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Tue, 25.03.2008
this is my first time finding out about american german carnival. being a German born in US, its nice to find out there is such a carnival.
Tue, 25.03.2008
this is my first time finding out about american german carnival. being a German born in US, its nice to find out there is such a carnival.
about Transatlantic Foreign Policy Attitudes and Threat Perceptions
Tue, 06.02.2007
Prof. Drezner of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University discusses the assumption of American exceptionalism in his book review "Mind the Gap" for the The National Interest. The first book is Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes' A
Tue, 06.02.2007
Prof. Drezner of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University discusses the assumption of American exceptionalism in his book review "Mind the Gap" for the The National Interest. The first book is Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes' A
about Europe's Lingering Scar of Communism
Wed, 24.01.2007
Of everything the communists in Europe have to deal with these days, the only thing they are concerned about is preventing the Soviet Union from being put on the same level as the Nazis.
Wed, 24.01.2007
Of everything the communists in Europe have to deal with these days, the only thing they are concerned about is preventing the Soviet Union from being put on the same level as the Nazis.
about "Germanizer" and Counter-Terrorism Calendar
Sun, 14.01.2007
The German and American taxpayers finance some amazing stuff:• The blog German Impressions writes about the weird DW World website "Germanizer": "Ever wonder what it’s like to be German? Don’t compromise - Germanize!"
Sun, 14.01.2007
The German and American taxpayers finance some amazing stuff:• The blog German Impressions writes about the weird DW World website "Germanizer": "Ever wonder what it’s like to be German? Don’t compromise - Germanize!"
about Senior German Government Official Puts Guantanamo in Perspective
Fri, 12.01.2007
The human rights commissioner of the German government, Guenter Nooke (CDU), said on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Guantanamo that the prison with its 395 inmates was "not as special as it is portrayed in the public" given the "t
Fri, 12.01.2007
The human rights commissioner of the German government, Guenter Nooke (CDU), said on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Guantanamo that the prison with its 395 inmates was "not as special as it is portrayed in the public" given the "t
about Is the party over yet?
Mon, 01.01.2007
It still hasn not stopped in Berlin, poor but sexy as it is. And in a way, the party hasn not really stopped here since the World Cup euphoria got the Berliners and everybody else in the country walking upright again this summer. Thats why this years New Years Eve motto
Mon, 01.01.2007
It still hasn not stopped in Berlin, poor but sexy as it is. And in a way, the party hasn not really stopped here since the World Cup euphoria got the Berliners and everybody else in the country walking upright again this summer. Thats why this years New Years Eve motto
about In Dirndl und Trachtenhut zum Meeting
Mon, 11.12.2006
Vor kurzem sah ich mir wieder einmal Inhalte interkultureller Trainingsangebote über europäische Länder an. Die Angebote haben (traurigen) Unterhaltungswert, vor allem wenn - in Amerika sehr beliebt - ganz Europa über einen Kamm geschert wird. So h...
Mon, 11.12.2006
Vor kurzem sah ich mir wieder einmal Inhalte interkultureller Trainingsangebote über europäische Länder an. Die Angebote haben (traurigen) Unterhaltungswert, vor allem wenn - in Amerika sehr beliebt - ganz Europa über einen Kamm geschert wird. So h...
about The future doesn't belong to Islam, thank you very much
Sun, 10.12.2006
Mark Steyn is, as so often in the last years, claiming yet again that the future belongs to Islam. Point is, demographics aren't quite as decisive as they used to be, and large, uneducted masses are mostly a danger to themselves nowadays. Not to mention the fact that there only are 15 million [...]
Sun, 10.12.2006
Mark Steyn is, as so often in the last years, claiming yet again that the future belongs to Islam. Point is, demographics aren't quite as decisive as they used to be, and large, uneducted masses are mostly a danger to themselves nowadays. Not to mention the fact that there only are 15 million [...]
about Success from a European Perspective Part 2
Sun, 10.12.2006
In the first part of this two series article we talked about several aspects of life and success in Holland and in the UK. We talked about the economy, taxation, fitness, smoking, social classes and a few other topics of interest that help us compare different aspects of a successful lifestyle from [...]
