Never knowingly support lies.
“Violence has nothing to cover itself with but lies, and lies can only persist through violence. And it is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand: It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.
And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | February 12, 1974
‘War is a Racket’, revisited
Om ons heen wordt een oorlogsapparaat opgetuigd. De eerste politieke censuur - het blokkeren van Russische media - werd in de EU een feit zonder enige ophef. De oorlogseconomie waar men om roept dreigt de belangen van burgers ondergeschikt te maken aan die van de wapenindustrie. Het dreigt bescherming van natuur en leefwereld ondergeschikt te maken aan het vernietigen van de vijand. Het dreigt de democratie ondergeschikt te maken aan de overwinning. Een kleine elite profiteert enorm, de rest van ons zullen verliezen.
Will all remaining pacifists please stand up?
Today I can almost count on one hand the number of left wing politicians and activists who call out for negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. Instead we in Europe fan the flames by sending increasingly deadly weapons and pushing escalatory rhetoric, while America once again makes promises it has no intention of keeping. Has the entire European left been convinced by the endless propaganda on our television sets, or are some just too scared to speak?