has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Political and social comments based on tv footage from European news bulletins.
(www.hanskoster.com)
According to the western media and politicians the removal of Mubarak and the death of Kadhafi mark the end of the Arab uprising.
For the people of Egypt and Libya this 'regime change' is only the start of a democratic proces in a polarised society.
Western media coverage of the Arab uprising and political commitment with the peoples movement in Arabian countries tend to be simplistic, naive and self-centred.
(wwwhanskoster.com)
Once again NATO nominates an enemy and tries to create democracy by force.
(www.hanskoster.com)
Ten years of War on Terror: it's hard to pick a winner.
(www.hanskoster.com)
It's time to wake up: US citizens and politicians can only pray and hope their American Dream will last forever.
(www.hanskoster.com)
UK riots clarify David Cameron's Big Society.
(www.hanskoster.com)
Western media coverage of the Arabic uprise (mainly based on embedded internet footage) tends to be simplistic, naive and subjective.
No serious attempt is made to point out the social, economic and ethnic problems that fuel this conflict.
(www.hanskoster/com)
Western economic and (geo)political interests create a highly selective media coverage and an inconsistent policy on human rights.
(www.hanskoster.com)
The remarkable silence around the killing of Osama bin Laden raises some questions about the significance the (former) leader of international terrorism.
Futher more it shows that Nobel Peace Price winner Barack Obama has changed the War on Terror into a hightech execution mission: enemies of the state are no longer brought to justice, but simply killed by drones, no questions asked.
Political and economic powers always stick together, overruling true democracy.
The war on terror in Afghanistan started as a one-dimensional hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
It has turned into a tribal, asymetric war with a renamed enemy without a perspective of victory on both sides.
As the ISAF-forces are pulling out over the next years, the western world will nominate
a new enemy (Iran?) to justify their military expenses.
We need an enemy to feel save, but can we still afford it?
