Germany

July 7, 2013

Snowden: NSA is ‘in bed with the Germans’

US fugitive Edward Snowden has accused Germany and the US of partnering in spy intelligence operations, revealing that cooperation between the countries is closer than German indignation would indicate, Der Spiegel magazine reported. Continue reading

Germany, National Security State, USA

Der Spiegel, EU, Germany, Internet, NSA, privacy, RT, snowden, spying, surveillance
July 4, 2013

Video: Portugal's Architect of Austerity Resigns After Nationwide Protests

President Silva’s austerity policies made Portugal a darling of the troika, but highly unpopular at home (inc. transcript) Continue reading

Portugal, Videos

austerity, Eurozone, Germany, growth, LAPAVITSAS, Portugal, taxes, unemployment, Video
July 4, 2013

Video: Portugal’s Architect of Austerity Resigns After Nationwide Protests

President Silva’s austerity policies made Portugal a darling of the troika, but highly unpopular at home (inc. transcript) Continue reading

Portugal, Videos

austerity, Eurozone, Germany, growth, LAPAVITSAS, Portugal, taxes, unemployment, Video
July 1, 2013

New Snowden leak: US bugged dozens of foreign embassies

The US has been spying on dozens of foreign embassies and missions belonging to its rivals and allies in America to keep tabs on disagreements between them, new documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Booz Allen, data mining, database state, EU, Germany, intelligence, James Clapper, Narus, NSA, prism, privacy, RT, snowden, spying, surveillance, UN, Verint, WikiLeaks
June 30, 2013

Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America

At least six European Union countries in addition to Britain have been colluding with the US over the mass harvesting of personal communications data, according to a former contractor to America’s National Security Agency, who said the public should not be “kept in the dark”. Continue reading

Europe, National Security State, USA

EU, France, Germany, intelligence, NSA, parliament, security, snowden, surveillance, Wayne Madsen
June 30, 2013

US taps half-billion German phone and internet activities a month – report

NSA snooped through 20-60 million German phone connections and 10 million internet data sets a day, Der Spiegel claims. Continue reading

Europe, National Security State, USA

class, Der Spiegel, EU, Germany, NSA, RT, snowden, spying, surveillance
June 29, 2013

New at Strategic Culture Foundation 23-29 June 2013

29 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The U.S. Sees the World through a PRISM 29.06.2013 | 00:00 | Boris KAZANTSEV The scandal which broke on June 7 around articles published in the American newspaper The Washington Post and the British paper The Guardian could very well be more damaging to the United States than the Continue reading

Strategic Culture Foundation

culture, EU, Germany, Lebanon, NSA, Obama, Serbia, spying
June 19, 2013

How Today’s NSA Is Much, Much Worse Than Stasi Or Orwell’s “1984”

There are still people warning us of sleepwalking into a Stasi or “1984” society. They missed the boat by a long shot: we are already far, far past the point of Stasi or “1984”. The apparatus that governments have built to trace, track, and record citizens is the stuff of nightmares. Continue reading

National Security State

Australia, data mining, database state, George Orwell, Germany, Government, James Bamford, James Clapper, monopoly, Narus, NSA, prism, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint
June 14, 2013

Stalin's personal archives available

Rosarchiv (Russian Archives) announced the launch of a new website called Documents of the Soviet Era, where one may find materials from Stalin’s personal foundation. It took experts five years to digitize them. Continue reading

Russia

anniversary, Central Committee, Communist Party, Germany, history, radical, Soviet Union, stalin, USSR
June 13, 2013

GMO and Monsanto: Glyphosate Weed Killer Found in Human Urine across Europe

People in 18 countries across Europe have been found to have traces of Monsanto’s weed killer glyphosate in their urine, show the results of tests commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe and released today Continue reading

Capitalism, Environment, Europe

environment, EU, farmers, Germany, glyphosate, GM, GMO, Monsanto, Switzerland
June 12, 2013

Luxembourg trial into 1980s terror bombings reveals involvement of German police, intelligence agents By Dietmar Henning

A trial is taking place in Luxembourg dealing with a series of terror bombings committed in the 1980s. Although the bombings implicate NATO troops and its top secret Stay Behind operation in terrorist activities, the trial has been largely ignored by the German and international media. Continue reading

