by Johann Aeschlimann | Jul 4, 2022 | letters
Berlin, 27 Jun 2022. Dear J, my lines are coming late, but they are coming. I am truly pleased that you read my post about the Ukraine war, and even more that you found acceptable reasoning in my 25 cents of assessment. The exception is what I had to say about...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Jun 11, 2022 | America
A handful of impressions from a trip down South: There, the Ukrainian front is far, far away. Joe Biden is no war hero. What weighs heavily on people’s minds is the ever-rising price of carburants. In May, the US South is still bearable. The plague of spring...
by Johann Aeschlimann | May 6, 2022 | letters
Sunday May 1, Treptow Park, East Berlin, Soviet Memorial honoring the victory of the Red Army over Hitler-Germany. Not so many visitors. A Swiss family, on bicycles, gets an explanation. Hitler was like Putin, but different, declares the father in the vernacular of...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Mar 8, 2022 | America
The other week, I drove from New York City to Kansas. With the events in Ukraine the trip became a probe into middle America’s outlook on war. Yes, the accidental encounter with the man and woman in the street does not amount to an opinion poll and most of times it...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Feb 25, 2022 | America
Actually, I am once again motoring through the US of A, this time focusing on West Virginia, the home state of Senator Joe The Powerful, who is strangling President Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill, with my antennas out for the odd and the wacky along the road. But...
