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Why Putin's Pipeline Is Welcome in Germany

Pat Buchanan • March 26, 2021

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During a joint interview with Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian secretary-general of NATO, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, fresh from his bout with the Chinese in Anchorage, took on Angela Merkel and the Germans. Issue: Nord Stream 2, the Baltic Sea pipeline Vladimir Putin is building to complement his Nord Stream 1 and carry more natural... Read More

America Against the World: Everyone Is a Frenemy

Anyone who expected a change in tone in foreign policy due to the transition from Trump to Biden has to be disappointed.

Philip Giraldi • March 25, 2021

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There are certainly a number of reasons why the United States government is now only viewed favorably by the Israelis, but totally tone deaf foreign and economic policies have to be right up there in how the world sees Washington. Rather than conform to how other nations are expected to behave, the U.S. has elevated... Read More

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Russia Holds the Key to German Sovereignty

A more sovereign Germany closer to Russia and China may be the straw that breaks the US hegemon’s back

Pepe Escobar • February 17, 2021

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Last week we traced the necessary historical and geopolitical steps to understand Why Russia is driving the West crazy. And then, last Friday, right before the start of the Year of the Metal Ox, came the bombshell, delivered with customary aplomb by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In an interview with popular talk show host... Read More

Is a Revolutionary Movement Developing in Europe?

Paul Craig Roberts • February 16, 2021

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US media provides little news of Europe. What is provided is strictly “narrated.” Consequently, Americans are unaware of what seems to be a spontaneous, leaderless, popular uprising against mandated lockdowns and masks. There are large demonstrations in Germany, and they have spread to Vienna and to Copenhagen. The people have more sense than the public... Read More

2020: Accelerating Towards the European Superstate

Will Hungary and Poland be bribed into submission?

Guillaume Durocher • December 27, 2020

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The year 2020 has seen signification changes and further centralization of power in the European Union. There appear to be three major causes for this: British withdrawal from the EU which occurred on February 1, 2020. The coronavirus crisis, whose lockdowns have inflicted tremendous damage on the European economy, particularly in southern Europe, annihilating in... Read More

The Political Theology of White Guilt: Trump as a Threat to the EU’s Post-WWII Narrative

Tom Sunic • December 17, 2020

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The presidential postelection period unfolding now in the US is having a big impact on the political class in Europe. Historically speaking this is nothing new. Every politician in Europe knows that any major political change in the US is bound to have, the day after, an effect on his own decision-making policy and likely... Read More

Antisemitism Claims Mask a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror Across Europe

Jonathan Cook • December 11, 2020

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The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has run a fascinating long report this week offering a disturbing snapshot of the political climate rapidly emerging across Europe on the issue of antisemitism. The article documents a kind of cultural, political and intellectual reign of terror in Germany since the parliament passed a resolution last year equating support for... Read More

New Ambassador Attracts the Usual Enemies: Doug Macgregor Feels the Wrath of the Jewish Lobby

Philip Giraldi • September 17, 2020

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There is an old saying that allegedly came out of the French Revolution, that revolution, like the god Saturn, devours its own children. It was reportedly uttered by Georges Danton at the trial that preceded his execution and could be applied equally to the demise of Trotsky after the Russian Revolution. It meant that the... Read More

Definitive Eurasian Alliance Is Closer Than You Think

Pepe Escobar • August 26, 2020

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We have seen how China is meticulously planning all its crucial geopolitical and geoeconomic moves all the way to 2030 and beyond. What you are about to read next comes from a series of private, multilateral discussions among intel analysts, and may helpfully design the contours of the Big Picture. In China, it’s clear the... Read More

The Anger Campaign Against China

Larry Romanoff • August 6, 2020

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Introduction It shouldn't be a secret, though it still seems to be, that neither of the two World Wars were started (or desired) by Germany, but were the creation of a group of European Zionist Jews with the stated intent of the total destruction of Germany. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] However, that... Read More

American Troops to Leave Germany: Is It Goodbye or Just Auf Wiedersehen?

