Monatsarchive: August 2020

Dorothea Hahn, taz: Sanders selbst unterstützt Biden. Er tut es ohne Enthusiasmus, aber entschlossen. Seinen Anhängern sagt er: „Wir haben keine Wahl. Wir müssen ihn wählen.“ Ab dem ersten Amtstag des neuen Präsidenten will Sanders mit seiner Basis für Klimapolitik, Krankenversicherungen … Weiterlesen →

Let us begin — you and I together, one nation, under God — united in our love for America and united in our love for each other. For love is more powerful than hate. Hope is more powerful than fear … Weiterlesen →

David Smith, Guardian: “Here and now, I give you my word,” Biden said. “If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us, not the worst. I will be an ally of the light, not … Weiterlesen →

BBC: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused European allies of „siding with the ayatollahs“ after they said the US could not reimpose sanctions on Iran. The UK, France and Germany said the US did not have the legal … Weiterlesen →

Former Republican National Security Officials For Biden (A project of Defending Democracy Together):

Anthony Zurcher, BBC: Call it Joe Biden’s „return to normalcy“ speech. That was Warren G Harding’s campaign slogan when he ran for president in 1920, with a campaign centred around healing and calming Americans after the trauma of World War … Weiterlesen →

I rather believe with Faulkner, “The past is never dead, it is not even past,” and this for the simple reason that the world we live in at any moment is the world of the past; it consists of the monuments and … Weiterlesen →

Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College: Tom Wicker’s piece, NYT 25.05.1975: BOSTON‐The approach of the Bicentennial year is causing a good many Americans to search for the “deeper causes” underlying the recent collapse of American foreign policy and the economic and … Weiterlesen →