Denna bok motiverades bl.a. av Ferrys missnöje med att folk ofta fann hans sångtexter felaktigt återgivna på internätet; han ansåg en definitiv, auktoritativ utgåva nödvändig:
Den publicerades 2022 av Chatto & Windus – sedan länge, fusionerat med Jonathan Cape, en del av Random House och därefter Penguin Random House, men kanske ändå fortfarande i någon mening Aldous Huxleys gamla förlag – med en introduktion av James Truman (NYT, Condé Nast) och ett förord av Ferry.
Tidig 70-talsmodernism med vy över Brunnsviken och Hagaparken.
I bakgrunden kommer Birger Jarlsgatan upp och fortsätter ut till höger mot sin sista sträckning fram till rondellen och svängningen till vänster mot parallella Roslagsgatan vid Johannes skola, där den övergår i Cederdalsgatan. I förgrunden börjar Valhallavägen.
Radio Free Amanda (Amanda Yee) på PSL-knutna BreakThrough News intervjuar mångstädes publicerade Pawel Wargan om kinesisk konsultativ demokrati eller s.k. whole-process people’s democracy.
Intervjun föranleds av Wargans och antropologen Jason Hickels artikel ‘Building Whole-Process People’s Democracy in China’, nyligen publicerad av Progressive International. Man är inte helt övertygad om alla Hickels forskningsresultat, men han tycks inta rätta ståndpunkter i flera viktiga frågor.
Intervjuerna på Amandas The China Report föregås alltid av några minuters Kinarelaterade nyheter.
Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government
The Libertarian Institute, 2025
Publisher’s Description:
In Creative Chaos, journalist and author William Van Wagenen tells the real story behind the U.S. and Israeli origins of Syria’s so-called “civil war” of 2011-2016 which led to the takeover of the country by Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) in 2024.
The book examines the U.S.’s role in instigating an al Qaeda-led insurgency against the Syrian government, in collaboration with regional powers, including Qatar, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.
About the Author (from The Cradle):
William Van Wagenen is a writer for the Libertarian Institute. He has written extensively on the Syrian war, with a specific focus on the role of US planners in sparking and exacerbating the conflict. William holds a master’s degree in Theological Studies from Harvard University and survived a kidnapping in the Sinjar region of Iraq in 2007.
Det lilla partiet KPP i Polen uppges ha förklarats strida mot den polska konstitutionen. Svenska SKP:s tidning Riktpunkt har i flera artiklar följt den utveckling som lett fram till detta. Googles AI berättar – med en felaktig länk till Polska förenade arbetarpartiet – att Polens konstitutionella domstol i onsdags avgjorde att partiets aktiviteter
“strider mot landets konstitution och beslutade att förbjuda partiet. Förbudet motiveras med att partiets mål och verksamhet är oförenliga med konstitutionen, som förbjuder partier som förespråkar totalitära ideologier som nazism, fascism och kommunism. Domstolen ska nu besluta om att avregistrera partiet, vilket i praktiken innebär att det upphör att existera.”
Google förklarar närmare:
“Bakgrund: Försök att förbjuda partiet pågår sedan tidigare. År 2023 infördes ändringar i straffbalken som ger upp till tre års fängelse för att offentligt främja ett kommunistiskt statligt system eller sprida, sälja eller inneha material som syftar till detsamma. Även kommunistiska symboler kan vara föremål för straff om de används för att främja ett totalitärt system.
Domstolens beslut: Domstolen fann att de mål och den verksamhet partiet bedriver är oförenliga med konstitutionen, som förbjuder partier som förespråkar totalitära ideologier.
Konsekvenser: Förbudet leder till att partiet omedelbart måste avregistreras och upphör därmed att existera som officiellt politiskt parti.
Tidigare händelser: Förbudet är ett resultat av en längre politisk process som inletts sedan regeringspartiet Lag och Rättvisa (PiS) kom till makten. Ett tidigare försök att lagstifta mot kommunistiska symboler och idéer gjordes 2017.”
