Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

US Diplomacy

: The U.S. ambassador to NATO has said Russian President Vladimir Putin has a “sick and twisted and probably not logical” mind. American diplomat Matthew Whitaker was speaking as President Donald Trump’s deadline for Moscow to make progress toward ending … Weiterlesen

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Projekt Gutenberg on Joseph Roth

Projekt Gutenberg: „Gezeichnet durch Schicksalsschläge, enttäuscht über die politischen Zustände“ seems to fit 2025 quite well.

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Open Rafah Crossing demonstration Europa Center, Berlin 02.08.2025

From across Tauentzienstraße or from Breitscheidplatz without view of the Palestinian flag it was not possible to see why there was a loud crowd of people on the street. The Polizei kept everyone very effectively kettled behind barricades and at … Weiterlesen

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President of the United States uses social media to threaten Russian Federation with nuclear war, in the language of television show mob bosses

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Kieślowski

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The limits of parody

You know, „beyond parody“ is a phrase which is easy to throw around, and you often think it applies, but all those times you thought you knew what „beyond parody“ meant were before you saw this. 🙂

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Demographics are consistent on both sides of the Atlantic

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Gaza is ‘hell on earth’ with doctors fainting from hunger

Guardian:

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One of the paradoxes of religious history in Eastern Europe is that paganism lasted so long there, yet we know so little about it. There is no Slavic equivalent to the great compendium of Norse myth preserved in the Icelandic … Weiterlesen

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