The Atlantic: My President Was Black. “A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next.” By Ta-Nehisi Coates.
A lot of food for thoughts.
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Writing Chancellor Angela Merkel
Die Zeit: Ms. Merkel, you’ve got mail. “Ever since Donald Trump’s victory, many people around the world have high expectations of the German chancellor. Tyler Brûlé, Agnesa Kleina and John le Carré have written her an email.” December 2, 2016.
Die Zeit: Das sollten Sie wissen, Frau Merkel. “Seit Donald Trumps Sieg erwarten Menschen in aller Welt viel von der Bundeskanzlerin. Auch Tyler Brûlé, Agnese Kleina und John le Carré haben ihr eine E-Mail geschrieben.”
Diese E-Mails sind nur drei von vielen, die im Zeit-Magazin vom 2. Dezember 2016 veröffentlicht wurden.
Russlands Einfluss nicht nur in den USA
Deutsche Welle: Maaßen warnt vor russischem Eingriff in deutschen Wahlkampf. 16.11.2016.
“Der Präsident des Verfassungsschutzes sieht dem kommenden Jahr mit äußerst mulmigem Gefühl entgegen: Er befürchtet, dass Moskau versucht sein könnte, Einfluss auf die Bundestagswahl zu nehmen.
“From Russia, with love.”
The Washington Post: Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House.
“The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.”
Chicago Tribune: Member of Putin’s party: ‘United Russia won the elections in America’.
“Russia’s government denies that it tampered in the U.S. election or even took sides. But now that the results are in, members of President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party aren’t holding back.
“It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America,” Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.
Long before Donald Trump was on the radar of American voters, Russia had deep interests in the outcome of elections around the world. But 2016 presented a unique window.
Motivated by years of crippling economic sanctions and decades of post-Soviet setbacks, the Russians were keener than ever to pounce; the race for the White House, plagued by party infighting and scandal, was easy bait.”
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A strong woman
The Washington Post: Annie Glenn: ‘When I called John, he cried. People just couldn’t believe that I could really talk.’.
“As John [Glenn] himself wrote, “We practically grew up in the same playpen. We never knew a time when we didn’t know each other.“ (Annie says they were 2 years old when they met.)
But they were different. John was athletic and outgoing while Annie barely spoke, not because she didn’t have anything to say, but because when she did, people often assumed she was either deaf or mentally deficient.
For most of her life, Annie was afflicted with an 85 percent stutter, meaning she would become “hung up on 85 percent of the words she tried to speak, which was a severe handicap,“ as John put it.
Those years must have been torture for Annie.”