A question of identity

Allowdley I was a little bit excited last thursday. What would be the outcome of the voting at the UN General Assmbly I wondered. In preparation of that voting I was happy to learn that brave European countries such as Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Luxemburg, Norway and Denmark declared to support the Palastinian suit. In my mind those

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How much democracy can democracy tolerate?

Granted, times are confusing. On the one hand Mumbai witnesses its severest bombings since 2008, on the other side our female chancellor delivers tanks to Angola and Saudi-Arabia. At first sight, these facts do not seem to be linked to each other. Then, there is a civil war under way in Libya and is not the NATO involved in it?

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A Bunch of Absurdity

Spiegel Online recently published the article “Trüffelpasta mit Wüstenblick” about the alleged highest restaurant of the world and its extravagaces. The article itself does not reveal anyhing new besides the usual superlatives upon which Western press has zeroed itself when it comes to oddities from the desert state. The respectable amount of comments at the end of the article, however,

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