German jihadist says ISIS ‘will conquer Europe’
A German Muslim convert fighting with Isis has warned his compatriots that Germans should “brace themselves” for terrorist attacks.
View Article‘We are fed up!’: Thousands march against TTIP & GMOs in Berlin
A broad alliance of farmers, ethical consumers, and anti-capitalist activists staged a march through Berlin that numbered up to 50,000, to denounce the proposed TTIP treaty between the US and EU, and...
View Article‘Francogeddon’ sends German cities’ debts soaring
Following the shock move last week to unpeg the Swiss Franc (CHF) from the Euro, estimates suggest that debt in German municipalities has gone up by €2 billion, it was reported on Monday.
View ArticlePressure mounts to allow ‘Stolpersteine’ in Munich
After banning them in 2004, Munich is poised to allow the small brass Holocaust memorial plaques known as 'Stolpersteine' to be placed on the streets, despite a Jewish community leader's continued...
View ArticleOpen letter to the German readers: That which you were never told about Greece
Alexis Tsipras' "open letter" to German citizens published on Jan.13 in Handelsblatt, a leading German language business newspaper.
View ArticleGerman spy agency collects huge metadata per day, relays it to US agencies.
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, gathers 220 million pieces of metadata from foreign phone calls and text messages per day, relaying them to top US spy agencies the NSA and the CIA.
View ArticleMerkel Apparently Fears Devastating Defeat of the Ukrainian Army
Angela Merkel seems to anticipate the economic and military collapse of Ukraine. Berlin’s civil service is naturally working hard on a peace plan. To avert fiasco, Merkel must now discuss a truce with...
View ArticleThat Didn’t Take Long: The First Lie about Moscow Meeting
John Kerry, as usual, is already lying through his teeth about their trip to the Kremlin.
View ArticleMeeting in Moscow fails to produce agreement as US plots escalation in Ukraine
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande met for approximately five hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday in an attempt to hash out what has been...
View ArticleMoscow demands copies of ‘Russian soldiers IDs’ shown in Munich
The Russian Foreign Ministry says Kiev is reluctant to hand over copies of what it claims to be documents, proving Russian military presence in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko showed the...
View ArticleUS presses for military action against Russia
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande prepare another round of talks with Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday on the war crisis in Eastern Europe, the United States is...
View ArticleMunich Security Conference – Hot Issues and Vibrant Debates as Ukraine Steals...
From February 6 to 8, 2015, Munich was again in the focus of international politics with over 400 renowned decision-makers in international politics, including about twenty heads of state and...
View ArticleFighting in Ukraine intensifies ahead of Minsk talks
Fighting between Ukrainian armed forces and pro-Russian separatists escalated on Monday and Tuesday, ahead of cease fire talks being held today in Belarus. Each side has pushed to make strategic...
View ArticleGerman Sociologists on Crimea’s Choice
A few days ago an interesting study, “The Socio-Political Sentiments in Crimea,” was released by the Ukrainian branch of GFK, the well-known German social research organization, as part of the Free...
View ArticleMoscow’s Problem: Dealing with Imbeciles and Vassals
Russia is in a dilemma. How can it work through a peaceful settlement over the Ukraine conflict – and avoid a wider, more terrible war – when it is having to communicate with imbeciles and vassals? We...
View ArticleMinsk 2 – The useless agreement which everybody wanted
The junta as broken every single agreement it committed to. Every single one. And there is absolutely no reasons at all to believe that this time around this will change.
View ArticleThe Minsk Peace Deal: Farce Or Sellout?
As Washington is not a partner to the Minsk peace deal, how can there be peace when Washington has made policy decisions to escalate the conflict and to use the conflict as a proxy war between the US...
View ArticleWashington Wastes No Time to Sabotage Minsk
With their noses out of joint and egos bruised, the United States and its European lieutenants immediately got to work to undermine the Minsk ceasefire deal by twisting the terms of the accord and...
View ArticleWestern “mediators” are biased toward Kiev putschists
Gone are the days when certain Western nations possessed bona fide credentials as impartial mediators of conflicts. Today, even the Swiss, long regarded as neutral, are anything but, judging from their...
View ArticleMerkel Peace Laureate Another Bad Joke
Germans are known for their exceedingly dry humour. So much so that one joke has it that the Bundestag is voting to make laughing lessons a compulsory part of the curriculum in all German schools. But,...
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