Monatsarchive: Juli 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlC01CcHhF4&feature=youtu.be Adrien and I would often argue about whether dictators were products of their societies or whether the inverse was true and societies were shaped by the trauma and repression of dictatorship. In Iraq I saw the kidnapping epidemic that … Weiterlesen →

We Americans have the dangerous tendency in our international thinking to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward other nations. We consider ourselves to be more noble and decent than other peoples, and consequently in a better position to decide what is … Weiterlesen →

The BBC reports that Bernie Sanders has endorsed Hillary Clinton, saying „there was a significant coming together between the two campaigns and we produced, by far, the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party.“ I find this … Weiterlesen →

Today’s Guardian: Maybe it was too great an ambition to dismantle quite a sophisticated country with a long-established civilisation, traditions and culture of its own, and to recreate a mid-Atlantic construct of what government should look like, often going against … Weiterlesen →

From the BBC. I find the combination of this headline and photograph really funny.

The world’s introduction to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi came on February 5, 2003, in the sixty-first minute of Colin Powell’s speech to the UN Security Council making the case for war against Iraq. It began with a declarative sentence that, like … Weiterlesen →

There was even a somewhat rarefied revival of our primitive Yankee boastfulness, the reversion of senility to that republican childhood when we expected the whole world to copy our republican institutions. We amusingly ignored the fact that it was just … Weiterlesen →