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Lothar Baier
(b.1942 in Karlsruhe, Germany) died July 2004 in Montreal, Canada where he was living as freelance writer. Member of the editorial board of the Zurich weekly Wochenzeitung and collaborator of Wespennest, Vienna. Author of numerous books and articles.
Eurozine Articles
How do I construct my own enemy?
Small DIY-manual according to latest real-life experiences
Baier traces the American war-rhetoric against Iraq and lays bare how enemies are constructed. [more]
North-American Eastern Bloc
Why does the mayor of Montréal want to call a Christmas tree a "festivity tree"? Lothar Baier discovers a contemporary parallel of the language regulations applied in GDR. [more]
New anti-Semitism and old delusions
Is the new wave of anti-Semitism in Europe a serious threat or largely unfounded hysteria? [more]
Happy is, who forgets
A flood of criticism hit Austria when the Freedom Party was included in the government. Self-appointed ”experts” deemed the alpine republic plague-infected and put it in quarantine. But in order to repudiate Austria, Europe has made itself blind of its own history, says Lothar Baier. [more]