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Brent Goff LIVE at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Nov 2009

35 years ago, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was opened & the Iron Curtain began to fall.

In 2009, as part of DW's coverage of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I spent the day at Checkpoint Charlie.

Deutsche Welle #BerlinWall #CheckpointCharlie #Berlin #BerlinerMauer

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How is climate change turbocharging Hurricane Milton? | DW News

Monster storms 2.5 times more likely now.

Here's why:

#Helene #Milton #hurricane #globalwarming #GulfofMexico #Florida #NorthCarolina #Tennessee #AppalachianMountains #climatechange

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Sweden is offering big bucks to migrants as an incentive for them to leave the country and go home.

#Sweden #migrants #immigration 

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"This is America's war, too."

Former Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy tells me why he doesn't view the US as a credible mediator of peace in the Middle East.

#Israel #Hamas #Gaza #US #Biden

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Are we on the brink of a wider war in the Middle East?

The predictions are not good.

#Iran #Israel #Hamas #Hezbollah #Haniyeh #IsmailHaniyeh #Haniyeh #Netanyahu

All you need to know about the killing of Hamas political leader Haniyeh...

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#IranIsHappy is trending on social media. Watch to find out why some Iranians may not be mourning the death of a president known as the #ButcherofTehran 

#Iran #Raisi 

What will happen in Iran before new election is called? | DW News

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Are universities creating student protestors? My talk with Yascha Mounk on a generation in which rights and responsibilities do not go hand in hand.

US campus protests: Unresolved debate over public order, free speech and...

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Who will win the Eurovision Song Contest tonight?

It's a question I have posed to viewers every year since 2011.

Here's a look back at a time when the contest was light on politics and protests and still heavy on music & kitsch.

#ESC #malmo2024 #Eurovision

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Watching events at Columbia University tonight.

Earlier I spoke with Ethan Bearman about the wave of protests on campuses across the US.

#protests #ColumbiaUniversity #Gaza #Israel #Hamas #Palestinians #freespeech #hatespeech #antisemitism

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These are the two studies I mention:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2611-3.html

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218834120

RAND

PNAST-Proceedings Of The National Acad...

#AmericanPower #superpower #decline #birthrate #civicvirtue #decadence #elites #environment #military

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When it comes to recruiting spies for Russia, Germany is "fertile ground."

#Kremlin #Russia #espionage #spies #Germany #weapons #Ukraine

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War in Ukraine. Two years and counting....

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #sanctions #russianinvasion #twoyears

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He calls her an imposter. She says he's too old for the job.  

#Trump & #Haley.  The coming clash in South Carolina.  Who will survive ?

I ask Brandon Bohrn of the Bertelsmann Stiftung 

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How Trump is reshaping geopolitics | DW News

How Trump is already impacting geopolitics around the world. My guest is Graham Allison​, Founding Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School​ of Government.

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South Africa accuses Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice. #Israel has called the accusation "baseless." My guest is Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Brown University.  He says his country's war against #Hamas in #Gaza is sliding into genocide of the Palestinians in the territory. I ask what difference this case before the #ICJ will make.

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Ecuador's drug cartel nightmare, more Boeing 737 Max 9 planes grounded & a surrogate mother reacts to the Pope's call to ban the practice worldwide.

#ecuador #violence #cocaine #Boeing737 #grounded #popefrancis #surrogacy

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Spiral of #disinformation on #socialmedia.

This includes the platform X, formerly known as #Twitter, owned by the controversial billionaire #ElonMusk.

My talk with #JulieMillican @mediamatters on content crisis at X, or should it be XXX?