Sun, 10.12.2006
In the first part of this two series article we talked about several aspects of life and success in Holland and in the UK. We talked about the economy, taxation, fitness, smoking, social classes and a few other topics of interest that help us compare different aspects of a successful lifestyle from [...]
about NATO Summit at Riga, Latvia
Sun, 10.12.2006
As I mentioned in a previous post, NATO More Active on Global Security: From Brussels to Riga, NATO summit will be held at Riga, the capital of Latvia on November 28th and 29th. This is a landmark of history from the following aspects. At this summit, leaders of Western democracies meet and talk [...]
Sun, 10.12.2006
As I mentioned in a previous post, NATO More Active on Global Security: From Brussels to Riga, NATO summit will be held at Riga, the capital of Latvia on November 28th and 29th. This is a landmark of history from the following aspects. At this summit, leaders of Western democracies meet and talk [...]
about Merkel's Geopolitical Menage Trois
Sun, 10.12.2006
Germanys Angela Merkel, eager diplomat, objective conciliator, and honest broker between East and West, finds herself in a remarkable ménage a trois over energy policy. Not France and Poland, with whom she holds a December 5 summit: her controversial partners are Russia and Poland, each [...]
Sun, 10.12.2006
Germanys Angela Merkel, eager diplomat, objective conciliator, and honest broker between East and West, finds herself in a remarkable ménage a trois over energy policy. Not France and Poland, with whom she holds a December 5 summit: her controversial partners are Russia and Poland, each [...]
about Germany and the United States Failed to Train Afghanistan's Police
Sun, 10.12.2006
The creation of a stable and well-functioning state requires a well-trained police force that is not corrupt, but abides by the law and enforces the law without bias. Afghanistan is not anywhere close to such a police force. According to a Congressional R
Sun, 10.12.2006
The creation of a stable and well-functioning state requires a well-trained police force that is not corrupt, but abides by the law and enforces the law without bias. Afghanistan is not anywhere close to such a police force. According to a Congressional R
about Americans Are the "Friendliest Nation"
Sun, 10.12.2006
While some newspapers and magazines run very critical or even Anti-American opinion pieces, some of them also write very pro-American commentaries: "America: The Misunderstood World Power" is the headline of an article in the travel section of a
Sun, 10.12.2006
While some newspapers and magazines run very critical or even Anti-American opinion pieces, some of them also write very pro-American commentaries: "America: The Misunderstood World Power" is the headline of an article in the travel section of a
about Are you riding the Wohlstandswelle yet?
Sat, 09.12.2006
If you believe everything you read, and I would never recommend doing this, of course, Germany suddenly finds itself in the wonderful world of economic upswing. Signs of this Aufschwung are being reported everywhere and it appears at times that the country has been afflicted by a giant and [...]
Sat, 09.12.2006
If you believe everything you read, and I would never recommend doing this, of course, Germany suddenly finds itself in the wonderful world of economic upswing. Signs of this Aufschwung are being reported everywhere and it appears at times that the country has been afflicted by a giant and [...]
about Hey Joe!
Mon, 04.12.2006
America has to catch up on human rights and social welfare or they will never be fully accepted as the lead nation of the free world.The American rightosphere regularly mocks Europe for having high unemployment rates, for social standards too high for a
Mon, 04.12.2006
America has to catch up on human rights and social welfare or they will never be fully accepted as the lead nation of the free world.The American rightosphere regularly mocks Europe for having high unemployment rates, for social standards too high for a
about Holy Christian and United States of America (HCUSA)
Sat, 02.12.2006
Die Trennung zwischen Staat und Kirche ist scheinbar nur wichtig, wenn es darum geht, Muslimen auf die Füsse zu treten. Wenn Christen in den USA für sich beanspruchen, dass die USA ein christliches Land ist und dass jeder Abgeordnete deshalb auf die ...
