Ulli Diemer — Radical Digressions
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Ulli Diemer
All articles on this site are available in English. Some articles are also available in the following languages: French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Arabic
- Inclusion or Exclusion
- Encouraging people to remain segregated in ethnic and religious communities is not the way to build an inclusive society.
- Rights and Liberties
- Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
- Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel’s behaviour
- The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
Bulgarian
Chinese
- Abandoning the Public Interest (Simplied Chinese)
- The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
- Abandoning the Public Interest (Traditional Chinese)
- The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
- The Capital Punishment Debate
- The cold-blooded killing of a human being is horrifying. The existence of capital punishment make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
- Inclusion or Exclusion
- Encouraging people to remain segregated in ethnic and religious communities is not the way to build an inclusive society.
- Ten Health Care Myths
- Myths perpetuated by those who want to undermine the public health care system in Canada.
- One Vote for Democracy
- A critique of the practice and principles of consensus decision-making.
- Rights and Liberties
- Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
- History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the ‘feminists’ who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
Dutch
- Het publieke belang negeren
- We worden misschien gedwongen om de harde lessen die onze voorvaderen geleerd hebben, opnieuw te leren, ten koste van onszelf.
Farsi
- Abandoning the Public Interest
- The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
Greek
- The Iraq crisis in context
- A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
Hungarian
Italian – Digressioni Radicali
Japanese
- Abandoning the Public Interest
- The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
- Contamination
- The poisonout legacy of Ontario’s environmental cutbacks.
- Inclusion or Exclusion
- Encouraging people to remain segregated in ethnic and religious communities is not the way to build an inclusive society.
- Introduction to the Connexions Annual
- Despite the pervasive feeling that ‘nothing can be done’, people do join together to act in common when they feel threatened or wronged, or when they have a goal in sight which they desire passionately enough.
- One Vote for Democracy
- The ‘consensus’ model of group decision-making rarely works well. The democratic model is better both in principle and in practice.
Korean
- One Vote for Democracy
- A critique of the practice and principles of consensus decision-making.
Polish – Radykalna Dygresja
- Integracja czy wykluczenie?
- Inclusion or exclusion?
- Jeden Głos na Demokrację
- One vote for democracy: A critique of consensus decision-making.
- Kara Smierci
- The capital punishment debate.
Portuguese – Digressões Radicais
- Inclusão ou Exclusão?
- Com exceção ao poder de oposição do movimento das massas, que são mobilizados para os desafiar de forma direta e firme.
Swedish
Turkish
- Yetiskinlere okumayi ogretmek
- Teaching adults to read.
Vietnamese
- Ten Health Care Myths: Understanding Canada’s Medicare Debate
- Medicare’s opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
