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Published in: Home: FeatureHow Germany became ground zero for the COVID infodemic
Exclusive analysis by openDemocracy reveals how false claims and conspiracy theories gave rise to Europe’s largest...
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Published in: Home: NewsGermany’s COVID sceptics fuelled by Russian media and far-Right conspiracies
Exclusive: Disinformation and pseudoscience shared on social media inspired tens of thousands to attend...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionEuropean far-Right populism and ISIS: Two sides of the same coin?
From the populist rhetoric of Germany's far-Right AfD to ISIS’s extremist religious ideology, polarizing discourse...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionHow the German far Right appropriates ideals of non-violent resistance
The far Right’s claims to be ‘peaceful Europeans’ are absurd, especially in the light of increasingly violent...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe poverty of mainstream universalism and exclusive identity politics
Those criticizing exclusive leftist and liberal varieties of identity politics that endanger plurality of opinion...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Central Alps: The convenient erasure of history
A Second World War bunker in northern Italy has just been demolished despite its importance as a reminder of the...
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Published in: Home: FeatureOne year after the Hanau massacre, victims’ families fight for justice
Although it was eclipsed by the pandemic, last February’s mass shooting revealed Germany’s failure to confront the...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightIs Germany’s AfD using COVID-19 measures to its benefit?
The German party though internally divided about the measures, is united on anti-EU ideology to gain electoral support.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightIn Germany, antisemitism on social media can be linked to offline violence
Not enough is being done in Germany to combat antisemitism on social media platforms.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Love letter from Buchenwald
What can the world learn from Buchenwald's audio memorial walk to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its liberation?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Marathon Man and 'our European Way of Life'
The migration debate ignores the political question of why hundreds or thousands of underage and adult people are...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Varosha and political ineptitude
It seems that Varosha has not only been abandoned by the United Nations and by the European Union but also by the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Paradigm shifts in the light of the past: the 1929 crash, the great recession of 2008 and the COVID-19 crisis
Lack of attractive ideological and policy alternatives and political personnel does not favour a transformative...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On the Greek islands a long-term commitment is needed from fellow Europeans
All they do is perpetuate a situation that the islands cannot continue to bear. Greece cannot continue to bear.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spirit or reason? Muslim public intellectuals in the German and European far right
The wide space available for non-white, Muslim-background figures in the European far right is key in helping the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dangerous thoughtlessness of a coronavirus political cartoon
A cartoon associating mask orders with the Holocaust bears the hallmarks of shallow ‘culture war’ thinking.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightHow to laugh away the far-right: lessons from Germany
In the many instances where far-right activity attempts to exhibit solemnity, gravity, or strength, a well-aimed...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightWhy did Heidegger emerge as the central philosopher of the far right?
Heidegger’s philosophy has legitimised the far right’s regional environmentalism, populism and cultural racism.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Antifascist culture in isolation
After 1933, a left-wing culture that had encompassed socialist workers, artists and intellectuals alike was driven...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionAchille Mbembe and the fantasy of separation
The latest German uproar exposes a core cleavage in Holocaust memory.