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Few Americans have been as explicit in their warnings about Donald Trump than the St. Louis based writer Sarah Kendzior. Her latest book, The Last American Road Trip, is a memoir chronicling Kendzior's journey down Route 66 to show her children America before it is destroyed. Borrowing from her research of post Soviet Central Asia, Kendzior argues that Trump is establishing a kleptocratic “mafia state” designed to fleece the country of its valuables. This is the third time that Kendzior has been on the show and I have to admit I've always been slightly skeptical of her apocalyptic take on Trump. But given the damage that the new administration is inflicting on America, I have to admit that many of Kendzior's warnings now appear to be uncannily prescient. As she warns, it's Springtime in America. And things are about to get much much hotter. FIVE TAKEAWAYS* Kendzior views Trump's administration as a "mafia state" or kleptocracy focused on stripping America for parts rather than traditional fascism, comparing it to post-Soviet oligarchic systems she studied as an academic.* She believes American institutions have failed to prevent authoritarianism, criticizing both the Biden administration and other institutional leaders for not taking sufficient preventative action during Trump's first term.* Despite her bleak analysis, Kendzior finds hope in ordinary Americans and their capacity for mutual care and resistance, even as she sees formal leadership failing.* Kendzior's new book The Last American Road Trip follows her journey to show her children America before potential collapse, using Route 66 as a lens to examine American decay and resilience.* As an independent voice, she describes being targeted through both publishing obstacles and personal threats, yet remains committed to staying in her community and documenting what's happening. FULL TRANSCRIPTAndrew Keen: Hello everybody, it is April the 18th, 2025, a Friday. I'm thrilled today that we have one of my favorite guests back on the show. I call her the Cassandra of St. Louis, Sarah Kendzior. Many of you know her from her first book, which was a huge success. All her books have done very well. The View from Flyover Country. She was warning us about Trump and Trumpism and MAGA. She was first on our show in 2020. Talking about media in the age of Trump. She had another book out then, Hiding in Plain Sight, The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America. Then in 2022, she came back on the show to talk about how a culture of conspiracy is keeping America simultaneously complacent and paranoid that the book was called or is called, They Knew. Another big success. And now Sarah has a new book out. It's called The Last American Road Trip. It's a beautifully written book, a kind of memoir, but a political one, of course, which one would expect from Sarah Kendzior. And I'm thrilled, as I said, that the Cassandra of St. Louis is joining us from St. Louis. Sarah, congratulations on the new book.Sarah Kendzior: Oh, thank you. And thank you for having me back on.Andrew Keen: Well, it's an honor. So these four books, how does the last American road trip in terms of the narrative of your previous three hits, how does it fit in? Why did you write it?Sarah Kendzior: Well, this book kind of pivots off the epilog of hiding in plain sight. And that was a book about political corruption in the United States and the rise of Trump. But in the epilogue, I describe how I was trying as a mom to show my kids America in the case that it ended due to both political turmoil and corruption and also climate change. I wanted them to see things themselves. So I was driving them around the country to national parks, historic sites, et cetera. And so many people responded so passionately to that little section, especially parents really struggling on how to raise children in this America that I ended up writing a book that covers 2016 to 2024 and my attempts to show my children everything I could in the time that we had. And as this happens, my children went from relatively young kids to teenagers, my daughter's almost an adult. And so it kind of captures America during this time period. It's also just a travelog, a road trip book, a memoir. It's a lot of things at once.Andrew Keen: Yeah, got great review from Ms. magazine comparing you with the great road writers, Kerouac, of course, and Steinbeck, but Kerouak and Steinback, certainly Kerouack was very much of a solitary male. Is there a female quality to this book? As you say, it's a book as much about your kids and the promise of America as it is about yourself.Sarah Kendzior: Yeah, I think there is in that, you know, I have a section actually about the doomed female road trip where it's, you know, Thelma and Louise or Janet Bates and Psycho or even songs about, you know, being on the road and on the run that are written by women, you know, like Merle Haggard's I'm a Lonesome Fugitive, had to be sung by men to convey that quality. And there aren't a lot of, you know, mom on the Road with her husband and kids kind of books. That said, I think of it as a family book, a parenting book. I certainly think men would like it just as much as women would, and people without kids would like just as people with kids, although it does seem to strike a special resonance with families struggling with a lot of the same issues that I do.Andrew Keen: It's all about the allure of historic Route 66. I've been on that. Anyone who's driven across the country has you. You explain that it's a compilation of four long trips across Route 66 in 1998, 2007, 2017, and 2023. That's almost 40 years, Sarah. Sorry, 30. Getting away my age there, Andrew. My math isn't very good. I mean, how has Route 66 and of course, America changed in that period? I know that's a rather leading question.Sarah Kendzior: No, I mean, I devote quite a lot of the book to Route 66 in part because I live on it, you know, goes right through St. Louis. So, I see it just every day. I'll be casually grocery shopping and then be informed I'm on historic Route 66 all of a sudden. But you know it's a road that is, you once was the great kind of romanticized road of escape and travel. It was decommissioned notably by Ronald Reagan after the creation of the interstate. And now it's just a series of rural roads, frontage roads, roads that end abruptly, roads that have gone into ruin, roads that are in some really beautiful places in terms of the landscape. So it really is this conglomeration of all of America, you know of the decay and the destruction and the abandonment in particular, but also people's, their own memories, their own artistic works, you know roadside shrines and creations that are often, you know pretty off beat. That they've put to show this is what I think of our country. These are my values. This is what, I think, is important. So it's a very interesting journey to take. It's often one I'm kind of inadvertently on just because of where I live and the direction I go. We'll mirror it. So I kept passing these sites again and again. I didn't set out to write this book. Obviously, when I first drove it when I was 19, I didn't know that this was our future. But looking back, especially at technological change, at how we travel, at how trust each other, at all of these things that have happened to this country since this time, it's really something. And that road will bring back all of those memories of what was lost and what remains to be lost. And of course it's hitting its 100th anniversary next year, so I'm guessing there'll be a lot of reminiscing about Route 66.Andrew Keen: Book about memories, you write about that, eventually even your memory will just or this experience of this trip will just be a memory. What does that suggest about contextualizing the current moment in American history? It's too easy to overdramatize it or perhaps it's hard not to over dramatize it given what's happening. I want to talk about a little bit about that your take on America on April the 18th, 2025. But how does that make sense of a memorial when you know that even your memories will become memories?Sarah Kendzior: Yeah, I mean it's hard to talk frankly about what's happening in America now without it sounding over dramatic or hyperbolic, which I think is why so many people were reluctant to believe me over my last decade of warnings that the current crises and catastrophes that we're experiencing are coming, are possible, and need to be actively stopped. I don't think they were inevitable, but they needed to be stopped by people in charge who refused to do it. And so, my reaction to this as a writer, but just as a human being is to write everything down, is to keep an ongoing record, not only of what I witness now, but of what know of our history, of what my own values are, of what place in the world is. And back in 2016, I encouraged everyone to do this because I knew that over the next decade, people would be told to accept things that they would normally never accept, to believe things that they would normally, never believe. And if you write down where you stand, you always have that point of reference to look back towards. It doesn't have to be for publication. It doesn't have to for the outside world. It can just be for yourself. And so I think that that's important. But right now, I think everyone has a role to play in battling what is an authoritarian kleptocracy and preventing it from hurting people. And I think people should lean into what they do best. And what I do best is write and research and document. So that's what I meant. Continue to do, particularly as history itself is under assault by this government.Andrew Keen: One of the things that strikes me about you, Sarah, is that you have an unusual background. You got a PhD in Soviet studies, late Soviet studies.Sarah Kendzior: Anthropology, yeah, but that was nice.Andrew Keen: But your dissertation was on the Uzbek opposition in exile. I wonder whether that experience of studying the late Soviet Union and its disintegration equipped you in some ways better than a lot of domestic American political analysts and writers for what's happening in America today. We've done a number of shows with people like Pete Weiner, who I'm sure you know his work from the Atlantic of New York Times. About learning from East European resistance writers, brave people like Milan Kundra, of course, Vaclav Havel, Solzhenitsyn. Do you think your earlier history of studying the Soviet Union helped you prepare, at least mentally, intellectually, for what's happening in the United States?Sarah Kendzior: Oh, absolutely. I think it was essential, because there are all sorts of different types of authoritarianism. And the type that Trump and his backers have always pursued was that of a mafia state, you know, of a kleptocracy. And Uzbekistan is the country that I knew the most. And actually, you what I wrote my dissertation about, this is between 2006, and 2012, was the fact that after a massacre of civilians... A lot of Uzbekistan's journalists, activists, political figures, opposition figures, et cetera, went into exile and then they immediately started writing blogs. And so for the very first time, they had freedom of speech. They had never had it in Uzbekistan. And they start revealing the whole secret history of Uzbekistan and everything going on and trying to work with each other, try to sort of have some impact on the political process in Uzbekistan. And they lost. What happened was the dictator died, Islam Karimov died, in 2016, and was replaced by another dictator who's not quite as severe. But watching the losing side and also watching people persevere and hold on to themselves and continue working despite that loss, I think, was very influential. Because you could look at Václav Havel or Lech Walesa or, you know, other sort of. People who won, you know, from Eastern Europe, from the revolutions of 1989 and so forth. And it's inspiring that sometimes I think it's really important to look at the people who did not succeed, but kept going anyway. You know, they didn't surrender themselves. They didn't their morality and they didn't abandon their fellow man. And I think that that's important. And also just to sort of get at the heart of your question, yes, you the structure of it, oligarchs who shake down countries, strip them and sell them for parts. Mine them for resources. That model, especially of what happened to Russia, actually, in particular in the 1990s of these oligarch wars, is what I see as the future of the United States right now. That is what they're trying to emulate.Andrew Keen: That we did a show with Steve Hansen and Jeff Kopstein, both political scientists, on what they see. They co-wrote a book on patrimonialism. This is the model they see there. They're both Max Weber scholars, so they borrow from that historic sociological analysis. And Kopstein was on the show with John Rausch as well, talking about this patrimonials. And so you, do you share the Kopstein-Hansen-Rausch analysis. Roush wrote a piece in the Atlantic about this too, which did very well. But this isn't conventional fascism or communism. It's a kind of 21st century version of patrimonialism.Sarah Kendzior: It's definitely not traditional fascism and one of the main reasons for that is a fascist has loyalty to the state. They seek to embody the state, they seek to expand the state recently Trump has been doing this more traditional route somewhat things like wanting to buy Greenland. But I think a lot of what he's doing is in reaction to climate change and also by the way I don't think Trump is the mastermind or originator. Of any of these geopolitical designs. You know, he has a team, we know about some of them with the Heritage Foundation Project 2025. We know he has foreign advisors. And again, you know, Trump is a corporate raider. That is how he led his business life. He's a mafia associate who wants to strip things down and sell them for parts. And that's what they wanna do with the United States. And that, yes, there are fascist tactics. There are fascists rhetoric. You know there are a lot of things that this country will, unfortunately, and has. In common, you know, with, say, Nazi Germany, although it's also notable that of course Nazi Germany borrowed from a lot of the tactics of Jim Crow, slavery, genocide of Native Americans. You know, this has always been a back and forth and America always has had some form of selective autocracy. But yeah, I think the folks who try to make this direct line and make it seem like the 20th century is just simply being revived, I've always felt like they were off because. There's no interest for these plutocrats in the United States even existing as a sovereign body. Like it truly doesn't matter to them if all of our institutions, even something as benign as the Postal Service, collapse. That's actually beneficial for them because then they can privatize, they can mine resources, they can make money for themselves. And I really worry that their goal is partition, you know, is to take this country. And to split it into smaller pieces that are easier to control. And that's one of the reasons I wrote this book, that I wrote The Last American Road Trip because I don't want people to fall for traps about generalizations or stereotypes about different regions of this country. I want them to see it as a whole and that our struggles are interconnected and we have a better chance of winning if we stand by each other.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and your book, in particular, The View from Flyover Country was so important because it wasn't written from San Francisco or Los Angeles or D.C. Or New York. It was written from St. Louis. So in a way, Sarah, you're presenting Trump as the ultimate Hayekian b*****d. There's a new book out by Quinn Slobodian called Hayek's B******s, which connects. Trumpianism and mago with Neoliberalism you don't see a break. We've done a lot of shows on the rise and fall of neoliberalism. You don't say a break between Hayek and TrumpSarah Kendzior: I think that in terms of neoliberalism, I think it's a continuation of it. And people who think that our crises began with Trump becoming the president in 2017, entering office, are deluded because the pathway to Trump even being able to run for president given that he was first investigated by the Department of Justice in 1973 and then was linked to a number of criminal enterprises for decades after. You know, that he was able to get in that position, you know that already showed that we had collapsed in certain respects. And so I think that these are tied together. You know, this has a lot to do with greed, with a, you know a disregard for sovereignty, a disregard human rights. For all of this Trump has always served much better as a demagogue, a front man, a figurehead. I do think, you he's a lot smarter. Than many of his opponents give him credit for. He is very good at doing what he needs to do and knowing what he need to know and nothing more. The rest he gives to the bureaucrats, to the lawyers, et cetera. But he fills this persona, and I do wonder what will happen when he is gone because they've tried very hard to find a successor and it's always failed, like DeSantis or Nikki Haley or whoever. And I kind of wonder if one of the reasons things are moving so, so fast now is they're trying to get a lot of things in under the wire while he's still alive, because I don't think that there's any individual who people have the loyalty to. His cult is not that big. It's a relatively small segment of the country, but it is very intense and very loyal to him. I don't think that loyalty is transferable.Andrew Keen: Is there anything, you know, I presented you as the Cassandra from St. Louis, you've seen the future probably clearer than most other people. Certainly when I first came across your work, I wasn't particularly convinced. I'm much more convinced now. You were right. I was wrong. Is there, anything about Trump too, that surprised you? I mean, any of the, the cruelty? Open corruption, the anger, the hostility, the attempt to destroy anything of any value in America, the fact that they seem to take such great pleasure in destroying this country's most valuable thing.Sarah Kendzior: Yeah, it's extremely sad and no, he doesn't surprise me at all. He's been the same guy since I was a little kid. You know, he was a plot line on children's television shows in the 1980s where as a child, I was supposed to know that the name Trump was synonymous with corruption, with being a tax cheat, with being a liar, you know, these were just sort of cultural codes that I was expected to know. What surprised me more is that no one stopped him because this threat was incredibly obvious. And that so many people in power have joined in, and I'm assuming they're joining in because they would rather be on the side with all that power than be a target of that power, but that they feel apparently no sense of loss, no sense grief for things like the loss of national parks, public education, the postal service, things that most folks like, social security for your elderly parents. Most Americans... Want these things. And most Americans, regardless of political party, don't want to see our country torn apart in this fashion. And so I'm not surprised by Trump. I'm surprised at the extent of his enablers at the complicity of the press and of the FBI and other institutions. And, you know, it's also been very jarring to watch how open they are this time around, you know, things like Elon Musk and his operation taking out. Classified information. The thing is, is I'm pretty sure Trump did all that. I mean, we know Trump did this in his first term, you know, and they would emphasize things like this box of physical written documents in Mar-a-Lago illegally taken. But, you know my mind always just went to, well, what did they do digitally? Because that seems much easier and much more obvious. What did they with all of these state secrets that they had access to for four years? What kind of leverage would that give them? And I think now they're just kind of, they're not bothering to hide anything anymore. I think they set the stage and now, you know, we're in the midst of the most horrible play, the most terrible performance ever. And it's, you can be still crushing at times.Andrew Keen: And of course, the real question is whether we're in the last act. Your book, The Last American Road Trip, was written, mostly written, what, in 2024 from?Sarah Kendzior: 2023.Andrew Keen: 2023. So, I mean, here's, I don't know if you can answer this, Sarah, but you know as much about middle America and middle Americans as anyone. You're on the road, you talk to everyone, you have a huge following, both on the left and the right in some ways. Some of your books now, you told me before we went live, some of your previous books, like Hiding in Plain Sight, suddenly become a big hit amongst conservative Americans. What does Trump or the MAGA people around him, what do they have to do to lose the support of ordinary Americans? As you say, they're destroying the essential infrastructure, medical, educational, the roads, the railways, everything is being destroyed, carted off almost like Stalin carted of half of the Soviet Union back into Asia during the Second World War. What does he have to do to lose the support of Middle America?Sarah Kendzior: I mean, I don't think middle America, you know, by which like a giant swath of the country that's, that's just ideological, diverse, demographically diverse supports him. I mean some do certainly. He's got some hardcore acolytes. I think most people are disillusioned with the entire political system. They are deeply frustrated by Trump. They were deeply frustrated. By Biden, they're struggling to pay bills. They're struggling. To hold on to basic human rights. And they're mad that their leverage is gone. People voted in record numbers in 2020. They protested in record number throughout Trump's first term. They've made their concerns known for a very long time and there are just very few officials really listening or responding. And I think that initially when Trump reentered the picture, it caused folks to just check out mentally because it was too overwhelming. I think it's why voter turnout was lower because the Democrats, when they won, didn't make good on their promises. It's a very simple thing. If you follow through with your campaign platform that was popular, then you're going to retain those voters. If you don't, you may lose them, especially when you're up against a very effective demagogue who has a way with rhetoric. And so we're just in such a bad place, such a painful place. I don't think people will look to politicians to solve their problems and with very good reason. I'm hoping that there are more of a sense of community support, more of sense that we're all in this together, especially as financially things begin to fall apart. Trump said openly in 2014 that he intended to crash the American economy. He said this on a Fox News clip that I found in 2016. Because it was being reprinted all over Russian-language media. They loved this clip because it also praised Putin and so forth. And I was astounded by it. I was like, why in the world isn't this all over every TV station, every radio station? He's laying out the whole plan, and now he's following that plan. And so I'm very concerned about that. And I just hope people in times like this, traditionally, this opens the door to fascism. People become extremely afraid. And in their fear they want a scapegoat, they are full of rage, they take it out on each other. That is the worst possible move right now from both a moral or a strategic view. People need to protect each other, to respect each other as fully human, to recognize almost everyone here, except for a little tiny group of corrupt billionaires, is a victim in this scenario, and so I don't see a big difference between, you know, myself and... Wherever I go. I was in Tulsa yesterday, I was in San Francisco last week. We're all in this together and I see a lot of heartache wherever I go. And so if people can lend each other support, that is the best way to get through this.Andrew Keen: Are you suggesting then that he is the Manchurian candidate? Why did he say that in 2014?Sarah Kendzior: Well, it was interesting. He was on Fox during the Sochi Olympics, and he was talking about how he speaks with Putin every day, their pals, and that Putin is going to produce a really big win for us, and we're all going to be very happy about it. And then he went on to say that the crashing of the economy and riots throughout America is what will make America great again. And this is in February 2014. Fox has deleted the clip, You know, other people have copies. So it is, it's also in my book hiding in plain sight, the transcript of that. I'm not sure, like a Manchurian candidate almost feels, you know like the person would have to be blackmailed or coerced or brainwashed somehow to participate. I think Trump is a true volunteer and his loyalty isn't to Russia per se. You know, his loyalty is to his bank accounts, like his loyalty is to power. And one thing he's been after his whole life was immunity from prosecution because he has been involved or adjacent to such an enormous number of crimes. And then when the Supreme Court granted him that, he got what he wanted and he's not afraid of breaking the law in any way. He's doing what all autocrats do, which is rewrite the law so that he is no longer breaking it. And he has a team of lawyers who help him in that agenda. So I feel like on one sense, he's very. All-American. It's kind of a sad thing that as he destroys America, he's doing it in a very American way. He plays a lot of great American music at his rallies. He has a vernacular that I can relate to that and understand it while detesting everything he's doing and all of his horrific policies. But what they want to turn us into though, I think is something that all Americans just won't. Recognized. And we've had the slipping away of a kind of unified American culture for a while, I think because we've lost our pop culture, which is really where a lot of people would bond, you know, movies, music, all of it became split into streaming services, you know. All of it became bifurcated. People stopped seeing each other as much face to face, you know, during COVID and then that became kind of a permanent thing. We're very fragmented and that hurts us badly. And all we've kind of got left is I guess sports and then politics. So people take all the effort that they used to put into devouring American pop culture or American civic life and they put it into this kind of politics that the media presents as if it's a game, like initially a horse race during the election and now like, ooh, will the evil dictator win? It's like, this is our lives. Like we have a lot on the line. So I wish they would do, they would take their job more seriously too. Of course, they're up paywalled and on streaming sites, so who's watching anyway, but still it is a problem.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's interesting you talk about this death wish, you mentioned Thelma and Louise earlier, one of the great movies, American road movies, maybe in an odd way, the final scene of the Trump movie will be similar to the, you seem to be suggesting to, I'm not gonna give away the end of Thelmer and Louise to anyone who's watching who hasn't seen it, you do need to see it, similar ending to that movie. What about, you've talked about resistance, Sarah, a one of. The most influential, I guess, resistors to Trump and Trumpism. You put up an X earlier this month about the duty of journalism to resist, the duty to thinkers to resist. Some people are leaving, guys like Tim Snyder, his wife, Marcy Shaw, Jason Stanley, another expert on fascism. You've made it clear that you're staying. What's your take on people like Snyder who are leaving this country?Sarah Kendzior: Well, from what I know, he made a statement saying he had decided to move to Canada before Trump was put in office. Jason Stanley, on the other hand, explicitly said he's moving there because Trump is in office, and my first thought when I heard about all of them was, well, what about their students? Like, what about all these students who are being targeted by ICE, who are being deported? What about their TAs? What about everyone who's in a more vulnerable position. You know, when you have a position of power and influence, you could potentially do a lot of good in helping people. You know I respect everyone's decision to live wherever they want. Like it's not my business. But I do think that if you have that kind of chance to do something powerful for the community around you, especially the most vulnerable people in it who at this time are green card holders, people here on visas, we're watching this horrific crackdown at all these universities. My natural inclination would be to stay and take a stand and not abandon them. And I guess, you know, people, they do things in different ways or they may have their own personal concerns and, you know that's fine. I just know, you know I'm not leaving, you know, like I've got elderly parents and in-laws. I've got relatives who need me. I have a lot of people who depend on me and they depend on me in St. Louis and in Missouri. Because there aren't that many journalists in St. Louis. I think there could be, there are a lot of great writers in St Louis, you know, who have given a chance, given a platform, you could really show you what it's actually like here instead of all these stereotypes. But we're always, always marginalized. Like even I'm marginalized and I think I'm, you know, probably the most well-known in terms of being a political commentator. And so I feel like it's important to stand my ground but also You know, I love this, this state in the city and I love my community and I can't fathom, you know, leaving people in the lurch at a time like this. When I'm doing better, I'm on more solid ground despite being a target of various, you know organizations and individuals. I'm at a more solid down than somebody who's a, you know a black American or an immigrant or impoverished. Like I feel like it is my job to stand up for you know, folks here and let everyone know, you know what's going on and be somebody who they can come to and feel like that's safe.Andrew Keen: You describe yourself, Sarah, as a target. Your books have done very well. Most of them have been bestsellers. I'm sure the last American road trip will do very well, you're just off.Sarah Kendzior: It is the bestseller as of yesterday. It is your bestseller, congratulations. Yeah, our USA Today bestsellers, so yeah.Andrew Keen: Excellent. So that's good news. You've been on the road, you've had hundreds of people show up. I know you wrote about signing 600 books at Left Bank Books, which is remarkable. Most writers would cut off both hands for that. How are you being targeted? You noted that some of your books are being taken off the shelves. Are they being banned or discouraged?Sarah Kendzior: I mean, basically, what's been happening is kind of akin to what you see with universities. I just think it's not as well publicized or publicized at all, where there's not some sort of, you know, like the places will give in to what they think this administration wants before they are outright told to do it. So yes, there is an attempt to remove hiding in plain sight from circulation in 2024 to, you know, make the paperback, which at the time was ranked on Amazon. At number 2,000. It was extremely popular because this is the week that the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity. I was on vacation when I found out it was being pulled out of circulation. And I was in rural New Mexico and I had to get to a place with Wi-Fi to try to fight back for my book, which was a bestseller, a recent publication. It was very strange to me and I won that fight. They put it back, but a lot of people had tried to order it at that time and didn't get it. And a lot of people try to get my other books and they just can't get them. You know, so the publisher always has a warehouse issue or a shipping problem and you know, this kind of comes up or you know people notice, they've noticed this since 2020, you know I don't get reviewed in the normal kind of place as a person that has best selling books one after another would get reviewed. You know, that kind of thing is more of a pain. I always was able to circumvent it before through social media. But since Musk took over Twitter and because of the way algorithms work, it's more and more difficult for me to manage all of the publicity and PR and whatnot on my own. And so, you know, I'm grateful that you're having me on your show. I'm also grateful that, you Know, Flatiron did give me a book tour. That's helped tremendously. But there's that. And then there's also just the constant. Death threats and threats of you know other things you know things happening to people I love and it's been scary and I get used to it and that I expect it but you know you never could really get used to people constantly telling you that they're gonna kill you you know.Andrew Keen: When you get death threats, do you go to the authorities, have they responded?Sarah Kendzior: No, there's no point. I mean, I have before and it was completely pointless. And, you know, I'll just mostly just go to people I know who I trust to see if they can check in on things. I have to be very vague here who are not in the government or in the police or anything like that. I don't think anyone would protect me. I really just don't think anyone could help. You know, one thing is, you know, yes, I'm a prominent critic of Trump and his administration, but I was also a prominent critic of. The DOJ and Merrick Garland for not doing anything about all of these threats and also a critic of Biden and the Democrats for not impeaching quickly, for not being more proactive, for not acting with greater urgency. So I'm targeted by kind of everyone except for people who don't have any power, which is a strange situation to be in because I love my readers and I think that they're wonderful and I'm incredibly grateful for them because my books largely spread through word of mouth. It is scary for me, just as like a mom in Missouri without a lot of resources to be targeted by all of these kind of high profile, wealthy, powerful people. But all I have is my voice and my writing. And so I just do what I can. And that's just the way the cards have been dealt for me and it is what it is, so.Andrew Keen: Later historians write about this period in 50 or 100 years time. How do you think you mentioned the Biden administration, you were critical of them. We haven't talked about Kamala Harris's failed presidential term, which I wasn't particularly impressed with. How much moral responsibility do you think that Biden and Harris should be accused of for Trump too?Sarah Kendzior: Yeah, I mean, well, first of all, I'd be delighted if we have historians in the future. Well, I will be, even if I don't.Andrew Keen: Well, there will be, even if, I don't know, in America, there'll be somewhere.Sarah Kendzior: I is where it'll be some sort of AI creation that just, you know, belches out, make America great again, like, you know, like in The Shining or something, just over and over and over again. But assuming we have real historians that actually assess the situation, I think they are going to be tremendously critical of the Biden administration. I think it may in fact go down as one of the worst of all time. And he will be seen as a Neville Chamberlain-like figure who had the opportunity to stop or slow A number of autocratic practices and either chose to look the other way or to enable them. Because the thing is, in 2016, people were very doubtful that America could become an autocratic state. They hadn't seen this before. A lot of this was new to them. From 2016 through 2021, we saw all that Trump was capable of, and he committed a large multitude of crimes,RetryClaude hit the max length for a message and has paused its response. You can write Continue to keep the chat going.AKplease continueEditHere's the continuation of the transcript:Sarah Kendzior: ...and those crimes, not just him, but his cohort were never held accountable. And what they did during the Biden years was plan all of their next moves. Like you don't suddenly have a gulag for Americans in El Salvador, like just off the top of your head. You know, all of this takes planning. We knew about a lot of the plans, you know, the Democrats campaigned about combating Project 2025. And my question to them was, well, what what if you lose? How are you going to combat it then? You know what, if he gets back, what are you gonna do? They would be so offended. They're like, how dare you, you question us. How dare you question, you know, our plans? They're, like, well, I don't, you don't have a plan. Like, that's my question is what is the plan? And they didn't. And they could have spent those four years creating a bulwark against a lot of the most horrific policies that we're seeing now. Instead, they're kind of reacting on the fly if they're even reacting at all. And meanwhile, people are being targeted, deported, detained. They're suffering tremendously. And they're very, very scared. I think it's very scary to have a total dearth of leadership from where the, not just the opposition, but just people with basic respect for the constitution, our civil rights, etc., are supposed to be.Andrew Keen: You mentioned Project 2025, we've got David Graham on the show next week, who's written a book about Project 2025. Is there anything positive to report, Sarah? I mean, some people are encouraged by the behavior, at least on Friday, the 18th of April, who knows what will happen over the weekend or next week. Behavior of Harvard, some law firms are aggressively defending their rights. Should we be encouraged by the universities, law firms, even some corporate leaders are beginning to mutter under their breath about Trump and Trumpism?Sarah Kendzior: And it depends whether they actually have that power in wielded or whether they're just sort of trying to tamper down public dissent. I'm skeptical of these universities and law firms because I think they should have had a plan long ago because I was very obvious that all of this was going to happen and I feel so terribly for all of the students there that were abandoned by these administrations, especially places like Columbia. That gave in right away. What does hearten me though, you know, and I, as you said, I'd been on this tour, like I was all over the West coast. I've been all over, the Midwest and the South is, Americans, Americans do understand what's happening. There's always this like this culture in media of like, how do we break it to Americans? Like, yeah, well, we know, we know out here in Missouri that this is very bad. And I think that people have genuine concern for each other. I think they still have compassion for each other. I think there's a culture of cruelty that's promoted online and it's incentivized. You know, you can make money that way. You could get clicks that that way, whatever, but in real life, I think people feel vulnerable. They feel afraid, but I've seen so much kindness. I've been so much concern and determination from people who don't have very much, and maybe that's, you know, why people don't know about it. These are just ordinary folks. And so I have great faith in American people to combat this. And what I don't have faith in is our institutions. And I hope that these sort of in between places, places like universities who do a lot of good on one hand, but also can kind of act as like hedge funds. On the other hand, I hope they move fully to the side of good and that they purge themselves of these corrupt elements that have been within them for a long time, the more greedy. Aspects of their existence. I hope they see themselves as places that uphold civic life and history and provide intellectual resistance and shelter for students in the storm. They could be a really powerful force if they choose to be. It's never too late to change. I guess that's the message I want to bring home. Even if I'm very critical of these places, it's never to late for them to change and to do the right thing.Andrew Keen: Well, finally, Sarah, a lot of people are going to be watching this on my Substack page. Your Substack Page, your newsletter, They Knew, I think has last count, 52,000 subscribers. Is this the new model for independent writers, journalist thinkers like yourself? I'm not sure of those 52,00, how many of them are paid. You noted that your book has disappeared co-isindecially sometimes. So maybe some publishers are being intimidated. Is the future for independent thinkers, platforms like Substack, where independent authors like yourself can establish direct intellectual and commercial relations with their readers and followers?Sarah Kendzior: It's certainly the present. I mean, this is the only place or other newsletter outlets, I suppose, that I could go. And I purposefully divorced myself from all institutions except for my publisher because I knew that this kind of corruption would inhibit me from being able to say the truth. This is why I dropped out of academia, I dropped out of regular journalism. I have isolated myself to some degree on purpose. And I also just like being in control of this and having direct access to my readers. However, what does concern me is, you know, Twitter used to also be a place where I had direct access to people I could get my message out. I could circumvent a lot of the traditional modes of communication. Now I'm essentially shadow banned on there, along with a lot of people. And you know Musk has basically banned substack links because of his feud with Matt Taibbi. You know, that led to, if you drop a substack link in there, it just gets kind of submerged and people don't see it. So, you know, I think about Twitter and how positive I was about that, maybe like 12, 13 years ago, and I wonder how I feel about Substack and what will happen to it going forward, because clearly, you Know, Trump's camp realizes the utility of these platforms, like they know that a lot of people who are prominent anti authoritarian voices are using them to get the word out when they are when they lose their own platform at, like, say, the Washington Post or MSNBC or... Whatever network is corrupted or bullied. And so eventually, I think they'll come for it. And, you know, so stack has problems on its own anyway. So I am worried. I make up backups of everything. I encourage people to consume analog content and to print things out if they like them in this time. So get my book on that note, brand new analog content for you. A nice digital.Andrew Keen: Yeah, don't buy it digitally. I assume it's available on Kindle, but you're probably not too keen or even on Amazon and Bezos. Finally, Sarah, this is Friday. Fridays are supposed to be cheerful days, the days before the weekend. Is there anything to be cheerful about on April The 18th 2025 in America?Sarah Kendzior: I mean, yeah, there's things to be cheerful about, you know, pre spring, nice weather. I'm worried about this weekend. I'll just get this out real quick. You know, this is basically militia Christmas. You know, This is the anniversary of Waco, the Oklahoma City bombings, Columbine. It's Hitler's birthday. This is a time when traditionally American militia groups become in other words,Andrew Keen: Springtime in America.Sarah Kendzior: Yeah, springtime for Hitler. You know, and so I'm worried about this weekend. I'm worry that if there are anti-Trump protests that they'll be infiltrated by people trying to stoke the very riots that Trump said he wanted in order to, quote, make America great again and have everything collapse. So everyone, please be very, very careful this weekend heading out and just be aware of the. Of these dates and the importance of these days far predates Trump to, you know, militia groups and other violent extremist groups.Andrew Keen: Well, on that cheerful note, I asked you for a positive note. You've ruined everyone's weekend, probably in a healthy way. You are the Cassandra from St. Louis. Appreciate your bravery and honesty in standing up to Trump and Trumpism, MAGA America. Congratulations on the new book. As you say, it's available in analog form. You can buy it. Take it home, protect it, dig a hole in your garden and protect it from the secret police. Congratulations on the new book. As I said to you before we went live, it's a beautifully written book. I mean, you're noted as a polemicist, but I thought this book is your best written book, the other books were well written, but this is particularly well written. Very personal. So congratulations on that. And Sarah will have to get you back on the show. I'm not sure how much worse things can get in America, but no doubt they will and no doubt you will write about it. So keep well, keep safe and keep doing your brave work. Thank you so much.Sarah Kendzior: Yeah, you too. Thank you so much for your kind words and for having me on again. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Federico analiza la demoledora carta de Lech Walesa, héroe polaco de la resistencia contra el comunismo, a Donald Trump.

