Berlin Wall

In the 1990s, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former East Germany experienced a wave of far-right racist and political violence. In Germany, this period is known as the "baseball bat years" – a dark period that still haunts the country today.  After the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the former GDR…

Are we curing isolation or coding a mental health time bomb? Without stricter oversight, AI companions risk trading human resilience for toxic validation. In 1979, Swedish national Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer married the Berlin Wall. She suffered from a rare condition known as Objectum-Sexuality, characterized by romantic attraction to inanimate objects. While…

President Trump rolled the dice this weekend with bold, decisive military strikes in Iran. In the predawn hours of Saturday, February 28, U.S. and Israeli forces launched Operation Epic Fury. The strikes hammered Iranian nuclear facilities, IRGC command centers, missile sites, naval assets, and regime leadership targets, including killing of…

The chant resounds through the streets and squares of Iran's holiest cities. 'The final battle. Pahlavi will return,' the protesters cry. 'Javid Shah! Javid Shah! . Reza Shah, God bless your soul.' The name Pahlavi is also emblazoned across the posters and placards held up by many of the tens…

What is it like to be in Berlin, the world’s No. 1 trouble spot at this point in history? You feel a sense of unreality, of utter incredulity. Here is a place without parallel, unless it be the Holy City of Jerusalem, still split between Israel and Jordan.  Picture, if…

Jerusalem Post / Middle East Fall of the Assad dictatorship as symbolic as fall of Berlin Wall, says US congressman - interview In the interview with the Post, Wilson spoke about the new Syria he witnessed and the opportunities that lie ahead. US Rep. Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina), Sen. Jeanne…

Since it was composed during David Bowie’s Berlin period, “Heroes” has become one of rock’s iconic standards.   Written by Bowie and Brian Eno, inspired by a kiss next to the Berlin Wall between producer Tony Visconti and singer Antonia Maass, the song has been reimagined, repurposed and revisited by different…

BERLIN, Germany — In a surprising event, Alexandra Hildebrandt, the director of the Berlin Wall Museum, recently gave birth to her tenth child at the age of 66. Her son, Philipp, was born via cesarean section on March 19, 2025, at the renowned Charité University Hospital, marking a personal milestone…

Wolfgang Becker, the German filmmaker whose reunification comedy Good Bye, Lenin! was a worldwide hit and made a star out of the then-unknown young actor Daniel Brühl, has died. He was 70. Becker’s family said Friday he died following a serious illness. Becker was born in Hemer in what was…

Now that Americans have tasted wokeness, they have recoiled as perhaps no people have since the fall of the Berlin Wall liberated the imprisoned peoples of East Berlin. As a cultural revolution, Trumpism has unquestionably succeeded. And, by the same token, its cultural enemy – wokeness – has failed. In…