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It Takes More to Prevent a War

Posted in Germany, Iran, Israel, tagged , , on April 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »

What must be said? Well, many of us have been busy for years to prevent another war in the Middle East, after a decade of failure in Afghanistan and two decades of the Iraqi war debacle. Literature Nobel laureate of 1999 Günter Grass has done a terrible disservice to our consistent work. Did he raise his [...]

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Stabilizing the Region

Posted in Germany, Saudi Arabia, tagged , , , , , , , on July 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

When Saudi Arabian tanks, on invitation of Bahrain’s King Hamad Al Khalifa, invaded the tiny Gulf island on March 14, what has been called the Arab Spring uprisings had their heyday. Tunisia’s dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had fled to Saudi Arabia on 14 January, his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak had resigned on 11 [...]

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Scientific Misconduct

Posted in Academics, Germany, tagged , , , , , , on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

That Germany’s Minister of Defense Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg abdicated today was foreseeable, and inevitable. His doctoral thesis was plagiarism which is considered as grave scientific misconduct. That Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, who holds a PhD in science and is married to a German Professor in science, was allegedly short-taken by zu Guttenberg’s resignation today has [...]

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The Price for Illicit Journalism

Posted in Germany, Iran, tagged , , , , , , on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The two reporters of German tabloid BamS, Marcus Hellwig and Jens Koch, which had been sentenced to 20 months in prison on charges on “acting against national security” for illicitly entering Iran on tourist visas have been freed yesterday. Their sentence had been commuted to fines of $50’000 each. Koch and Hellwig had tried to [...]

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Public Apathy May Enable Leaders to Ignore Voters

Posted in Afghanistan, France, Germany, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

What actually had happened on September 4, 2009 near Kunduz in Afghanistan, and when and how the German Government, lawmakers and the public were informed about the numerous civilian casualties after bombarding the two fuel tanks which had been hijacked by Taliban insurgents is presently matter of a German parliamentarian board of inquiry, or “Parlamentarischer Untersuchungsausschuss”. At [...]

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