Chickpeace!: Out of boredom, women in a Harburg refugee shelter began cooking. Today they supply large events with their company

Most of them came to Germany in 2015, and in the same year the first women began cooking in an accommodation for refugees in Harburg, together with the social worker Manuela Maurer. First of all, because there wasn't much more than a kitchen to occupy yourself with. And because they couldn't talk to Maurer. But it soon became more, Maurer mediated, and the women delivered supplies to a club's summer party in Harburg for 70 people.

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"Now I have to be aware of where I am and what I say"- Being Muslim in India

Ever since Narendra Modi's BJP swept to power in 2014, India's Muslims have had a turbulent time, often targeted in attacks or hate speech. As the 2024 Lok Sabha election results draw near, we spoke to some Muslims to get their perspectives on what has changed.

Drenched, British PM Rishi Sunak announces snap election to be held on 4 July - the definitive photo that predicts who loses...and wins

Drenched, British PM Rishi Sunak has announced the next general election will be held on July 4 but his big moment was drowned out by protesters playing a New Labour anthem outside the gates of Downing Street. 

Shakespeare, what do you make of all this? The rain, the anthem...

Could these be portents that the Tories will lose and Labour will win, although not by a landslide? Maybe, maybe.

Harm to children during the COVID outbreak - German author Michael Hütter explains that “the weakest have been allowed to suffer the most,” which is an expression of a “deeper cultural crisis.”

Why is there no investigation into the harm to children during the Corona period? The author Michael Hütter explains that “the weakest have been allowed to suffer the most,” which is an expression of a “deeper cultural crisis.” Keeper asks “how our children, when they grow up, will deal with us when they fully realize how they were abused here.”

China’s gray-zone tactics come to America

Before COVID-19, Chinese propaganda directed at Americans attempted to cultivate a positive image of the People's Republic. Now, it seeks to deepen domestic polarization.

Dmitry Trenin: A massive transformation is taking place in Russia, and the West is blind to it

Two and a half years into its war against the West in Ukraine, Russia certainly finds itself on a course toward a new sense of itself.

“Essentially murder”: Japanese oncologist Dr. Masanori Fukushima says COVID-19 vaccines causing “turbo cancers”, soaring excess deaths rates

In an interview published April 19, Japanese oncologist Dr. Masanori Fukushima, who spearheaded the first cancer outpatient clinic at Kyoto University and launched the first course in pharmacoepidemiology there, said COVID-19 vaccines were causing turbo cancers along with along with high excess mortality rates that started to appear just after the vaccine were given to people.

Dr Fukushima also reported on the harms of the vaccine in a new scientific paper, detailing how "some excess cancer mortalities were observed in 2021 after mass vaccination with the first and second vaccine doses, and significant excess mortalities were observed for all cancers and some specific types of cancer (including ovarian cancer, leukemia, prostate cancer, lip/oral/pharyngeal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and breast cancer) after mass vaccination with the third dose in 2022."

The interview with Dr Fukushima is also available in english here.

Trauma Professor Meryem Schouler-Ocak: "I'm ashamed of how Germany treats refugees"

When people flee traumatized war, torture and violence, they need help to process what they have experienced. But Germany doesn't allow that. This has consequences including violence, says Professor Meryem Schouler-Ocak.

NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo says he’s been affected by long COVID: ‘I’m sick myself’

NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo admitted to suffering from side effects he believes were caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.

“We know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, aka side effects, but nobody’s really talking about it because they’re too afraid of blame, and they just want it to go away,” Mr. Cuomo said on his eponymous show while interviewing nurse practitioner Shaun Barcavage.

Vaccination against Corona: Astrazeneca admits serious side effects

Initially, all vaccines against Corona were advertised as having almost no side effects. But now Astazeneca is the first provider to publicly admit that its vaccine can cause serious side effects.

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Taiwan's steely leader rewrote the book on how to deal with China

In Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan found an unlikely champion. During her two terms, she carefully yet confidently reset the relationship with Beijing, which has claimed the independently governed island as its own for 75 years.

She stood up to an increasingly authoritarian and aggressive China under Xi Jinping; she held on to a vital US alliance under Donald Trump and buttressed it under Joe Biden. At home, she expanded the island’s defence and legalised same-sex marriage, the latter a first for Asia.

Gameover? Czech president speaks out in favor of halting hostilities in Ukraine

Czech President Petr Pavel spoke in favor of halting hostilities in Ukraine and starting negotiations on the post-war arrangement in an interview with Sky News TV channel.

‘He likes scaring people’: how Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah, runs India

 For 40 years, Amit Shah has been at Narendra Modi’s side – his confidant, consigliere and enforcer. Today he is India’s second-most powerful man, and he is reshaping the country in radical ways.

[European Elections in France] The Glucksmann surprise - "People think we are teddy bears, but we are pirates"

Out of nowhere, with a soft voice and round gestures. Nobody expected Raphaël Glucksmann, including him, at least not like this. The leading candidate of the French Socialists in the European elections on June 9th is the surprise of the election campaign.

"L'homme du moment" is what it means in France , the man of the moment. But this moment has been going on for a while. Every week the 44-year-old Parisian's poll numbers rise, with every new appearance in the provinces, on television, on the radio - he's everywhere right now. “People think of us as teddy bears,” Glucksmann said recently. "But we are pirates."

