NDR Kultur, 01.03.2022 11:52 a.m.: Due to a lack of distancing from Putin, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev loses his position as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Gergiev's performances at the Elbphilharmonie have also been cancelled.

In Ottawa, the capital of Canada, the country's truck drivers peacefully demonstrate against the vaccination passport and the head of state flees in fear for his life to an unknown location...

At the al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian youth collected sponge bullets, tear gas canisters and stun grenades fired at them by Israeli forces and built a model of the Dome of the Rock.

"The made-for-media theatrics on Capitol Hill were not an attempted "coup". Coups are what the CIA stages all over the world. Neither was "democracy" in peril. What democracy? And Trump is no more than a caricature of a system of which Biden, Obama, Bush etc are the embodiment." (John Pilger)

"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery-isolation. […]