THE GUARDIAN: ‘Do something’: protesters greet Trump as he visits Dayton and El Paso » | Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington and Edward Helmore in New York | Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Wednesday, August 07, 2019
'You're Not Welcome Here': Trump Faces Backlash over Ohio and Texas Visits
THE GUARDIAN: ‘Do something’: protesters greet Trump as he visits Dayton and El Paso » | Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington and Edward Helmore in New York | Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Unter den Linden vor Ort - Die Wannseekonferenz und der geplante Massenmord
Michaela Kolster diskutiert mit ihren Gästen Julius H. Schoeps (Historiker und Gründungsdirektor Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien) und Prof. Peter Longerich (Historiker).
Die Wannseekonferenz vom 20. Januar 1942 gilt gemeinhin als der Ausgangspunkt für die von Nazi-Deutschland organisierte Vernichtung der Juden in Deutschland und Europa. In einer Villa am Berliner Wannsee kamen seinerzeit 15 hochrangige Vertreter des NS-Regimes und der SS zusammen, um unter dem Vorsitz von Reinhard Heydrich den Holocaust an den Juden im Detail zu koordinieren.
Allerdings hatte die Deportation jüdischer Bürger aus dem Deutschen Reich und den besetzen Gebieten und die Errichtung jüdischer Ghettos schon deutlich früher begonnen – wenn auch nicht in den „geordneten“ Bahnen, die die Konferenz nun festlegte.
Welchen Stellenwert hat die Wannseekonferenz in der Genese des Holocausts nach neuester Forschung? Was macht die Einzigartigkeit dieses Völkermordes aus? Und wer waren die entscheidenden Köpfe hinter dem organisierten Massenmord?
2020 Dems Say Donald Trump’s Rhetoric Shares Blame For Shootings | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC
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El Paso Residents To Donald Trump: “You Are Not Welcome Here” | The Last Word | MSNBC
Tuesday, August 06, 2019
Gove Says EU ‘Refusing to Negotiate’ on Brexit
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'John Bolton Tried to Assassinate Me': Interview with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
Trump Has Run 2,200 Facebook Ads Featuring The Word “Invasion”
White Nationalist Terror Attack in El Paso Was Not an Isolated Incident
Amanpour Clashes with Conway over Trump's Rhetoric
Joe: US Must Show Donald Trump White Supremacy A Dead-End Road | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Ivanka Trump Condemns White Supremacy – But Her Actions Tell Another Story
Ivanka Trump is very concerned that the US may have a white supremacist problem. On Sunday, as the country reeled from two mass shootings that killed at least 31 people, she implored her fellow Americans not just to pray for the victims, but to “raise our voices in rejection of these heinous and cowardly acts of hate, terror and violence”. She further tweeted: “White supremacy, like all other forms of terrorism, is an evil that must be destroyed.”
I had to sit down in shock after reading that tweet. The unthinkable had happened; for the first time in my life, I agreed with Ivanka. I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the first daughter for bravely pointing out the obvious: white supremacy is terrorism. I would also like to point out the obvious: if Ivanka gave a damn about the rise of white supremacy, she could stroll over to her father’s office and have a word with him. She might suggest, for example, that Trump stop using the term “invasion” to describe asylum seekers and migrants. She might suggest that he not refer to Mexicans as “rapists”. She might suggest that he stop telling congresswoman of colour to “go back” to their countries. » | Arwa Mahdawi | Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Jair Bolsonaro Says Criminals Will 'Die Like Cockroaches' under Proposed New Laws
Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has said he hopes criminals will “die in the streets like cockroaches” as a result of hard-line legislation he is pushing to shield security forces and citizens who shoot alleged offenders from prosecution. In an interview broadcast on Monday, Bolsonaro said he hoped Congress would approve his controversial plans to expand the so-called excludente de ilicitude – an article in Brazil’s criminal code that makes some normally illegal acts permissible. » | Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent | Tuesday, August 6, 2019
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Monday, August 05, 2019
'Trump Is on a Collision Course with Himself': Robert Malley on US Policy in the Middle East
Formerly a White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Region, Malley now heads leading think-tank, the International Crisis Group (ICG).
Under Barack Obama, Malley was part of the team that crafted the Iran nuclear deal - the one Donald Trump's White House then withdrew from in 2018, calling it "defective".
"His [Trump's] criticisms are either deliberately dishonest, or he hasn't read the deal or he doesn't know what's in it," Malley tells Al Jazeera.
He says Trump decided to withdraw from the deal to get a better deal and to curb Iran's behaviour in the region. But "what have we seen a year later? Iran is now itself moving away from the deal, so its nuclear activities are worse than they were under the deal."
"It could well lead to a war that I am profoundly convinced the president doesn't want," he says. "But I think he [Trump] is on a collision course with himself because his policies - whether he is aware of it or not - are leading towards the possibility of military confrontation that his instincts oppose."
Under the Obama administration, the US also got involved in Saudi's war in Yemen. In April, Malley wrote in the Atlantic: "For an American who had a hand in shaping US Mideast policy during the Barack Obama years, coming to Yemen has the unpleasant feel of visiting the scene of a tragedy one helped co-write."
