tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73877364123444776362011-11-21T08:02:13.142+01:00This blog in English (et en français) is a follow up to the book La Liberté sinon rien. Mes Ameriques de Bastogne à Bagdad. It plans to cover the US progressive community and its transatlantic links and help build a more progressive US-European common agenda. Il publie également en français des notes sur le monde progressiste et "libéral" américainJean-Paul Marthozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16985889019287726183noreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7387736412344477636.post-22763477687271295192011-05-04T07:09:00.000+02:002011-05-04T07:09:49.556+02:00

Democracy Digest, the excellent blog on democracy and human rights promotion, has published a warm tribute to Ron Asmus, former director of the German Marshall Fund, who just died from cancer. Close to Richard Holbrooke and the "Cold War liberal" tradition Ron Asmus was a key person in the attempts to forge a transatlantic movement in favor of democracy. He played a key role in former communist

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In his Foreign Policy blog Simon Tisdall focused on a phenomenon - U.S. aniteuropeanism - that is a lot less studied than anti-Americanism. And he derides "en passant" the poor rationality of the "Europe bashers". http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/15/venus_envy?page=0,1

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According to the Washbington Post, describing the creation of the "One Nation" group U.S. liberals and progressives react to the rise of the Tea Party. This initiative might be followed by European liberals and progressives that have been brushed aside in quite a few countries by "national-populists" like Geert Wilders in the Netherlands or nationalists in Flanders. The mere bashing and criticism

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On many issues U.S. and European progressives seem to work on two different planets. Their own national debates seem to carry little similiarities and there are few attempts to get to learn from each other. There are however similarities and comparisons as the healthcare reform debates have shown. Besides somes transnational organizations spanning the world and therefore the Atlantic bring some

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The reactions of the liberals in the Democratic Party towards their representatives in Congress who kow tow to a more conservative agenda is a sign that should be followed closely by European progressives. See this article in the Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/06/AR2010030602239_pf.html

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Leading liberal writer Robert Kuttner is upset at the right wing's hijacking of popular rage against dire economic conditions. Health care reform has become the target of anger thanks to the brutal "framing" of the issue by extremist rightist zealots backed by "economic royalists".President Obama, Robert Kuttner adds, is much to consensual to address this major challenge to his policies. The

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There is a growing suspicion among human rights advocates and neo-conservatives that a Barack Obama admnistration might downplay or even downgrade human rights diplomacy. In multiple columns and conferences these two circles (that tend to merge on some issues and diverge on others) try to put pressure on the White House and the State Department in order to re-emphasize the need for a strong

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European politicians do not seem to get it when it comes to use the word "liberal" in the U.S. context. In Belgium "libéral" (i.e. center-right) politician Alain Destexhe refers to Obama as "one of us" while Ecolo MP Jean-Marc Nollet rejects Obama as a "one of them", as a "libéral" i.e. someone that belongs to the same ideological clan than Bush. The will to define one's own politics in relation

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The Gaza crisis shows the gap that will have to be bridged between Europe and the U.S. in order to work together for a long term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The difference will be less acute between the next U.S. administration and the current EU leadership. Although the responsibility of the region within the new administration will probably be attributed to a pro-Israeli

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It is regrettable that the Czech government will preside the EU presidency when Barack Obama will enter the White House. President Vaclav Klaus is not only a Euroscekptic and for all the bad reasons but he has also been a strong ally of the Bush administration and a promoter of a rightwing ideology that has shown its disinterest for ethical foreign policies and its lack of concern for social

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European progressives are looking with interest and some concern at the Obama transition. The selection of the next administration’s top players in the economic sphere, at the State Department (Hillary Clinton) and at the National Security Council seems to contradict the promises of change.European social democrats who had depicted Barack Obama as one of their own, as a U.S. liberal “à la

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The question has been roaming around since Barack Obama became the Democratic Party nominee. The expectations are high among minority groups in most European countries. On Friday night after a theatre play in a café located in Saint-Josse, the most mutlicultural Brussels neighborhood, one comedian from Ivory Coast said: "Now that Obama has won I will dare to stick my photograph to my résumé!"The

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Change has come ! The slogan has been flowing like a seagull over the Atlantic.Barack Obama’s victory has already made history. It is a tribute and a promise. It is a tribute to the millions of civil rights activists who have been fighting for freedom and justice since the early days of the United States. It is a promise for the tens of millions of Americans who voted for change.Change in

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We have reached the key moment of the election day and it will be a transformational moment for transatlantic politics. After 8 years of divisions and recriminations between the US and Europe but also within Europe an Obama victory will not only reopen a phase of consultations and respect. It will also open a new era because Obama means a break in global politics and because the world has changed

