Germany
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Looking backward autobiographically
It’s reached that time again, a time to look forward but also, for an old geezer like me to look backward. Being 96 for a while yet (until March), I can permit myself some retrospection (while noting that those two digits, if only reversed and embodied, might well have been greatly preferable. Wot-the-hell, while I… Continue reading
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Russophobia Running Riot
Though the news that Clown Prince Zelensky, Ukraine’s contemptible puppet President, is renting one of his Italian villas out to Russians for €50,000 per calendar month would lead to protests if his junta had not banned all such protests on pain of death, this further evidence of his corruption flies in the face of the rampant Russophobia… Continue reading
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Behind the Tin Curtain: BRICS+ vs NATO/G7
The west is nostalgically caught up with outdated ‘containment’ policies, this time against Global South integration. Unfortunately for them, the rest of the world is moving on, together. Continue reading
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Moscow confronts ‘good cop, bad cop’
Americans use the slang “lockstep” recalling a characteristic trait of their prisons of the 19th century when inmates had to shuffle step due to the chain that linked their legs. But the US President Joe Biden used that powerful evocative metaphor to convey on Monday that his country and Germany are aligned on fighting any… Continue reading
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Rosa Luxembourg – A Documentary
16 January 2019 — Youtube Documentary written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta. Continue reading
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It’s a Gas… Germany Outraged by US Colonial Arrogance By Finian Cunningham
This time the outspoken US ambassador in Berlin may have gone too far to be ignored. The German government has denounced as a “provocation” letters that the American envoy sent to companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 project warning them of possible US sanctions. Continue reading
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How the Western Media Deciphers the Neo-Nazi Code By Michel Chossudovsky
Moscow is accused of using the words Nazi and Fascist to describe a pro-Western government in Kiev, which is indelibly committed to the tenets of “real democracy”. In Odessa, on May 2nd, Neo-Nazi thugs set fire to the city’s Trade Union building leading to countless deaths of innocent civilians who were burnt alive within the… Continue reading
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Police State UK: Britain’s GCHQ shepherding mass surveillance operations throughout Europe
British intelligence agency GCHQ has helped counterpart entities in France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden develop methods of mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic in the last five years, a new report reveals. Continue reading
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Joe Henderson Trio: ‘Ask Me Now’
This is a performance of Thelonious Monk’s “Ask Me Now,” off of the album “Solo Monk.” Stuttgart, Germany, 1993. Joe Henderson, a tenor saxophonist, leads the trio, in the rendition. Dave Holland is joining him on bass and drummer Al Foster. Continue reading
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Syria: HUMANITARIAN MURDER: Killing in the Name of Peace By David Swanson
This past Sunday night on “60 Minutes” John Miller of CBS News said, “I’ve spoken with intelligence analysts who have said an uncomfortable thing that has a ring of truth, which is: the longer this war in Syria goes on, in some sense the better off we are.” Continue reading
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The Art of Collaborating with the Nazi’s: Hollywood & America Reek of Nazi Influence
Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013) is a disturbing, unsettling and must-read. That Hollywood’s studio heavyweights like Jack Warner and Carl Laemmle would cut scenes and dialog offensive to the ideology of National Socialism is a tough fact to digest. But aggressive capitalists, whether operating… Continue reading
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The International Justice System and the Hunt for Africans By Alexander MEZYAEV
The summer of 2013 was a hot one for Nigeria, and not just in terms of the weather. On the one hand, the country’s populace and government have been subjected to new and increasingly violent attacks from terrorist groups, first and foremost from Boko Haram. On the other hand, Nigeria is experiencing massive pressure from… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 13 August 2013: Israel Lobby Threatens Freedom of Speech in Germany
13 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterRelease Of 26 Detainees InitiatedIMEMC – Israeli sources have reported that Israel started the release of 26 Palestinian political prisoners as part of the efforts to resume direct peace talks with the Palestinians. The release started after the Israeli High Court rejected appeals filed against the release. Continue reading
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German publisher advocates “less democracy
A recently published book, by one of the most influential German newspaper publishers, is pleading for a transition toward “less democracy.” The “voice of the people” and the “emancipatory Zeitgeist, putting everything into question,” has a too “paralyzing influence” on current governance, writes the publishing house in its blurb for the book. The author therefore… Continue reading
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FRINFORMSUM 8/9/2013: NSA Revelations Might Play a Part in Upcoming German Elections, NSC Records Still Not Subject to the FOIA, and More By Lauren Harper
International fallout from Edward Snowden’s revelations of NSA surveillance methods continues this week, and might play a role in Germany’s upcoming elections. The German newspaper Der Spiegel reports that the NSA leaks demonstrate that German intelligence “sends massive amounts of intercepted data to the NSA,” and that “center-left Social Democrats have made the Snowden revelations… Continue reading
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US-EU Spy Scandal Challenges Transatlantic Trade Talks By Igor ALEXEEV
Snowden’s revelations have put a deep freeze on US-EU relations. Diplomats in Europe are searching for (and finding) bugs in their embassies. Influential politicians speak about this unprecedented betrayal of the transatlantic partnership. The popular German magazine SPIEGEL has published its bitter conclusion: «Berlin is a third-class ally». Can this super-scandal doom the trade talks… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 