Some people may know about China’s organ harvesting program, with up to 13,000 forced organ “donations” annually, may have heard about political opponents being murdered in Moscow or concentration camps in North Korea – but not only Russia, China and wacky central African regimes with the lifespan of a one day fly make people disappear….
Author: Linus Hoeller
Article by Linus H. On most maps showing world-wide data, there is a blank spot labeled “no data available” in northwestern Africa, south of Morocco and northwest of Mauritania. It’s a slab of land of 266,000km² and a population of only roughly half a million, mainly uninhabited desert, but nonetheless it is a key focus…
By Linus Höller, 11.01.2017 It’s the evening of the 15th of July in the year 2016. While Recep Erdogan is on vacation in the Mediterranean town of Marmaris, chaos erupts in Istanbul and other major cities of Turkey. Parts of the military take to the streets, position themselves at strategically important positions, close off…
“Wer auf die Türkei verlässt, ist verlassen” – those who trust Turkey cannot be helped. Austria’s foreign minister Sebastian Kurz has held a clear anti-Erdogan stance in the past year, especially since the happenings following the attempted military Coup in the country earlier this year. The relations between Turkey and Austria significantly cooled, the tone between Vienna and…
Major cities have always been a focal point between people of different origins, cultures and habits. Especially in the last century or so, with urbanization at a higher rate than ever before and the world being more and more connected, cities have not only grown significantly in size, but also in diversity. Democratic elections show…
The fall of the Berlin Wall following the mass demonstrations on November 9th, 1989 was one of the largest geopolitical events in recent history, which ultimately led to the reunification of Germany and the peaceful transition of power of the “communist” regimes in eastern Europe, which ultimately led to the fall of the Soviet Union…
The world is becoming increasingly globalized. For countries, it is not only important to have good relations with their direct neighbors, it is essential to have powerful allies even on the other side of the world, and every country strives for the largest possible sphere of influence. Although of course it is beneficial for a…
The war against the self-proclaimed caliphate “Islamic State” has been dragging on for over two years and four months since it officially began on the 13th of June 2014. The war has and still is being fought out over two continents, in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Nigeria, Afghanistan and also Southeast Asia. A coalition of western…
On the day of German reunification (October 3rd), let’s take a moment to remember the reason that at least 872 people died and many more committed suicide. The Innerdeutsche Grenze, the GDR’s border to West Germany, and the Berlin Wall between the east and west sectors of Berlin were built mainly for one purpose: to…
The traces of history can still be found everywhere in Berlin, if you know what to look for. Many old buildings still have bullet holes, some of the bullets that were fired still remain in the walls. There is still a gap in most places where the Berlin Wall used to separate East and West…