Monday afternoon blog roundup while listening to Alison Krauss and Union Station:

Davids Medienkritik reports on a German news program's slander of the United States armed forces. A must-read, including the video and a translated transcript.

Trevor at Kalebeul neatly disposes of a prominent and rather bigoted Francophone.

La Liga Loca's "Heroes and Zeroes" neatly sums up the Spanish football news of the weekend.

Pave France has a terrific piece on Airbus's troubles, with lots of documentation and everything.

¡No Pasarán! tells the story of Robert Redeker, a French philosophy professor under a death threat for his views on Islam. There are several further updates, including a mention of the fact that Communist newspaper L'Humanité has not mentioned Redeker at all.

Eamonn at Rainy Day is in fine eclectically cultural form; he's had several fascinating posts over the last week.

Fausta and Publius Pundit have lots of stuff on the Brazilian election.