In Donald Trump's world, friends and enemies trade places with breathtaking speed. Consider the case of Ukraine.President Joe Biden hailed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “the man of the year” and pledged that the U.S. “will not walk away from Ukraine” in its war against Russia, which attacked Ukraine and annexed Crimea in 2014, and launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.Last week, President Donald Trump called Zelensky “a dictator,” falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war with Russia, and effectively walked away from Ukraine by halting the delivery of weapons and stopping intelligence sharing. Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as “savvy” and a “genius.”Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed the whiplash that many are feeling about Trump when he said, "Today the United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they are talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator. Make that make sense." Yaroslav Trofimov has long been making sense of a complicated world. He is the chief foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Trofimov was born in Ukraine and has reported from the front lines there. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting in 2023 for his work on Ukraine, and in 2022 for his work on Afghanistan, and won the National Press Club award for political analysis in 2024. He is the author of four books, including “No Country for Love,” a historical novel set in Ukraine that was inspired by his family history, and was published this month.Describing the disastrous meeting between Presidents Zelensky and Trump, Trofimov quoted Lech Walesa, the former trade union leader and president of Poland, who co-signed a letter with former Polish political prisoners saying that “the meeting in the Oval Office reminded him of the interrogations he had in the communist secret police rooms and in the kangaroo communist courts, where, as he said, we were also told we have no cards.”“Zelensky told Trump that I'd like to sign an agreement, but what is the guarantee that Putin won't attack again? And Trump's response was basically, Trust me bro.”Trump's “priority is not a peaceful settlement in Ukraine. His main priority seems to be to open up relations with Vladimir Putin's Russia, economic, political, geopolitical,” said Trofimov.“Zelensky is just a chip to be traded, and it looks like the administration will be perfectly happy for the war to end on Russia's terms, meaning that Ukraine will fall back on the de facto Russian rule (under) Russian authority as long as its mineral wealth is sent over the United States.”What is behind Trump's warm embrace of Putin?Trofimov explained that Putin “has always believed that big powers like Russia have the right to a sphere of influence, to arrange things in the neighborhood, and that it's a natural right. And President Putin has described his policy as the Monroe Doctrine 2.0, which is the American version of this 19th century imperialism.”Similarly, Trump is “laying claims on Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal, which is very similar to the language that Putin is using against Ukraine or the Baltic states. It is also kind of aided by changes inside the American Conservative ... MAGA movement, where a certain fetishization of Russia has taken hold.”“In the, in the collective imagination of parts of MAGA, Russia is seen as this beacon of Christian family values, traditional values, this antidote to the woke virus. It couldn't be further from the actual Russia that exists, which is a country with one of (the highest) abortion and divorce rates, with rapidly shrinking population, with endemic corruption.”What will happen to Ukraine if the U.S. ends its support?Trofimov believes that “Ukraine will not fold … and Europe, if it really wants to, can sustain Ukraine,” noting that “the European economies are about 12 times the size of Russia.”“There is a growing realization in Europe that allowing Russia to win in Ukraine will cause much bigger pain in a few years. … Perhaps that will be the end of Europe.”That is why Europeans are dramatically boosting defense spending. “Obviously, it's much easier with the United States on board, much, much easier. But it doesn't mean that Ukraine or Europe are doomed if the U.S. decides to play for the other team.”I asked Trofimov whether he was optimistic or pessimistic about Ukraine's future. He replied by quoting a popular Ukrainian song from the 1920s. “Crying has never brought freedom to anyone. So it's not the time to be despondent or pessimistic. It's the time to do things. Ukrainians are doing things, and the Europeans are starting to do things, and if they keep doing things, then they will be okay.”