Europe, National Security State

agents provocateurs, Germany, gladio, intelligence, Italy, NATO, police, security, terrorist, WSWS
June 4, 2013

“The Monsanto Protection Plan”: Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe By F. William Engdahl

Before the world opens the champagne to celebrate the death of GMO and its paired herbicides such as Roundup, it is worthwhile to look more closely at what was officially said and what not. Continue reading

Capitalism, Environment

EU, Germany, GLOBAL, GM, GMO, Monsanto, PR, Roundup, RT, William Engdahl
June 1, 2013

Monsanto set to halt GMO push in Europe

Monsanto plans to halt lobbying for its genetically modified plant varieties in Europe due to low demand from local farmers, a representative from the US agricultural giant told a German daily. Continue reading

Environment

EU, farmers, Germany, GM, GMO, lobbying, maize, market, Monsanto, RT
May 20, 2013

Speaking with Karl Marx

In a little villa at Haverstock Hill, the northwest portion of London, lives Karl Marx, the cornerstone of modern socialism. He was exiled from his native country–Germany–in 1844, for propagating revolutionary theories. In 1848, he returned, but in a few months was again exiled. He then took up his abode in Paris, but his political… Continue reading

History, Socialism

Chicago Tribune, Germany, Internet, interview, land, London, Marx, marxism, newspapers, socialism, unions
May 14, 2013

Sam Rivers Live

Filmed in Germany on November 14, 1979 with Sam Rivers tenor sax, flute, piano, soprano sax and voice, Dave Holland bass cello, and Thurman Barker drums. Rivers in full flight with an 8-minute plus, solo. Continue reading

Music Videos, Videos

Germany, Holland
May 4, 2013

New at SCF 29 April – 4 May 2013: Terrorism / Germany / Latin America / EU / CIA / Boston Bombing

4 May 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation A Finnish Haven for Terrorists 03.05.2013 | 08:34 | Vladislav GULEVICH The extremist Internet site «Kavkaz-Center», which is once again being talked about in connection with the terrorist attacks in Boston, used to operate out of Sweden and at one time was located in Estonia and Lithuania, but has Continue reading

Strategic Culture Foundation

Bombing, CIA, culture, EU, Germany, SCF, terrorist
April 19, 2013

ICH 18 April 2013: Before the Collapse, A Call to Action

18 April 2013 — Information Clearing House New Report Is Critical Of US Sanctions On Iran: Urges White House to Rethink Policy By DAVID E. SANGER A panel of former senior American officials, issued a surprisingly critical assessment of American diplomacy toward Iran on Wednesday, urging President Obama to reconsider the likelihood that harsh sanctions will Continue reading

Information Clearing House

Afghanistan, Germany, ICH, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Video
April 12, 2013

NSA: The Thatcher-Gorbachev Conversations

Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who passed away this week, built a surprising mutual-admiration relationship with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s — including behind-the-scenes agreement against the reunification of Germany, and profound disagreement about nuclear abolition — according to translated Soviet records of key meetings between the two leaders, posted… Continue reading

National Security Archive

Electronic Briefing Book, facebook, George Washington, Germany, Mikhail Gorbachev, NATIONAL, NSA, Svetlana Savranskaya, Thatcher, Tom Blanton, wordpress
April 10, 2013

Proponents of ‘first strike’ nuclear war against Iran rob billions from their own citizens By Michel Chossudovsky

The Pentagon and NATO’s multibillion-dollar war budgets are financed by massive economic austerity measures, impoverishing people in the US and NATO member-states in order to build advanced nuclear weaponry justified by the ‘Iran threat.’ Continue reading

Iran, USA, War

Belgium, Chossudovsky, Europe, first strike, Germany, Iran, Italy, NATO, Netherlands, NPT, Turkey
April 6, 2013

The Telekommunist Manifesto By Dmytri Kleiner

I coined the term ‘Venture Communism’ in 2001 to promote the ideal of workers’ self-organization of production as a way of addressing class conflict. Telekommunisten is a collective based in Berlin, Germany, where I have lived since 2003. Continue reading

Socialism

class, Communism, Germany, Socialist Project

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