The exhibition spotlights a contradictory modern art movement that, though it celebrated technological advances, was rooted in subjectivism and irrationality.
Tsai admires Havel precisely because they both portrayed genocidal forces with which they aligned as defenders of democracy and peace. They similarly opined that Russia and China had no reason for concern over their discourse of “peace” while preparing for further escalations and conflicts.
While storm Boris, which brought the enormous rainfall, was caused by the rather unusual collision of polar air and warm, humid air from the unusually hot Mediterranean, the deeper causes lie in the dramatic acceleration of climate change.
For filmmaking to portray the barbarism of fascism in all its aspects therefore retains its burning relevance and necessity.
Macron doubled down on his unpopular call for military escalation against Russia, risking nuclear war and gambling that the Kremlin may be intimidated and back down.
A gunman killed 14 people on December 21 at the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague and injured 25 others, some seriously. According to police, the perpetrator then took his own life.
No doubt Kundera bore responsibility for his own art, his own development and his own mistakes. However, the greater, deeper blame for his unhappy trajectory and fate lies above all with Stalinism.
When the unions now announce strikes, they do so in order to maintain control over the workers in this highly tense situation.
At the end of January, former NATO general Petr Pavel won a run-off election for the office of Czech President. Pavel is considered to be a zealous advocate of war against Russia.
70,000 people demonstrated in the Czech capital of Prague on 3 September against rising energy prices and the NATO war in Ukraine, demanding the government resign.
After a partial lockdown had already been imposed in Austria, stricter measures and contact restrictions were also imposed in Slovakia and the Czech Republic last week.
A massive increase in coronavirus numbers is overshadowing the political power struggles in the Czech Republic.
The death of Stanislav Tomáš recalls the terrible police murder of George Floyd one year ago in the US.
Given the dramatic spread of the coronavirus, the Czech government has extended the state of emergency that has been in effect since October and was originally set to end on Sunday.
The coronavirus pandemic is assuming increasingly dramatic forms in the Czech Republic.
The numbers of new COVID-19 infections in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary are breaking previous records.
Three decades after the restoration of capitalism and endless austerity, the health care system in Poland and the Czech Republic, as across all of Europe, is in a devastating condition.
On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the so-called Velvet Revolution, hundreds of thousands demonstrated on Saturday against the corrupt right-wing government led by Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Saturday.
At the biggest demonstration in the Czech Republic since the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989, participants demanded the resignation of billionaire Prime Minister Andrei Babiš, founder of the right-wing neo-liberal party ANO.
Under the guise of popular protests in the Czech Republic, reactionary elements are working to advance a policy to strengthen the government along with the ruling class.
