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Category Archives: Germany
The Times They Are a-Changin’
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 November 2013 THE BOOT IS ON THE OTHER FOOT In the 1930s victims of Nazi … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Politics, Russia, UK, USA
Tagged Edward Snowden, espionage, Nazi persecution, O Tempora! O Mores!, Prism, Sarah Harrison, The Times They Are a-Changin'
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Torture and the United States
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 November 2013 The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, who was born on the island of Kos … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Health, Japan, Torture, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Camp Bagram, Dr Gerald Thomson of Columbia University, Guantánamo Bay, Hippocrates, Hippocratic Oath, Leonard Rubenstein, Mandy Rice-Davies, renditions, Taskforce on Preserving Medial Professionalism, Third Reich, torture
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Democracy not incompatible with dictatorship
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 24 October 2013 “In Germany, the rise of Hitler and his Nazi Party was unquestionably connected … Continue reading
Posted in Germany
Tagged Bosnia, democracy, Franz von Papen, Great Depression, Hitler, Mussolini, Nazi Party, Paul von Hindenburg, Srebrenica, Weimar Republic
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The Life of Others
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 23 October 2013 “A state’s appetite for collecting intelligence expands in direct relationship to its technical … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil, Europe, France, Germany, India, Spain, UK, USA
Tagged Clive Irving, Das Leben von Anderen, Dilma Rousseff, Edward Snowden, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, François Hollande, GCHQ, ICANN, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, NSA, Stasi
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Filthy habit
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 October 2013 A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the … Continue reading
Posted in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK
Tagged James I of England, Jean Nicot, National Socialists, nicotine, Sir John Hawkins, tobacco
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Market theology
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 15 October 2013 “Do others, for they would do you” This is the central tenet of … Continue reading
War and Peace
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 10 October 2013 Война и миръ Der ewige Friede ist ein Traum, und nicht einmal ein … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Military, Russia, Switzerland
Tagged God, Helmuth K.B. von Moltke, J.K. Bluntschli, Leo Tolstoy, Prussia, War and Peace
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Ich bin ein Berliner
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 1 April 2013 Is nothing sacred? No, nothing is sacred. Or at least that is what … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Politics, USA
Tagged Berlin, East Side Gallery, Ivan McClostney, John F. Kennedy, Kani Alavi, Schöneberg
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A Cypriot shipwreck
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 25 March 2013 Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land; A fuller blast ne’er … Continue reading
Posted in Cyprus, Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Politics
Tagged Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Nicos Anastasiades, Othello, triad
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