Charlie Bertsch / 28 Sep 2022
The Work of Remembrance
Germany, Year Zero, Today
It’s hard to watch Roberto Rossellini’s 1948 film Germany, Year Zero to its conclusion. The mood is relentlessly bleak and the landscape bleaker still.(...)
Syria
Joel Schalit / 04 Apr 2022
Making Use of Syrians
Russia’s Populist Exception
Twenty years ago today, it would have been the stuff of conspiracy theory.(...)
Keith Kahn-Harris / 07 Mar 2022
Putin Comes Clean
From Denial to Invasion
Invasion is an act of commitment. To send troops in, to kill, to seek to dominate, is to rule out alternative courses of action, perhaps forever.(...)
Joel Schalit / 04 Mar 2022
Radioactive Europe
Russia’s Nuclear Tightrope
The German press was alarmed. Wild boars had infiltrated Berlin and were making their way to the city centre.(...)
John Foster / 25 Feb 2022
The Country to End All Countries
Russia vs. Ukraine
No sooner had the Winter Olympics closing ceremonies ended than the invasion of Ukraine began.(...)
Josh White / 29 Nov 2021
Drowning in Hatred
Britain’s Immigration Debate
Borders bring almost as much insecurity as security.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 07 May 2021
The Rocky Road to Normalisation
Celebrating Jewish Germany, Part I
The year 2021 marks 1700 years of “Jewish life” in Germany. (...)
Wieland Hoban / 14 Apr 2021
Antisemitism and its Privileges
The JID Interview, Part III
Israel and Antisemitism are synonymous with one another. Not because Israel means Jewish, but because the country was founded by Jews, as a response to European racism.(...)
RuNet Echo / 25 Feb 2021
Life Under Occupation
Anti-Russian in Transnistria
A 70-year-old retiree from Tiraspol stands accused of offending the president of Transnistria and “denying the positive role of Russian peacekeepers” in the unrecognised republic, according to public records revealed recently.(...)
Josh White / 15 Feb 2021
Discipline and Publish
The BBC vs. CGTN
Global media is a battleground. Every country has an army of journalists on standby to defend its national interests – or at least the interests of the people who happen to run the country.(...)