1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    the Wikileaks video "Collateral Murder", the subsequent hunt for Julian Assange and journalists, critics and whistleblowers in general, the dismantling of civil rights and freedom of expression. The world police officers go on global patrol. At the same time, the world police officers opened another front. With an economic shock therapy of privatization and liberalization, guided by...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    Set the course.” With the new climate protection law, we are just cheating our way through to the next federal election. “But then climate neutrality is actually no longer achievable by 2045.” * Freedom of expression | sedition | Entry ban Entry ban for Yanis Varoufakis: The country is drifting towards a new McCarthy era Opinion The German state is taking action because of the Palestine Congress...

  3. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    who are supposed to defend them often promote the authoritarian turn. This week the bad news about fundamental rights in liberal democracy, freedom of the press and freedom of expression is piling up again. [...] That's why the shortsightedness of many journalists is remarkable. Instead of fighting for the freedoms we will desperately need in the dark years ahead,...

  4. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    he with a comment about his former work for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. [...] Davis ended his speech with a quote from the well-known British High Court Judge Lord Sumption: “Freedom of expression includes the right to publish information, even if it is controversial, disturbing or embarrassing to authorities or other people.” Anyone who believes in a free ...

  5. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    committed "an insurrection or rebellion" after taking an oath to the United States. Trump's critics see his involvement in the storming of the Capitol as proven... * Think | Freedom of expression | Censorship From Brecht to Biller: How thinking out loud was banned from the left Why thinking out loud is a luxury. Why public discourse should be more than whining. And how rights...

  6. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    secure in negotiations with other parties involved. The federal government will only provide the guarantee if the other parties involved also make their contributions... * Israel | Anti-Semitism | Freedom of expression | Palestine Critic of the Israeli government sets the right to lecture through publisher Georg Stein is committed to peace in the Middle East. The University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg wanted...

  7. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    Over 100 Jewish artists, writers and scientists based in Germany sign this open letter. They appeal for peace and freedom of expression. We, the undersigned Jewish artists, writers and scientists living in Germany, condemn in this letter the disturbing actions against democratic...

  8. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    destroyed Lahaina, the coastal town where the kings of Hawaii once resided. At least a hundred people died; many are still missing... * Democracy | Protection of the Constitution | Freedom of expression Haldenwang, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the AfD and the supposed freedom of expression Are the constant attacks by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution just a symptom of democracy's illness or do they indicate...

  9. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    the law was broken off because the law was suddenly bad. "The claim is not credible, but a political game in the run-up to the elections," Leemans is convinced... * Taz | Freedom of expression | Article rewritten How Taz manipulated an article by a Ukraine war reporter Unai Aranzadi reported for Taz from the combat zone in Ukraine. But you have the article...

  10. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    Newsletter XXI 2023 May 21st to 27th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 News+ Background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a non-exhaustive list of known incidents and releases of radioactivity... Excerpt for this month: May 1, 1968 (INES 4 | NAMS 4,6) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR May 1, 1962 (French....

  11. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    at least gave him credit for his honesty: "But at least he is more honest than other rich people who wouldn't admit something like that in order to maintain their social status." Another user alluded to freedom of expression. As a society we also have to tolerate such attitudes. “But as a society we don’t have to stand aside, we can decide on taxes and bans...

  12. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    possible mistakes by the state is a given in Germany, but by no means in Russia. According to Reporters Without Borders, the country ranks 150th out of 180 when it comes to freedom of the press and freedom of expression. In particular, criticism that is related to the Ukraine conflict is severely punished - as the case of a single father shows because of a war-critical...

  13. Newsletter XXV 2022 - June 18-25 - News+ Assange case: "Black day for freedom of the press"

    announce cooperation on freedom of the press After the meeting of the G7 media ministers on Sunday evening, the member states spoke out in favor of cooperation in preserving freedom of the press and freedom of expression. They want to work together in the fight against disinformation and ensure the preservation of a free press. - IMHO hypocrite! * Kazakhstan | Nuclear weapons ban due to war in Ukraine...

  14. Newsletter XX 2022 - May 13th to 19th - News+ A flood of open letters and the day of freedom of the press

    was particularly developed during the Enlightenment period. In Germany, Article 5 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany guarantees freedom of the press together with freedom of expression, freedom of broadcasting and freedom of information. Details on legal issues are now regulated by media law, especially press law... ** Back to: Newsletter XIX 2022 - May 05th to 12th |...

  15. THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010

    and democratic control: "The United Arab Emirates is only in 69th place in the press freedom rankings. Now the monarchical country is once again showing what it thinks about freedom of expression: the country's most famous newspaper is not allowed to appear for three weeks - because it insults the people ruling family" (10). "Last year German exports to the Emirates increased...

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