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  • Defeating Neo-Nazism and Germany’s AfD

    Germany’s neo-Nazi party, the AfD, fabricates and benefits from conjuring up fear. By using fear as a vehicle for far-right propaganda, the AfD doubled its vote share in the 2025 federal election compared to the previous one. Continue reading

  • Alice Weidel: Oligarch Tool

    From the very start Hitler was financially supported and groomed by elements of the German establishment. As that establishment’s hold on the German people was challenged by the Great Depression they decided to move from liberalism (control the population through a hegemonic culture and false consciousness) to fascism. Hitler’s Nazi Party was very fully funded… Continue reading

  • Neoliberalism: the antechamber of fascism!

    The elections in Thuringia and Saxony, seen as a referendum on the Scholz/Baerbock government and a foretaste of what is to come in 2025, confirmed the erosion of the German government, demonstrating that the “Zelensky curse” is alive and well. The closer you are to the former President of Ukraine and current dictator-in-waiting, the more… Continue reading

  • Germany: the end of EU hegemony?

    Today, elections take place in two large provincial states (Lander) in eastern Germany  All the opinion polls show that the Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant, Russia-friendly parties of both the extreme right and the new left are ahead.  The parties of the current Federal coalition of the Social Democrats, Greens and the so-called Free Democrats are being decimated… Continue reading

  • A fascist coup

    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… Continue reading

  • Warnings ancient and modern by Victor Grossman

    The wise priest Laocoön, old legends say, vainly warned against the famous “Trojan horse”. A hostile god sent giant serpents which strangled him and the big wooden present was opened. The soldiers hidden inside opened Troy’s gates so the Greek battalions could rush in, kill the men, enslave the women and destroy the city. Its… Continue reading

  • The murder of German politician Walter Lübcke: a warning By Peter Schwarz

    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. Continue reading