Terroren vender tilbake til Tyskland. To drept og 25 skadet etter et nytt angrep i Mannheim – samme by som ble rammet for under et år siden. Likevel er mediene mest opptatt av at «en bil» kjørte inn i folkemengden. Hvor mange slike angrep må til før noen tør å si hva dette faktisk handler om?Zelenskyj var på plass i Det hvite hus igjen, i sitt vante antrekk og med støtte fra sentrale politikere både i Europa og fra senatet i USA. Møtet med Trump og Vance ble likevel noe annet enn tidligere. Det vakte reaksjoner, særlig på måten samtalen utspilte seg. Blant dem som kastet seg på, var Polens tidligere president Lech Walesa, som mente det hele minnet om et avhør fra kommunisttiden. Er det der nivået ligger nå – et møte i Det hvite hus sammenlignes med et totalitært overgrep?I Sverige fortsetter feminiseringen av politiet og sikkerhetsetatene, samtidig som volden eskalerer. Stillingsbeskrivelser endres, krav tones ned, og dialog prioriteres over inngripen. Tryggheten forvitrer mens ledelsen smiler til kamera og snakker om tillit.Alt ser ut til å gå riktig vei. Bare ikke for dem som rammes.Velkommen til kveldens Dagsorden med Lise Sørensen og Christian Skaug. 

