Midtown Blogger/Manhattan Valley Follies: Der Spiegel

Decades of Suspicions: Did German Companies Aid Syrian Chemical Weapons Program?

Government documents and information from the Assad regime indicate that German companies may have helped Syria produce chemical weapons over the course of decades. So far, the Merkel administration has shown no willingness to investigate. By Gunther Latsch, Fidelius Schmid and Klaus Wiegrefe more... [ Comment ]

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'We Were Arrogant'Interview with New York Times Editor Baquet

Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, is unusually self-critical. In an interview, he admits that it pained him to see Edward Snowden give his story to others and explains why his paper chose not to run Charlie Hebdo caricatures of Muhammad. Interview Conducted by Isabell Hülsen and Holger Stark more... [ Comment ]

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Ex-FBI Official'We Left Our Most Important Prisoners To Amateurs'

Former FBI agent Ali Soufan was one of the first to interrogate terror suspects at Guantanamo. He later left the prison and criticized torture methods used by the CIA. He accuses the government of turning interrogations of inmates over to outsourced amateurs. more...[ Comment ]

Yesterday at 04:51 PM from peskyvera: Why expect any better from the US? more...

#notinmynameGerman Muslims Fear Backlash after Paris Attacks

The vast majority of Muslims in Germany condemn the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris. But they are concerned that a new wave of Islamophobia may wash over the country anyway. By SPIEGEL Staff more...[ Comment ]

Yesterday at 03:36 AM from karin6: In 20 years will Europe be a Muslim state ? Statistically, YES. Is it too late to save Europe?... more...

Guantanamo Prisoner Diary'We're Gonna Teach You About Great American Sex'

Mauritanian national Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been held at Guantanamo for 12 years now without trial and despite a dearth of evidence. A diary he kept of his torture is now being published around the world. SPIEGEL presents some excerpts. By Britta Sandberg more...[ Comment ]

Photo Gallery: 'Motherfucker, I Told You, You're Gone'

Yesterday at 05:40 PM from goatonastik: It's awful to imagine the people you hear on the street calling every middle-easterner a terrorist...more...

Head-On CollisionPhotography Legends Test Drive Google Glass

Elliot Erwitt and Bruce Gilden are street photography legends who use Leica cameras and black and white film as their weapons of choice. When they meet Google Glass for the first time, it feels like a head-on collision between old masters and new technology. By Matthias Krug and Hilmar Schmundt more... [ Video | Comment ]

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Terror from the FringesSearching for Answers in the "Charlie Hebdo" Attacks

How did three, seemingly normal sons of immigrant families turn into radicalized and vicious murderers? SPIEGEL went to Paris to find out. The resulting image is one of an identity search gone horribly wrong. By SPIEGEL Staff more... [ Comment ]

Photo Gallery: The Background of the Paris Attacks

01/21/2015 from Pedropackman: I believe we need to think a little and remember that as I write US drones are seeking out so... more...

The Digital Arms RaceNSA Preps America for Future Battle

The NSA's mass surveillance is just the beginning. Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency is arming America for future digital wars -- a struggle for control of the Internet that is already well underway. By Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt and Michael Sontheimer more... [ Comment ]

01/20/2015 from rebelwhiteprincess: This is ridiculous. The internet was conceived by the British & American military. In the... more...

Gorbachev Interview'I Am Truly and Deeply Concerned'

In a SPIEGEL interview, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev discusses the dangers of poor relations between Russia and the West in the Ukraine crisis, saying there is a danger that things could get worse. Germany, he says, has a significant role to play. Interview Conducted by Matthias Schepp and Britta Sandberg more... [ Comment ]

01/21/2015 from ke@kennethellman.com: Kenneth Ellman Comments on Spiegel Online, Gorbachev Interview, January 16, 2015,... more...

Hospital of HopeCity Marred By Xenophobia Seeks to Reinvent Itself

Xenophobic riots in 1991 transformed the eastern German town of Hoyerswerda into a symbol of post-communist hate. Now, though, the community is courting foreign health workers and seeking to reinvent itself. Can it work? By Fiona Ehlers in Hoyerswerda, Germany more...[ Comment ]

Photo Gallery: Moving Beyond Hate

01/18/2015 from johann84: Each western country has conservative news channel just as they have left leaning news. Saying that... more...

Prying into PegidaWhere Did Germany's Islamophobes Come From?

Tens of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of Dresden on Monday evening for the latest march of Pegida, a group opposed to the "Islamization" of Europe. Organizers have billed it as a mourning march for Charlie Hebdo. But where does the group come from? By Maximilian Popp and Andreas Wassermann more... [ Comment ]