On Gaza
Posted on Friday, 9 January, 2009
... if only the world cared as much about Palestinian lives when it cannot be used as a pretext to slam Israel ...
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Back to the top of this pageEthik und die olympischen Spiele in China (German)
Posted on Friday, 18 April, 2008
English Summary: While for a long time, because of my hostility to the Chinese regime along with my free-market ideals, I have often been branded a "cold warrior" or die-hard capitalist, mainstream opinion has again grown more sceptical of China as, in the build-up to the Olympic Games, its oppression of the Tibetan people has returned to the limelight. In this article, I explain how I believe globalization and free markets enable the average consumer to exert a great deal of pressure directly on the regime. Olympic Sponsors such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's or Omega that pay a fortune in order to be associated with a murderous regime that still venerates Mao, a tyrant responsible for the deaths of far more people than Hitler and Stalin combined, should get what they paid for: the utter disgust and condemnation of the free world. Come on, people, there's Pepsi, Red Bull, there's Burger King, there are dozens of quality watch makers. There are other consumer electronics makers than Samsung or Panasonic and other credit cards than Visa. There is really no reason - and no excuse - for us Western consumers if we were to chose to become accomplices to mass murder, oppression, torture and numerous other human rights abuses by buying the products of any sponsor of the Olympic Games.
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Back to the top of this pageThe War In Iraq: Looking Back At What I Wrote In 2003 (re-run, in German)
Posted on Thursday, 22 March, 2007
Another re-run: This time I am re-publishing an incredibly long, horribly poetic and somehow pretentious, but still, I think, intelligent article that I wrote back in 2003 just during the first few days of the American invasion in Iraq. I criticized both Old Europe and the US – Old Europe for not acknowledging that their position (doing business with Saddam whilst letting the Iraqi civilian population starve to death under the UN sanctions) was in no way ethically superior to that of the United States; the Bush administration for their illusion that in a country as diverse and complex as Iraq most problems would just disappear by themselves once they got rid of Saddam Hussein. In hindisght, I have got to say that I was not that far off the mark with my apprehensions.
That being said, the best part is still the Swiss-German song by Mani Matter that I quote at the beginning...
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