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Untergrund-Blättle

Online-Magazin für kritischen Journalismus aus dem Grossraum Zürich. Untergrund-Blättle publizieren analytische und kontroverse Texte zu den Themenschwerpunkten Politik, Gesellschaft, Ökonomie und Ökologie. Ein ganz besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei auch dem kulturellen Teil. Der inhaltlich und redaktionelle Anspruch liegt unter anderem darin, Synergien innerhalb von linken Strömungen herzustellen.

Erica Chenoweth: Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. Stay Unpredictable! – Nonviolent Resistance Is More Successful.

Life has likely not been easy for American scholar Erica Chenoweth since Trump’s rise to power: she is Harvard University’s first openly non-binary professor. Moreover, she conducts research on a topic that does not sit well with the political Right:…

Blessing or curse? The saying about the “blessing of being born late” needs to be turned on its head.

The Myth of Innocence: Why Late Birth Was No Grace at All One of the dumbest sayings of the postwar era is the phrase “the grace of late birth,” coined by former Chancellor Helmut Kohl. It suggests that because one…

How Swedish authorities invented the rape charge against Julian Assange

Thanks to the investigative work and perseverance of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, the truth is gradually being revealed. One of the most successful false news stories of the last decade is the story of two…