Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Anti-NATO, Anti-EU, Anti-War, Protest Rallies Hit Germany, France, Italy

by the Countercurrents Collective, Countercurrents.org, February 27, 2023 Rallies against the U.S.-led NATO bloc, the EU, supply of weapons to Ukraine and anti-war have been held across France, and in Italy and Germany. At protest sites, demonstrators defaced and tore down NATO and EU flags. Berlin Tens of thousands of Germans braved the elements to attend the Uprising for Peace,[…]

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Who’s Winning and Losing The Economic War Over Ukraine?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, February 21, 2023 With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to impose crippling sanctions that would[…]

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Peace Activist Sentenced for Criticizing German War Policy in Ukraine

by Justus Leicht, published on the World Socialist Web Site, January 31,  2023 My information is that  Heinrich Bücker has appealed his conviction and is waiting for the court to set a new date for his appeal hearing.  [jb] The Berlin-Tiergarten District Court sentenced peace activist Heinrich Bücker in January for speaking out in public against Germany’s war policy in[…]

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The U.S. Continues to Escalate in Ukraine

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, February6 1, 2023 The U.S. got more than it bargained for after instigating the Ukrainian conflict. The Biden foreign policy team grows more desperate and their plans become more dangerous as they reckon with the unintended consequences of their actions. “Senator Cruz, like you I am and I think the administration is[…]

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Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany

by Phil Wilayto, December 31, 2022 June 22, 2022, was the 81st anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and a prominent German antiwar activist took the occasion to publicly question why the German government is now supporting neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine. As a result, that activist is now facing the possibility of up to three years in[…]

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German Warmakers Target Antiwar Organizer Heinrich Bücker

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, December 22, 2022 Antiwar organizer Heinrich Bücker, who operates the Co-op Anti-War Cafe in Berlin, Germany, faces charges stemming from his speech at a protest last June. His case impacts antiwar activists worldwide. Bücker’s speech focused on the horrors the Nazi Wehrmacht inflicted on Ukraine during German imperialism’s World War II occupation of[…]

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‘On the way to a new world order − for cooperation instead of confrontation!’

German Peace Council (Friedensratschlag), published on International Action Center, December 19, 2022 The old U.S.-dominated unipolar world order is coming to an end. The United States and its allies are using all means to try to stop this development. At the risk of a major war, they are intensifying their proxy war in Ukraine against Russia and at the same[…]

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‘Minsk II Was Agreed On To Arm Ukraine’ – Did Merkel Really Say That?

by  Moon of Alabama, published Popular Resistance, December 10, 2022 Helmholtz Smith, Andrew Korybko and Andrei Martyanov have some thoughts about a recent interview the former German chancellor Angela Merkel gave to the German weekly broadsheet Die Zeit. Smith says it shows that the ‘West’ is not trustworthy. Korybko thinks the interview will prolong the conflict in Ukraine. Martyanov says that Merkel is stupid. She isn’t. In[…]

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The Other Side of the Berlin Wall

by William Blum, published on Consortium News, November 9, 2022          Original publication date July 28, 2011 Why was the Berlin Wall built?  The Berlin Wall became the iconic symbol of the Cold War, supposedly proving the superiority of capitalism over communism. However, there is another, little understood side to the story regarding why the wall was erected a half century[…]

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