Tag: Invisible Walls

NOVANEWS Donald Trump would build a wall to squelch immigration but Berlin is a city that knows the horror of what such a barrier's really like by: Michael Winship East German border guards look through a hole in the Berlin wall after demonstrators pulled down one segment of the wall at Brandenburg gate on November 11th, 1989.(Photo: AP/Lionel Cironneau) Visiting Berlin for two weeks, and in the evening I go to bed in a small hotel room, tuning the radio to a German-language station. I understand barely a word but it features a strangely compelling, eclectic mix of Bach, Brubeck and Tim Buckley, unfortunately sometimes interrupted by electronic dance music, the dreaded EDM. The news plays on the hour and from the torrent of words I cannot comprehend I still can ...