Det här är, till skillnad från mycket annat som av vänstern beskrivits så, en entydigt fascistisk typ av åtgärd initierad av högernationalistiska PiS. Den ligger visserligen helt i linje med den “liberala demokratins” långa rad av liknande åtgärder alltsedan kalla krigets början. Men det är PiS allena som nu har drivit igenom den, under ledning av presidenten Karol Nawrocki och utan stöd av regeringspartiet KO och Tusk. Det har m.a.o. möjliggjorts av PiS’ i väst så hårt kritiserade tillsättningar av domare, här närmare bestämt i konstitutionsdomstolen, Trybunał Konstytucyjny.
Domaren Krystyna Pawlowiczs motivering att partiets ideologi “goes against the fundamental human values and the traditions of European and Christian civilization” framstår som mycket märkligare och falskare idag än den tidigare skulle gjort. Jag ger ordet till dr Wiki, som hänvisar till vad som ser ut som trovärdiga polska och kinesiska källor:
“Amongst the radical left parties, the KPP has been classified as rather conservative. The party is friendly towards religion, and published an article titled ‘Communists and Catholics – working people – united by a bond of solidarity and fraternity’ in which it argued: ‘It is not that the Communists were and are opposed to Catholics. On the contrary…’. It reasoned that instead of being anti-theist, the Polish People’s Republic was strongly religious in terms of customs, and that the Vatican had authority over the priests on religious matters. It demands a fairer agreement between the Vatican and the Polish state. The KPP spoke against same-sex partnerships, criticizing the political culture of Polish centre-left parties in which ‘the pinnacle of leftism has become the fight for the rights of sexual minorities’. The party argues that centre-left parties are ‘full of people who are wealthy and therefore absolutely uninterested in the fate of the poorer social classes’, and criticized same-sex partnership proposals as ‘a priority for the homosexual lobbies based on the ideology of the European Union’. The Polish Communist Party also argued that ‘who equates the vision of the left with the defence of sexual minorities, feminism, abortion and euthanasia reveals the lack of ideology […], clearly betraying the entire left’. It wrote:
‘Since the early 1990s, the rivalry between political parties, which have failed Polish society in the 21st century, has focused on abortion, religion in schools, crosses in the Sejm and other public places, and more recently, gender and animal rights. These petty bourgeois parties and their leaders argue about this instead of issues that are relevant for a society that has “broken free” from communist “oppression”.’…
In 2025, the party reiterated its position on feminism and the LGBT movement:
‘Our position on LGBT and other issues such as quotas and feminatives [specifikt polskt politisk-korrekt språkfenomen, tycks det som] has remained unchanged for many years. These topics have dominated the activities of organisations and many parties in the West, in our opinion diverting public attention from the real causes of social problems and tensions. […] Everyone should have the right to their own views, including those who do not like people of a different orientation. Currently, even those who express their views on these topics very cautiously are immediately classified as backward, and their words are labelled with the overused term “hate speech”.’”
Tiderna har förändrats. Det politiska sakläget har förändrats. Det är nu KPP som står för den meningsfulla konservatismen. Och även för Europa. Medan PiS verkar för Epstein- och folkmordsatlanticismen.
How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
The Libertarian Institute, 2024
Publisher’s Description:
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much?
In Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, Scott Horton explains how since the end of the last Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, successive U.S. administrations pressed their advantage against the new Russian Federation to the point that it finally blew up into a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine.
From NATO expansion into Eastern Europe, to “shock therapy” economic policy, the Balkan and Chechen wars, color-coded revolutions, new missile defense systems, assassinations, Russiagate and ultimately the brutal conflict in Ukraine, Provoked shows what really happened and why it did not have to be this way.
From the Inside Flap:
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much?
In Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, Scott Horton explains how since the end of the last Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, successive U.S. administrations pressed their advantage against the new Russian Federation to the point that it finally blew up into a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine.
From NATO expansion into Eastern Europe, to “shock therapy” economic policy, the Balkan and Chechen wars, color-coded revolutions, new missile defense systems, assassinations, Russiagate and ultimately the brutal conflict in Ukraine, Provoked shows what really happened and why it did not have to be this way.
