Category Archives: Balkan Yogurt

Instant Karma, Croatian style

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Rade Končar, antifascist hero of Croatia. Not shown: the Nazi he punched 76 years after they executed him. Oh my. The Schadenfreude is delicious when dissolved in a cup of instant karma, no? A 65-year-old man who repeatedly shoved a … Continue reading →

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Take a hard seat, Tanya.

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Sabina Becker

If you don’t think the above is an accurate summation of Tanya Granic Allen — the far-right embarrassment recently turfed from the Ontario PC party for being too obviously fascist — then you really need to read her white whine … Continue reading →

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Obama warned Facebook — wait, WHAT?

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Why, oh WHY, was this not making the headlines back when it really mattered? Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company’s social network played a key role in … Continue reading →

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The German refugee situation: Everything old is new again, including the prejudice

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Sabina Becker

German refugees being driven out of Silesia, sometime in the 1940s. Scenes like this one have special significance for me, because my own mother and her family were among those refugees and probably looked much the same, pushing their few … Continue reading →

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Let’s all bomb Belgium!

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Sabina Becker

No, seriously. Let’s all bomb Belgium, because that’s where the terrorists who struck Paris got their orders from. François Hollande called the attacks “an act of war”. Therefore, it stands to reason that one must declare war on the source … Continue reading →

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Call it love, or call it reason

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Sabina Becker

It’s Remembrance Day again, and I’m not out there in the rain with the others, saluting at the cenotaph. I’m not out there listening to the Last Post, the moment of silence, and then the forlorn reveille. I’m not even … Continue reading →

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Chris Alexander, refugee killer

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Chris Alexander killed little Alan Kurdi. Alan is the three-year-old Syrian boy whose drowned body, washed up on a Turkish beach, has been plastered all over the media, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. His mother, Reham, and older brother Galib, … Continue reading →

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“Behind closed doors”: How domestic violence led to a rampage in Austria

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Another day, another rampage, another vigil. This time, it’s in the downtown pedestrian zone of Graz, where a young man drove at full speed into a crowd…on purpose. What lurks behind such “senseless” violence? EMMA investigated, and found the following: … Continue reading →

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German psychologists and the scientific case against prostitution

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Sabina Becker

An 18-year-old Bosnian Muslim war survivor recovering after abortion of a rape-induced pregnancy, September 1992. Photo: Nina Berman, Sipa Press. Even as German politicians are coming under heavy pressure from the local pimp lobby to do away with all laws … Continue reading →

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It was 100 years ago today…

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Canada’s part in World War I began at the same time as Britain’s: on August 4, 1914, when the latter declared war on Germany after what was considered an “insufficient” response by Germany to a British order not to violate … Continue reading →