Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Monday, May 05, 2025

HISTORY WILL JUDGE

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by Jana Schäfer The state will judge them, By their actions in the public space. Or so they say, Or so I’ve heard.   The media, the fourth e...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

THE SHINING CITY ON A HILL

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by Rose Mary Boehm AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . 1 The dark shelter had low ceilings, smelled of damp and coal...
Saturday, February 01, 2025

BURN ME, I TELL THE TRUTH

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by  Amy Wolf   AI-generated graphic by Shutterstock for The New Verse News . Burn me, I tell the truth. In the hardwood floor, pine cool gre...
Monday, November 20, 2023

QUESTIONS WE ASK OURSELVES

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by Rachel R. Baum A Moorpark College professor was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish prote...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

LETZTE GENERATION

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by David Chorlton A scream circumnavigates the world. Is anybody listening   when the police arrive to sweep away those for whom the last re...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

BLAZING SLIPPERS

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by George Salamon The choreographer Marco Goecke with his dog 'Gustav' in a photograph from his Instagram account. Marco Goecke has ...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

THE TURNING CIRCLE OF A BUCKET WHEEL EXCAVATOR

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by Frank Joussen Tweet via “Thousands hit German streets to protest coal mine expansion” in TRTWorld , January 14, 2022 keep it in the groun...
Friday, December 09, 2022

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE...

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by  Darcy Grabenstein   They plastered their hate-filled propaganda on walls, on posts, anywhere, everywhere They started with boycotts of b...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

NO LAST HOMELY HOUSE IN LUETZERATH

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by Frank Joussen The yawning black-brown scar in the earth that is Germany’s Garzweiler coal mine has already swallowed more than a dozen vi...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

PLAYING FOOTSIE

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by Mike Mesterton-Gibbons Like many people, Mr Goxx is dabbling in cryptocurrency, hoping to strike it rich. He's notable for two reason...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

MASKED AND DISTANCED

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by Howie Good Photo of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp from the archives of the Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen . The avenue is near dese...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

I CAN'T VOTE

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by Marsha Owens “Sorted” by Pia Guerra at The Nib, August 17, 2020. Blue mailboxes thrown onto truck beds helter-skelter like toy so...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

LIFESAVER

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by Mark Ward “Former nurse Niels Högel—who has admitted to giving potentially lethal drugs to patients so he could try to resuscitate ...
Monday, April 15, 2019

THE STUMBLING STONES

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by Mark Tarren A candle and roses laid on a set of Stolpersteine in Berlin at a commemorative ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of ...
Friday, June 02, 2017

THE GERMAN LESSON

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by George Salamon Politico “'The Germans are bad, really bad,' Donald Trump tells EU officials.”           — The Telegrap...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

I COULD HAVE BEEN IN NEW ENGLAND

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by Linda Lerner “The picturesque old town of Dachau invites one to linger and enjoy its many places of interest.” — Dachau.de my fat...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

THE OGRE WHO PROMISED US THE WORLD

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by David Spicer Adapted from a DonkeyHotey caricature. I denounce the day the ogre who promised us the world arrived, disturbing...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

AFTER READING JOSEPH ROTH'S THE HOTEL YEARS

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by Alan Catlin Pencil sketch by Michael D'Antuono. Germany between world wars Residue of failure and hate diminished self-wor...
Thursday, July 04, 2013

REST IN PEACE
DEPENDING ON WHERE AND WHEN YOU FALL

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by Tricia Knoll “Mummies are a non-renewable resource” - the curator of the Mummies of the World exhibit in Portland, Oregon. Source: ...