Monatsarchive: September 2021

We flew out of SFO on 9/15/2001, the first day it was reopened. It was a Saturday. Wolfie bounced around London in his backpack. There were candlelight vigils, statements of solidarity in London and Hamburg. After some discussion the white-haired … Weiterlesen →

„America and the world commemorate you and your loved ones. The pieces of your soul.“ The pieces of my soul point Joe Biden to the Cambridge Dictionary: Is Biden perhaps no longer accustomed to addressing the living? The guy looks … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: So far, so good: woman who doesn’t believe there’s evidence for effectiveness of vaccination gets a court order to force use of animal worm medication on hospitalized husband. Cool. It can’t get any better. And yet, and yet, there’s … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: The US stands out as an outlier compared with other industrialized nations in terms of both the approach to childhood taken by policymakers and governments, and the extent of inequality that flows from that. The new research looked at … Weiterlesen →

FAZ: Mitte August übernahmen die Islamisten, deren Regime der US-geführte Einsatz Ende 2001 gestürzt hatte, wieder die Macht. Seitdem versuchten die USA und ihre Verbündeten fieberhaft, eigene Staatsbürger und afghanische Mitarbeiter außer Landes zu fliegen. Auch die Rettung zahlreicher Amerikaner … Weiterlesen →