29 March 2020 — Youtube
An open letter to the Chancellor of Germany
Category: Germany
Crypto AG leaks: German and American spy agencies snooped on 120 countries
13 March 2020 — WSWS
By Gregor Link
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) together with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had monitored the encrypted government communications of almost half the countries on earth for decades.
Extensive chemical safety fraud uncovered at German testing laboratory
16 February 2020 — GM Watch
“If the results did not meet expectations, I was asked to improve them” – testing lab employee
Below is a good article on the chemical safety testing fraud story that we reported on a few days ago.
The original article at Independent Science News features a horrific photo of a monkey subject in one of LPT Hamburg’s experiments.
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Dresden Terror Bombing, Like Hiroshima, a Maniacal Warning to Moscow
17 February 2020 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Finian Cunningham
This weekend 75 years ago, the German city of Dresden was razed to the ground by British and American aerial bombardment. At least 25,000 mainly civilians were destroyed in raid after raid by over 1,200 heavy bombers, indiscriminately dropping high explosives and incendiaries. It took seven years just to clear the rubble.
A fascist coup
6 February 2020 — MROnline
Berlin Bulletin No. 173, February 7, 2020
Posted Feb 06, 2020 by Victor Grossman
While millions this week stared at Iowa and Washington with worried amazement, confusion or anger, Germany, too, had its own messy confusion—which turned into a frightening alarm signal!
For the very first time, a state government—in Thuringia—was able to achieve rule with the support of the far, far right Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party whose leaders are in a continuous flirt with Nazi phrases, Nazi goals and Nazi methods. Every other party has sworn up and down never ever to have anything to do with AfD! Although there were suspiciously contrary murmurs in some circles of the Christian Democrats (CDU, Merkel’s party), this pledge had been kept. Until Wednesday, February 5, 2020.
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Germany, US threaten war amid Russia-Turkey summit on Syria By Alex Lantier
23 October 2019 — WSWS
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan flew to the Russian resort of Sochi for a summit yesterday with President Vladimir Putin on the war in Syria, Berlin and Washington issued bloodcurdling threats of all-out war in the Middle East.
Alliance between Berlin & Warsaw? New docs reveal what pushed USSR towards Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
13 September 2019 — RT
Signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. © Global Look Press
Recently released papers shed new light on the infamous non-aggression pact between the USSR and the Nazis. It was allegedly the West’s enmity and a potential alliance between Poland and Germany that forced Moscow’s hand.
Because ‘A World Without Insects Is Not Worth Living In,’ Germany Announces Plan to Ban Glyphosate
4 September 2019 — Common Dreams
“What we need is more humming and buzzing.”
by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Protesters hold balloons on January 20, 2018 in Berlin during a demonstration under the slogan “We are fed up” against agricultural politics and the use of glyphosate, dumping exports and for sustainable agriculture. (Photo: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images)
The German government announced Wednesday it had agreed on a plan to phase out the use of glyphosate—the key chemical in the weedkiller Roundup—with a total ban set to begin by the end of 2023.
Warnings ancient and modern by Victor Grossman
14 August 2019 — MROnline
Sorry, readers, this update is again longer than planned, and not at all jolly. I hope the next Berlin Bulletin will be pleasanter. And again I want to mention that my book A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee with descriptions, reflections, conclusions, plus many anecdotes and some jokes, is now available.
Germany threatens journalist with prison for speaking about Palestine By Riri Hylton
1 July 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
Khaled Barakat (No One Is Illegal Vancouver)
German authorities barred Palestinian-Canadian journalist Khaled Barakat from speaking at a Palestine solidarity event in Berlin, claiming his “anti-Semitic” speeches posed a threat to public order and could undermine relations between the country and Israel.
Lübcke’s murderer was part of vast underground German neo-Nazi terrorist network By Johannes Stern
28 June 2019 — WSWS
Stephen Ernst, the assassin of CDU politician Walter Lübcke, acted as part of a neo-Nazi network with close ties to the right-wing terrorist National Socialist Underground. Despite efforts in the aftermath of the assassination to promote a lone gunmen explanation, information that links Ernst to a vast right-wing terrorist network is emerging.
The murder of German politician Walter Lübcke: a warning By Peter Schwarz
19 June 2019 — WSWS
The death of Walter Lübcke, the local German politician who was targeted by the extreme right after speaking out in defense of refugees, has exposed the dirty secret of German politics: the systematic promotion of right-wing extremist forces by the state and the ruling elite.