Philip Giraldi • August 2, 2020

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The continued presence of tens of thousands of American military personnel in Europe seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War is rarely questioned either by politicians or the mainstream media. Currently there is little recollection of how, after the war ended, soldiers from Britain, France, the U.S. and the Soviet Union occupied... Read More

Germany's Forgotten Pensioners

Eric Striker • January 17, 2020

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According to the technocratic consensus, developed countries with high median ages and low birth rates need mass migration to pay for pensions. What they don't explain is how importing millions of people to gain employment as cleaners, Uber drivers and retail workers at reduced wages in big expensive cities is going to replenish the coffers... Read More

There Is No Such Thing as a Free Press

Paul Craig Roberts • November 13, 2019

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Udo Ulfkotte’s amazing book, Gekaufte Journalisten (Bought Journalism) was published by Kopp Verlag in 2014. The book was a sensation and sold 1,500,000 copies in Germany, but no major US publisher would bring out an English translation. Finally, last month a small publisher, Progressive Press, published an English language edition titled Presstitutes Embedded in the... Read More

Germany: Halle Synagogue Goers Laugh and Cheer After Two Gentiles Shot Dead

Eric Striker • October 9, 2019

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The wire service Reuters, whose editor-in-chief Stephen J Adler is Jewish, is disseminating through the controlled airwaves a narrative that German-Jews are now living in "fear" in the wake of a shooting in the eastern German city of Halle. The dispatch quotes members of the Jewish community in Germany claiming that the moderate criticisms of... Read More

The Quds Day Panic of 2019

C.J. Hopkins • June 5, 2019

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So it appears we managed to survive another terrifying Quds Day in Berlin. It was certainly touch and go there for a while, what with the media issuing hysterical warnings about the hordes of “Hamas and Hezbollah supporters, neo-Nazis, and conspiracy theorists” that were going to materialize out of the ether, goose-step down the Kurfürstendamm,... Read More

No One Trusts the US Government, Not Even the American People

Paul Craig Roberts • February 23, 2019

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Atlantic Bridge, a German front organization set up by Washington to propagandize Germans to serve Washington, has failed in the job. The latest survey conducted by the front group shows that 85% of Germans are alienated from the US. The front group’s chairman acknowledged “the great lost of trust in the United States.” By a... Read More

Heart of Darkness Germany

Linh Dinh • February 13, 2019

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After Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar made an obvious point about Jewish power influencing American foreign policies, she was forced, by that same Jewish power, to recant, thus confirming, to all those who can still think, the awful influence of Jewish power. Though Jewish power is quite out in the open, as in AIPAC and the... Read More

Immigration Divides Europe and the German Left

Diana Johnstone • June 19, 2018

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Freedom of movement is the founding value of the European Union. The “four freedoms” are inscribed in the binding EU treaties and directives: free movement of goods, services, capital and persons (labor) among the Member States. Of course, the key freedom here is that of capital, the indispensable condition of neoliberal globalization. It enables international... Read More

What Can be Done?

Paul Craig Roberts • September 27, 2017

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Despite clear evidence that Washington has chosen the path to conflict with Russia and China, European governments have not objected. Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltics even seem to demand more conflict or a quicker path to conflict. The European peoples themselves have not elected leadership that is willing to repudiate vassalage to Washington and conduct... Read More

Is It Too Late for Germany?

Friedrich Zauner • July 12, 2017

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Tübingen is one of the most charming towns in Germany. Romantic poets like Friedrich Hölderlin and Eduard Mörike and philosophers like Hegel and Schelling once lived there. The historical center was not damaged at all during WW II. Today it is a town of 90,000 inhabitants, of which more than 20,000 are students. They enjoy... Read More

Washington and Berlin on a Collision Course

Pepe Escobar • June 30, 2017

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The Russia sanctions bill that passed the US Senate by 98:2 on June 15 is a bombshell; it directly demonizes the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, under the Baltic Sea, which is bound to double Gazprom’s energy capacity to supply gas to Europe. The 9.5 billion euro pipeline is being financed by five companies; Germany’s Uniper... Read More

