Jourova – the threat of unfreedom still lurks
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by Edward Steen. Vienna, May 3, 2023
Věra Jourová, who has done so much as Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, to protect media freedom,...
World Press Freedom Day – blank page protest
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by Otmar Lahodynsky. Vienna, May 3, 2023
Today, World Press Freedom Day: Austria is only at 29th place in the new global ranking.
Wars, crises...
“Do not die with your head bowed”
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Marek Edelman and the Warsaw Ghetto: "Do not die with your head bowed down"
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising began 80 years ago. Memories of ex-commander...
Memories of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943
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Marek Edelman und das Warschauer Ghetto: "Nicht mit gesenktem Kopf sterben"
Vor 80 Jahren begann der Aufstand jüdischer Kämpfer gegen SS-Truppen im Warschauer Ghetto. Erinnerungen...
Revisiting the monsters of Communism
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by Edward Steen, Vienna May 1 2023
The dictator Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania from 1941 to 1985, had 175,000 steel and concrete bunkers of...
AEJ – THE WEEK
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by Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, April 30, 2023
There is too much news, for me and no doubt for you too, loyal readers and colleagues...
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Tucked up for a news soap-opera
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by Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, April 26, 2023 updated 28/04/23
Bored with the shenanigans of the British Royal Family? Do you really really care about...
Can Turkish media break free with this election?
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Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 will show whether Erdoğan's decade of relentless state interference with the media has paid off for...
The anti-European news genius who went too far
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UPDATE April 24, 2023,Tucker Carlson resigns from Fox News. See: American Soap Opera
by Llewellyn King, Rhode Island, April 24, 2023
His besetting sin is that...
Kara-Mursa faces Stalinist 25 years sentence
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by Edward Steen, Vienna, April 18, 2023
Putin's latest unendurably cynical blow to the human spirit was delivered yesterday by sentencing to 25 years the...