Arts and Culture
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Will NATO’s new existential crisis be its last?
Over the course of its 75 years’ history, NATO has weathered many storms. At least two earlier crises were existential – and in each case the US played a key role: During the Suez crisis in 1956, the US under President Eisenhower strongly opposed the use of force by Britain and France to regain control…
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Odd Taxi – a brilliant Japanese anime series on YouTube
Oddo takushii ( = odd taxi), the simultaneously weirdest and best Japanese anime series I’ve seen in a long time. Somewhere between jazz and rap, alternately strange, brutal and miraculous, forever lost in the nocturnal cityscapes of Shibuya, Harajuku, highbrow hotels and junk food places, the docklands and other more or less well known Tokyo…
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Capitani – an RTL Netflix serial
If it is indeed true that our European brains were ‚wired‘ in the medieval village community, then that goes a long way to explaining the mesmerising effect of this Netflix serial. At least on me – I’m totally hooked. Essentially, it’s Twin Peaks in provincial Luxembourg. Minus evil spirits, but everything else is there: the…
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Will NATO’s new existential crisis be its last?
Over the course of its 75 years’ history, NATO has weathered many storms. At least two earlier crises were existential – and in each case the US played a key…
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Capitani – an RTL Netflix serial
