Folge 8: „The Atlantic Hour“ des DAI Sachsen: Was bedeutet transatlantische Bildungsarbeit?

(aufgenommen am 15. Juni 2021)

Housekeeping

• Online-Themenabend: Was können wir von Nationalparks lernen? Naturgewalten und Klimawandel auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks
• Online-Vortrag: Queerness in der US-Popkultur
• Atlantisches Forum Online: Neuanfang in Israel? Israel, der israelisch-palästinensische Konflikt und die Beziehungen zu den USA

Transatlantische Bildungsarbeit

• Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Sachsen in Leipzig
• Becker, Benjamin et al. (2021): Transatlantisch? Traut Euch! Für eine Neue Übereinkunft zwischen Deutschland und Amerika
• Zwingenberger, Meike/Becker, Benjamin (2021): Transatlantische Beziehungen neu gedacht: Public Diplomacy vermittelt wichtige Zukunftsthemen (Transatlantische Impulse)
• Amerikahäuser (Historisches Lexikon Bayern)
• Orte für Amerika (Reinhild Kreis, open access!)
• Es war einmal im Amerikahaus (Tagesspiegel)
• Diskussionspapier: A Profile of Non-formal Youth Civic Education in Germany: Inspiration for a Reimagined Civic Learning Infrastructure (Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten e.V.)
• Kennst du Lautern? Amerikahaus ab 1952 gut besucht (Gerhard Westenburger, Die Rheinpfalz)
• Sirakov, David /Wagner, Sarah (2018): Untergang der liberalen Weltordnung? Die Außenpolitik von Donald Trump in der außerschulischen politischen Bildung (Journal für politische Bildung)

Folge 7: Die Politisierung des US-Militärs und die Waffenlobby NRA

(aufgenommen am 27. Mai 2021)

Housekeeping

• Atlantisches Forum Online: The Lasting Impact of the Tea Party on the GOP
• Online-Seminar: Energieversorgung in Europa
• Vortrag: Mütter, Straßenkämpferinnen, Strateginnen: Die Rollen weißer Frauen in White Supremacy

Newsstories

Polizeireform in den USA

• Wie der Tod von George Floyd und Black Lives Matter die USA veränderten (Frankfurter Rundschau)
• How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody (The New York Times)
• Democrats, About to Miss a Police Reform Deadline, Hold Out Hope (The New York Times)
• Just one Republican backed the George Floyd police overhaul bill. He ‘accidentally pressed the wrong voting button.’ (Washington Post)
• Qualified Immunity (Cornell Law School)
• Qualified Immunity Letter (Members of Congress)
• Police officers are prosecuted for murder in less than 2 percent of fatal shootings (Vox)
• Possible movement on police reform encouraging, but qualified immunity should be codified (The Hill)
• Massive 1-Year Rise In Homicide Rates Collided With The Pandemic In 2020 (NPR)

Die Abwahl Liz Cheneys und die Degeneration der Republikanischen Partei

• H.Res.24 – Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors (U.S. Congress)
• I Will Vote To Impeach The President (Website Rep. Liz Cheney)
• 9 witnesses who could have offered vital testimony at Trump’s impeachment trial (The Washington Post)
• Liz Cheney: The GOP is at a turning point. History is watching us. (The Washington Post)
• Rep. Liz Cheney: „Our Freedom Only Survives If We Protect It“ (C-SPAN)
• Aufstieg einer glühenden Trumpistin (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Deep Dives

Die Politisierung des US-Militärs

• Tweet von Ted Cruz (Twitter)
• Public confidence in scientists has remained stable for decades (Pew Research Center)
• Former military leaders criticized the election and the administration. That hurts the military’s reputation. (Washington Post)
• The Calling (U.S. Army)
• Fighting Weight: How Military Recruiters Take On Obesity, Case By Case (NPR)
• Comment section removed from Army recruiting ad featuring soldier with two moms (Army Times)
• Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a ‘woke, emasculated’ U.S. Army ad. Angry veterans fired back. (Washington Post)
• Pandemic and political discourse challenge Army recruiting efforts (Army Times)
• ‘Support Our Troops’ No Longer Automatic as Trust in Military Falls (Bloomberg)
• Crisis of Command. America’s Broken Civil-Military Relationship Imperils National Security (Foreign Affairs)