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Europe is thrilled by the prospect of an Obama victory at the polls : all surveys show that more than 70% of European citizens would vote for the Democratic contender against his Republican challenger. However an Obama presidency will be a major challenge for Europe. Suddenly in a few hours the image of the U.S. will change and Europe with its neo-nazis in Vienna, its trash TV king in Rome and

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Everyone expected a strong political message from Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize and we got a honest and rather uncontroversial Finnish peace broker as a laureate.Politics however seems to be the name of the game for the selection of the Nobel Prize for Economics. And politics is definitely not a dirty word. By choosing Paul Krugman, the leading basher of neoconservatism and of Bushist economics

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“A Barack Obama victory would be better for Europe. Sarah Palin is a worrying prospect”. These two judgments have been expressed by one of the leading foreign affairs commentators in Spain. In a TV interview broadcast on Safe Democracy website (www.safe-democracy.org), Professor Gustavo Palomares, who teaches at the Diplomatic School of the Spanish Foreign Ministry and is a frequent contributor

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The Wall Street crisis should mark the beginning of the end of an economic and social model that has dominated the world economy since at least 1981 with the rise of the Reagan conservative revolution and the rule of Thatcherism in the United Kingdom.The Anglo-Saxon model of “free markets and unfettered capitalism”, as Inter Press Service John Lobe writes, has reached its limits.Which model will

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Summary: the U.S. media and politicians should talk about real issues and stop distracting voters. Progressives take the lead in pleading for serious discussions of serious issues.L’espace public américain est pollué depuis longtemps déjà par des commentateurs qui exploitent les erreurs les plus minuscules, les lapsus les plus insignifiants, des candidats. Cette pratique résulte d’un système

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The U.S. does not need enemies to shoot into its own leg. It just needs Sarah Palin. The selection of the extremist Alaska governor makes a joke of John McCain’s claims to be a more reliable, more experienced, leader for America than Barack Obama.Who in Europe even in conservative circles would not be scared of having to confront the terrible idea that Sara Palin might one day become the

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Many pundits resist the idea. Many politicians caution against a rush back to the past. Bernard Kouchner, who, as the French say, “does not keep his tongue in his pocket”, tried yesterday in an interview with France 2 to put some nuances into his condemnation of Moscow’s rash behaviour..But a fact is a fact. The succession of moves and countermoves around the Georgia crisis can be termed as a new

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The events hosted by the National Democratic Institute, the “foreign policy” arm of the Democratic Party, during the Democratic Party convention in Denver over the next few days tells a lot about the ideological affinities of the U.S. democrats.Although some European progressives would like to think that the Democrats belong to the left, the reality shows that their point of gravity lies more

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Lancée à l’initiative du rabbin Michael Lerner, directeur de la revue juive progressiste Tikkun, cette association de « spiritual progressives » se veut résolument œcuménique et comprend, outre M. Lerner, la sœur bénédictine Joan Chittister et Cornell West, professeur de religion à l’Université de Princeton et intellectuel renommé de la communauté africaine-américaine.Fortement impliquée dans la

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Although Barack Obama has drawn huge crowds in Europe (Editor’s note: you can link to his Berlin speech on this site) and has raised high expectations among “second generation immigrants” dreaming of a more multicultural Europe the French “left of the left” is not completely convinced of the Democratic candidate’s promise of change.Serge Halimi, the editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, the

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Some 200 former foreign policy professionals have joined to express their support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as the best placed to reestablish U.S. leadership based on respect, credibility and international cooperation. The text follows.We are a diverse group of over 200 former Foreign Service officers. Each of us has had extensive experience in implementing the

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In a recent article (August 13, 2008) Le Monde foreign affairs columnist David Vernet is pouring buckets of cold water on these enthusiastic Europeans, Germans in particular, that seem to expect miracles from an Obama victory in the November 4 presidential elections.While acknowledging that Obama’s discourse on transatlantic dialogue and community of values has a nicer sound than Bush’s

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The Russia-Georgia war has immense implications for the transatlantic relationships and it challenges liberals and progressives on both sides of the ocean to shape their own response to this new arc of insecurity in a region that is strategic both for the European Union and the United States.Although they have reaffirmed their unity within NATO the US and Europe seem again to have taken different

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Being progressive means addressing the issues that if kept unsolved will make it impossible to be even a moderate.Terrorism, climate change and "clashes of uncivilizations" are key tests of the capacity of democracies to address vital challenges.The threat of terrorism is in itself a brutal attack against the most progressive values of humanity and by provoking a “security backlash” it undermines

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The U.S. election is inviting itself to Europe, showing that there are several ways of imagining the transatlantic relations. By questioning Barack Obama’s intention to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, the symbol of German reunification, some leaders of the most conservative wing of the Christian Democratic Party seem to want to create an embarrassment for the Democrats and boost John McCain’s

