Berlin’s Brandenburg airport was eerily empty on Wednesday, as every one of the nearly 300 flights scheduled that day were cancelled due to a strike. Most of the 35,000 affected passengers stayed away, but some […]
Category: Politics & Economy
‘Free the Leopard’ – Hundreds call on Germany to send tanks to Ukraine
Hundreds gathered outside the German chancellery in Berlin, on Friday, as Western defense ministers failed to reach an agreement to send Western tanks to Ukraine. Protesters chanted ‘free the Leopard now’ and ‘Leopard tanks for […]
Protesters demand Berlin’s Russian house be shut down in march against fascism
Dozens of protesters gathered outside Russisches Haus in Berlin, on Thursday, demanding the cultural center be shut down. “Russisches House is a home for the AfD, for the classic nexus we talk about, red-brown, Putin […]
Ukrainian refugees start arriving at asylum centre in Berlin
Dozens of refugees from Ukraine were seen arriving at the asylum centre in Berlin’s Reinickendorf borough, on Sunday, as Russia’s offensive in Ukraine entered its fourth day. “I plan to come back to Lviv and […]
Critics of Charlie Hebdo miss the point, again
Calling Charlie Hebdo out for making fun of Alan Kurdi makes as much sense as if PolitiFact seriously tried to debunk The Onion Back in March 2014, a 23-year-old twitter activist named Suey Park launched […]
“Les Arabes” ou le chat qu’il ne faut pas appeler un chat
La twittosphère procède à une levée de boucliers aussi ridicule que prévisible face à une agression imaginaire Un nouveau jour, une nouvelle controverse démunie de sens. Tout d’abord, je ne suis pas un supporter du […]
The Cruelty and Controversy of Beijing’s Black Market for Dogs
From poodles to Labradors to Tibetan mastiffs, one cannot walk five minutes along Rixin East Road, in Beijing’s Tongzhou district, without being stopped by someone trying to sell you a dog. But it’s the xingqi quan, or “week-long […]
Tearing Down Gulou
You know something is up when – as a customer – you have to be smuggled in and out of a bar. The Drum and Bell bar in Gulou looks shut, the curtains are drawn […]
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