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Given the Dodik news, it's wroth reminding that the very existence of Republika Srpska could have been averted even in 1994-95, but the EU and US made an active choice to continue to push for its continued existence as an entity within an independent Bosnia Herzegovina. 1/🧵:

happy 100th birthday Etel Adnan 🎈

#OtD 22 Feb 1943 three German White Rose activists, Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed by guillotine for urging the overthrow of the Nazi government. As the blade fell, Hans called out "Let freedom live!" More on anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelwe...

PSA: All of David Lynch's features have just dropped at archive dot org, including Industrial Symphony No 1, Hotel Room, and the Duran Duran concert

There’s long been a thread among the far right / wht. supremacists of admiring the Serb ethno-nationalist project and buying into its clash of civilizations framing: Breivik, the NZ shooter, the “ironic” remove kebab memes. Now those fringe racists and internet trolls run the U.S. executive branch.

Pete Marocco, right now the most important person at the State Department, "has it in for Bosnia." Just stop for a minute and think about what that means. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

“The current epistemology of Holocaust memory has redeemed & authorized the ethnic Christian-secularized majority to police Palestinians & Muslims & those who stand in solidarity with them, including Jews.” Sultan Doughan in “Holocaust Memory after Gaza” americangerman.institute/2025/02/holo...

Some good news! UbuWeb is back! ubu.com

Yesterday, German parliament held a Holocaust commemoration ceremony, passed an anti migration motion, and passed a resolution attacking Palestinians and their supporters in universities and schools. What it didn't do, yet again, is debate Germany's role in the annihilation of Palestinians!

For the first time in postwar political history, a political majority in Germany's federal parliament has been secured with the votes of a far-right political party. For an entirely symbolic proposal on migration that violates European law.

genuinely one of the best things I've read in a very long time. has totally transformed how I understand german mania.

Today at 12, the Bundestag remembers the victims of the Nazi regime. Afterwards, the CDU/CSU will put forward resolutions for mass deportations, making German citizenship revocable for the first time since 1945, and the abolition of dual citizenship, and plans to pass these with Nazi votes.

As I argue, the problem of German nationalism goes beyond "AfD":

The only film I have on both DVD and Blu-ray

A dreadful topic to spend the year pondering over. Might do another piece on this question next year, but hope to be done with this topic asap

for a more comprehensive critique of Habermas: criticalmuslim.com/explore/issu...

Comprehensive interview with Anand Gopal, who has produced some of the best writing on the Syrian war & revolution: "For 50 years it was effectively impossible to do politics, or be political, in Syria. Only now can the struggle for democracy truly begin" jacobin.com/2024/12/syri...

"Nowadays when we know that progress didn’t so much enhance as it delegitimized and eventually erased entire worlds of human existence, we tend to look for redemption in the vanished ways of life. We seek wisdom in former hardships and discomfort." www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/the-w...

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)

I've been thinking about intersections of historical record, material culture, and family silence and part of it is now an essay here: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/the-w...

Our editor, Ana Sekulić, delves into her collection of heirloom clothing, unraveling stories of craftsmanship, labor, and impact of modernity. "Somewhere along the way, that unquestionable link to history was broken by progress, preponderance of synthetic fabrics, and violence." tinyurl.com/5eaa75er

happy to say that Mangal Media was always on the right side of history www.mangalmedia.net/english/tag/...

Hello new followers! Here's all I have to say:

Adorno on Germany 1959 and 2024:

my long-time followers will recognize this a e s t h e t i c

Absolute joke of a country

It's come a long way, but this place just won't feel complete until I see @a-d-n.bsky.social regularly roasting Germany.

The late Lebanese-American poet Etel Adnan captured a precise sentiment in a few words what we have been struggling to articulate for over a year.

Hello new followers! Here's all I have to say:

My first essay on the German question is now available to read online! The title is "German Redemption Theology" criticalmuslim.com/explore/issu...

"The story of Habermas is the story of modern Germany: from Hitler Youth to Historikerstreit & now to Holocaust revisionism. They are burning down the entire house. Within a few months, Germany has squandered its international reputation. Decades of meticulously established memory culture are gone."

When I was 19, I joined a volunteer group and spent the summer living and working in Karin Tak, a village in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). Karin Tak, an Armenian village near Shushi, is named “under the rock” due to its location...