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Roland Arens

@rolarens

Journalist (since 1987), editor in chief @Wort_LU. Luxembourg, Europe and US politics. Journalism and media. Luxembourgish language.

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But yes, the fictions provided in the media exercise will be implausible. And deliberately so. The way Russian propaganda works is to tell a lie that everyone knows is a lie, and then to show by force that there is no alternative to living as though the lie were true. 12/

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“The chief reason to doubt how much Meloni will change Italy is simply that she is neither as popular nor as powerful as her electoral victory may suggest,” writes Yascha Mounk: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Bonne chance à toute l'équipe! Virgule.lu, le nouveau nom du site francophone du Wort @Wort_FR wort.lu/fr/luxembourg/…

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“Polarization” is a dodge for those in the mainstream media who remain addicted to false balance and moral equivalence. Instead of pointing to one party’s descent into radicalism, they advance the false idea that both parties are becoming extreme. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

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Seit drei Monaten wird das Luxemburger Wort im Nachbarland gedruckt. Wir haben den Vorgang bis zur Zustellung begleitet. wort.lu/de/business/vo…

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„Rien ne ressemble plus aux jeunes Européens que les jeunes Russes. La jeunesse de ce pays n’est nullement friande de guerres et amoureuse de la dictature. C’est avec elle que nous pourrons construire une paix durable en Europe.“ bernard-guetta.eu/2022/10/10/apr…

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„The sense that the global economy has become too unmoored from national interests has helped fuel the political populism, nationalism and even fascism (in the form of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement) that we are grappling with today.“ via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2022/10/17/opi…

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“To the extent it has an economic plan at all,” Paul Krugman says of the Republican Party, “it would make inflation worse.” nyti.ms/3zlV4x5

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„In the United States, and to an extent in Britain, democracy has become minority rule, and the minority holding power is unrepresentative, angry and increasingly radical.“ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

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„We’d have done far better to only report on the tweets that actually conveyed new information — which is what we should do now.“ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

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„It is vital to keep all eyes and ears on Mr. Putin’s deeds and not be distracted by his words. He launched a war of aggression to destroy Ukraine as a democracy and as a nation-state. There can be no compromise with this depravity.“ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…