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Press freedom and why it matters to democracy

by Otmar Lahodynsky, Hon. President, Vienna May 4, 2024 Political and economic pressure on quality media is growing. Austria falls behind in the international press...

New AEJ Vice-President Guiseppe Jacobini

University professor of political and economic journalism, Guiseppe Jacobini founded and continues to direct Il Giornale Europeo. He has written for Italian newspapers on...

“Do not die with your head bowed”

  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

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...

Libel Tourism – the law as a whore

This essay from the London Review of Books gets to the heart of 'lawfare' - the use of wealth against democracy by Peter Geoghegan, editor-in-chief,...

Veteran AEJ writer publishes first novel

Vienna, September 25, 2022 Honorary President Otmar Lahodynsky writes here about the just-published first novel by his colleague in Brussels: Wolfgang Böhm, an AEJ member...

Colleagues in the news, media stuff maybe worth listening to

Vienna, September 17, 2022 by Edward Steen, S-G Legendary German tv journalist Fritz Pleitgen, "Mr WDR," was for decades one of the most familiar and trusted...

What’s going on in Vlad’s head?

es Vienna, August 29, 2022 Political philosophy has rarely been a strong selling point for Europe's "red-top" boulevard press. So the article below in Austria's...

Dying to kill: Russian neo-Nazis fighting for “denazification” of Ukraine

Mark Porter, Cannes, 18/08/22 Throughout the six months of conflict, Vladimir Putin has insisted that Ukraine is run by neo-Nazis. For his part, Ukraine’s (Jewish)...

Redrawing the Iron Curtain

Tim Marshall is the author of The Power of Geography and Prisoners of Geography, published by Elliott & Thompson. This article appeared in last Saturday's...

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