How to explain a political process with a video?

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

July 30, 2008 · 4 Comments

The brilliant people at Common Craft just released a great video that explains the US elections in ‘plain English’! If you don’t know their other videos (mostly about internet issues) you really missed something and I strongly recommend them to you. Basically they “make complex ideas easy to understand using short and simple videos.”(mission statement!) [...]

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Obama, Berlin and the world

by Kosmopolit in International Politics

July 24, 2008 · 5 Comments

So what did we expect from Barack Obama’s foreign policy speech in Berlin?  Since Barack Obama is not even the official democratic candidate yet, and obviously not the US President, I think expectations were hugely exaggerated. Apart from that, the following list of expectations sums it up (at least for me): Great visions for the [...]

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