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Roots of Darkness: One family's American dreams & nightmares
Ex-pat author Michael Luick-Thrams IOWA-BORN, AND NOW Dresden-based author and activist Michael Luick-Thrams, who is rapidly becoming one of Central Europe's most visible American ex-pats, in part for...
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Day of Destiny - Germany and November 9
In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall tomorrow, I'm reposting this article from November 9, 2009. The Brandenburg Gate on November 9, 1989FOR AS LONG AS there have...
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What Americans could learn about "freedom" from Berlin
Reposted from July 14, 2011. A note to readers: The Berlin inititative against alcohol in public transit has gone nowhere and is unlikely to be revived any time soon. Let freedom ring! If a local...
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Germany's "monstrous word" of 2013 announced
A dictionary can be a dangerous thing in the wrong hands... IF IT'S JANUARY, THEN it's time for Germany'a annual Unwort of the Year announcement.What is an Unwort, you might ask? The fact is, this...
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American agents patrol German airports and seaports at will
Just like home: Munich's Franz Joseph Strauss Airport GIANT BLACK-RED-GOLD flags fly above the Berlin Reichstag building, suggesting that Germany is a sovereign country - or at least that it has been...
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The latest on the Munich looted art treasure trove
This previously unknown painting "of unusual artistic value"was just one of the works recovered from CorneliusGurlitt's dark and messy Munich flat(Source: AFP)AT A PRESS CONFERENCE in Augsburg today,...
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Search of messy apartment yields world's richest art trove
Gurlitt's treasure trove may contain works on a par with Henri Matisse's La Dance from 1909/10 (in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg)IT’S THE ANTIQUE ROAD Show on crack. As the German newsweekly Focus...
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NSA spy scandal in Germany: Does anyone care?
Everyone knows he's watching, but so what?WHILE REPORTING THE REPERCUSSIONS of some of whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations on NSA spying activities in Germany in recent days, I couldn’t help...
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Edward Snowden wants to give evidence to German goverment
Edward Snowden's letter to Angela Merkel - click image to enlarge IN A BOMBSHELL PRESS release issued in Berlin this morning, it has been revealed that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has sent a...
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Mercedes-Hitler "commercial" rocks Internet
HITLER SATIRES ARE ALWAYS a touchy business, particularly here in Berlin, but sometimes they hit the spot. Take this submission to the First Steps Award for young film-makers held in the capital last...
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Interview with a shaman
“Siberian shamanism” has become a staple of Western New Age spirituality in recent years, but what does it really mean and what implications does it have for people today? I asked Siberian-born and...
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A modest proposal for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize
I'M LOOKING AT A four-way split:Whistleblower Edward Snowden Whistleblower Bradley Manning Journalist Glenn Greenwald Journalist Julian Assange Is there anybody you'd like to add to this slate? Feel...
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Too funny for the Church? Comedy show gets "excommunicated"
Licking a crucifix and pressing some very hot buttons: German satirist Carolin Kebekus (Source: ddb)THIS SORT OF THING really shouldn't happen. Article 5 of the German constitution clearly states that...
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Ach du meine Güte! Germany loses longest word
He knew a thing or two about words...EVER SINCE MARK TWAIN published his essay "The Awful German Language" in 1880, the language of Goethe and Mann has enjoyed a global reputation for the length of...
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"Occupy" is alive and well in Frankfurt
Police halted some 7,000 protesters outside ECB headquarters in Frankfurt today(Source: AFP)Remember something called "Occupy"? Sometimes it was called "Occupy Wall Street," "Occupy Boston," "Occupy...
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Hitler's food taster breaks her silence after 68 years
Margot Wölk finally tells her story IF YOU’RE ANYTHING LIKE me, the twentieth century, with all its blessings and horrors, seems like a long time ago. Even if – like me – you experienced your entire...
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The school did nothing: A teenager talks about bullying
BULLYING SEEMS TO BE on everyone’s minds these days. Most people seem to have experienced it at some point in their school years, and still bear the scars today, and some experience it vicariously -...
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Friends with benefits: Talking Quakerism with Claus Bernet
Historian and social worker Claus BernetIN AN ERA WHERE the mainline churches are losing their appeal and fundamentalism is growing increasingly authoritarian, alternative forms of religion are...
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Berlin, Europe's surprising comedy capital
An interview with stand-up artist James Harris English stand-up comedian James Harris moved to Berlin in 2004 and is a rising star in the city’s English-language comedy scene. I caught up with him a...
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German plagiarism scandal claims cabinet-level victim
German education minister "Dr." Annette Schavan THOSE OF US WHO always assumed that the German fixation on academic titles was based on a lie have been rubbing our hands ever since Baron “Dr.”...
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