Sat, 02.12.2006
Die Trennung zwischen Staat und Kirche ist scheinbar nur wichtig, wenn es darum geht, Muslimen auf die Füsse zu treten. Wenn Christen in den USA für sich beanspruchen, dass die USA ein christliches Land ist und dass jeder Abgeordnete deshalb auf die ...
about Dorothy Thompson: Fearless Friend of Free Germany
Sun, 26.11.2006
Earlier I wrote a about Martha Dodd, an American woman who saw with her own eyes what was happening in Germany after 1933 and forcefully warned a disbelieving American public. But before Martha, there was Dorothy Thompson, the first American
Sun, 26.11.2006
Earlier I wrote a about Martha Dodd, an American woman who saw with her own eyes what was happening in Germany after 1933 and forcefully warned a disbelieving American public. But before Martha, there was Dorothy Thompson, the first American
about Lame Ducks
Sun, 26.11.2006
The more things change, the more they stay the same. On either side of the Atlantic, it seems. Germanys grand coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel has been in power for a year now but other than having applied a band-aid or two on existing social systems here, the coalition partners have [...]
Sun, 26.11.2006
The more things change, the more they stay the same. On either side of the Atlantic, it seems. Germanys grand coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel has been in power for a year now but other than having applied a band-aid or two on existing social systems here, the coalition partners have [...]
about The German-American Economic Collapse
Tue, 21.11.2006
Introduction I have been teaching adult Sunday School off-and-on for 25 years now, first as a Lutheran, then as a Covenanter (for my German guests, that is an evangelical offshoot of the Swedish Lutherans). I learned early that if people are given the textbooks for free, attendance drops off and [...]
Tue, 21.11.2006
Introduction I have been teaching adult Sunday School off-and-on for 25 years now, first as a Lutheran, then as a Covenanter (for my German guests, that is an evangelical offshoot of the Swedish Lutherans). I learned early that if people are given the textbooks for free, attendance drops off and [...]
about Remembrance of things present
Sun, 19.11.2006
While thousands of Germans gathered just south of Berlin yesterday to protest a provocative neo-Nazi demonstration held to glorify fallen Wehrmacht soldiers of the Battle of Halbe, Chancellor Merkel and other government and diplomatic corps officials will be taking part in ceremonies in Berlin today [...]
Sun, 19.11.2006
While thousands of Germans gathered just south of Berlin yesterday to protest a provocative neo-Nazi demonstration held to glorify fallen Wehrmacht soldiers of the Battle of Halbe, Chancellor Merkel and other government and diplomatic corps officials will be taking part in ceremonies in Berlin today [...]
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Tracked: Aug 15, 10:07
I am pleased to announce that Dialog International and Liberale Stimme will be hosting the next Blog Carnival on US-German Relations on September 24. This is the fourth such event arranged by the Fulbrighters at The Atlantic Review, and we
Tracked: Aug 18, 11:48
Hidden behind the news of the disappearance of France's Lebanon peacekeeping forces is the small issue of Germany's problem of having their army face Israel if deployed along the Lebanese border.
Tracked: Aug 19, 17:35
The New Philadelphia Times Reporter from Ohio has long piece by Paul M. Krawzak about William R. Timken Jr., who is from Ohio and was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Germany on August 15, 2005:Asked if he can point to any major benefits from the improved r
Tracked: Aug 22, 14:49
On a recent trip to Europe I was reminded of the fact that Europeans are so much more conservation oriented and energy efficient than Americans. The lights in hotel hallways are off until you walk by the sensor or push a button; they go on for two minutes and then go off again. Motion sensors everywhere that turn lights on in hallways, stairwells and public spaces. In Munich I saw something for the first time: public escalators that dont move until someone walks onto it and passes the motion detector. All over downtown Munich there were non-moving escalators, waiting.