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The liberation of French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt and of her fellow hostages has been a fabulously welcome event. The joy of her loved ones was one of the best moments of international news this week, as well as the disarray of the FARC and the stupor of their fellow travellers in Latin America and elsewhere.Colombia offers an interesting test for a more progressive transatlantic policy. For

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The British Council is calling for participants for a network promoting “new energy to the important North-American - European partnership, that will bring together outstanding young leaders from diverse backgrounds to address challenges like climate change, global trade, economic fairness and religious and ideological conflict"."By connecting rising young leaders who will be in the vanguard of

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Bernard Guetta is one of the most famous and talented French journalists. And in one of his latest columns in the French weekly Marianne (21-27 June, 2008), after a long description of the welcome changes that Obama might bring to international politics he highlights the social and economic significance of the rise of the Democratic candidate. "It is on the economy that the U.S. voters will test

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Barack Obama represents a fascinating change in U.S. politics, not only because of his color but also and above all because of his personal world experience, having lived in Hawaii and Indonesia. That is why the most extreme “know-nothing” right-wingers want to stop him whatever the cost and the methods: his victory would mean much more than an electoral defeat for ultra-conservative Americans.

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The paradox is that George Bush is ending his second mandate with more friends in Europe than when he started his Presidency in 2001. The wave of accession to the EU of ex-communist countries has strengthened the conservative pro-US camp (Poland, Czech Republic, etc.) and within “Old Europe” a group of “friendlier” governments have taken the reins of power. Nicholas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and

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In an op/ed in the International Herald Tribune (June 11, 2008) William Drozdiak provides a balanced view of the expectations that the U.S. presidential race raises in “Old Europe”. A former foreign editor of the Washington Post and current president of the American Council of Germany he underlines that “both candidates espouse policies - on climate change, Iraq and Guantanamo- that could greatly

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Strange coincidence: this morning on the train, I was reading David Cole’s very interesting article in the New York Review of Books comparing the U.S. and British responses to terrorism. In a nicely headlined essay “The Brits do it better” the professor of law at Georgetown University (Washington) and co-author (with Jules Lebel) of the acclaimed book Less Safe Less Free highlighted London’s

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We try with this blog to feed the discussion on how U.S and European liberals and progressives can work together. The issue of anti-Americanism and especially of alleged hatred of the U.S. among European leftwing circles is therefore crucial. A recent article published in the Chicago-based progressive magazine In These Times and written by a respected journalist, Paul Hockenos, makes an

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If you want to know what progressive politics means in the U.S. check the new magazine Democracy at http://www.democracyjournal.org/.Their directors Kenneth Baer and Andrei Cherny think that after a decade when progressive thinking has been imprisoned, 2008 marks the chance to begin anew. "It’s our opportunity to present a new vision of ambition and scope to the nation that addresses the great

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It might not be a good omen, but once again Europe leans towards the « liberal » candidate in the presidential elections. It happened in the early 80s when Ronald Reagan scared progressive and middle-of- the road Europeans with his rugged approach to international relations. It happened in 2000 and 2004 when most Europeans chose Al Gore and then John Kerry over George Bush.Is it the sign of the

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Barack Obama's victory will certainly be celebrated in progressive Europe... although quite a few more middle of the road "liberals" might have preferred Hillary Clinton, someone they pretend to know better and who would have been expected to re-establish the friendly atmosphere that prevailed during the two mandates of her husband.However this emergence of a post-racial, cosmopolitan,

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Torrents of ink and saliva have been spent on describing or forecasting the inevitability of the transatlantic divide. Since the inauguration of George Bush in 2001, 9/11 and the bareknuckled adoption by the White House of a unilateralist agenda these prospects have seemed indeed confirmed by the principle of reality. Partisans of a mature, balanced and respectful transatlantic link have

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by SHERLE SCHWENNINGERIf Europeans listen carefully to the “chatter” coming out of America today, they will hear the faint sound of the last air escaping out of the American unipolar bubble. For much of the post Cold war period, the political establishment in Washington has had an inflated sense of American power and strength that ironically was often encouraged by European anxiety over the

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On next Thursday June 5, Human Rights Watch European director and leading US human rights activist Reed Brody will dialogue with Jean-Paul Marthoz, author of La liberté sinon rien. Mes Amériques de Bastogne à Bagdad.Time: the discussion starts at 8 PMAddress: Librairie GraffitiChaussée de Bruxelles 129-1311410 Waterloo - BelgiqueTel: 00 32 (0)2 354 57 96Fax: 00 32 (0)2 354 48 81TVA BE 417 785

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Jean-Paul Marthoz has covered the world, and in particular the Americas, for 20 years before joining HRW, between 1996 and 2005, as European press director. Now back in journalism and academia he has just published a book that blends his own itinerary with the history of the US.Starting with his parents’s memories of the December 1944 Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne and closing with Barack Obama’

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