Die Lügenpresse und der Lauschangriff im Mutterland

Linh Dinh • June 27, 2017

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The Western media shame Germans, stay silent on endless attacks against Muslim countries and insist on massive immigration into mostly white nations. Meanwhile, false flags are staged that are blamed on Muslims, with the aim of flaming hatred between pale, nominal Christians and darker Muslims, for this animosity distracts from the systematic economic and war... Read More

Trump to Germany: Go Jump in the Rhine

Eric Margolis • June 3, 2017

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Germany: ‘bad, very bad.’ Trump tweet. France’s brainy new president, Emmanuel Macron, said it was too bad that Donald Trump was not part of the Enlightenment. Few Americans would have understood what he meant but Europeans certainly did. The Enlightenment was the glorious epoch in the mid 1700 and 1800’s that gave birth to modern... Read More

Germany RIP

Paul Craig Roberts • April 5, 2017

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Who would have imagined that the once great German nation would be ruled by Washington? It is extraordinary, but that is what has happened. Merkel, Washington’s whore, has agreed to fill up Germany with the refugees from Washington’s 16 years of illegal wars against Muslims in North Africa and the Middle East. These are wars... Read More

Deutschland on the Eve of 2017

Linh Dinh • December 26, 2016

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Few cultural traditions are as charming, beautiful and unifying as the German Christmas Market. For about a month, the center of each German city or town becomes a festival ground, where folks can eat, drink and enjoy each other’s company. The offerings of gluhwein, wursts, flammkuchen, fish stew, handbrot, cinnamon stars, carved figurines and tiered... Read More

An Update from Germany

Linh Dinh • October 13, 2016

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Germany is smaller than California. Within the last two years, it has allowed in roughly two million Muslim refugees and immigrants, all by fiat. Having no voice in this radical demographic change, many Germans are fuming. Last year, I wrote from Leipzig that Germany has lost its autonomy and sanity. Teaching at the university, I... Read More

A Letter from Germany

Linh Dinh • July 20, 2016

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A friend in Frankfurt emailed me on July 19th: It is sheer madness what is happening here… The noose is tightening and yet—it is still only the beginning… What took place in some dull regional express close to Würzburg, a town in Franconia in the middle of Germany, was—in some respect—like a watershed event—just like... Read More

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Germany to Introduce Comfort Women

Linh Dinh • January 18, 2016

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The only way to solve a refugee problem is to stop generating refugees. Since arriving in Germany 3 ½ months ago, I’ve made this point over and over. Most Germans, though, are only focused on the issue of accepting or rejecting refugees, not on the root cause of it, which is America and Israel’s deliberate... Read More

A Few Disjointed Thoughts on the Events in Cologne

The Saker • January 11, 2016

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What I want to share with you today is most definitely not a comprehensive analysis of the events which took place recently in Germany, but rather a few unconnected thoughts and memories we came to my mind when I heard about what had happened. So here we go. First, the figures are staggering: according to... Read More

Sex and the City–of Cologne

John Derbyshire • January 9, 2016

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I was in the city of Cologne just once, in 1954. I was nine years old, on my way to visit my brother, who was stationed with the British Army in Düsseldorf. Through the train window my mother pointed out the famous Cathedral (pictured right) which I recall as looking very battered still from wartime... Read More

Angela Merkel Plots to Overthrow Her People

Ilana Mercer • November 13, 2015

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Angela Merkel, elected for life, or for what seems like an eternity, squints at ordinary Germans from behind the parapets of her usurped authority. The German chancellor has signaled her express intention to foist a new identity on the German people, whether they like it or not, and without the broad consent of her citizens... Read More

Flagless Germany

Linh Dinh • October 7, 2015

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October 3rd was the Anniversary of the Reunification of Germany. Having arrived in Leipzig just days earlier, I decided to take a long walk with my friend Olliver Wichmann. Though we covered nearly 20 miles that day, we saw no national flag on display, only an East German one in Grünau, a neighborhood of huge,... Read More

Donated Food Supplies Awaiting Refugees in Germany

Refugees, Germans and the Holocaust Complex

Islamic world refugees prefer Germany “Über Alles”

Gene Tuttle • September 9, 2015

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It was inevitable that Europe’s refugee crisis would get tied up in Holocaust symbols. This time the policies of eastern Europeans, not Germans, evoke analogies. Since World War II ended, Germany’s liberal media has competed with US counterparts like the New York Times in the contest of who is more against the Holocaust. The German... Read More

Stabbed in the Back

What's the Difference Between an "Unabashed Nationalist" and a "Fascist"?

