ownership of Germany’s largest companies should be distributed, she declared her unequivocal support for capitalism and her pride in her immense wealth: “I am a capitalist,” she ad-libbed. Читать дальше...

There are few hopes in Washington that Congress will pass any significant legislation on gun control in the wake of this week’s massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. That vacuum is instead being filled by Democratic-led states as they once again try to curb gun violence and mass shootings after the latest tragedy.