Algeria

The Eurabian Sea.

January 4, 2010

Whilst you were sleeping, Herman Sörgel’s nightmare vision of artificially solving all the major problems of European civilization by constructing an embankment at the Gibraltar Strait to  create a new continent, ‘Atlantropa‘, consisting of Europe and Africa, came a significant step closer. Sörgel was run down by an unknown car in 1952, but his Atlantropa [...]

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Divining Loyalties

December 14, 2009

When Algeria qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 1986 in their match against Egypt, the violence that followed was not confined to Khartoum. Several thousand miles away, in the back streets of Marseilles and Paris, thousands of Algerians poured onto the streets chanting ‘Vive l’Algérie’. Throwing bottles, stones, and fireworks at [...]

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