Aufstieg und Niedergang der National Rifle Association (NRA)

• Smyth, Frank: The NRA. The Unauthorized History
• Breaking down the NRA-backed theory that a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun (abcNEWS)
• Die Iran-Contra-Affäre (Deutsche Welle)
• Klageschrift der Staatsanwaltschaft New York
• America’s Complex Relationship with Guns (Pew Research Center)
• What Percentage of Americans Own Guns? (Gallup)
• The Crumbling of the N.R.A. (Podcast “The Daily”, New York Times)
• NRA zerlegt sich selbst. Nutzt Biden die Krise der Waffenlobby? (Podcast „Wieder was gelernt“, n-tv)
• Key facts about Americans and guns (Pew Research Center)
• FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Initial Actions to Address the Gun Violence Public Health Epidemic (The White House)

Transatlantic Treat

Masters of War

• Bob Dylan – Masters of War (Audio)
• Listen to The Roots‘ Epic Cover of Bob Dylan’s „Masters of War“ (Paste Magazine)
• „Triple Frontier“: Zu fünft gegen den Rest der Welt (GQ Magazin)
• Triple Frontier review – military vets steal big in solid Netflix action thriller (The Guardian)
• Triple Frontier Trailer (Netflix)

Folge 6: 100 Tage Biden -Administration

(aufgenommen am 28. April 2021)

Housekeeping

• Atlantisches Forum Online: NATO and Transatlantic Relations
• QAnon & Co. – Rechte Verschwörungsmythen im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie

Quellen

• Refugee cap Biden administration touted — then ditched — is back on table (Washington Post)
• ‘The wheels fell off’: How Biden’s misgivings on border surge upended plan on refugees (Washington Post)
• Sean Spicer Raises Outcry With Talk of Hitler, Assad and Poison Gas (The New York Times)
• Biden Nears 100-Day Mark With Strong Approval, Positive Rating for Vaccine Rollout (Pew Research Institute)
• The Sullivan Model (Foreign Policy)
• Remarks by President Biden at the 2021 Virtual Munich Security Conference (The White House)
• How Biden United a Fractious Party Under One Tent (The New York Times)
• Joe Bidens Präsidentschaftsauftakt: Hundert Tage Atempause (RND)
• 100 Tage Präsidentschaft Joe Biden. Alter Mann macht Tempo (TAZ)
•  Biden Underpromises, Overdelivers (The New York Times)
•  Joe Biden’s Cabinet: Who’s in, and who voted against them (Politico)
•  The Biden 100-Day Progress Report (Foreign Policy)
• At the 100-day mark, has Biden kept his campaign promises? (The Washington Post)

Hinweis

• Aufzeichnung unserer Online-Diskussion: Restoring Transatlantic Relations. Sicherheitspolitik

Folge 5: Gewerkschaftsgründung bei Amazon und die Wahlrechtsreformen der US-Bundesstaaten

(aufgenommen am 31. März 2021)

Housekeeping

• Online-Conversation: TV Thursday – Serial Politics

Newsstories

Child Tax Credit 

• A Safety Net for American Children (Podcast, The Daily, New York Times)
•  To Juice the Economy, Biden Bets on the Poor (The New York Times)
•  New child tax credit could slash poverty now and boost social mobility later (Brookings Institute)
•  The Biden Child Allowance: Examining the Impact of Welfare on Work (The Heritage Foundation)
•  The Child Tax Credit: Temporary Expansion for 2021 Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA; P.L. 117-2) (Congressional Research Service)
• Coverbild: Congressional Research Service