Blurbs/Reviews:
“Scott Horton has become an invaluable chronicler of the destruction wrought by our interventionist foreign policy. With his new book Provoked, Scott blows the lid off the mountains of lies used to justify Washington’s waste of billions of dollars and countless Ukrainian lives in a futile proxy war with Russia. Truth is the greatest disinfectant and Scott Horton’s crucial account of this awful chapter in U.S. foreign policy is like a spring cleaning. Read this book and pick up copies for your friends…and adversaries!”
Dr. Ron Paul, former Texas congressman, chairman and founder of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-host of The Liberty Report
“Provoked is manna from heaven for anyone who wants to know where the extreme Russophobia in the West came from, as well as the central role the United States played in causing the Ukraine war. Horton provides a detailed account of America’s foolish and dishonest behavior toward Russia in the years since the Cold War ended.”
John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
“Scott Horton’s important new book traces America’s journey to war and intervention through a succession of presidencies and builds a case that points to a frightening, potential final destination for the United States: isolation and alienation from most of the world. Scott’s message is simple. Stop now before it’s too late.”
Col. Douglas Macgregor, U.S. Army (ret.), CEO, Our Country Our Choice
“Scott Horton is a treasure. He is also the neocons’ nightmare. He knows their deceptions and lies and he is fearless in exposing the disasters they have wrought. Provoked is the most thoroughly researched, rationally grounded, and compellingly presented assault on war and defense of peace written in English in the post-9/11 era. It will become the standard against which all similar works are measured, and indispensable reading for all who need to understand how the American government has time and again brought civilization to a terrifying precipice.”
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, New York Times best-selling author and commentator, host of the Judging Freedom Podcast
“Scott Horton’s new book is one of the rare literary works that is impeccably sourced, unimpeachable in its logical conclusions – and fearless in presenting the truth, regardless of how unpopular or inconvenient it may be. It’s a hard read, though. Not because of its length – its very thorough – but for its revelations and implications: our country has some ugly warts that must be addressed and some sins for which it must atone. If we honestly look ourselves in the mirror and make necessary changes, we can avoid some of the worst outcomes. Ignore Scott’s sage observations, however, and we could be in for a rough future.”
Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, U.S. Army (ret.), author of Eleventh Hour in 2020 America: How America’s Foreign Policy Got Jacked Up – and How the Next Administration Can Fix It and host of Daniel Davis – Deep Dive
“Delving deep into the record of how the U.S. national security machine lied and conspired to birth a new Cold War that grows hotter by the day, Scott Horton has once again done us a fantastic service. Never has the axiom that the devil is in the details been more powerfully demonstrated. His account, powerful because it is so detailed, covering the serial cynical maneuvers that expanded and transformed Nato into an instrument of aggression all the way to the promotion of the war that has destroyed Ukraine is a resource that apologists for these feckless policies will find it hard to answer.”
Andrew Cockburn, Washington editor, Harper’s Magazine, author of The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
About the Author:
Scott Horton is director of The Libertarian Institute, editorial director of the online written publication Antiwar, host of Antiwar Radio for Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and host of the Scott Horton Show podcast. He has conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. He is the author of Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War With Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine (2024), Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism (2021), Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan (2017) and editor of The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004-2019 (2019) and Hotter than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (2022). He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.
1926
Göran Rosenberg diskuterade igår sin bok Marcus Ehrenpreis obesvarade kärlek i ett evenemang på ABF. På Facebook nämner han att boken i år också utgivits i engelsk översättning, och som han påpekar “under en titel som kanske mer än den svenska säger vad den handlar om”: Another Zionism, Another Judaism.
Här är ABF:s presentation:
“Marcus Ehrenpreis var överrabbin i Stockholm mellan 1914-1948, en minst sagt turbulent period i Europa och världen. Ehrenpreis som var född i Lviv, som idag ligger i Ukraina, hade gjort en snabb rabbin-karriär i Kroatien och Bulgarien innan han kom till Stockholm för att leda den judiska församlingen i Stockholm 1914.