In het jaar dat nu voor ons staat zal veel gebeuren. Veel verrassends, veel onbegrijpelijks en veel dat je wel kon zien aankomen of waar we op konden hopen. In Betrouwbare Bronnen bekijken Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger elk jaar welke vroegere momenten en mensen ons juist in het nieuwe jaar kunnen inspireren; tot nadenken stemmen, verbazen en een spiegel voorhouden.***Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show!Steun VluchtelingenWerk Nederland. Gebruik hiervoor de link vluchtelingenwerk.nl/betrouwbarebronnen Deze aflevering bevat een advertentie van De Schrijverscentrale. Boek ook een schrijversbezoek!Heb je belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Zend een mailtje naar adverteren@dagennacht.nl en wij zoeken contact.Op sommige podcast-apps kun je niet alles lezen. De complete tekst plus linkjes en een overzicht van al onze eerdere afleveringen vind je hier***1} AmerikaEen nieuwe president wordt ingezworen en het is een oude, in alle betekenissen van het woord. In de Amerikaanse geschiedenis werd precies 200 jaar geleden een heel ander mens ingehuldigd als president. De zoon van een eerdere president bovendien. John Quincy Adams was een Uomo Universale en bekleedde vele politieke en diplomatiek posten.Hij begon als scholier in Amsterdam en student in Leiden als de secretaris van zijn vader, ambassadeur John Adams. Als tiener was hij dus al op het hoogste niveau actief voor de nieuwe, rebelse republiek van de Britse onderdanen in opstand. In 1825 werd hij hun zesde president.Die republiek viert nu zijn 250ste verjaardag en ook in 2025 gaan we in Betrouwbare Bronnen door met het uitdiepen van dat jubileum. Op 19 april 1775 begon het conflict uit de hand te lopen. Britse troepen vielen de guerilleros aan rond de stad Boston – die van de eerdere Tea Party actie - en liepen een lelijk blauw oog op.In Concord en op Lexington Green werd gevochten en de troepen van George III vluchtten terug naar de stad. “By the rude bridge that arched the flood/Their flag to April's breeze unfurled/Here once the embattled farmers stood/And fired the shot heard round the world.” En de victorieuze rebellen zongen uit volle borst 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'!2] LeidenDe oudste universiteit van Nederland viert op 8 februari haar 450e verjaardag. Deze academie, het Praesidium Libertatis, was een geschenk van Willem van Oranje als dank voor de moed van de burgers tijdens de belegering door de Spaanse troepen.Het werd het trainingscentrum van het calvinisme en van burgerlijke bestuurders die de nieuwe Republiek hun gezicht en hun vernuft schonken. Het werd ook een wereldwijd uniek kenniscentrum van de andere culturen, talen en religies 'van het Boek'. Hoe afbraak daar nu het parool is, is niet minder dan een cultureel schandaal.Leiden trok talent vanuit heel de wereld. Snouck ontving prins Saud uit Mekka. Minister Wim Deetman de sjeik van Qatar. Ehrenfest zijn grote vriend Einstein wiens wasbak bewaard bleef! En de historische vulpen die de natuurkunde en onze blik op het universum fundamenteel veranderde. PG vertelt over zijn leermeester professor Jan Heesterman, wiens diepe kennis en liefde voor India en andere Aziatische culturen nu nog doorleeft.3] AmsterdamDe Leidse academie verbindt zich op een wel heel aparte wijze met de hoofdstad en de klassieke muziek in de persoon van Gustav Mahler. Wie Amsterdam zegt, zegt het Concertgebouw en zegt Mahler. 2025 is er opnieuw een groot festival met al diens werken, uitgevoerd door een reeks toporkesten, dirigenten en solisten.Niets kan beter de 750e verjaardag van deze stad luister bijzetten. Jaap en PG stippen vrouwen en mannen aan die Amsterdam kleur gaven; wereldfaam en politieke en morele kwaliteit. Van Aletta Jacobs tot Johan van Hulst. En laten we blij zijn dat wethouder Joop den Uyl zijn 'grootste verbouwing ooit' toch niet voor elkaar kreeg!4] Thomas MannEen vriend van Einstein en vele andere grote geesten in Leiden en Amsterdam als Sigmund Freud en Richard Strauss wordt dit jaar wereldwijd geëerd. Thomas Mann werd 150 jaar geleden geboren en sprak 75 jaar geleden zijn grote rede 'Meine Zeit' uit. Dat gebeurde in Chicago en waarom dat is, heeft nota bene een verbinding met ons land en oud-premier Ruud Lubbers.5] RuslandRusland staat stil bij de berinnering aan het aantreden van twee grote heersers. En zal sidderen. 31 december 1999 trad Boris Jeltsin af en wees Vladimir Poetin aan als zijn opvolger. We konden toen al vijf jaar weten waar deze KGB-officier politiek stond. Een artikel in een Duitse krant over een documentaire van de WDR-omroep liet daar geen misverstand over bestaan. En een stukje uit die docu hebben we! Je hoort Poetin Duits spreken.(Hier kun je de hele documentaire zien)Ongetwijfeld zal Poetin dit jaar zélf stil staan bij de troonsbestijging van zijn rolmodel uit de Tsarendynastie. Nicolaas I volgde op 1 december 1825 zijn plots gestorven broer Alexander 'Sasha' op. Met hem begonnen decennia van repressie, afsluiting van het Westen en vervolging van 'andersdenkenden'.6] EuropaPolen zit de EU voor en dat is in 2025 van grote symbolische betekenis. Op 27 januari komt de wereld daar bijeen om de bevrijding van het vernietigingskamp Auschwitz in 1945 te gedenken. Actueler dan ooit nu Syrië bevrijd is en de gruwelen daar aan het licht komen.Maar 2025 kent ook reden tot vreugde en trots voor de Polen. Want op 9 december vieren zij hoe in 1990 hun eerste democratisch gekozen president na de 'Mauerfall' aantrad. Dat was toen al een icoon van moedig verzet en onwrikbaar geloof, de vakbondsman Lech Walesa. Zijn campagneslogan zei het al: “Ik wil het niet, maar het moet.”Twee groten van de Europese geschiedenis worden dit jaar geëerd bij hun 100e verjaardag. Margaret Thatcher en Jacques Delors. Tegenpolen, dat zeker, maar mensen met groot respect voor elkaar. "He is the cleverest man in Europe!" Daar kunnen we in onze tijd misschien wel wat van leren dus.En 2025 wordt hopelijk ook politiek hun jaar. Met een nieuwe toenadering binnen de NAVO en met de EU van de Britten en met een even gedurfd als visionair redesign van de EU door Delors' leerlingen Ursula en Mario.7] Geen opera?Toch wel. Want in 1625 werd de alleroudste opera door een vrouw gecomponeerd in Florence opgevoerd. Een verhaal uit een geliefde ridderroman werd met veel spektakel ten tonele gebracht door de Medici-familie ter gelegenheid van de ontvangst van kroonprins Wladyslaw van Polen!Maar vanwege Leiden en Amsterdam luiden we het jaar in met Gustav Mahler. Met zijn meest intieme liefdeslied voor zijn grillige, veeleisende vrouw Alma.Gelukkig Nieuwjaar en alle goeds in 2025!***Verder luisteren392 - 2024: triomf en tragedie in historie en actualiteit138 - In het voetspoor van Amerikaanse Presidenten in Nederland (oa de jonge John Quincy Adams)382 - 250 jaar Verenigde Staten: de Boston Tea Party en de rechtsbescherming van belastingbetalers in Nederland115 - Thomas Paine en De Rechten van de mens - filosoof van de Amerikaanse revolutie262 - Waarom India - ook voor Nederland - steeds belangrijker wordt325 - De mythe van Joop den Uyl; het spookbeeld van Mark Rutte161 - Hans van Mierlo, een politieke popster346 - Alle Menschen werden Brüder!404 - 75 jaar NAVO: in 1949 veranderde de internationale positie van Nederland voorgoed (oa over Thomas Mann)21 - Poetins rolmodel tsaar Nicolaas I19 - Anne Applebaum over Oekraïne, Poetin en Nicolaas I468 – Polen brengt nieuwe dynamiek in Europa105 - 75 jaar bevrijding: Dagelijks leven in Nazi-Duitsland - Viktor Klemperer wist in 1942 al van Auschwitz336 - Timothy Garton Ash: Hoe Europa zichzelf voor de derde keer opnieuw uitvindt (oa over Lech Walesa)124 - 95 jaar Jacques Delors30 - Delors en Thatcher303 - Bijzondere Britse premiers446 - Doe wat Draghi zegt of Europa wacht een langzame doodsstrijd***Tijdlijn00:00:00 – Deel 100:35:55 – Deel 200:58:21 – Deel 301:33:50 – Einde Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