Millionenklage gegen die Ex-Trump Anwältin Sidney Powell

• Fact-Checking Falsehoods on Mail-In Voting (The New York Times)
• Trump’s Repeated False Attacks on Mail-In Ballots (FactCheck.org)
• Sharp Divisions on Vote Counts, as Biden Gets High Marks for His Post-Election Conduct, 3. The voting experience in 2020 (PewResearchCenter)
• Lou Dobbs, and the most problematic claims Trump allies made about voting machines (The Washington Post)
• Sidney Powell’s Tucker Carlson-esque defense: ‘Reasonable people’ wouldn’t take her wild voter-fraud claims as fact (The Washington Post)
• Dominion Voting sues Trump lawyer Powell for defamation, seeking $1.3 billion in damages (CNN)
• After Lawsuit Against Fox News, Here’s Who Dominion Has Sued So Far—And Who Could Be Next (Forbes)
• Sidney Powell: Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss

Deep Dives
Gewerkschaften und Amazon

• Ihr Kampf könnte Geschichte schreiben (ZEIT Online)
• Today Explained: Alabama shakes up Amazon (Vox Podcast)
• On the Overnight Shift with the Amazon Union Organizers (The New Yorker)
• ‘Taking on a behemoth like Amazon is going to take an army.’ Labor unions, inspired by Alabama drive, are joining the fight nationwide. (Chicago Tribune)
• Don’t be fooled: Joe Biden is no friend of unions (The Guardian)
• Inside Joe Biden’s decision to dive into the Amazon union drive (Politico)
• Biden Needs Unions to Force His Hand (The Atlantic)
• Martin Thunert, Hyper-Pluralismus? Die Welt der Interessengruppen, Gewerkschaften, Lobbyisten und Think Tanks, in: Handbuch Politik USA, Springer VS, 2016. 
• Sanierung des bröckelnden Tarifsystems? Gewerkschaften und Arbeitsbeziehungen in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung)
• Union Members 2020 (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• Most Americans view unions favorably, though few workers belong to one (Pew Research Institute)
• Video von Joe Biden (Twitter)
•  House Democrats Pass Bill That Would Protect Worker Organizing Efforts (NPR)
•  Fired, interrogated, disciplined: Amazon warehouse organizers allege year of retaliation (NBC News)
•  Coverbild: Unsplash

Wahlrechtsreformen der US-Bundesstaaten (Georgia)

•  Who runs elections in the United States? (Ballotpedia)
•  Philipp Adorf: Hindernisse auf dem Weg zur Wahl (BpB)

• Article I, Section. 4. U.S Constitution (National Archives)
• The Constitution: Amendments 11-27 (National Archives)
• Congress and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (National Archives)
• Shelby County v. Holder (Supreme Court of the United States)
• Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act (The New York Times)
• America Votes by 50 Sets of Rules. We Need a Federal Elections Agency (The New York Times)
• Scot Schraufnagel, Michael J. Pomante II, and Quan Li: Cost of Voting in the American States: 2020 (Election Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4)
• Voting and Elections (State of Oregon)
• Elections (Georgia Secretary of State)
• Analyzing the Relationship Between Cost of Voting and Partisan Lean (Montgomery Blair High School)
• What Does Georgia’s New Voting Law SB 202 Do? (Georgia Public Broadcasting)
• For the People Act of 2021 (Congress.gov)
• House Democrats’ massive voting rights bill, explained (Vox)
• Georgia’s shameful new voting laws are a product of GOP desperation (The Washington Post)
• Georgia’s restrictive new voting law, explained (Vox)
• ‘Jim Eagle’ and Georgia’s Voting Law (The Wall Street Journal)
• Joe Biden Botches the Georgia Voting Law (National Review)

Transatlantic Treats 

Which Side Are You On?

• Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reece)
• Which Side Are You On? (Natalie Merchant)
• Which Side Are You On? (Dropkick Murphys)
• Coverbild: Unsplash

Folge 4:  US-Truppenpräsenz in Deutschland und der Green New Deal der Demokraten

(aufgenommen am 11. März 2021)

Housekeeping

·      Online-Talk: Hate in the Homeland. How to Understand and Combat Far-Right Extremism

·      Screening and Conversation: Ground Control to Madame Mars: The Future of Diversity in Space

·      Online Teachers Seminar: What will the future look like? The United States in 2021 and beyond

Newsstories

Erik Prince und der Umsturzversuch in Libyen

• Erik Prince, Trump Ally, Violated Libya Arms Embargo, U.N. Report Says (The New York Times)
• Blueprint for a raid: Documents shed light on plan to buy U.S. helicopter gunships for assault on Tripoli (The Washington Post)
• PROJECT OPUS: Erik Prince and the Failed Plot to Arm a CIA Asset-Turned-Warlord in Libya (The Intercept)
• Blackwater von Jeremy Scahill (Perlentaucher)
• Privatisierung von Krieg? Problemfelder des Einsatzes Privater Militär- und Sicherheitsfirmen in der modernen Kriegführung (Schneiker/Krahmann in APUZ 35-36/2016)
• Fotolizenz: ”Reading” (CC BY 2.0) by Osbornb

Energieversorgung in Texas

• No, frozen wind turbines aren’t the main culprit for Texas’ power outages (The Texas Tribune)
• AP PHOTOS: Winter storms spread power and water woes (Associated Press) 
• Report on outages and curtailments during the Southwest cold weather event (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Report 2011) 
• His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752 (New York Times)
• Texas disaster puts Beto O’Rourke back in business (Politico)
• Texas After the Storm (New York Times, The Daily Podcast)

Deep Dives
US-Truppenpräsenz in Deutschland

·      Die Entwicklung der Personalstärke der US-Streitkräfte und ihrer deutschen Zivilangestellten seit dem Jahr 1985 in Deutschland – insbesondere in der Westpfalz und in der Kaiserslautern Military Community (Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Deutschen Bundestages)

·      Tweet vom ehemaligen US-Botschafter in Berlin Richard Grenell vom 8. August 2019

·      Gegenwart und Zukunft der US-Militärpräsenz in Deutschland (Atlantischer Blog, 22. August 2019)

·      Trump to Pull Thousands of U.S. Troops From Germany (Wall Street Journal)

·      U.S. lawmakers hammer Pentagon over lack of detail on Germany troop cuts

·      Senate Overrides Trump’s Veto of Defense Bill, Dealing a Legislative Blow

·      Remarks by President Biden at the 2021 Virtual Munich Security Conference (The White House)

Green New Deal

• Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Green New Deal – Revival eines Begriffs (Heinrich Böll Stiftung)
• The Sunrise Movement
• The Green New Deal, explained (Vox)
• Democrats Establish a New House ‘Climate Crisis’ Committee (The Atlantic)
• A GREEN NEW DEAL: A Progressive Vision for Environmental Sustainability and Economic Stability (Data for Progress
• H.Res.109 – Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. (Congress)
• What Is the Green New Deal? A Climate Proposal, Explained (The New York Times)
• The Surprising Origins Of What Could Be The ‘Medicare For All’ Of Climate Change (Huffington Post)
• Was Umweltökonomen gegen Ocasio-Cortez‘ „Green New Deal“ haben (Das Handelsblatt)
• Vom New Deal der 1930er-Jahre lernen (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
• Stanford energy and environment experts examine strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal (Stanford News)
• Senate defeats Green New Deal, as Democrats call vote a ‘sham’ (Washington Post) 
• Der Green New Deal zeigt die Spaltung der Demokraten (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Transatlantic Treats 

Renegades: Born in the USA

·      Podcast Video Trailer (Spotify, YouTube)

·      Podcast (Spotify)

Ms. Marvel Comic

• What The New Ms. Marvel Means For Muslims In Comics (NPR)
• Ms. Marvel: Hauptdarstellerin für Disney+ Serie gefunden (Cinema)
• How Kamala Khan Becomes an Avenger! (Marvel, YouTube)