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German constitutional lawyer Volker Boehme-Neßler: “What we experienced during the Corona crisis was not worthy of a constitutional state”

“During Corona we saw the most extreme restrictions on fundamental rights that have ever existed in the Federal Republic. The judges should have looked very critically and very closely at what the state institutions were doing. They should have drawn red lines of freedom. That would have sent a signal to the other courts. Instead, they uncritically stamped almost all government measures with constitutionality.” – these are the words used by constitutional lawyer Volker Boehme-Neßler in an interview with NachDenkSeiten. He sharply criticizes the Federal Constitutional Court, but also the judiciary in general with regard to “Corona jurisprudence”. Boehme-Neßler speaks of a “betrayal of the idea of ​​the constitutional state.” The legal scholar also believes that the vaccination requirement in the Bundeswehr is “unconstitutional” and calls for the judiciary to be examined.

Unmasking the man who’s been spying for China

For the first time ever, a former spy for China’s notorious secret police – one of the most powerful arms of the country’s intelligence apparatus – goes public, exposing the covert and illegal operations he was ordered to carry out on foreign soil and the dissidents he was tasked with tracking, including in Australia, Canada, India, Cambodia and Thailand. In a major investigation reported by the ABC’s Echo Hui, the spy – who goes by the name Eric – comes out of the shadows at great danger to himself, revealing his face to expose how China has used its global network over the last two decades to surveil, silence and kidnap those its government and president Xi Jinping deems enemies of the state. The spy divulges his double life and the secrets he’s been guarding. He reveals the inner workings of the secret police, including the companies they use as cover, who his targets were, and the tactics he used to hunt them down. It raises tough questions about China’s global reach and Australia’s national security.

 

Meet Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza

Democracy Now! speaks with Hala Rharrit, the first State Department diplomat to publicly resign over the Biden administration’s policies backing Israel’s assault and siege of the Gaza Strip. Rharrit is an 18-year career diplomat who served as the Arabic-language spokesperson for the State Department in the region. “I could no longer be a part of the State Department and promote this policy. It’s an inhumane policy. It’s a failed policy that is helping neither Palestinians, neither Israelis,” Rharrit says. “We are not authorized to send military equipment, weapons to countries that commit human rights abuses. ICJ has determined plausible genocide, yet we are still sending billions upon billions of not just defensive weaponry, but offensive weaponry. It is tantamount to a violation of domestic law. Many diplomats know it. Many diplomats are scared to say it.” She adds, “I read the talking points that we were supposed to promote on Arab media. A lot of them were dehumanizing to Palestinians.” Rharrit also discusses how “corruption” in government allows for arms sales to continue. “I could not help but be concerned about the influence of special interest groups, of lobbying groups on our foreign policy and, as well, on Congress — on the people that decide whether or not some of those shipments of arms get sent. The bottom line is that our politicians should not be profiting from war. And unfortunately, we have some institutionalized corruption that enables that,” she says.

Afghanistan's Etilaat Roz: can journalism survive the Taliban?

The Etilaat Roz was once the most widely circulated newspaper in Kabul, but everything changed in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. With journalists tortured in the street for their reporting, the paper's staff were forced to flee. Two years on, the founder and then editor-in-chief Zaki Daryabi continues to fight for the Etilaat Roz's future and coordinates his team across the US, Europe and Afghanistan. In this unique video diary, journalist Abbas Rezaie follows the tenacious correspondents as they continue to report the news. We witness a turning point in Afghanistan’s history, and reflect on what it is to be a displaced journalist.

To read more about the vital struggle of independent media in Afghanistan, by the current editor-in-chief of the Etilaat Roz, Sakhidad Hatif, please click here.

Taiwanese star forced to publicly support 'one China' policy

Taiwanese TV and movie actor Wu Mu-hsuen was recently forced to sign a pledge to support China's territorial claim on democratic Taiwan, or the show she had just finished filming would be ditched, according to multiple local media reports.

BBC journalists fear being called racist for reporting on local concerns over immigration

A review commissioned by the BBC declared that it is “not racist to be concerned about the impacts of migration” after finding that staff within the publicly-funded broadcaster were discouraged from reporting on the negative impacts of migration for fear of being branded racist or appearing “hostile” towards migrants.

Repressive surveillance and lots of money in the event of “serious cross-border health threats”: what to know about the European Health Data Area Regulation

The European Health Data Area Regulation creates repressive surveillance tools in the event of “serious cross-border health threats”. Lots of money is involved. This is all reminiscent of Corona.

For almost two years, the EU institutions have been negotiating the creation of a “European Health Data Space” (EHDS for short). The proposed law is now nearing completion, and to put it bluntly: the EHDS is showing alarmingly repressive traits. The health data of all EU citizens should be available for “secondary use”, i.e. for scientific research, but also, for example, for training AI algorithms and for policy making.

Why we need to go back to the wild internet

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. 

How Germany ignored its own National Pandemic Plan to force lockdown

Germany's Robert Koch Institute (RKI) protocols show that scientifically based data played no role in the risk assessment and political decisions surrounding the lockdown. A detailed look at the protocols shows how the requirements of the National Pandemic Plan, updated in March 2020, were sidelined and ignored.

AstraZeneca admits its COVID vaccine can cause rare side effect in court documents for first time

AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court documents that its COVID vaccine can cause a rare side effect, in an apparent about-turn that could pave the way for a multi-million pound legal payout.

A journey through consciousness and cosmic realms with Jürgen Ziewe

Gareth from the Endless Possibilities Podcast interviews Jürgen Ziewe, a man who has delved deep into the realms of meditation, out-of-body experiences, and spiritual awakening.

Dora Moutot: Why France is censoring my Transmania book

Dora Moutot is one of France’s most outspoken gender critical feminists. She joins UnHerd's Florence Read to discuss her provocative new book, ‘Transmania’, and how it came to be censored by the local government in Paris.