Montana: “Diverse” chicken eggs and American robin babies
In the USA, I’m usually out in the countryside “at home” for a while. The next village and the neighbors are within a bearable distance. And then there is the magnificent nature including “all creatures great and small”.. More here.
Women power: Lysistrata and her modern daughters
Sex is the elixir of life, the basis for procreation, but also a means of brutal subjugation. Women on almost all continents have therefore used sex strikes as a weapon of peaceful resistance. More here.
Photo walk on a Sunday morning
This is my third time at this location at the northern end of Flathead Lake. For the first time, however, it’s not winter, but late spring. As it has rained quite a lot, the landscape is wonderfully green. A different world. More here.
5th anniversary of George Floyd’s death
Police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd for nine minutes until he suffocated. Since then, Floyd has been regarded by some as a martyr and by others as a drug-addicted criminal who left his five children to their mothers. More here.
On the 100th birthday of the human rights activist Malcolm X
Malcolm X was one of the most prominent figures of the US Black rights movement. He preached separatism and resistance against whites. It was only shortly before his death in 1965 that he adopted a more conciliatory tone. What traces did Malcolm X’s ideas leave behind? More here.
80 years atomic bombs: International Uranium Film Festival
2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion in the US state of New Mexico and the subsequent nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The International Uranium Film Festival is dedicated to the entire spectrum of this topic. From May 17 to 31 in Rio de Janeiro.
May 11: belated remembrance of two violent deaths
A side effect of traveling by bus or train is the many hours I have at my disposal on the way from A to B. While browsing Facebook and X, I found out about two violent deaths that both occurred on May 11. More here.
San Antonio, part 2: the annual “Battle of the Flowers”
It is Fiesta time again in San Antonio. For eleven days, the locals go wild, dressing up, partying and parading. And this year, I experience this hustle and bustle up close. More here.
A critical commentary by Ernst Wolff on the role of the USA
From World War I and the rise of the National Socialists to the Marshall Plan. The content does not automatically reflect the opinion of the blog operator. More here.
Guest post by Volker Seitz on the dissolution of USAID, part 2
