On April 13, 1975, a series of events were set in motion that would later be considered the start of the Lebanese Civil War. This seventeen-year conflict would leave over 100,000 dead, and the devastation and destruction it wielded on…
In his article “Information, the ultimate weapon” Boukhari Meraghni examines three of the most significant failures of Western policy in recent years, their genesis and their reflection in what he calls the “mass media”. He draws a sobering conclusion: The…
“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World News are spread very quickly these days, all the better for it. But can you trust them blindly? Do you have…
An attack claimed by the terrorist network Al-Qaeda On January 7 at noon, news channels keep repeating: “Attacks on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, at least 11 dead.” The media are quick to report the…
8 May 2015, France. A public holiday in the entire country on the occasion of the “Victory Day in Europe”, so to say in the “civilized world.” The expression itself makes it easy to understand that the so so-called allied countries…
One week ago, a video with a propaganda song for the Islamic State (IS) featuring German lyrics was released on the internet. Its author is likely to be Denis Cuspert, a former German rapper who left Germany in 2012 to…
One year ago to this date Politik in Gesellschaft was founded as a weblog of two university students. For its first anniversary, we decided to make several changes to it in order to make it more attractive for readers as well as…