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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, 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
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.
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!"
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
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, 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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
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
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 ...
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]