Wolfram Lacher

EU-Migrationskommissar Brunner sagte der „Bild“ mit Blick auf Gespräche mit dem türkischen Außenminister Hakan Fidan: „Der hat versichert, dass er die Grenzen zugemacht hat in Richtung Iran. Und dass er auf der anderen Seite auch dazu steht, dass wir eine gute Kooperation haben zwischen der Europäischen Union und der Türkei.“

Stellt Euch vor, es ist Krieg und der ÖVP-EU-Kommissar findet es gut, dass das Nachbarland zum Kriegsgebiet hin die Grenzen dicht macht, damit keine Menschen fliehen können.

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

This whole story is so horrifying at so many levels. It should be a seismic scandal but it will probably barely make a ripple.

A woman stands on a dirt mound, her back to the camera, looking toward a horizon filled with dense, dark smoke. A label in the top left reads "Tehran." Photo by Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times.

The view of Tehran’s skyline overnight on Sunday was apocalyptic: Billowing smoke and towering oil fires turned the horizon orange as Israeli strikes ignited fuel depots outside the Iranian capital. By morning, dark, oily smoke hung over the city. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
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Photos of all the school children killed by a US strike in Minab, Ireland

The United States killed all these children last Saturday.

170 of them.

Every. Single. One.

Al Jazeera English on Instagram: "“We stand with Israel.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz scolded a pro-Palestinian protester at an election rally, angrily stating that Israel is fighting an existent... 11K likes, 5,562 comments - aljazeeraenglish on March 6, 2026: "“We stand with Israel.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz scolded a pro-Palestinian protester at an election rally, angrily stating that ...

"Und wenn diejenigen, für die Sie da oben das Plakat hochhalten, die Waffen niederlegen, dann ist der Konflikt innerhalb von 24 Stunden beendet. Da liegt die Ursache."

Was auf dem Plakat steht:
"Ja zum Völkerrecht
Nie wieder Staatsräson
Viva 🇵🇸"
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The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Three days ago, Israel ordered the south evacuated. Two days ago, they did the same to the southern suburbs. That’s more than one million people. Some, the most vulnerable, are sleeping rough by the sea or on sidewalks. Today, it is raining. War harms the poor the most.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Wieso tolerieren wir eigentlich die Macht von Milliardären? Fragt Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social

Am 12. Mai äußert Goiny „auch im Namen der Fraktion“ die „dringende Bitte“: „Bei Euch im Haus liegen noch von Joe bewilligte Projektanträge gegen Antisemitismus. Die sind alle geprüft, mit der Israelischen Botschaft verabredet und über unser Fraktionsticket finanziert.“
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Polizeipräsidentin bei Israel-Verein: From the river to the sea – mit dem Segen der Polizei Berlins Polizeipräsidentin sprach als Ehrengast bei einem christlichen Verein. Der spricht Palästina das Existenzrecht ab und fördert Siedlungsbau.

Wer auf Demos "From the River to the sea" ruft, wird polizeilich verfolgt. Wenn radikale Christen den Spruch verwenden und damit das Existenzrecht Palästinas verneinen, werden sie von Berlins Polizeipräsidentin Slowik Meisel beehrt taz.de/Polizeipraes...

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

US military investigators believe it is likely US forces were responsible for the Minab school attack.

"If a US role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of US conflicts in the Middle East." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israel has just issued a demand that all of Beirut’s southern suburbs, an area roughly the size of central Berlin or lower Manhattan, run for their lives. Tens of thousands are forced to flee- again. Real fears that they will level much of southern Beirut- an area where more than 500,000 live.

Israel's Digital Occupation — The Dial Lebanon has become a laboratory for a new age of warfare.

“The drones that hover over the skies of Lebanon…collect large swathes of data — Wi-Fi, IP addresses, phone signals — which are then organized by AI…in what some scholars and activists say amounts to a “digital occupation.” Fascinating by @justinsalhani.bsky.social

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أفول دراسات الصراع من إقليم تيغراي في إثيوبيا إلى السودان وقطاع غزّة، خلّفت الحروب الأهلية وعمليات مكافحة التمرّد منذ مطلع عشري�…

The piece @wlacher.bsky.social and I wrote for @dissentmag.bsky.social is now available in Arabic | The Demise of Conflict Studies

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

أفول دراسات الصراع – سوريا المتجدّدة من إقليم تيغراي في إثيوبيا إلى السودان وقطاع غزّة، خلّفت الحروب الأهلية وعمليات مكافحة التمرّد منذ مطلع عشري�…

ترجمة عربية لمقالتنا عن أفول دراسات الصراع

قطاع كامل متخصص في دراسات الوساطة، وحفظ السلام، ونزع السلاح، والعدالة الانتقالية، قد أصبح إلى حدّ كبير منتهي الصلاحية. ويتساءل الباحثان فولفرام لاخر وإيفان غيشاوا في مراجعة نقدية: هل كانت دراسات النزاع، منذ بدايتها ربما، علماً إمبريالياً؟

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der das traditionell liberale Flaggschiff Deutschlands über den völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg eines antidemokratische Imperialisten, der sich einen Dreck um die Menschen im Iran schert, ein Pro und Contra macht.

TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme

The DFG (German Research Foundation) has a programme funding stays of up to three months at German academic institutions for researchers in early career phases and of all disciplines from MENA (www.dfg.de/en/news/news...) and Sub-Saharan Africa (www.dfg.de/en/news/news...).

Russia blames Ukrainian naval drones as tanker sinks in Mediterranean The Arctic Metagaz went down between Libya and Malta after it was hit by explosions and a fire, Libyan officials say.

A Russian LNG tanker has sunk in the Mediterranean between Libya and Malta after it was hit by explosions.

Russia accused Ukraine of targeting the Arctic Metagaz with "uncrewed sea drones" launched from the Libyan coast.

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“Just another faceless three-digit number of Muslim children extinguished from existence and relegated to A11...” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

Hat der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien wirklich gerade die Empfehlung ausgesprochen, die nächsten Bücher
hier www.roter-buchladen.de
hier thegoldenshop.org
oder hier buchladen-weltkugel.de
zu bestellen? Respekt.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"Cancel your subscription. Using the free version? Delete the app, because your conversations still feed the machine. Then try an alternative, and tell at least one person why."

It is a sign that the administration has a rock solid and very legitimate justification for attacking Iran that the justification changes on a daily basis.

Trump team offers shifting views of US goals as Iran war engulfs Mideast US President Donald Trump's administration offered conflicting responses to questions over the attack on Iran and how to bring an end to the conflict even as joint US-Israeli air strikes over the week...

Manche scheinen Fragen an die Trump-Administration zu haben, was die Gründe und Ziele des US & israelischen Angriffs auf den Iran betrifft. Vielleicht sollten sie diese Fragen einfach stattdessen an die deutsche Regierung richten, denn die sagt ja, dass sie diese Gründe und Ziele kennt und teilt.

We are solidly back to the days of "WE are the civilized, makers and beneficiaries of the rules, and THEY are the uncivilized, entitled to no protections"

That mindset never really went away, some of just pretended it did. No denying it anymore