Trump’s Cabinet of Deplorables
America’s President-elect, Donald J. Trump, may have been able to strike a more statesmanlike tone over the past week, as he started facing the task that is ahead of him. […]
Schlagwort-Archive: USA
The myth of the undeserving poor
Challenging class stereotypes In much of the Western world, the welfare state is on the retreat. Traditional social democratic parties are scared to defend strong social security because the public […]
Why America’s drone strikes are counterproductive
The American President Barack Obama has repeatedly defended deadly drone strikes in which terror suspects are killed around the world by US military/CIA operations. But what effects do these strikes […]
A mural
A mural in Pilsen district, Chicago, Illinois, October 2014
A message to all the torture apologists: Why Guantánamo Bay harmed the war on terror
After September 11, an unprecedented assault on civil rights in America and its allied states has been justified with “national security concerns”: Torture, detention without trial, warrantless surveillance, wars of […]
Isoliert
Bild: Gefängnis, in dem Herman Wallace 41 Jahre in Isolationshaft einsass. 80.000 Menschen – ungefähr so viel wie die Einwohner von Konstanz – sitzen in diesem Moment in einer kleinen, […]
Don’t shoot
A poem written in the context of the shooting of 18-year old Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American, by police officers in Ferguson, Missouri (United States) on August 9, 2014. A […]
