Germany
Germany’s pyrrhic victory over the Berlin Wall
November 12, 2019In the end, the odds were against the GDR. But its defeat doesn't mean the system it was building, socialism, was proven false.
Read moreThoughts on the Berlin Wall 30 years after its demise
November 8, 2019East Germany was a lot more than the totalitarian prop that gets paraded out to prove the supposed superiority of capitalism over socialism.
Read moreGerman left wins Oct. 27 vote but far right makes big gains
October 29, 2019Although the neo-fascist AfD made major gains the Left Party came in first with its biggest vote ever anywhere in Germany.
Read moreThirty years later the Berlin Wall is again being “remembered”
October 15, 2019Why does the right wing all around the world continue to beat up on the long-gone German Democratic Republic (East Germany)?
Read moreWill musical and film triumphs spill over into German politics?
September 18, 2019On August 24, the famed Berliner Philharmoniker (the Berlin Philharmonic) offered an amazing performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Brandenburg Gate.
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