After the election in the USA: a mood picture as I experience it.
Supporters of the election winner Trump don’t need to be asked about their mood so soon after the election. There is an enthusiastic mood of optimism on social media. The opposite is true for Democrats. And now Joe Biden is authorizing Ukraine to deploy long-range missiles against Russia in the final meters of his term of office. More here.
Guest post by the Native American & Human Rights Action Group
Shortly before the election in November, US President Joe Biden officially apologized to Native Americans for the former forced assimilation. Will he pardon long-term indigenous prisoner Leonard Peltier in his last days in office? More here.
US election 2024: Talking to voters in a small southern town.
While Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were celebrating their election parties, I drove to a polling station in southern Mississippi. Voters are queuing outside the door. Podcast in English here.
As German in USA: What crosses my mind before the election.
Harris or Trump? Some personal observations and experiences in the run-up to the election 2024. More here.
USA: Today is Columbus Day or, better, Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
On this day in honor of the Native Americans, US journalist Judd Legum reports: In Texas, Montgomery County Citizen’s Review Committee has reclassified a children’s book in the public library that describes the mistreatment of Native Americans – as fiction. Here.
What is true about accusations of a lack of state aid?
Have state institutions really failed to provide sufficient disaster relief in the US state of North Carolina? I asked some I know personally and trust about their experiences. More here.
Springfield. Ohio: Lawsuit against Donald Trump and JD Vance – and a Haitian saying they aren’t totally wrong.
Since Donald Trump claimed in the TV debate with Kamala Harris that migrants from Haiti were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, the tensions in the city have continued to grow. A non-profit is now suing Donald Trump and JD Vance. More here.
Former GDR women’s prison: a memorial since July 2024
There were cells for solitary confinement and dark detention. Around 24,000 women were imprisoned in Hoheneck in the Ore Mountains, around 8,000 of whom were political prisoners – the “Hoheneck women”. One of them was the biologist and now travel writer Carmen Rohrbach. She tells her story here.
Guest post: Film “Petra Kelly – Act Now!” about Green icon
Petra Kelly, born in Germany, grew up in the USA in the 1960s. As a student, she worked in Robert F. Kennedy’s election campaign team. Her role model was Martin Luther King Jr. with his philosophy of civil disobedience. In the early 1980s, she mobilized hundreds of thousands of people in Germany against the deployment of US nuclear missiles. More here.
The Second World War began 85 years ago. And the “sitting war” in Alsace.
The war began on September 1, 1939 – in the East. Strasbourg was evacuated on the same day. 400,000 people had to leave Alsace and Lorraine. Ghost towns, cats and dogs were left behind. More here.
