“To forbid the use of military bases on our territory” By davidswanson - Posted on 09 April 2012 U.S. Military Bases in Germany and a Brief History of Protests Against Them By Elsa Rassbach On September 25, 2009, U.S. and NATO commanders emblematically chose Ramstein Air Base in Germany to announce the request [...]
REUTERS A German Bundeswehr soldier in Iman Sahib: The military is closing a base in Afghanistan early in response to deadly protests. The German military said Friday it would move up the planned closure of a base in northern Afghanistan in response to deadly protests over the inadvertent burning of copies of [...]
dapd Semiya Simsek (left) and Gamze Kubasik pay tribute to their murdered fathers at Thursday’s ceremony. On Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid tribute to the families of immigrants murdered by a neo-Nazi terror cell. Newspaper editorialists across the political spectrum agree that the event was a wake-up call for Germans and that it’s time to [...]
The stern faced Merkel loves nothing more than telling the people that if you are not part of the rich you are really an uninvited guest in the capitalist world of astronomical profit and endless growth to keep the elites life in the style they are used to. As a political stooge for the elites [...]
Wulff has come under fire for failing to report a house loan received from the wife of a wealthy friend [Reuters] About 150 people waved their shoes in front of the residence of Christian Wulff, the German president, following the controversy about his non-disclosure of a home loan. The protesters gathered along a sidewalk in [...]
dapd An Anonymous activist at a demonstration in Berlin: The Guy Fawkes mask is the movement’s trademark. The loose-knit hacker collective Anonymous has a new target in its sights: Germany‘s far-right scene. The group has launched a new WikiLeaks-style website publishing confidential data obtained from the far-right NPD party and other extremist groups. It’s all [...]
DPA In an interview conducted as he heads into retirement, German Constitutional Court Judge Udo Di Fabio explains why he believes the high court’s recent decisions on the European Union will not necessarily hinder further European integration and how he believes debates over possible changes to Germany‘s constitution to strip power from [...]
dapd A police photo of Beate Zschäpe, who is suspected of being a member of a neo-Nazi terrorist organization. Beate Zschäpe is allegedly the only surviving member of the Zwickau neo-Nazi terror cell, which is suspected of murdering at least 10 people, but she refuses to talk. In an exclusive interview, SPIEGEL [...]
dapd I’ll wait. Not even a week after the most recent European Union summit aimed at ending the debt crisis, panic is mounting once again. But not in Berlin. Chancellor Merkel calmly told parliament on Wednesday that a solution would take years and German central bank head Jens Weidmann compared demands for ECB intervention to [...]
Germany, admired and envied for its economic success, has become a model for Europe in the debt crisis. The Continent is becoming more German as countries get serious about fiscal discipline. But the nation’s new dominance is also stirring resentment, and old anti-German sentiments are returning. By SPIEGEL Staff A French tricolor flag fluttering on a video screen [...]
Bundestag MPs were among the high-profile targets on a list allegedly drawn up by the National Socialist Underground, a German neo-Nazi group. Photograph: John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images German neo-Nazi terrorists had ‘hitlist’ of 88 political targets Names of two prominent Bundestag members on list found by police investigating activities of National Socialist Underground reddit this Helen [...]
Workers collect pay in laundry baskets in Berlin in 1923. Photograph: Popperfoto If we set aside the dispute over how much Greek debt should be written off, and consequently, how much European banks should be re-capitalised, there is a further stumbling block in Brussels – the German fear of hyperinflation. Stable monetary policies bring political [...]
On August 13, 1961, 50 years ago this month, the Berlin Wall went up in Germany. This barrier divided a country, segregated families and separated friends, and its existence would cast a pall over the country for the next 20 years. As a stark symbol of the Cold War, the wall existed in [...]
A Wall Street sign in front of the New York stock exchange. Recent events have changed the US as an unassailable economic superpower. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters When India joined China in criticising America’s chaotic handling of its hefty debts this weekend, describing the challenges facing the White House as “grave”, it was the clearest indicator yet [...]
Israel releases 2 female detainees Published today (updated) 05/08/2011 12:31 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Two Palestinian woman left Israeli jail after completing their sentences, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Thursday. Kefah Qatesh from Ramallah, and Aysha Ighneimat from Hebron, spoke out about their conditions in prison after being freed. Qatesh, 38, was released from Israel’s Hasharon [...]