He tells Al Jazeera that despite the US having "huge reservations", they agreed to get involved in the Yemen conflict in 2015 to support an ally, Saudi Arabia. "The feeling was we can't afford another rupture with Saudi Arabia - which could be a major one - after coming in the wake of the Iran negotiations. So the president [Obama] had this view of, we can help Saudi Arabia defend its security, defend its borders, defend its territorial integrity while trying not to get too involved in the war with the Houthis," he says.
"But in a way that was getting half pregnant. Because once you support Saudi Arabia - once you support the Saudi-led coalition - support is fungible. And the US became complicit in what today the United Nations says is the worst humanitarian crisis we face. So this is a case of tragedy in which US fingerprints are very present."
On US interests elsewhere in the region, Malley feels "the world is spending too much time talking about this 'deal of the century'" that Trump has proposed to solve the Israel-Palestinian crisis.
"We know that if and when this is put on the table, the Palestinians will say no," he says." Because even if it's slightly better than people expect, it's going to be far less than what President Clinton proposed to the Palestinians in 2000, less than what was on offer during the George W Bush presidency, less than what was on offer for the Palestinians during the Barack Obama presidency, so there is no way they are going to say yes.
"The gaps between the parties on the central issues of identity, of territory, of refugees, of security, of settlements, all those gaps are very wide. And it will take ... a very strong third party to try to get the parties where they need to go," Malley says.
Although he believes the two-state solution is "still the best possible outcome" for the region, he concedes that it's becoming harder to see it as the most realistic option.
"It's pretty easy today to say that the two-state solution is more and more a thing of the past," he says. "It's not very easy to say what's a thing of the present or the future."
Sunday, August 04, 2019
New Trade Minister Liz Truss Had Private Talks in US with Libertarian Groups
The cabinet minister in charge of negotiating a new US trade deal met with a series of rightwing American thinktanks to discuss deregulation and the benefits of “Reaganomics”, new documents have revealed.
Liz Truss, the international trade secretary, had a number of meetings with libertarian groups that have championed parts of Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda and tax cuts.
New details of her three-day visit to Washington last September have been uncovered by Greenpeace’s investigative journalism team, Unearthed. Truss met senior representatives from the Heritage Foundation, a thinktank committed to shrinking the state and cutting environmental regulation, to discuss “regulatory reform”. Also at the meeting was the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Both groups were part of the “shadow trade talks” project, designed to advocate a wide-ranging US trade deal allowing the import of American goods currently banned in Britain. » | Michael Savage | Sunday, August 4, 2019
The Guardian View on Saudi Arabia’s Reforms: Not Just a Battle for Women
The jubilation of women in Saudi Arabia was real – and understandable. Last Friday, the kingdom announced that it is allowing women to apply for passports, to travel without permission and to have more control over family matters – registering a marriage, divorce or child’s birth, and being issued official family documents. These changes to the guardianship system should be genuinely transformative. But celebration can only be partial when women’s rights remain so tightly constricted and the activists who have fought hard for such changes are paying so high a price.
Women will still need permission from a male relative to marry or divorce, or to leave prison or domestic violence refuges. The system needs not reform but abolition. Other laws still hold women back. And as Ms Saffaa, an Australia-based Saudi artist and activist, warned: “When women become equal to men, Saudi Arabia is still going to remain an authoritarian dictatorship that violates countless human rights.” » | Editorial | Sunday, August 4, 2019
The Guardian View on No-deal Brexit Plans: Parliament Must Take Back Control
To take Britain out of the European Union without a deal would be the most wilfully dangerous policy action that any government of this country has taken in modern times. No deal would materially threaten the economic security of the British people in both the short and long term, outrage millions of citizens, upend the stability and cohesion of the nation, put 20 years of peace in Northern Ireland in jeopardy, place needless and crippling extra strain on services and markets, further deepen the already damaging divisions of Brexit, appal our good European neighbours and do massive lasting damage to the country’s standing in the world. » | Editorial | Sunday, August 4, 2019
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Climate Change: Europe's Melting Glaciers | DW Documentary
The permafrost in the Alps is thawing, and transforming what used to be sturdy slopes into loose screes. In addition, climate change is leading to significantly more extreme weather conditions every year, while heavy rainfall causes serious erosion. The result: avalanches and landslides like those in Bondo, Switzerland, or Valsertal in Austria. In Switzerland, residential areas are shrinking as people are forced to leave their homes forever. The disappearance of glaciers as water reservoirs is already posing a major problem. Farmers in Engadine, who have been using meltwater for irrigation for centuries, are already facing water shortages. Last summer, they had to rely on helicopters to transport water to their herds in the Grison Alps. Above all, alpine villages depend on winter tourism to survive. Yet experts are forecasting that by mid-century, there will only be enough natural snow left to ski above 2,000 meters, which will spell out the end for about 70 percent of the ski resorts in the Eastern Alps. But instead of developing alternatives, lots of money is still being invested in ski tourism. Snow cannon are used to defy climate change, and artificial snow systems are under construction at ever higher altitudes. As usual, it’s the environment that is set to lose as the unique alpine landscape is further destroyed by soil compaction and erosion. Some municipalities are now working on new models of alpine tourism for the future. As global temperatures continue to rise, the cooler mountain regions will become increasingly attractive for tourists, especially in the summer.
Athos | Feature Documentary
A Visit to the Holy Mountain Athos, Greece
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