rstarnjNYTimes: Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/opinion/trump-iran-war-memes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VVA.Twq7.y23IOv71_R5i&smid=nytcore-android-share
Steve Randy Waldman“Power does not grow out of the barrel of a gun, cruelty is not the same as strength, and a politics built on such ideas promises ruin, delusion about the limits of our power and a betrayal of the promise of our founding.” #PhilKlay https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/opinion/trump-iran-war-memes.html
Torsten Hesse„ABEL 1986-1999
Mein Dorf befand sich auf einem kleinen Hügel am Fluss, an dessen Ufern nichts als Sand lag.“ (Seite 9)
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Kurz und gut: Die Story schmerzt und ist ungeschönt erzählt. Aber so ist Krieg. Lesen!
(Übersetzung: Hannes Meyer)
#lesesommer #roman #philklay #suhrkamp #kolumbien #krieg #gewalt #menschenleben #überleben #imperialismus #nowar #lesen #leselust #lesenswert #leseratte #bücher #literatur
“Hamas may be horrific, but just because you’ve diagnosed a malignant tumor doesn’t mean you hand a rusty scalpel to a drunk and tell him to cut away while the patient screams in terror.” #PhilKlay https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/gaza-war-indefensible-united-states/677896/ ht @davidtoddmccarty
7sleepersmusic“That doesn’t mean empathy isn’t a start, though. Which is why the retraction of the article is more than an act of cowardice and a betrayal of a writer whose work the magazine shepherded to publication. It’s a betrayal of the task of literature, which cannot end wars but can help us see why people wage them, oppose them, or become complicit in them.” #Guernica #TheAtlantic #Publishing #Literature #JoannaChen #PhilKlay #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #CeasefireNow https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/guernica-retracted-essay-joanna-chen/677738/
„Am Ende zählt nur eins: auf der richtigen Seite stehen. Doch für vier Menschen in dieser Geschichte, alle aus Idealismus an einem Ort der Gewalt im kolumbianischen Dschungel gekommen, ist die Grenze zwischen Gut und Böse längst verwischt … [...]“ (Umschlagtext)
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(Übersetzung: Hannes Meyer)
#lesewinter #roman #philklay #suhrkamp #südamerika #kolumbien #krieg #imperialismus #usa #frieden #gesellschaft #lesen #leseratte #leselust #bücher #literatur
Bodhi O'Shea“Most people think that a person is whatever you see before you, walking around in bone and meat and blood, but that is an idiocy. Bone and meat and blood just exists, but to exist is not to live, and bone and meat and blood alone is not a person. A person is what happens when there is a family, and a town, a place where you are known. Where every person who knows you holds a small, invisible mirror, and in each mirror, held by family and friends and enemies, is a different reflection. In one mirror, the sweet fat boy I was to my mother. In another, the little imp I was to my father. In another, the irritating brat I was to Gustavo. A person is what happens when you gather all these reflections around a body. So what happens when one by one the people holding those mirrors are taken from you? It’s simple. The person dies. And the bone and meat and blood goes on, walking the earth as if the person still existed, when God and the angels know he doesn’t.”