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Sturm, Peter
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Africa must learn
The conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung opposes intervention in Zimbabwe: "One day when Mugabe is no longer president and Zimbabwe is completely in ruins, people will once more come knocking on the West's door. The alleged exploiters from Europe and North America are always good enough to pick up the pieces. If it were possible even then to be sure that other countries would learn from Zimbabwe's dire fate, things would be not quite so depressing. But that is hardly to be expected. Instead, all too many people in all too many African countries will probably go on chumming up to false friends. Europe and American cannot prevent that, nor should they try. Certainly, they themselves contributed to their loss of prestige in the so-called Third World. But people in the South must learn for themselves that not all the evils of this world have their origin in colonialism."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Security Policy / Crises / War, » Africa, » Europe, » U.S.
European foreign stations in Arabic
"The Arab-speaking world is like a paradise for news channels," notes Peter Sturm in view of the inauguration of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle's Arabic programme. "The major foreign stations are currently engaged in a race to win the allegiance of Arab audiences. On the very same day Deutsche Welle begins its programme for the Arab-speaking world, France 24 will do the same, although this is supposed to be just a coincidence. The Americans have already been on the market for a few years with their channel 'Al Hurra', and according to Deutsche Welle they've been more successful than Arab governments will care to admit. This autumn their greatest rival, the BBC, is expected to make its grand market entrance... And although they all stress they don't want to preach or convert, the subliminal message is that the Arab states can only benefit when a foreign station innocently explains how politics works in Europe. Viruses quickly develop a life of their own, and this also goes for the virus of democracy."
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