This month Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow and she is not the only regime-critical journalist in Russia that has been killed during the last years - and the murderers were hardly ever found. The Moscow Union of Journalists said “the murder of Anna Politkovskaya is a new attack on democracy, freedom of speech and [...]
Mühltal, October 15, 2006
North Korea has conducted a nuclear test and I do not have the impression that Germans are particularly worried by this. Also, I have not yet seen any peace activists demonstrating in front of the North Korean embassy in Berlin. I wonder where they are? Probably in state of denial about this [...]
Mühltal, October 6, 2006
Now I do not know whether President Bush is in state of denial about Iraq, I only know that I am glad Saddam Hussein is in prison now, and thus unable to go on mass-murdering his own people and others.
But anyway, when I hear “state of denial” I am thinking of something [...]
Mühltal, September 12, 2006
A fact one could easily have forgotten. For during his first year in Germany Ambassador Timken has been almost inexistent in the German media. The more I was surprised yesterday to see he had given an interview to my favourite newspaper Die WELT *. I was even more surprised when I read [...]
That is what Angela Merkel has asked us to do in her speech on the Day of German Unity. A great vision!
And although the official English version of her speech is now available here, I prefer by far the translation made by Bob, one of the readers of my website. He has translated the beginning [...]
That is what Angela Merkel has asked us to do in her speech on the Day of German Unity. A great vision!
And although the official English version of her speech is now available here, I prefer by far the translation made by Bob, one of the readers of my website. He has translated the beginning [...]