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What the MSM don't report on

Commentary by Markus Langemann // In these times of guided reporting and supervised thinking, some remarkable political events and statements fall by the wayside

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Freedom always dies by the centimeter

Excerpt from the speech by outgoing party chairman Guido Westerwelle at the 62nd Federal Party Conference of the FDP in Rostock. In it, Westerwelle quotes Karl-Hermann Flach, the first Secretary General

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What do we want to teach our children?

Over the past few weeks, I have received a lot of mail from concerned parents. Parents who, in view of the current decisions of the ministries of education and state governments on the

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The open society and its new enemies

We are experiencing a turning point. The corona complex has ignited a toxic mixture of excessive demands in digital decadence, the rise of invisible capital, the loss of identity in the global space and, in particular, the erosion of intellect in times of thick Twitter thumbs and political self-empowerment by means of hashtag populism. These are just a few of the ingredients for the social explosives whose post-explosive powder vapor is now biting into our eyes and throats. It is a time of testing, of not resisting the temptation of lack of freedom.
Ja, Sie denken selbst. Und allein deswegen müssen Sie auch selbst ganz oft allein Ihre Auffassung vertreten. Diese Isolierung ist vielleicht der Preis der Freiheit. Wie offen, wie frei unsere Gesellschaft künftig sein soll, entscheiden wir. Sie! Jetzt. Der Philosoph Michael Esfeld über die „offene Gesellschaft und ihre neuen Feinde“ im Club der klaren Worte. (ML)

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Turn right? Turn left?

How would they differentiate themselves from the right? As a decent citizen who carries the canon of values of German society in the 2020s, should one even think of asking such a question? Well, that can happen very quickly. If you make the wrong comment on the wrong topic, you're on the "right". So once again the question: would you distance yourself from the right and why? And is this even necessary?

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The sting stings.

At the moment, a man is making headlines who seems to be causing a great deal of friction among politically interested citizens and people who live from politics. Those who

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The file.

Here I am exclusively publishing a document that I consider to be of historical significance. A document that you should know, as it is a not insignificant

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When German politics suddenly gets a face ...

I am publishing a plain text reader's letter here. It stands for countless others that I receive. This letter to the editor provides a representative insight into parts of German reality. A reality that is not reflected and published in the leading and fee-based media. A reality that, according to my observations, the elected representatives of the people do not bring to the place where political will is formed. In the parliaments.

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Annalena & Armin

The raging in the body. The thirst for substance. The longing for spirit. Renitence as a text. Now.

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The Basic Law is in intensive care

They still exist, the members of the Bundestag who swim against the tide. Hans-Jürgen Irmer sits in the Bundestag for the CDU. He will vote against the Infection Protection Act in the

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