Tracked: Aug 22, 17:14
It is easy for us all to get caught up in our lives. It is also very easy to think that times have never been worse in the world
Tracked: Aug 22, 17:16
On Thursday US-Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ordered a stop to the NSA-SpySurveillance-program in a major blow to President Bush "stay the course"-slogan. In the case ACLU vs NSA the judge agreed that the surveillance-program collided
Tracked: Aug 22, 22:15
The conservative U.S. journalist and blogger John Rosenthal criticizes the American media and defends Chancellor Merkel and German public opinion. In TCS Daily he focuses on a comparision of President Bush's reception in Germany on his first and his lates
Tracked: Aug 24, 12:09
Imagine... a 23 year old Soldier that is stationed over at Germany has been deployed to Iraq. His family lives in the States, so his fiance. He has a couple of buddies in Germany, but they are military themselves. Now that it is time to pack up the stuff to go back to Germany. Nobody will be there, no family, no close friends, no fiance to say "Welcome Home, we are so happy to have you back" There is no crowd like in the States, no waving flags and hundreds of people that simply want to give him a hug just because he survived.
Tracked: Aug 25, 22:50
Beschäftigen uns in der Schweiz die Beziehungen zu den USA? Sind die schweizerisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen ein Thema, so wie die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen für die Deutschen eines sind? Nun, da Google immer Recht hat, kommt man zu einem eindeutigen Ergebnis: kein Vergleich.
Tracked: Sep 05, 09:04
Ohne den 11. September 2001 säße im Weißen Haus ein anderer, über Afghanistan wüsste die westliche Welt so viel wie über West-Kansas, und stehen gelassene Koffer wären höchstens als Stolperfalle gefährlich. Oder doch nicht? Experten skizzieren für SPIEGEL ONLINE die Welt, in der wir jetzt leben würden.
Tracked: Sep 05, 16:29
Hatte nie gejobbt, nix gelernt, fast nur Glück im Leben Und davon vielleicht nie gleich etwas zurückgegeben (Eins Zwo - Unschuld vom Lande) Mein Vater (Jahrgang ‘41) wäre als Baby beinahe durch einen amerikanischen Bombenangriff im Kinderwagen...
Tracked: Sep 05, 20:53
Do we here in Switzerland take any real interest in our relations with the USA? Do Swiss-US relations concern us the way German-US relations concern the Germans? As Google never lies, one has no choice but to conclude that there is simply no comparison here. Google the term German-US relations and you will be rewarded with 80,000 hits, whereas the analogous search for Swiss-US relations yields a paltry 958 results.
Tracked: Sep 09, 11:20
The movie "United 93" shows how American heroes take on the hijackers -- but only after a German passenger has tried to persuade them not to. The movie is described as "meticulously researched" and "fact-based", but there is
Tracked: Sep 10, 09:48
Ich frag mich das ja immer wieder: WAS STELLEN DIE SICH SO VOR, wenn sie Soldaten werden? Soldat-Sein ist cool, macht Spaß, macht einen stolz, wenn man sein Land verteidigt? Sch... ! Soldaten bringen Menschen um! Soldaten werden umgebracht! Soldaten haben alleweil, wenn´s ernst wird, mit Verletzten und Toten zu tun! Warum wundern die sich, wenn es dann so kommt, wie es für einen Soldaten eben kommen muß?
Tracked: Sep 10, 21:59
Wenn Geschehnisse sich zum soundsovielten Male jaehren, dann merken wir Alten, wie kurz das Leben ist und die Jungen, daß sie erwachsen geworden sind. Aber nicht nur diese Selbstbezüglichkeit ist es, die uns dazu bringt, Jahrestage zu feiern oder zu würdigen, je nachdem. Wir haben auch erkannt, daß die Geschehnisse auf dieser Welt sich immer auch auf das auswirken, was später passiert. Wenn also in diesen Tagen des Elften September gedacht wird, zum fünften Mal, dann denken wir auch über die Dinge nach, die seither passiert sind. Nachdem die Welt angesichts der Flugzeuge in den Twin Towers die verschiedenen Phasen von Unglauben, Entsetzen und Mitgefühl durchmachte, hat sich inzwischen das Bild komplett gewandelt. Wir blicken zurück auf fünf Jahre von Feindsuche, Kriegserklärung und Besetzung. Und je mehr die Amerikaner ihre Wehrhaftigkeit unter Beweis stellten, umso schneller verloren sie die Sympathie der Welt, die anfänglich in Wellen über die USA hinwegströmte. Warum wundern die sich, wenn es dann so kommt, wie es für einen Soldaten eben kommen muß?
