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Audio Archive Podcast – Go against the Grain is a long-term journalistic project and digital archive for conversations, interviews, reports, and essays on politics, society, and culture. Two to four new podcast episodes are released each month.Â
For more than three decades, we have been conducting interviews with philosophers, authors, activists, and scientists worldwide. Our interviewees explain the complex developments of our time and place them in an easily understandable and contemporary context within the global framework.Â
The Audio Archive Podcasts focus neither on mass media uniformity nor on unreflective pack journalism, but on differentiating insights: enlightening, knowledgeable and free from economic interests.Â
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More details about the project, background informations, articles, video shorts, essays and more you'll find on our webpage www.audio-archiv.com
Audio Archive Podcast – Go against the Grain is a long-term journalistic project and digital archive for conversations, interviews, reports, and essays on politics, society, and culture. Two to four new podcast episodes are released each month.Â
For more than three decades, we have been conducting interviews with philosophers, authors, activists, and scientists worldwide. Our interviewees explain the complex developments of our time and place them in an easily understandable and contemporary context within the global framework.Â
The Audio Archive Podcasts focus neither on mass media uniformity nor on unreflective pack journalism, but on differentiating insights: enlightening, knowledgeable and free from economic interests.Â
All Audio Archive podcasts are free. No revenue is generated through advertising. No AI support.
More details about the project, background informations, articles, video shorts, essays and more you'll find on our webpage www.audio-archiv.com
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Jun 19, 2026
Jun 19, 2026
55 min
🎓 Die Anschläge vom 11. September 2001 veränderten nicht nur das globale Staatengefüge nachhaltig, sie veränderten vorallem die US-amerikanische Demokratie bis in die Gegenwart. Es zeigte sich, dass die amerikanische Verfassung nicht geeignet war, die amerikanische Gesellschaft vor dem Abbau der Bürgerrechte zu schützen, dass die Vereinten Nationen zu schwach waren, die unilaterale amerikanische Aussenpolitik einzudämnmen und sich die amerikanischen Bündnispartner in der NATO, angesichts der Billiardeninvestionen der USA in militärische Aufrüstung, als abhängige und einflusslose Vassallen Washingtons erwiesen. Diese in einer Demokratie bislang einzigartige politische Machtfülle, konzentriert auf den amerikanischen Präsidenten, bestimmt bis in die Gegenwart die amerikanische Politik. George W. Bush, der 43. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten, stellte dazu alle notwendigen Weichen. Peter Kreysler erkundet in seiner Reportage, wie es George W. Bush gelang, aus der amerikanischen Demokratie mit ihren checks und balances ein autoritäres, demokratiefeindliches Staatsgebilde zu formen. Unabhängig davon, ob der Präsident aus den Reihen der Demokraten oder der Republikaner kam.
/🎓 The attacks of 11 September 2001 not only brought about lasting changes to the global political landscape; above all, they have transformed US democracy to this day. It became apparent that the US Constitution was not equipped to protect American society from the erosion of civil rights, that the United Nations was too weak to curb unilateral US foreign policy, and that, in the face of the US’s quadrillion-dollar investments in military rearmament, America’s NATO allies proved to be dependent and powerless vassals of Washington. This concentration of political power – unprecedented in a democracy to date – centred on the American President continues to shape American politics to this day. George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, set the course for this. In his report, Peter Kreysler explores how George W. Bush succeeded in transforming American democracy, with its checks and balances, into an authoritarian, anti-democratic state structure. Regardless of whether the president came from the ranks of the Democrats or the Republicans.
#peterkreysler #usa #georgewbush
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