Category Archives: Germany

President Obama’s U-turn

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Muller

One of the few Jewish survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto is Germany’s main literary critic, or “Pope of German letters”, Marcel Reich-Ranicki. In his remarkable biography “The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki” (Princeton University Press 2001), he … Continue reading →

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Better Off If the Europeans Had Never Got Involved

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Muller

In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview today, Jeremy Shapiro, Director of Research at the Center on the US and Europe at Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, mentions that the Unites States would have been better off if the Europeans had never … Continue reading →

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Joe Biden in Munich

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Muller

“The Iranian people are a great people. The Persian civilisation is a great civilisation,” U.S. Vice President Joe Biden conceded at the Security Conference in Munich. “But Iran has acted in ways that are not conducive to peace.” “Our administration … Continue reading →

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Not Embedded

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Muller

When I recently wrote about the scandal of embedded journalism in war regions, I unintentionally missed to mention a man whose consistently informative reports from Tehran on his blog I read with increasing interest, especially when planning and organizing my next … Continue reading →

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Schicksalstag

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Muller

Not 9-11 but rather 11-9 is what Germans still call their Schicksalstag, although few really know the historical events which had happened so often on that particular date. While most people in the world commemorate today the 90th anniversary of … Continue reading →

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