Posted on January 24, 2021. Tags: coups, DC riots, Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon, Nazis, putsch, Trump
Image by Tyler Merber There are many terms being thrown around to describe the events in Washington DC on 6 January: sedition, insurrection, protest, riot, mob, even coup. The most historically accurate term is a putsch, with any number of examples of angry mobs being channelled to overthrow civilian authority. It may have started as […]
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Posted in Europe, France, Germany, Political Security, Security Issues, Terrorism, US, World
Posted on August 23, 2015. Tags: catalonia, Democracy, euro, European Union, eurozone crisis, Francois Mitterand, Germany, Helmut Kohl, Hitler, Kissinger, Legitimacy, Merkel, NATO, Nazis, Scotland, Soviet Union, Weimar
This article was originally published by The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in Carnegie Ethics Online on 17 August 2015. In Klaus Harpprecht’s 1995 biography of Thomas Mann, he highlights a statement which Mann wrote in 1947, which, as Harpprecht puts it, “one reads with a distinct shiver half a century later”: In […]
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Posted in Europe, Germany, Global Economy, World