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Historical America: On a bitterly cold December evening in 1997, President Bill Clinton was leaving a holiday concert at the Kennedy Center when he noticed a homeless veteran...
"On a bitterly cold December evening in 1997, President Bill Clinton was leaving a holiday concert at the Kennedy Center when he noticed a homeless veteran sitting outside the entrance, shivering in a thin jacket and holding a cardboard sign that simply read 'Marine - Desert Storm - Hungry.' What happened next shocked everyone in the presidential motorcade—Clinton immediately stopped, took off his own overcoat, draped it around the stunned man's shoulders, and sat down on the

Piotr Pietrzak
Jan 142 min read


Clinton to Obama on November 5, 2008,
On the morning of November 5, 2008, at exactly 6:00 a.m., Barack Obama was sitting alone in a small room at the transition offices in Chicago when his phone rang. The election was over, but the work had not yet begun. He answered without ceremony. “Congratulations,” said Bill Clinton. The call was not brief. It lasted more than an hour. Clinton did not speak in slogans or memories. He spoke in lists, cautions, and quiet warnings. He began with the first hundred days. Cabinet

Piotr Pietrzak
Jan 143 min read


Person to Follow : Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and of course old good Bernie Sanders
What the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mega-rallies are really about? Bernie Sanders and AOC’s anti-oligarchy rallies show...

Piotr Pietrzak
Mar 28, 20251 min read


A great interview with Prof. Kenneth Waltz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T-Bh254RJI if we were to ask Kenneth Waltz for some of his structuralist suggestions in this regard, he...

Piotr Pietrzak
Mar 28, 20251 min read


American Foreign Policy Lecture 2 - Reading Recommendations
Thanks for your active participation in the class. I strongly recommend for you to read those two publications: By H. Kissinger:...

Piotr Pietrzak
Mar 26, 20251 min read
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