We've been threatening it for a while, and now it's here! The all-dancing, all-singing indieRepublik NFT Store! Jumping on the bandwagon, we've set up an NFT store to help independent artists and musicians to sell their music and art as NFTs - since we see the NFT...
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“NWA’s Fuck the Police changed my life” – interview with robert Grant
We're gearing up for next Thursday 5th May when we'll be celebrating at Marie Antoinette with one spoken word poet and five music acts. Win guest list passes and indieVIP NFTs here! Robert Grant, UK-born and Berlin-based, is a larger-than-life, internationally...
Urban farming = vertical farming
With the increasing losses in agriculture globally such as land degradation due to erosion (by wind or water), urbanisation, loss of crop produce due to bad weather or their perishable nature and loss of livestock because of disease and epidemics, it has become...
Russian Warship Go Fuck Yourself
We find ourselves thrust back into the 20th - or even the 19th - Century. Maybe it's just a European perspective, but countries invading other countries for no reason other than because they just fucking feel like it feels like an incredibly outdated concept. That's...
how to nft your music – and why
NFT has become the buzzword of the last few months. There are those of you who will have checked it out, read up on it, perhaps tried it out; there are those of you who will be shooting down the NFT highway, music up loud and watching people eat your dust; there will...
What can the West do to help Ukraine? It can start by countering Putin’s information strategy
William Partlett, The University of Melbourne With an all-out war on Ukraine underway, a key question has emerged: what can the West do to help Ukraine? Sanctions and limited military aid will help. Another key strategy, however, is crucial: to counter Russian...
the breakdown: what’s up in german politics – for expats
This is the first post from our brand new series: all about Germany, especially for expat / English speakers who may find it a little tricky following the ins and outs of what's going on in this, our chosen country of residence (or maybe you're 'passing through' - we...
Say hallo to the indieBerlin / indieRepublik Online Store!
indieBerlin has been running since 2008, its big sister indieRepublik since 2018. As well as being a blog / oniine magazine, we've also run an events agency, put out real-world magazines, acted as a record label, book publisher, PR agency, marketing agency,...
What coronavirus looks like at the Bosnian-Croatian frontier for Europe’s unwanted migrants
Benedetta Zocchi, Queen Mary University of London Although different countries around the world have taken largely similar approaches to facing the coronavirus pandemic by aiming to reduce human contact, it has become clear that their decisions have different...
How Covid-19 has led to a wave of innovation in India
India: how coronavirus sparked a wave of innovation Sreevas Sahasranamam, University of Strathclyde Entrepreneurs and innovators across India have responded quickly to the challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. A host of new innovations, some emerging from...
In other news: Arms deals, Yemen and locusts – plague or bumper harvest?
Did you notice how it seems like there’s - pretty much - only one newsworthy thing happening in the world, and that’s corona? If something newsworthy happens in a forest and no one writes about it, does it happen at all? I mean, where did all the other stuff go? I...
Britons will be glad to know that you can beat Corona with tea
The phrase "All I know is that I know nothing" has probably never been more true than right now, with the world hit by this virus that is sweeping through population after population and has brought the entire world to a standstill. And because it's so new, of course,...
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