Monthly Archives: August 2020

New York Times: Deploying a little-known National Guard reconnaissance plane in four American cities to monitor protests this spring did not violate rules against the military collecting intelligence on citizens, a Pentagon report has concluded. But the report by the Air … Continue reading →

BBC: A volunteer fire-fighting corps made up of state prisoners, which has helped the state battle blazes since World War Two, has been diminished this year due to the pandemic. Los Angeles Times: Cal Fire’s union leadership began sounding the … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →