Dear “East and West” readers, the special Christmas issue of our little newspaper (in English) is now available for free download here.

In this issue you will find:

• The top 10 fake news of 2018 by mainstream media

Mainstream would like people to believe that they have a monopoly on the truth. But they are very good at fake news too

• Trump’s troop withdrawal and the liberal realpolitik

The strange outrage of the liberal press at Trump wanting to end the illegal intervention in the Syrian civil war

• What happened to the Bitcoin mania?

One year ago, everyone was so excited about Bitcoin. What happend to that? Is the Bitcoin bubble already over? We talk to cryptocurrency trader Chandler Smith