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 (DIR) Covid Crisis in India: The Death of Pradeep Bhattacharya
       
       ‘Why shouldn’t there be a rebellion against the government?’ my uncle asked
       in a Facebook post. A few days later he died of Covid in New Delhi.
       
 (DIR) Climate Strike during Corona: „We go onto the streets anyways“
       
       Covid-19 is the biggest challenge ever? Wait for the climate crisis. Three
       climate activists report what they are doing to keep protest going on.
       
 (DIR) Climate Strike and Corona: „Not back to old normal“
       
       The pandemic did not replace climate crisis. It is adding to it. What does
       that mean for the movement? Three activists tell their stories.
       
 (DIR) Interview with Rwandan President Kagame: „Fighting? I don't see it coming“
       
       Rwanda's president speaks to TAZ about the changing East African region:
       the deepening conflict with Uganda and the blossoming friendship with the
       DR Congo.
       
 (DIR) Descendants of victims of Nazi persecution: No change for the expatriated
       
       Those who escaped Nazi rule lost the German citizenship. Germany is
       refusing to grant citizenship to some of their offspring.
       
 (DIR) Right Wing Violence and Self Defense: Thanks, Antifa
       
       Invoking the slogan “no violence“ in the fight against the right is a
       betrayal of the victims of neo-Nazis and does nothing to stop the violence
       they experience.
       
 (DIR) Guilty Fashion: Call Me Captain Lycra
       
       Like a moth to the flame, I am attracted to anything that shines, sequins,
       vinyl, and any number of polymers.
       
 (DIR) Rock icon Nannini about „Amore Gigante“: „Italy needs a woman“
       
       She's a rebel-rockstar, a feminist, a doctor of philosophy. Italian
       musician Gianna Nannini about her new album against hatred, her
       pansexuality and #MeToo.
       
 (DIR) Unfinished and Concrete Poetry: Flowing Meanings
       
       A word in German sounds like another in Georgian but their meaning
       diverges. Artist Elza Javakhishvili walks through the path of significance.
       
 (DIR) New Year’s Eve 2016 in Cologne: “It is a poisoned debate“
       
       Fantasies of the right seemed to have come true. Sociologist explains why
       that very night leaves more of an impression than the terror attacks.
       
 (DIR) Racial profiling by Federal police officers: This man is not a pickpocket
       
       Two Federal police officers stopped a man from Leipzig at the train
       station. Because of his skin colour. He filed a lawsuit and won. The
       inspection was unlawful.
       
 (DIR) Dresden’s 'Monument’ artwork: The protective barrier
       
       Manaf Halbouni commemorates war and destruction with buses next to the
       Frauenkirche. The forecourt has become a place for communication.
       
 (DIR) Voluntary service in the Ukraine conflict: Maria Berlinska goes off to war
       
       This is a woman who studied Jewish history and organised festivals with
       feminist bands. Then she volunteered to go to war. Why?
       
 (DIR) Research on Neonazi-milieu: „The snooping hurt me“
       
       Journalist Andrea Röpke researches Neo-Nazi groups and was spied out by the
       intelligence services. She is not intimidated.
       
 (DIR) The soccer scarf invades high fashion: The ultimate anti-brand brand
       
       When Balenciaga does a soccer scarf advertising Aldi it brings a fresh
       breeze into the air de Paris, the air of the left with the wallet of the
       right.
       
 (DIR) Spotlight Populism: Script writer needed
       
       Nationalisms in Spain – powerful, bloody till recently and one of the most
       complex issues for the central government.
       
 (DIR) Spotlight Populism: Politicians should rediscover frugality
       
       A great deal of representatives of Italian people have adopted a redundancy
       lifestyle that reminds of football players or star system VIPs.
       
 (DIR) Gentrificering i Berlin: Han kom. Tog. Og sejrede.
       
       Investoren Jørn Tækker er for mange lejere i Berlin et mareridt. I sit
       hjemland bygger danskeren derimod en økologisk prestigeprojekt-by.
       
 (DIR) Spotlight Populism: Stop Using the Word
       
       Societies slide towards those who give simplistic explanations and promise
       easy solutions. Thoughts of a member of political party „To Potami“.
       
 (DIR) Spotlight Populism: The Rage
       
       A deep frustration has identified several enemies: the „casta“, the
       powerful untouchable politicians, the immigrants, Europe, the Euro.
       
 (DIR) Spotlight Populism: Should We Talk About Fascism?
       
       The word populism has become a kind of container that serves almost
       everything you do not like.
       
 (DIR) Avraham Burg on Israel s Left: The Land of Silence
       
       The political left of Israel collapsed. The fight against the occupation
       now wholly depends on the country's civil society.
       
 (DIR) Spotlight Populism: Enhancement of the EU
       
       The defeat of the „wait an see“ politics – can the new populism movement
       save the European Union?
       
 (DIR) Spotlight Populism: The People Have to Fight
       
       How do we survive populism in europe? By ignoring it? By writing about it?
       By fearing it? By discussing it? How?​
       
 (DIR) Spotlight Populism: „We have to keep facts important“
       
       Conversation beteween two journalists on „How to survive pupulism“ – during
       a coffee break.
       
 (DIR) Spotlight Populism: Step back, reflect and ask
       
       There were many factors that facilitated the rise of populism in Britain,
       but the media has taken much of the blame.
       
 (DIR) Dernier cri of autumn/winter season 2017: The right shoe on the left foot
       
       Learning from New York Fashion Week: Make Wrong Right Again.
       
 (DIR) The renaissance of socks: Hand-knitted by the Queen
       
       Gucci socks at 190 euro, Alexander McQueen socks for 245 euro – the sock
       inflation brought us socks for the 1%. Or actually, they're accessoires.
       
 (DIR) Schäuble’s role in Brussels: Merkel’s bogeyman
       
       Chancellor Angela Merkel’s manner over the Greek conflict has been mostly
       obliging, while her finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble played the role of
       bad guy.
       
 (DIR) After the Euro Summit in Brussels: Thus fails Europe
       
       Thanks to a loathsome alliance, Merkel and Schäuble have been able to
       impose all of Germany’s demands on Greece. The result is a regime of
       sanctions and coercion.
       
 (DIR) Economist about the ECB and Greece: Like setting off a nuclear bomb
       
       The ECB denying Greece emergency loans would be blackmail, writes the
       economist Martin Hellwig. A crisis like 1931 could be created.
       
 (DIR) Germany, Greece and the EU: Europe isn’t that German
       
       What kind of a Europe do we want? Surely one that values solidarity. The
       German course of austerity therapy has failed. It is time to correct the
       mistakes.
       
 (DIR) After the Greek referendum: History in the Making
       
       The outcome of the referendum is clear. Now more than ever it’s up to the
       ECB, alongside the Greek government, to come up with solutions.
       
 (DIR) Grexit and the Eurozone: Destroyed confidence
       
       The monetary system is based on confidence, and that confidence has been
       shattered. The end of the monetary union is dawning – even if Greece
       remains in the euro.