Every year in Northern Ireland, both the Irish Republicans and the British Unionists build huge bonfires to celebrate their culture. The bonfires are built out of scrap wood and stolen pallets. They often reach up to 30 feet in height....
Hundreds of civilians in military outfits conceal themselves camouflaged within the forests of Bulgaria to prevent illegal immigrants crossing over from Turkey; they are the borderline guardians. In 2013 it was the building of barbed wire and cement barriers; then came the frontier officers and Frontex agents. Now in addition to these there are the volunteers of the Bulgarian Veterans Military Union Vasil Levski and of the Shipka Bulgarian National Movement. They move stealthily, they are well trained, they communicate using walkie talkies and bird whistles in the thick mountain vegetation of Strandja, an area of land suspended between East and West, facing the Black Sea. Their commander is Vladimir Ruscev, a retired former officer of the Bulgarian army. His movement counts 800 volunteers and thousands of supporters. For four years they have been financing themselves and in groups of 30-40 take it in turns to patrol a portion of the 230 km border with Turkey.
North Korea’s missile program has undergone a sharp boost under its present leader Kim Jong-un. If we analyze the number of total launches carried out – including those that failed – since Kim came to power in 2011, we find...
To write about the history of Iran’s nuclear program means recounting the story of a Nation which for over 70 years has witnessed a sequence of dramatic events including coup d’etats, revolutions, wars and repression. Four years after the coup...
”Shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather, whiplash girl child in the dark. Comes in bells, your servant, don’t forsake him strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart…” the song is Venus in Furs and its words are recited, like in...
They are called “stalkers” and they are the inhabitants of the dead city. April 26th 1986: reactor number 4 of the Lenin nuclear power plant exploded in Chernobyl. The radioactive nightmare overwhelmed Europe and made the world tremor. A 2,600-squared-kilometer...
From Doel (Belgium) Why is Aachen, located in the west of Germany, distributing iodine pills to the whole region free of charge? Since September the authorities of the German city have started a two-months-long prevention program in order to contain...
From Verdun (France) “It happens everyday”. Michel Thouvenin crosses his arms and looks to the barley field on his left. “When I pass with the tractor, the plowshare continuously unearths bombs from World War I: grenades, chemical bombs, small and...
From Doel (Belgium) Sasha puts his head down on the sofa, kicking up a little cloud of dust as he does so. Then he moves his tail against the pillows to say hi to Cécile, his owner and life companion....
Once there was life, today the social dessert in abandoned: this is Doel, a small town not far from Anversa, symbol of a Belgium contaminated from where pollution from the ghosts of a nuclear past risk the disappearance of an...
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