"Dans Ne le dis surtout pas à Paul, comme c'était le cas dans La Lettre, mon premier roman, le narrateur, Paul Sarran, me ressemble incontestablement : un homme de radio et de télévision, qui a pu interviewer Brigitte Bardot, Coluche ou Johnny Hallyday, Alain Delon, Bernard Tapie, mais aussi Sœur Emmanuelle ou Lech Walesa...

In the spotlight is John Darnton, novelist and author of six novels, including “Burning Sky,” his latest. Darnton worked 40 years at the New York Times cover city hall before becoming a foreign correspondent in Africa; Warsaw, Poland; Madrid; and London. Along the way he won a Pulitzer Prize and two George Polk Awards, while moonlighting as a novelist. In addition to his six novels, Darnton has also written a memoir (“Almost a Family”) about his father's life and death as a foreign war correspondent.  We discuss:  >> The transition from reporter to novelist >> His daily word count >> His work style pre- and post-retirement >> The inspiration of Charles Darwin >> His father's life and death >> Reporting on Lech Walesa and Poland's Solidarity movement >> Etc.  Learn more about John Darnton here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/6414/john-darnton/  Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol. Check out his novels here: https://snip.ly/yz18no         Write to Mike Consol at novelistspotlight@gmail.com

En ce 29 septembre, on souhaite un très bon anniversaire à l'homme politique polonais Lech Walesa (81 ans), l'acteur Philippe Caroit et à la comédienne Anaïs Demoustier.

Vous aimez notre peau de caste ? Soutenez-nous ! https://www.lenouvelespritpublic.fr/abonnement Une émission de Philippe Meyer, enregistrée au studio l'Arrière-boutique le 22 mars 2024. Avec cette semaine : Nicolas Baverez, essayiste et avocat. Jean-Louis Bourlanges, président de la Commission des Affaires étrangères de l'Assemblée nationale. Matthias Fekl, avocat et ancien ministre de l'Intérieur. Béatrice Giblin, directrice de la revue Hérodote et fondatrice de l'Institut Français de Géopolitique. LA FIN DE VIE Après que la convention citoyenne organisée par le Conseil économique, social et environnemental avait remis ses conclusions le 3 avril 2023, le chef de l'État avait promis de bâtir un « modèle français » de la fin de vie, en annonçant un projet de loi plusieurs fois reporté. Dans un entretien à « Libération » et à « la Croix », publié le 10 mars, le Président a annoncé pour avril un texte qui défend une démarche de « fraternité » et de « rassemblement ». Le projet prévoit la possibilité de demander une « aide à mourir » dans des conditions encadrées : cet accompagnement sera réservé aux personnes majeures, comme la Convention citoyenne l'avait recommandé. Les personnes devront être capables d'un discernement plein et entier, excluant les patients atteints de maladies psychiatriques ou de maladies neurodégénératives qui altèrent le discernement, comme Alzheimer. Elles devront présenter une maladie incurable et un pronostic vital engagé à court ou à moyen terme. Le dernier critère est celui de souffrances - physiques ou psychologiques réfractaires, c'est-à-dire que l'on ne peut pas soulager. Le projet de loi indique que l'accord donné à l'« aide à mourir »relève d'un seul professionnel, celui auquel le malade adresse sa demande, qui peut être son médecin traitant, un spécialiste à l'hôpital, un praticien en ville ou en Ehpad. Ce médecin sollicite obligatoirement l'« avis » d'un autre « médecin, qui ne connaît pas la personne, spécialiste de la pathologie » et d'un « professionnel paramédical qui intervient auprès d'elle ». Il peut aussi se tourner vers un infirmier, aide-soignant, ou encore un psychologue, qui a l'habitude d'être au chevet du patient. In fine, c'est le médecin qui mène la procédure qui tranche. Il a quinze jours maximum après la demande pour se prononcer. En cas de refus du praticien d'autoriser l'« aide à mourir », le patient peut saisir le tribunal administratif. En cas de réponse favorable, la prescription est valable trois mois, période durant laquelle le patient pourra se rétracter à tout moment. Le projet de loi vise également à améliorer la qualité de vie des grands malades. Il s'agit, selon l'exposé de motifs, de forger « pour les dix années à venir, un modèle rénové et renforcé de prise en charge de la douleur chronique ou aiguë et de l'accompagnement de la fin de vie ». Le texte de loi devrait être transmis au conseil des ministres le 10 avril. Il sera dans la foulée soumis à une « commission spéciale » qui se réunira à l'Assemblée nationale. La première lecture en séance publique est prévue le 27 mai. Selon un sondage Ifop de juin 2023, 90% des Français estiment que la loi française devrait autoriser l'euthanasie. 85% approuvent l'autorisation du suicide assisté. Les représentants religieux, eux, font régulièrement savoir leur ferme opposition. « Rupture anthropologique » d'un côté, « avancée sociétale » de l'autre, le clivage ne s'éteindra pas aux portes de l'Assemblée nationale. LE TRIANGLE DE WEIMAR PEUT-IL RELAYER LE COUPLE FRANCO-ALLEMAND ? Régulièrement à la peine avant 2022 (malgré la signature en 2019 du Traité d'Aix-la-Chapelle, dont la mise en œuvre fut perturbée par la pandémie de Covid), le « moteur » franco-allemand semble aujourd'hui grippé. Le chancelier Scholz ne voit pas de salut de l'Europe hors de son ancrage avec les Etats-Unis, tandis que le président Macron prône la souveraineté européenne. Les deux dirigeants étaient du même côté, celui des sceptiques et de l'apaisement avec la Russie, au début de la guerre. Mais, depuis l'été 2023, la position d'Emmanuel Macron a radicalement changé pour se rapprocher de celle des pays de l'est de l'Europe et du Royaume-Uni. Les désaccords et l'inimitié entre les deux hommes ont augmenté après l'annonce du chef de l'État français de la possibilité d'envoyer des troupes en Ukraine. Afin de débloquer la situation, le chancelier allemand a réactivé à Berlin le 15 mars le Triangle de Weimar, cette entente cordiale entre la Pologne, l'Allemagne et la France créée en 1991 pour soutenir le pays, alors dirigé par Lech Walesa, dans son adhésion à l'Otan. Un canal qui a connu de nombreuses pauses, surtout ces huit dernières années, lorsque le parti souverainiste ultra-conservateur Droit et justice (PiS) se trouvait au pouvoir avec une position très atlantiste et en privilégiant une relation bilatérale avec les Etats-Unis. Depuis décembre 2023 et l'arrivée aux affaires de Donald Tusk, les Européens attendent beaucoup du nouveau gouvernement polonais en termes de réengagement. A l'issue de ce sommet, le chancelier Olaf Scholz, le président Emmanuel Macron, et le Premier ministre Donald Tusk ont promis de livrer davantage d'armes à Kyiv, notamment de l'artillerie de longue portée. Cette coalition « sur les frappes en profondeur » avait déjà été présentée le 26 février à l'Élysée lors de la conférence de soutien à l'Ukraine, mais cette fois, l'Allemagne l'endosse ouvertement. L'augmentation des livraisons d'équipements militaires sera effectuée via des achats sur le marché mondial ainsi que par la production d'armes sur le territoire de l'Ukraine, en coopération avec des partenaires. Le chancelier allemand a aussi indiqué que les pays européens allaient se servir des recettes générées par les actifs russes gelés pour financer des achats d'armes. Selon les estimations, l'Europe aurait gelé près de 300 milliards d'euros d'actifs de la banque centrale russe et plusieurs dizaines de milliards d'euros de biens divers appartenant à des personnes sanctionnées. Olaf Scholz s'est également félicité de la nouvelle aide militaire de 5 milliards d'euros annoncée la semaine dernière par l'Europe, à l'issue de plusieurs mois de négociations. Donald Tusk a souligné qu'il était important que Paris, Berlin et Varsovie parlent d'une même voix et a annoncé la tenue d'une réunion du Triangle de Weimar cet été. De retour de Washington, le Premier ministre polonais a rappelé que l'Europe devrait surtout penser à renforcer sa Défense dans la perspective d'une victoire électorale de Trump en novembre.Chaque semaine, Philippe Meyer anime une conversation d'analyse politique, argumentée et courtoise, sur des thèmes nationaux et internationaux liés à l'actualité. Pour en savoir plus : www.lenouvelespritpublic.fr

Punto de Vista - La lección de Lech Walesa (miércoles, 20 de marzo de 2024)

Last week we brought to you our February 6, 2024, 113th birthday celebration for President Reagan with keynote remarks by Lech Walesa, the former President of Poland. In this week's Reagan Forum, we are doing something a little different. We're bringing you a playback of our live video from February 7th where we looked at […]

Last week we brought to you our February 6, 2024, 113th birthday celebration for President Reagan with keynote remarks by Lech Walesa, the former President of Poland. In this week's Reagan Forum, we are doing something a little different. We're bringing you a playback of our live video from February 7th where we looked at past birthday celebrations and listened to excerpts of various keynote speakers since 2010.

Als Führer der Gewerkschaft Solidarność stürzte Lech Walesa den Kommunismus in seinem Land. Von 1990 bis 1995 war er Präsident Polens. Jetzt forderte der Friedensnobelpreisträger die USA auf, „Russland zu helfen, friedlich zu sein“.

February 6, 2024, marked the 113th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Wilson Reagan. He used to love to joke that each birthday was the anniversary of his 39th birthday, so 2024 would have marked the 74th anniversary of his 39th birthday! Since President Reagan's passing on June 5, 2004, the Reagan Foundation has worked with the United States Marine Corps Camp Pendleton to hold a birthday celebration on February 6 of each year to honor the life and legacy of our nation's 40th president. Each year the program includes live musical entertainment from the 1st Marine Division Band, an honor guard, a rifle guard, and the official laying of the White House Presidential Wreath on President Reagan's gravesite. Keynote speakers in prior years have included Ed Meese, Elizabeth Dole, James Baker, and Henry Kissinger. In this week's A Reagan Forum podcast, we listen in to the ceremony held on February 6, 2024, with special keynote speaker Lech Walesa, who shared President Reagan's commitment to securing and preserving human rights, democracy, and freedom around the world. As the leader of the Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa's role in the Cold War helped defeat the Soviet Union.