International Medical Corps medics treat injured rebel fighters at a field hospital near Misrata’s frontline. The rebel city is struggling to pay for essentials. Photograph: Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters Germany has announced that it will lend €100m to the Libyan opposition to ease a growing humanitarian crisis in rebel-controlled parts of the country. The £88m loan to [...]
German sues govt to remove U.S. nuclear warheads 14 Jul 2011 16:53 Source: Reuters // Reuters BERLIN, July 14 (Reuters) – A peace activist is suing the German government demanding U.S. nuclear weapons be removed from a military base near her home, although their presence has never been confirmed, a court spokesman said on [...]
Berlin Opposition Livid about Saudi Border Deal Getty Images German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks with Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud during a four-day trip to Saudi Arabia in May 2010. By Matthias Gebauer and Florian Gathmann The opposition in Berlin was already outraged about a plan to sell 200 tanks to Saudi Arabia. [...]
The government has not confirmed – or denied – a report this weekend by Spiegel news magazine that it has given the go-ahead for Riyadh to buy up to 200 Leopard battle tanks, in a deal estimated to be worth at least 1.7 billion euros (2.5 billion dollars). On Tuesday however, parliament agreed to hold [...]
German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy arrive at the talks over the Greek debt crisis in Berlin. Photograph: Getty Images Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has sued for peace with the European Central Bank (ECB) following weeks of feuding over how to rescue Greece from the devastating debt crisis threatening the future of the euro [...]
Police guard the Greek parliament as thousands of demonstrators protest in Athens at austerity measures demanded in return for the debt bailout, leaving at least a dozen injured ahead of a critical reform vote by MPs. Photograph: News Pictures/Rex Features With the Greek government on the verge of collapse, and financial markets sliding, we [...]
E coli outbreak: German organic farm officially identified Eat cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce again, say German health authorities, but avoid bean sprouts Share162 Ian Sample, science correspondent guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 June 2011 18.26 BST Article history The cause of the E coli outbreak has been officially linked in Germany to the consumption of bean sprouts. [...]
E coli infections spread around world as Germany reports 200 new cases Experts claim disease is on the wane as Merkel and Zapatero attempt to limit diplomatic row over infection’s source Share19 Comments (6) Giles Tremlett and Alok Jha guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 June 2011 19.15 BST Article history The e coli bacterium has spread from [...]
Germany pledges nuclear shutdown by 2022 Angela Merkel‘s government agrees to shut down all nuclear reactors and seek alternative energy source. Last Modified: 30 May 2011 04:40 Germany has decided to shut all its nuclear reactors by 2022 in a drastic policy reversal in the wake of the nuclear disaster at Japan‘s Fukushima plant. The move [...]
German Soldiers Fired Deliberately at Protesters By Matthias Gebauer and John Goetz REUTERS The German military has corrected its initial statement on protests in Afghanistan this week that left 12 people dead. The Bundeswehr has now admitted that it deliberately fired on demonstrators who were attacking a German base. Germany‘s military, the Bundeswehr, has released new [...]
Central to the position in Palestine is the presence of a fully armed and nuclear capable country that is seeking to simply take and to keep taking what belongs to other people. The first taking was then the land was simply handed to them without any regard to the justice of doing that. Regardless of how much [...]
Trigger happy murderers in NATO are basically the new cancer on the block in the Middle East. These European invading barbarians know nothing but killing as far as the troops are concerned. Fresh from glory of several thousand years in the killing fields of Europe by air land and sea these new SS Regiments havea true obedience [...]
Germany curbs terrorist intel flow to US Published: 15 May 11 13:53 CET Share18 The German government is reportedly reassessing the amount of information it is passing on to US authorities, after a German citizen was killed by a US drone attack on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border last year. CDU floats ‘private sheriffs’ idea to tackle [...]
German police raid homes of suspected extremists © 2011 The Associated Press May 11, 2011, 8:52AM Share Del.icio.us Digg Twitter Facebook StumbleUpon Email BERLIN — German police raided the homes of two alleged Islamic extremists suspected of raising funds to support terror attacks and recruiting militants for paramilitary training in Pakistan‘s border region, officials said [...]