Peter Lee • April 21, 2015

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“Fascist”, it appears, is the go-to epithet for characterizing nationalists and racists we don’t like. “Nationalist” is apparently the go-to epithet for characterizing fascists we do like. The Western media is coping with the conspicuous and undeniable presence of fascists in the Ukrainian paramilitaries by rebranding them. A recent case in point was in a... Read More

Breedlove’s Bellicosity: Berlin Alarmed by Aggressive NATO Stance on Ukraine

Gen. Breedlove or Dr. Strangelove?

Paul Craig Roberts • March 9, 2015

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General Breedlove is the real life counterpart to General Jack D. Ripper in the 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove. He can’t wait to start a nuclear war. Americans should be scared to death that a crazed warmonger such as General Breedlove is the commander of NATO and is trying to defeat Europe’s efforts to resolve peacefully... Read More

Germany to Decide Where the EU Goes Next on Russia, Greece

The Moscow-Berlin deal in Minsk shows the way forward for Germany and the EU – gain greater public appeal and...

Pepe Escobar • February 20, 2015

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Germany holds the key to where Europe goes next. A fragile deal may have been reached on Ukraine, but there’s still no deal with Greece. In both cases, there’s much more than meets the eye. Let’s start with the grueling Eurogroup negotiation in Brussels over the Greek debt. Greek officials swear they never received a... Read More

As in 1942, Germany Must Show Restraint Over Greece

Mussolini tried to warn his ally of the danger of bringing the country to its knees. So should we

Patrick Cockburn • February 1, 2015

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Here are some quotes from the diaries of Count Ciano (Mussolini’s foreign minister and son-in-law), referring to Greece a year and a half after it was invaded and occupied by Germany. 6 October 1942: “Clodius [the Third Reich’s economics minister] is in Rome to discuss the Greek financial question, which is very bad. If it... Read More

The Rise of German Imperialism and the Phony “Russian Threat”

James Petras • December 6, 2014

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Introduction: The principle Nazi ideological prop that secured massive financial and political support from Germany’s leading industrialists was the Communist and Soviet threat. The main Nazi military drive, absorbing two-thirds of its best troops, was directed eastward at conquering and destroying Russia. The ‘Russian Threat’ justified Nazi Germany’s conquest and occupation of the Ukraine, the... Read More

Will Russia, Germany Save Europe from War?

Pepe Escobar • December 1, 2014

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Are the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia on a mad spiral leading to yet another war in Europe? Is it inevitable? Far from it. The US-propelled vassal currently starring in the oligarch dance in Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, last week advanced the proposition that Ukrainians in the near future, after his “reforms”,... Read More

Why the EU Can't 'Isolate' Russia

Pepe Escobar • March 27, 2014

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel could teach US President Barack Obama one or two things about how to establish a dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin. As if Obama would listen. He'd rather boost his constitutional law professor self, and pompously lecture an elite eurocrat audience in the glittering Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, like he... Read More

Children of a Lesser God

Israel Shamir • April 30, 2004

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In Berlin, the high and mighty including U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, German President Johannes Rau and Israel's president, Moshe Katsav gathered for a Conference of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) dedicated to the struggle against anti-Semitism. They proclaimed that “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is serving as a cover for worldwide... Read More

Whither the American Empire?

Paul Gottfried • August 13, 2002

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Having just seen the latest exercise in neocon academic grandstanding, a widely publicized letter to "German colleagues" by defenders of the US war against terror, I am driven ineluctably to the following observation. Although the reasoning offered by the Red-Green coalition government in Germany for not contributing to a US attack on Iraq is both... Read More

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American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations

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Ron Unz

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American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?

Ron Unz

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

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