Fabriquer la diplomatie, c'est aussi penser l'avenir, imaginer l'après. De nombreux Etats ont doté leurs ministères des Affaires étrangères de structures qui ont pour vocation de décrypter la marche du monde, et d'en tirer des conseils, des orientations qui  viennent alimenter l'écriture de la politique internationale du pays. En France, depuis 1973, le CAPS (le Centre d'analyse de prévision et de stratégie) capte les grandes tendances de l'environnement international et se prête au difficile exercice de l'anticipation.  Ces membres, diplomates, intellectuels, décryptent les tendances, les signaux faibles, conseillent ministres et présidents en essayant de penser hors des sentiers battus, de proposer des visions à contre-courant. Un déjeuner avec Henry Kissinger en 74 pour un tout jeune directeur, une rencontre avec Lech Walesa en 1989 qui montre un monde qui va disparaître, la place croissante des questions religieuses, la réinvention du multilatéralisme dans les années 2020… des rencontres importantes et des analyses solides, l'ADN du centre, raconté par les femmes et les hommes qui ont fait son histoire dans cette nouvelle série qui marque aussi l'anniversaire des 50 ans du CAPS.  CAPS : 50 ans de Futur est une série de témoignages à voix nue de Sources diplomatiques, le podcast du Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères. Sources diplomatiques est le podcast réalisé par les équipes du ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères : une plongée au cœur de la diplomatie française, une invitation à découvrir les rapports d'influence, les négociations, les questions stratégiques et la mécanique des grands enjeux politiques internationaux.  Retrouvez aussi les séries consacrées à la guerre en Ukraine, à la COP28 et également des table-rondes sur la photo en diplomatie... Sources diplomatiques sur toutes les plateformes d'écoute.

Fabriquer la diplomatie, c'est aussi penser l'avenir, imaginer l'après. De nombreux Etats ont doté leurs ministères des Affaires étrangères de structures qui ont pour vocation de décrypter la marche du monde, et d'en tirer des conseils, des orientations qui  viennent alimenter l'écriture de la politique internationale du pays. En France, depuis 1973, le CAPS (Centre d'analyse, de prévision et de stratégie) capte les grandes tendances de l'environnement international et se prête au difficile exercice de l'anticipation.  Ces membres, diplomates, intellectuels, décryptent les tendances, les signaux faibles, conseillent ministres et présidents en essayant de penser hors des sentiers battus, de proposer des visions à contre-courant. Un déjeuner avec Henry Kissinger en 74 pour un tout jeune directeur, une rencontre avec Lech Walesa en 1989 qui montre un monde qui va disparaître, la place croissante des questions religieuses, la réinvention du multilatéralisme dans les années 2020… des rencontres importantes et des analyses solides, l'ADN du centre, raconté par les femmes et les hommes qui ont fait son histoire dans cette nouvelle série qui marque aussi l'anniversaire des 50 ans du CAPS.  CAPS : 50 ans de futur est une série de témoignages à voix nue de Sources diplomatiques, le podcast du Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères. Cet épisode "un monde multipolaire (2013 - 2019)" donne la parole à Justin Vaïsse. Sources diplomatiques est le podcast réalisé par les équipes du ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères : une plongée au cœur de la diplomatie française, une invitation à découvrir les rapports d'influence, les négociations, les questions stratégiques et la mécanique des grands enjeux politiques internationaux.  Retrouvez aussi les séries consacrées à la guerre en Ukraine, à la COP28 et également des table-rondes sur la photo en diplomatie... Sources diplomatiques sur toutes les plateformes d'écoute.

Fabriquer la diplomatie, c'est aussi penser l'avenir, imaginer l'après. De nombreux Etats ont doté leurs ministères des Affaires étrangères de structures qui ont pour vocation de décrypter la marche du monde, et d'en tirer des conseils, des orientations qui  viennent alimenter l'écriture de la politique internationale du pays. En France, depuis 1973, le CAPS (Centre d'analyse, de prévision et de stratégie) capte les grandes tendances de l'environnement international et se prête au difficile exercice de l'anticipation.  Ces membres, diplomates, intellectuels, décryptent les tendances, les signaux faibles, conseillent ministres et présidents en essayant de penser hors des sentiers battus, de proposer des visions à contre-courant. Un déjeuner avec Henry Kissinger en 74 pour un tout jeune directeur, une rencontre avec Lech Walesa en 1989 qui montre un monde qui va disparaître, la place croissante des questions religieuses, la réinvention du multilatéralisme dans les années 2020… des rencontres importantes et des analyses solides, l'ADN du centre, raconté par les femmes et les hommes qui ont fait son histoire dans cette nouvelle série qui marque aussi l'anniversaire des 50 ans du CAPS.  CAPS : 50 ans de futur est une série de témoignages à voix nue de Sources diplomatiques, le podcast du Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères. Cet épisode "penser contre soi-même (2007 - 2009)" donne la parole à Muriel Domenach. Sources diplomatiques est le podcast réalisé par les équipes du ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères : une plongée au cœur de la diplomatie française, une invitation à découvrir les rapports d'influence, les négociations, les questions stratégiques et la mécanique des grands enjeux politiques internationaux.  Retrouvez aussi les séries consacrées à la guerre en Ukraine, à la COP28 et également des table-rondes sur la photo en diplomatie... Sources diplomatiques sur toutes les plateformes d'écoute.

Fabriquer la diplomatie, c'est aussi penser l'avenir, imaginer l'après. De nombreux Etats ont doté leurs ministères des Affaires étrangères de structures qui ont pour vocation de décrypter la marche du monde, et d'en tirer des conseils, des orientations qui  viennent alimenter l'écriture de la politique internationale du pays. En France, depuis 1973, le CAPS (Centre d'analyse, de prévision et de stratégie) capte les grandes tendances de l'environnement international et se prête au difficile exercice de l'anticipation.  Ces membres, diplomates, intellectuels, décryptent les tendances, les signaux faibles, conseillent ministres et présidents en essayant de penser hors des sentiers battus, de proposer des visions à contre-courant. Un déjeuner avec Henry Kissinger en 74 pour un tout jeune directeur, une rencontre avec Lech Walesa en 1989 qui montre un monde qui va disparaître, la place croissante des questions religieuses, la réinvention du multilatéralisme dans les années 2020… des rencontres importantes et des analyses solides, l'ADN du centre, raconté par les femmes et les hommes qui ont fait son histoire dans cette nouvelle série qui marque aussi l'anniversaire des 50 ans du CAPS.  CAPS : 50 ans de futur est une série de témoignages à voix nue de Sources diplomatiques, le podcast du Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères. Cet épisode "la chute de l'Union soviétique (1989 - 1992)" donne la parole à Jean-Marie Guéhenno. Sources diplomatiques est le podcast réalisé par les équipes du ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères : une plongée au cœur de la diplomatie française, une invitation à découvrir les rapports d'influence, les négociations, les questions stratégiques et la mécanique des grands enjeux politiques internationaux.  Retrouvez aussi les séries consacrées à la guerre en Ukraine, à la COP28 et également des table-rondes sur la photo en diplomatie... Sources diplomatiques sur toutes les plateformes d'écoute.

Fabriquer la diplomatie, c'est aussi penser l'avenir, imaginer l'après. De nombreux Etats ont doté leurs ministères des Affaires étrangères de structures qui ont pour vocation de décrypter la marche du monde, et d'en tirer des conseils, des orientations qui  viennent alimenter l'écriture de la politique internationale du pays. En France, depuis 1973, le CAPS, le Centre d'Analyse de prévision et de stratégie capte les grandes tendances de l'environnement international et se prête au difficile exercice de l'anticipation.  Ces membres, diplomates, intellectuels, décryptent les tendances, les signaux faibles, conseillent ministres et présidents en essayant de penser hors des sentiers battus, de proposer des visions à contre-courant. Un déjeuner avec Henry Kissinger en 74 pour un tout jeune directeur, une rencontre avec Lech Walesa en 1989 qui montre un monde qui va disparaître, la place croissante des questions religieuses, la réinvention du multilatéralisme dans les années 2020… des rencontres importantes et des analyses solides, l'ADN du centre, raconté par les femmes et les hommes qui ont fait son histoire dans cette nouvelle série qui marque aussi l'anniversaire des 50 ans du CAPS.  CAPS : 50 ans de futur est une série de témoignages à voix nue de Sources diplomatiques, le podcast du Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères. Cet épisode la création du CAPS - le choc pétrolier (1973 - 1978) donne la parole à Thierry de Montbrial. Sources diplomatiques est le podcast réalisé par les équipes du ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères : une plongée au cœur de la diplomatie française, une invitation à découvrir les rapports d'influence, les négociations, les questions stratégiques et la mécanique des grands enjeux politiques internationaux.  Retrouvez aussi les séries consacrées à la guerre en Ukraine, à la COP28 et également des table-rondes sur la photo en diplomatie... Sources diplomatiques sur toutes les plateformes d'écoute.

Fabriquer la diplomatie, c'est aussi penser l'avenir, imaginer l'après. De nombreux Etats ont doté leurs ministères des Affaires étrangères de structures qui ont pour vocation de décrypter la marche du monde, et d'en tirer des conseils, des orientations qui  viennent alimenter l'écriture de la politique internationale du pays. En France, depuis 1973, le CAPS (Centre d'analyse, de prévision et de stratégie) capte les grandes tendances de l'environnement international et se prête au difficile exercice de l'anticipation.  Ces membres, diplomates, intellectuels, décryptent les tendances, les signaux faibles, conseillent ministres et présidents en essayant de penser hors des sentiers battus, de proposer des visions à contre-courant. Un déjeuner avec Henry Kissinger en 74 pour un tout jeune directeur, une rencontre avec Lech Walesa en 1989 qui montre un monde qui va disparaître, la place croissante des questions religieuses, la réinvention du multilatéralisme dans les années 2020… des rencontres importantes et des analyses solides, l'ADN du centre, raconté par les femmes et les hommes qui ont fait son histoire dans cette nouvelle série qui marque aussi l'anniversaire des 50 ans du CAPS.  CAPS : 50 ans de futur est une série de témoignages à voix nue de Sources diplomatiques, le podcast du Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères. Cet épisode "religions et diplomatie (2016 - 2018)" donne la parole à Marie Dumoulin. Sources diplomatiques est le podcast réalisé par les équipes du ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères : une plongée au cœur de la diplomatie française, une invitation à découvrir les rapports d'influence, les négociations, les questions stratégiques et la mécanique des grands enjeux politiques internationaux.  Retrouvez aussi les séries consacrées à la guerre en Ukraine, à la COP 28 et également des table-rondes sur la photo en diplomatie... Sources diplomatiques sur toutes les plateformes d'écoute.