Tracked: Sep 10, 22:00
Ich sass im Buero vor meinem Computer und schrieb eben an einem Text. Frueher habe ich geraucht, um von Satz zu Satz weiterzukommen. Heute habe ich ständig verschiedene Tabs mit Online-Newsdiensten geöffnet. Themenswitcher. Gedankenbeschleuniger. Wortgeber. Adrenalinpusher.
Tracked: Sep 11, 14:52
Last week German Chancellor Angela Merkel had some pointed comments about the US-led War on Terror. Speaking about the CIA secret prisons that President Bush had boasted about recently, Merkel stated, The use of such prisons does not conform to
Tracked: Sep 17, 23:13
NATO had a defense ministers meeting on June 7 and 8 in Brussels. This was a preparatory meeting for the summit meeting in Riga, Latvia on November 28 and 29. At the meeting, defense ministers discussed present dangers and realignment. NATO is expand...
Tracked: Sep 19, 12:58
It is 5 years since 9/11. No other atrocities have inflicted so much psychological impact on the global community in the post Cold War era. This is not simply because the scale of murder and demolition is much greater than those in 3/11 of Madrid and...
Tracked: Sep 19, 13:13
I hear some, if not many Americans complaining that Germany seems to have forgotten about the history of German-American post-war history, especially about the airlift and the contribution of John F. Kennedy and his successors as presidents of the United States. It might well be that we don't remember this history as it would be appropriate - but it is not forgotten.
Tracked: Sep 22, 14:58
Von einem plötzlichen Ende wird man nicht sprechen können: Zu lange schon war das kulturelle Angebot im Amerika Haus Berlin auf ein Minimum eingedampft und seine Türen für die allgemeine Öffentlichkeit buchstäblich verbarri...
Tracked: Sep 23, 15:56
Theres a good essay about the pope flap up at Spiegel Online. Its by Claus Christian Malzahn, and it should please even the droning bores over at Davids Medienkritik, who have the reputation in the US as sharp critics of anti-Americanism in German journalism. In a big blurry way, of course, its true that a lot of German journalists are irritatingly kneejerk and Amerikaskeptisch, but the guys at Medienkritik need fodder every day, and sometimes they just speculate like old ladies leaning out their windows in a little European town, passing on offenses to their prejudices as if they were experts, or even well-informed.
Tracked: Sep 23, 22:14
Gestern war es so weit. Osama bin Laden sei tot, an Typhus gestorben, kolportierte eine französische Regionaleitung ausgerechnet an dem Tag, an dem die Weltpresse ihr Auge zum Dreiergipfel nach Frankreich richtete. Die Geheimdienste dementierten nicht, die Politiker schäumten, was bezeichnend war und die Meldung fast offiziell bestätigte. Sollte Osama bin Laden letzten Endes doch nicht an rächenden amerikanischen 7,62mm gestorben sein?
Tracked: Sep 24, 14:32
Yes, that exists. For more information, see The Atlantic Review, a press digest on transatlantic affairs edited by three German Fulbright alumni....
Tracked: Sep 30, 03:44
Crossed-out symbols on are very popular here. Thats probably because saying no to everything is so popular here, too. You know, verboten ist alles, was nicht ausdrücklich erlaubt ist (everything is forbidden unless expressly allowed). Some of my personal favorites are the crossed-out crapping dog or the crossed-out cell phone signs, but all the others are thoroughly entertaining, too. Well, almost all the others.
Tracked: Oct 01, 21:13
Once the Berlin Wall came down, all the other ones did, too. Oder (right)? I mean, the falling of the worlds most famous wall had to have had a flattening effect upon anything else like it left standing. Well at least thats what a lot of us hoped or felt. It should have, but it didnt. On the contrary, more miles of wall exist now than before 1989 and there are new iron curtains out there wherever you look - and these are only the physical ones.
Tracked: Oct 15, 09:10
It still hasn not stopped in Berlin, poor but sexy as it is. And in a way, the party hasn not really stopped here since the World Cup euphoria got the Berliners and everybody else in the country walking upright again this summer. Thats why this years New Years Eve motto
Tracked: Jan 01, 01:39