Göran Rosenbergs bok ‘Marcus Ehrenpreis obesvarade kärlek’ (Bonniers 2021) belyser Ehrenpreis livsgärning för judiskt liv och kultur samt hans intellektuella gärning. Rosenberg finner i Ehrenpreis, med hans tankevärld om den kulturella sionismen – där judisk kultur, religion och filosofi är en potential för att stärka det mångfacetterade samhället globalt, istället för fokus på den nationella sionismen – en vän och följeslagare.
Vilken roll hade Ehrenpreis under den sionistiska rörelsen i slutet av 1800- och i början av 1900-talet? Hur agerade han för att stärka judiskt liv i Sverige? Vilken roll spelade han för att rädda judar undan förintelsen? Och vad hade Ehrenpreis sagt om utvecklingen av Israel om han hade levt idag?
Om detta talar Göran Rosenberg med Calle Nathanson den 27 november kl 18:00-19:30 i ABF-huset.”
Och här blurbar och citat från recensioner av den engelska utgåvan på Amazon:
“Ehrenpreis has faded into history, but Rosenberg here ably revives him as a contrarian voice who speaks to present events…A capably told life of a religious leader who envisioned the whole world as a safe haven for his people.”
Kirkus Reviews
“Beautifully written…a calm, detailed book, transformed by a fast-paced final chapter.”
Manhattan Book Review
“Never before have Jews so desperately needed alternative visions, ways of imagining that we can flourish without dominating others. By resuscitating Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis, Göran Rosenberg shows how we might envision a different future by reclaiming a lost past. In this dark and shameful time, figures like Ehrenpreis, and authors like Rosenberg, offer a source of light.”
Peter Beinart author of The Crisis of Zionism
“Marcus Ehrenpreis, a long-serving leader of Sweden’s Jewish community, worked for a renaissance of Jewish life during one of the darkest periods of his people’s history. In telling the story of this admirable man, Göran Rosenberg shows that the questions Ehrenpreis grappled with – about Zionism, assimilation, anti-Semitism, and the possibility of a Jewish future in Europe – could not be more relevant today.”
Adam Kirsch, author of The People and the Books and The Blessing and the Curse
“In this powerful, passionate book, Göran Rosenberg rescues Marcus Ehrenpreis from obscurity and places him in the pantheon of great Jewish thinkers and leaders. This is a deeply moving study of the tensions in twentieth-century Europe between Jews and Christians, Zionism and universalism, the love of community and the love of humanity.”
Derek Penslar, author of Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader
“The extraordinary life of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis opens a window to the momentous twentieth century of Jewish history. From Ukraine to the Balkans to Scandinavia, Ehrenpreis was at the forefront of political and intellectual debates. Göran Rosenberg presents a gripping account of his life and a fascinating account of the broad sweep of Jewish history, from the glowing hopes of the late nineteenth century through the horrors of the Holocaust and the passionate disputes over Zionism.”
Susannah Heschel, editor of Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel
“A finely grained, meticulously researched portrait of a twentieth-century communal rabbi who was ever attentive to the Judennot – the ‘distress’ posed to European Jewry by virulent racial antisemitism – but also no less to the Not des Judentums – the ‘distress’ to which Judaism as a spiritual and ethical calling was subject by the pull of ethnic nationalism as a response to the Judennot. Göran Rosenberg deftly presents Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis as exemplifying how modern Jewry may meet the existential challenge of an unyielding commitment to securing the political dignity of Jewry while unwaveringly affirming the spiritual patrimony of Judaism as a prophetic universal voice transcending the limits of national politics and territorial loyalties.”
Paul Mendes-Flohr, author of Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent
“The search for the forgotten precedes the search for the better. Göran Rosenberg’s gripping story of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis’s spiritual and political endeavor in the fateful time of the Jewish state’s establishment is a strong building block for such a future.”
Dan Diner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rosenbergs klassiska bok om Israel med den oöversättbart ordlekande titeln Det förlorade landet: En personlig historia från 1996, tidigare översatt till franska, tyska och en rad andra språk, har också just utkommit i engelsk översättning: Israel: A Personal History.
Jan Olof Bengtsson 