Today we were very fortunate to host Fernando Oris de Roa for an insightful discussion on Argentina and the recent dramatic election result there. Fernando served as the Ambassador of Argentina to the United States in 2018 and 2019 is currently an Independent Director of Allkem. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and business leader in Argentina and earned his MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. With the country's recent election of political newcomer Javier Milei as President, we were thrilled to visit with Fernando and explore the implications of the new presidency for Argentina and Latin America at large. Fernando first shares his perspective on the political landscape in Argentina, the significance of Milei's win, the libertarian philosophies Milei will bring to office, and reactions within the Argentine business community. We explore Milei's announced and other potential key players in a new government, the United States's cautiously supportive stance thus far, the nation's vast energy and economic opportunities, the issue of dollarization, geopolitical considerations with neighboring countries, and China's growing influence in Latin America. We also discuss the current investment climate in Argentina, the potential for expansion in the mining sector, Fernando's recommended short-term goals for the nation, including stabilizing inflation, the potential for sweeping budget cuts to reduce the size of government, and much more. In our conversation with Fernando, we began to wonder if a good analogy to Milei's win is Lech Walesa in Poland or Vaclev Havel in Czechoslovakia, instead of the often repeated “Trump of Argentina” comparison. It's perhaps too early to tell but a rejection of socialism and government control has clearly happened. We ended by asking Fernando for his ten-year view for Argentina. It was an insightful discussion and we greatly appreciated hearing his insights. Mike Bradley kicked us off by indicating that 10-year bond yields plunged ~20bps and are now trading at a 3-month low of 4.2%. He noted that bond traders are betting the FED is done hiking rates and could soon be cutting due to a growing consensus of a U.S. “soft landing.” He highlighted a couple of rumblings stemming from the COP 28 conference and noted pleas from some more vocal individuals on a more aggressive phase out of coal & other fossil fuels, on the other hand, there was also constructive dialogue for a more aggressive nuclear buildout and more stringent methane monitoring. He highlighted that broader equity markets continue to trade sideways, are technically overbought (post a 10% rally off October lows) and that near-term trading caution is warranted. He highlighted that WTI price traded down to ~$72/bbl. (-$2-$3/bbl.) this week and really needs to hold technical support levels of $72.50/bbl. He further noted that crude price weakness is due both to CTA contract liquidation and physical weakness, which has pushed crude curves into contango from long-held backwardation. He also discussed that the recent OPEC+ meeting concluded with Russia/Saudi extending 1.3mmbpd of cuts, a handful of OPEC+ members agreeing to a 0.9mmbpd “voluntary” cuts through Q1'24, but that traders also remain unconvinced for most of these voluntary OPEC+ cuts, which has pushed crude traders into “show me” mode. He rounded out by highlighting Javier Milei's win of the Argentinian Presidency rallied the Argentinian stock market by 40% on early optimism that he might contain runaway inflation and further open up the oil & gas and mining industries. Jeff Tillery also joined for the exciting discussion with Fernando. Fernando was a fantastic guest and we hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did. Our best to you all. Tomorrow evening marks the start of Hanukkah… so a “Happy Hanukkah” to everyone just a bit early.

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In een turbulente wereld met oorlog in buurland Oekraïne en in het Midden-Oosten gaan de Polen zondag 15 oktober naar de stembus. Voor hun land en voor Europa zal de uitslag van grote betekenis zijn. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger analyseren de campagne, de achtergronden en de politieke actualiteit met een bijzondere kenner, de Pools-Nederlandse journaliste Malgorzata Bos-Karczewska.***Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show!Heeft u belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Zend een mailtje naar adverteren@dagennacht.nl en wij nemen contact met u opOp sommige podcast-apps kun je niet alles lezen. De complete tekst en een overzicht van al onze eerdere afleveringen vind je hier***Ze kwam voor de liefde naar Nederland, vlak voordat in Polen het einde van het communisme in zicht kwam. Sinds in 1989 de democratie kwam en de Europese toekomst van Polen begon, doet zij verslag van dit land. Daarbij is het van belang te beseffen dat Polen een bijzonder succes bereikte bij de overgang van communistische dictatuur naar een Europees gerichte democratie en markteconomie. Wat in Rusland niet lukte, slaagde in Polen wel.Zulke ingrijpende veranderingen - sociaal, cultureel, economisch en mentaal - gingen ook in Polen niet vanzelf. Malgorzata Bos vertelt hoe de rebellen van de vrije vakbond Solidarność van Lech Walesa na de val van de Berlijnse Muur gingen regeren en het land door zware tijden moesten leiden. Aanzienlijke delen van de bevolking zagen hun zekerheden wegvallen. Anderen profiteerden na de toetreding tot de Europese Unie al snel van grote bloei.Dit leidde ertoe dat vanuit de Solidarność-beweging twee fundamenteel verschillende politieke richtingen ontstonden. De sterk nationalistische, op sociale steun en het platteland geënte PiS (Recht en Rechtvaardigheid) van Jarosław Kaczyński en de op een dynamische, Europese toekomst gerichte alliantie van het Burgerplatform van Donald Tusk. Hun confrontatie vormt zowel een echo uit de tijden van Solidarność als een fundamentele richtingskeuze voor de Poolse burgers nu.Malgorzata Bos analyseert de vele verschillende en vaak zeer kleurrijke, gepolariseerde aspecten van de Poolse politiek en de huidige campagne. Diepere lagen van de Poolse historie en drama's uit het verleden klinken soms fel door. Zo speelt een vliegramp in Rusland waarbij de president en vele notabelen omkwamen nog steeds een grote rol. Mede daarom beschuldigt men vanuit PiS Donald Tusk ervan zowel een pion van Poetin te zijn als een 'Herr Tusk' die de agenda van Berlijn en Brussel volgt.De campagne zit vol onverwachte wendingen en schandalen. Van een plotseling ontdekte zwendel met duizenden visa voor migranten van buiten de EU - hoewel de regering zegt migratie te bestrijden - tot het uit protest aftreden van twee van de hoogste generaals. Tegelijkertijd bieden de twee partijen tegen elkaar op met beloften van sociale steunpakketten voor gezinnen en ouderen terwijl de vraag is of die beloften wel kunnen worden nagekomen.Malgorzata Bos wijst er op dat allerlei factoren hoogst onzeker maken wat de peilingen nu melden. De opkomst is meestal rond 50%, zodat mobilisatie van specifieke achterbannen van groot belang is. Hier zullen dit keer vrouwen een duidelijke rol spelen, gelet op de zeer strenge abortuswetgeving die PiS doorvoerde. De opkomst van oudere rurale kiezers is vaak moeilijk te peilen, terwijl opvallend was dat op 1 oktober Tusk met zijn aanhang een massaal protest ter verdediging van democratie en rechtsstaat wist te organiseren.Massaal en verrassend was ook de hulp van Polen voor de vele vluchtelingen uit Oekraïne. Hoe dat doorwerkt in de motivatie van de kiezers kan nu niemand vertellen. En ook de impact van de stemmen uit Nederland en andere landen waar veel Polen wonen, zou weleens kunnen verrassen. Alle reden om deze buitengewoon interessante verkiezingen veel aandacht te geven.***Verder luisteren336 - Timothy Garton Ash: Hoe Europa zichzelf voor de derde keer opnieuw uitvindt327 - Poetin, Zelensky en wij. Een jaar na de inval272 - Dankzij Poetin: nu écht intensief debat over de toekomst van Europa256 - Na de inval in Oekraïne: 'Nu serieus werk maken van Europese defensiesamenwerking'248 - Oekraïne en de eeuwenoude vriendschap tussen Duitsland en Rusland61 - PG Kroeger over de val van de Berlijnse Muur235 - De ondergang van de Sovjet-Unie: Gorbatsjov strijkt de rode vlag (in de links bij deze aflevering: de hele serie over de ondergang van de Sovjet-Unie)***Tijdlijn00:00:00 – Deel 100:45:00 – Deel 201:35:09 – Einde Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The day scabs tried to pass a picket line in Hollywood. Today's labor quote: Lech Walesa. Today's labor history: “The Battle of Burbank”. @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

De TONY BENNETT,SANDRO, ROBERTO CARLOS y SERRAT a CELINE DION, ELTON JOHN, BILLY JOEL, PRINCE, SHAKIRA, FRANCO DE VITA o KATY PERRY... De ISMAEL RIVERO, TOMMY OLIVENCIA y el GRAN COMBO a OSCAR DE LEON y JUAN LUIS GUERRA... De CHICAGO, TACO y GRAND FUNK a HERBIE HANCOK, JIMMY HENDRIX, ERIC CLAPTON, BARRY WHITE o los ROLLING STONES... De CLINT EASWOOD, ROBIN WILLIAMS o LECH WALESA a BRIGITTE BARDOT y "LOS HOMBRES DEL PRESIDENTE", "EL VALLE DE LAS MUÑECAS"... Y MUCHO MAS! QUE DE RECUERDOS! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/genteenambiente/support

In this episode of the podcast Clark takes us to Poland. An epicenter of the collapse of the Soviet Empire thanks to John Paul II and Lech Walesa, Poland is a great nation built on wealth created by salt, but it's always getting picked on by its neighbors. You can find Clark's classes on outschool at https://bit.ly/clarkonoutschool and follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/clarkvand/ You can email him at clarkvand@gmail.com

Les élections européennes de 2024, les différentes forces politiques du Parlement Européen, les différents enjeux de la droite, de la gauche et du centre, les défis de la prochaine mandature. Mais aussi en coups de coeur de la semaine : Lech Walesa à travers le documentaire Le syndicaliste et le général à voir sur Arte, et le grand dirigeant de l'AC Milan Adriano Galliani, à travers Les Mémoires d'Adriano G, coécrits avec Luigi Garlando aux éditions Piemme.

I 1980 står Lech Walesa, den tiljublede elektriker fra Leninskibsværftet i Gdansk, i spidsen for en strejke, som udfordrer det kommunistiske regimes magtmonopol. Walesa får senere Nobels Fredspris, Østblokken bryder sammen, og han bliver sit lands første demokratiske valgte præsident i 60 år. Men Walesa er ikke kun en succeshistorie. Han beskyldes også for at have diktatoriske anlæg og for at have været politistikker som ung. Nu hvor dette feterede og forkætrede frihedsikon snart fylder firs år, spørger vi, hvordan historieskrivningen ser på hans virke. Hvad er forskellen på oprøreren og magtmennesket Walesa? Og hvordan ser eftertiden på hans kamp? Det er nogle af spørgsmålene i denne uges Kampen om historien, hvor Adam Holm taler med de to Polen-kendere Anna Werenberg og Jens Mørch. Musik: Adi Zukanovic.

Lech Walesa: ‘Communism's Days Are Numbered Wherever It Exists'

Today's Topics: 1) At a recent conference, Lech Walesa, friend of Saint John Paul II and key player in the defeat of Soviet communism in Poland, exposed the lies of the ideology that has claimed the lives of millions of people around the world. “Leftists have taken over this attitude of taking care of the people, of helping the poor,” Walesa said. “Beware of slogans, because they always propagate them, but they never keep their promises. They have never fulfilled them and they're not going to fulfill them” https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252886/lech-walesa-friend-of-st-john-paul-ii-exposes-the-lies-of-communism 2, 3) Uses of Holy Water every Catholic should know. A group of lay Cistercians put together 14 ways Catholics should avail themselves of this powerful sacramental https://laycistercians.com/how-to-use-holy-water/ 4) Your body, your gift: Rachael Killackey explains the difference between the "flesh," which we should resist, and our bodies, which are meant to be loved, sacrificed in love, and welcomed into the happiness of heaven. Your body is not the enemy and here's why https://www.magdalaministries.org/blog/the-body-is-not-the-enemy

This episode is brought to you by The Practical Guide to Effective Communication: Get Recognized for the Value You Already Contribute Today's fascinating guest on the Speak Up with Laura Camacho podcast is Shelby Scarbrough: entrepreneur, author, and speaker associated with Harvard School of Entrepreneurial Studies. Shelby started off as a political appointee organizing trips for the Reagan and Bush administrations. She has also worked with Pope John Paul II, Presidents Reagan, Bush, Carter, Nixon, Lech Walesa of Poland, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, and Queen Elizabeth II. Shelby started right out of college working in the White House planning events for President Reagan. She went from the White House to the State Department before getting out of government work and starting her own business, Practical Protocol. She worked traveling around the world setting up trips and planning events for high-level dignitaries. After years of running her business, she decided to put what she learned about being courteous into her book: Civility Rules: Creating a Purposeful Practice of Civility. In this stimulating episode you will learn: - How you define civility - How civility can help navigate social situations especially after pandemic lockdowns - The fundamentals of courtesy - The relationship between joy and civility - How to navigate difficult or “hot button” topics and keep your cool - The impact social media has on civility - Practical ways to be more civil - The potential whip lash that results from “cancel culture” You can learn more about Shelby on her website Shelbyjoyscarbrough.com Shelby Scarbrough Shelby Joy Scarbrough - Practical Protocol While society continues to make exponential and historic advances in technology, and we have elevated our overall sophistication in every way, we seem to be missing something vital to the health of our society – our ability to be civil to each other.

