How a former RT presenter and a Berlin Heilpraktiker, friends since a Daniele Ganser lecture, built a podcast where the language of trauma and healing does the work of normalizing the far right, and why ‘honesty’ is not the same thing as truth.

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As France, Spain and Italy burn with youth revolt and housing rage, an essay reads October 2026 through the astrological transit of Pluto in Aquarius, Prigogine’s dissipative structures and the science of strange attractors — and asks whether the next twenty years must repeat the guillotine.

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An essay on sovereignty, memory, and the Brazilian election of October 2026 — for readers abroad.

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A stadium tour fell apart this month over two words said on a stage, and by the time it was done, a punk frontman, a UN special rapporteur, and a stand-up comedian had all, in their own registers, said the same thing about what a musician owes an audience.

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Twenty-five years since the towers fell, a psychological theory about memory gave way to a mayor’s decision to release 170,000 pages, and the essay I planned became one I hadn’t.

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Olivia Wilde made summer 2026 sexy and emotionally mature in ways I did not expect. As a director, she unleashed the power of sex and intimacy in her third directorial film The Invite,‍ together with Penélope Cruz, Seth Rogen and Edward Norton. Then, she camped it up as actress in Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex — his first feature film in over a decade!

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Proud has become the most-discussed Polish television event of the year — not only for what happens on screen, but for what its lead actor said off it. What does it mean for a nation to finally tell this story, and what does it cost the person telling it?

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Berlin Pride Parade was struck by a terrorist attack last weekend. But the perpetrator was known to German police for many years, and was even part of a deradicalization program funded by the state. Why couldn’t he be stopped?

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A recent study analzying data from 45,000 people across 53 countries, identified Germany as having the highest levels of narcissism in the world. The interesting part of this study is that it revealed younger people showing higher scores in “grandiose narcissism” (admiration-seeking) and “narcissistic rivalry”.

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Armie Hammer is back — to filmmaking, sort of — in Uwe Boll's latest vigilante provocation, which attracted more attention this June thanks to a German ban and Elon Musk than the World Cup did.

Published in German and English by Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge on July 6th, 2026

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Genealogy has become one of the defining methods of critical theory. But what if its own genealogy tells a very different story? Discover why Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm's latest book could reshape debates across the humanities.

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Highly romanticized in contemporary popular culture — but deeply misunderstood — the concept of twin flames seems to be making an occultural comeback. Not for the faint-hearted, this seems to be more of an “over the rainbow” than run-of-the-mill love story. What do Emiliy Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as reimagined by Emerald Fennell, and Richard Gadd’s new provocative series Half Man have to do with this concept?

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German society has an unusual two-tier system that actually allows so-called “alternative” therapies to be offered to the general public. Has this incredible idea, however, turned sour?

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Scientific debate since a publication in early 2026 has put into question the groundbreaking neurophysiological theory that has based many somatic practitioners’ work. The creator of the theory himself, however, has refuted some of the criticism. Keep reading for more.

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Have people become more coddled and extremely sensitive to criticism, or are we simply evolving to a society where disagreement is being disregarded in favour of egocentric echo chambers?

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While world leaders have been claiming at the 2026 Munich Security Conference that the old world order ‘no longer exists’, Miss Jill Scott has come out of her 11-year hiatus with a new album to hail undoubtedly the dawn of a new day!

Scholars and popular figures such as Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, and Deepak Chopra have been formative in my epistemology of thinking, as well as in how I make art. To see them named in the infamous Epstein files has shown me that misogyny must be toppled down before any attempt at true academic and artistic integrity. Otherwise, how can we build a prosperous and sovereign world, if women are continuously mistreated by the men in power? 

How the groundbreaking queer cinema and television being made right now are helping us understand love, joy, and the pursuit of happiness in an ever-changing world. 

A recent study done in Germany shows that 1 in 4 skilled migrants want to leave Germany permanently. Why am I part of this statistic? Read and find out.

Pluto, the planet connected in mythology to intensity, destruction, transformation and rebirth, has entered the astrological sign of Aquarius, where it will be for the next two decades. What are the predictions for this historic cosmic event, that only happens once every two centuries?