Words are important. Our failure to wield them responsibly has put us on a path to vitriol and violence
Manipulators of nationalism, religious identity and racism are a constant risk to democracy across the world.
Russia Today convinced me that Vladimir Putin is a liar and a power-hungry empire builder
Well, the pharaonic Voortrekker Monument to be precise for John Davenport
When the brilliant automobile engineer died, he left behind a legacy tainted with scandal
New guidelines for psychological work with queer people will advance everyone’s mental health
A return to elitism will not enable the development of a viable society or secure a democratic future
The United States president-elect says the accolade means a lot to him.
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/ 23 October 2015
Israeli PM accused of aiding Holocaust deniers by saying grand mufti gave Hitler idea to kill Jews.
Wits has found that it cannot fault former SRC president Mcebo Dlamini for expressing his admiration for Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler.
Few things would have pleased Verwoerd more than the idea that racism and race essentialism are still alive and well.
Free speech, however unpalatable the subject, is fundamental to a university.
The short film commissioned by the junta has left people outraged and baffled after the seemingly harmless video showed images of Adolf Hitler.
An article in the South African Jewish report accuses Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of "preying" on Israel, together with Hamas.
With the war’s centenary near, this is not a parlour game. Counterfactual conjecture allows us to see the conflict far more objectively.
A book by a Harvard scholar argues that US producers in the 1930s "collaborated" with the Nazis with cuts to films and self-censorship.
The owner of an Indian clothing store has said that he would only change its name from "Hitler" if he was compensated for re-branding costs.
A relative of Adolf Hitler’s has asked for the removal of the tombstone marking his parents’ grave.
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/ 18 January 2012
Academics say the time has come for some of the taboos surrounding Hitler’s book in Germany to fall.
”Adolf Hitler has left us — after a very short visit,” concluded Die Welt am Sonntag after an attack on a wax figure of the Nazi leader.
He sits hunched over his desk, one leg hooked under his chair, gazing with the concern of a businessman who has realised the books are looking bad.
Britain criticised as obscene the presence of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at this week’s global food summit in Rome, saying he had inflicted shortages on millions of his own people by his ”profound misrule”. Mugabe flew into Rome late on Sunday, making his first official trip abroad since elections condemned by Western leaders as fraudulent.
Plans to include an Adolf Hitler figure in the new Berlin branch of Madame Tussauds wax museum are being condemned by critics, who say displaying the dictator is tasteless and could attract neo-Nazis. Madame Tussauds argues Hitler is part of German history and deserves a place in the exhibition near the Brandenburg Gate.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe flew into Rome for a global food summit on Sunday, his first official trip abroad since elections condemned by Western and opposition leaders as fraudulent. A British Foreign Office spokesperson said: ”It is a matter of concern to us and we would prefer that he did not attend.”
Former United States president Jimmy Carter has said Israel holds at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time a US president has publicly acknowledged the state’s atomic arsenal. Asked how a future US president should deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, Carter put the risk in context by listing atomic weapons held globally.
When Italian architect Giuseppe Pettazzi inaugurated Eritrea’s plane-shaped Fiat Tagliero service station in 1938, he stunned onlookers by pulling out a gun. There, the story behind Africa’s finest piece of Futurist architecture goes hazy.
While a frenzy was building amid the sea of fans massed to glimpse Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford and the rest of the stars at the world premiere on Sunday, a healthy scepticism was building up at the Cannes festival among film critics who would assess the merits of the movie on show.
The German government on Monday brushed off a verbal attack from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in which the leftist leader said Chancellor Angela Merkel was a political descendant of Adolf Hitler and German fascism. Merkel sets off for her first trip to Latin America on Tuesday.
Max Mosley, president of motorsports’ governing body FIA, is under pressure after a British tabloid reported on Sunday that he engaged in sex acts with prostitutes that involved Nazi role- playing. The News of the World reported that Mosley (67) paid five sex workers £2 500 in cash and then engaged in an orgy that lasted almost five hours.
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/ 28 November 2007
A Dutch conservative lawmaker said on Wednesday he is making a film to highlight what he describes as ”fascist” passages in the Qur’an, his latest high profile criticism of Islam. Wilders plans to depict parts of the Qur’an he says are used as inspiration ”by bad people to do bad things”.
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/ 11 November 2007
Norman Mailer would probably not have wanted an old man’s death. He would have preferred some other way — an accident, a bar fight or a lover’s brawl — so that his death, like his life, could inspire or appal or, above all, make people talk. But Mailer, a giant of American literature, died of renal failure on Saturday in a New York hospital bed.
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/ 10 November 2007
Comic-book hero Captain America may not be back from the dead, but he is back — sort of. After Marvel Comics unexpectedly killed off the champion of liberty and the American way earlier this year, he appears in a comic made exclusively for United States soldiers. He is seen on a videotape made before his death.