Category: Society and Politics

First of all, all healthcare systems have strengths and weaknesses. But I will double down on that universal healthcare is a human right.

I often see similarities between observations I make in the classroom and the world at large. Observing the EU and their struggle for emancipation is not an exception.

No, history does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme indeed. This is what makes studying history so important. Because we can draw important lessons from the past to tell us something about our present and the future.

Germany’s minister of Economics seems to be in panic mode. Today, the second phase in a three-stage gas emergency program went into effect. This is an admittance, that the situation does not at all look rosy. The situation shows, how dependent Germany is on Russian gas.

You know that this attack on Press Freedom is real. What you also know is that Assange will never face a fair trial. You know that western leaders and pundits tried to shut up about it.

It likely has not escaped anyone’s attention. Fuel prices have taken a sharp turn upwards recently. In Germany, you can rarely get any fuel for less than 2 Euros per liter anywhere. The sanctions on Russia are restricting supply.
However, Fossil fuel might do a bit of price gouging as well.
If you are in doubt, whether fossil fuel companies were playing dirty, the proof came this week.

Last year, the citizens of Berlin voted to re-socialize housing. The current Berlin Government is determined to obstruct the will of the people.