Christophe Hondelatte raconte l'année 1983 en puisant dans les archives d'Europe 1. Cette année-là : Lille inaugure le 1er métro du monde sans conducteur; Lech Walesa reçoit le prix Nobel de la paix; un détenu très surveillé disparaît en Suisse; un avion coréen abattu en plein vol et Sophie Marceau sacrée meilleur espoir féminin !

The Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in Maryland tours Metro's Greenbelt Rail Yard and talks with ATU 689 members. Today's labor quote: Lech Walesa. Today's labor history: "The Battle of Burbank".    @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @arunamiller @ATULocal689 Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

TRUMP IS AMERICA'S HITLER A BLOCK: (1:50) SPECIAL COMMENT: After the Saturday Trump rally in Ohio, and the modified Sieg Heil, and the QAnon Music, and the rewritten history, and the Sunday Mastriano rally in Pennsylvania, and the modified Sieg Heil there, and the QAnon Music there, and the rewritten history there, it is time to use the real words. Trump has stopped pretending, and embraced QAnon, Christofascism, and Violent Revolution. He is America's Hitler, and he must be stopped while we still have any capacity to do so. B BLOCK: (23:53) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Henrietta (25:21) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Fiona blacks out Puerto Rico; Tomi Lahren evacuates?; Henry Silva passes; How about "Emancipation: It Slaps"? (27:54) IN SPORTS: Tom Brady's bad day and Trey Lance's worse day; What does "American League" record mean any more?; The passing of Mrs. Gil Hodges (30:2) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: DeSantis spits on Nazareth, Pat Sajak, and Alysin "Is It Really Kidnapping" Camerota of CNN compete for honors. C BLOCK: (35:20) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The anniversary of the day in 1908 when my great grandfather Antony Zelenskyy turned down $1000 in stock in the company that would become no I just can't write itSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this Labor Day edition of “The Learning Curve,” Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and the author of The Polish Revolution: Solidarity. Professor Garton Ash shares insights on what both the public and […]

In this Labor Day edition of “The Learning Curve,” Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and the author of The Polish Revolution: Solidarity. Professor Garton Ash shares insights on what both the public and students should know about Poland’s... Source

In this Labor Day edition of “The Learning Curve,” Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and the author of The Polish Revolution: Solidarity. Professor Garton Ash shares insights on what both the public and students should know about Poland's... Source

Buenos días desde La Habana, soy Yoani Sánchez y en el "cafecito informativo" de este martes 6 de septiembre de 2022 comentaré estos temas: - ¿Atraviesa la oposición cubana un mal momento? - Flexibilizan la importación de generadores eléctricos ¿Soluciona eso el problema energético? - La prensa oficial cubana y el rechazo a la Constitución en Chile - Concierto de Carlos Varela en Madrid Gracias por compartir este "cafecito informativo" y te espero para el programa de mañana. Puedes conocer más detalles de estas noticias en el diario https://www.14ymedio.com Los enlaces de hoy: Los alimentos se encarecieron en Cuba un 52% en el último año https://informa.link/economia/alimentos-encarecieron-Cuba-ultimo-ano_0_3381861785.html La merienda escolar, la más reciente víctima de la crisis económica en Cuba https://informa.link/cuba/merienda-escolar-reciente-victima-economica-Cuba_0_3381261848.html La prensa oficial cubana se atraganta con el rechazo a la Constitución en Chile https://informa.link/internacional/oficial-atraganta-rechazo-Constitucion-Chile_0_3381261849.html Caracas envió a la Isla una de las mayores cantidades de petróleo en años https://informa.link/economia/Venezuela-Cuba-mayores-cantidades-petroleo_0_3381261845.html Walesa sugiere a la oposición cubana aprovechar un acto oficial para reclamar libertad https://informa.link/cuba/Lech-Walesa-oposicion-cubana-libertad_0_3381861781.html American Airlines y JetBlue se enfrentan por aumentar sus vuelos a Cuba https://informa.link/cuba/American-Airlines-JetBlue-enfrentan-Cuba_0_3381861784.html Carlos Varela en concierto https://informa.link/eventos_culturales/musica/Carlos-Varela-concierto_13_3339995968.html

Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions is one and the same. The Cold War began as a competition between capitalist and communist governments to expand their social contracts as they raced to deliver their people a better life. But the economic shocks of the 1970s made promises of better living untenable on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Energy and financial markets placed immense pressure on governments to discipline their social contracts. Rather than make promises, political leaders were forced to break them. In a sweeping narrative, The Triumph of Broken Promises (Harvard University Press, 2022) tells the story of how the pressure to break promises spurred the end of the Cold War. In the West, neoliberalism provided Western leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher with the political and ideological tools to shut down industries, impose austerity, and favor the interests of capital over labor. But in Eastern Europe, revolutionaries like Lech Walesa in Poland resisted any attempt at imposing market discipline. Mikhail Gorbachev tried in vain to reform the Soviet system, but the necessary changes ultimately presented too great a challenge. Faced with imposing economic discipline antithetical to communist ideals, Soviet-style governments found their legitimacy irreparably damaged. But in the West, politicians could promote austerity as an antidote to the excesses of ideological opponents, setting the stage for the rise of the neoliberal global economy. Fritz Bartel is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions is one and the same. The Cold War began as a competition between capitalist and communist governments to expand their social contracts as they raced to deliver their people a better life. But the economic shocks of the 1970s made promises of better living untenable on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Energy and financial markets placed immense pressure on governments to discipline their social contracts. Rather than make promises, political leaders were forced to break them. In a sweeping narrative, The Triumph of Broken Promises (Harvard University Press, 2022) tells the story of how the pressure to break promises spurred the end of the Cold War. In the West, neoliberalism provided Western leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher with the political and ideological tools to shut down industries, impose austerity, and favor the interests of capital over labor. But in Eastern Europe, revolutionaries like Lech Walesa in Poland resisted any attempt at imposing market discipline. Mikhail Gorbachev tried in vain to reform the Soviet system, but the necessary changes ultimately presented too great a challenge. Faced with imposing economic discipline antithetical to communist ideals, Soviet-style governments found their legitimacy irreparably damaged. But in the West, politicians could promote austerity as an antidote to the excesses of ideological opponents, setting the stage for the rise of the neoliberal global economy. Fritz Bartel is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions is one and the same. The Cold War began as a competition between capitalist and communist governments to expand their social contracts as they raced to deliver their people a better life. But the economic shocks of the 1970s made promises of better living untenable on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Energy and financial markets placed immense pressure on governments to discipline their social contracts. Rather than make promises, political leaders were forced to break them. In a sweeping narrative, The Triumph of Broken Promises (Harvard University Press, 2022) tells the story of how the pressure to break promises spurred the end of the Cold War. In the West, neoliberalism provided Western leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher with the political and ideological tools to shut down industries, impose austerity, and favor the interests of capital over labor. But in Eastern Europe, revolutionaries like Lech Walesa in Poland resisted any attempt at imposing market discipline. Mikhail Gorbachev tried in vain to reform the Soviet system, but the necessary changes ultimately presented too great a challenge. Faced with imposing economic discipline antithetical to communist ideals, Soviet-style governments found their legitimacy irreparably damaged. But in the West, politicians could promote austerity as an antidote to the excesses of ideological opponents, setting the stage for the rise of the neoliberal global economy. Fritz Bartel is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions is one and the same. The Cold War began as a competition between capitalist and communist governments to expand their social contracts as they raced to deliver their people a better life. But the economic shocks of the 1970s made promises of better living untenable on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Energy and financial markets placed immense pressure on governments to discipline their social contracts. Rather than make promises, political leaders were forced to break them. In a sweeping narrative, The Triumph of Broken Promises (Harvard University Press, 2022) tells the story of how the pressure to break promises spurred the end of the Cold War. In the West, neoliberalism provided Western leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher with the political and ideological tools to shut down industries, impose austerity, and favor the interests of capital over labor. But in Eastern Europe, revolutionaries like Lech Walesa in Poland resisted any attempt at imposing market discipline. Mikhail Gorbachev tried in vain to reform the Soviet system, but the necessary changes ultimately presented too great a challenge. Faced with imposing economic discipline antithetical to communist ideals, Soviet-style governments found their legitimacy irreparably damaged. But in the West, politicians could promote austerity as an antidote to the excesses of ideological opponents, setting the stage for the rise of the neoliberal global economy. Fritz Bartel is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

Within two years up to 80% of the entire Polish workforce had joined Solidarity or one of its sub-organisations, and they regularly used strikes to achieve political ...

Lech Walesa, former president of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize winner, said that someday there will come a time when children will be able to sing a different song, but "until that time, we have work to do." We truly have work to do. With everything that is going on in the world, my mission is to serve the kids. Because until they ALL can sing a more positive song, our work is not done...

Today an encore presentation of The Bridge: Special with an episode that first aired on May 17th. Some bold statements about how Ukraine can win what was thought to be an unwinnable war against Russia are being made by some top western leaders. Veteran correspondent and our weekly contributor on the Ukraine conflict, Brian Stewart, wonders. whether these are the things that should be said at this time.  Plus a mini potpourri on everything from drone mail service to whether calling someone bald is sexual harassment.

Some bold statements about how Ukraine can win what was thought to be an unwinnable war against Russia are being made by some top western leaders. Veteran correspondent and our weekly contributor on the Ukraine conflict, Brian Stewart, wonders. whether these are the things that should be said at this time.  Plus a mini potpourri on everything from drone mail service to whether calling someone bald is sexual harassment.

Few countries in Europe have experienced the vicissitudes of changing political order as directly as Poland. For centuries, Poland was caught between Russia and Germany, often serving as a highway through which one great power or another traveled en route to conquering other territories. This week's Horns of a Dilemma speaker knows this better than most: Lech Walesa was the leader of the Solidarity labor movement in Poland under Communist rule and later became the first freely elected president of Poland. Walesa spoke recently at the University of Texas, Austin, about the war in Ukraine, Putin's ambitions for Russia, a changing political order, and the need for the United States to assume a leading role in this new order. Though speaking through a translator, Walesa's wit, wisdom, and humanity shine through, giving a glimpse of just how he was able to inspire people to join him in transforming his country.

When responding to a flat tire, Connecticut state trooper and Polish immigrant Lukasz Lipert was surprised to find former president of Poland Lech Walesa in the passenger. Boyd asks us what we're doing in the small, seemingly insignificant moments that make history.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on “The Learning Curve,” co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Charles Moore, a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and the authorized, three-volume biographer of Lady Margaret Thatcher. Lord Moore explains why Lady Thatcher is considered the most important female political figure of the 20th century, and reviews the challenges she faced at home and abroad, from trade […]