Germany

Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany

December 31, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Germany, NATO, Organizing, Resistance

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[…]

German Warmakers Target Antiwar Organizer Heinrich Bücker

December 27, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, Germany, Lawfare, Organizing

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[…]

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

December 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Germany, Ukraine

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[…]

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

December 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Connecting the Dots, Europe, Germany, NATO, Russia

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[…]

The Other Side of the Berlin Wall

November 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Cold War, Germany, Imperialism

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[…]

Scholz’s China Trip Raises Hackles

November 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, China, Economic Collapse, Germany

by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, November 5, 2022 German diplomacy presented a riveting sight of “counterpoint” with Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock hosting her G7 partners in Münster on November 3-4 even as Chancellor Olaf Sholz was emplaning from Berlin on a one-day visit to Beijing. The photo-op showed the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken flanking Baerbock[…]

US Imperialism’s Trillion-Dollar Fossil Fuel Gambit

October 25, 2022 UNAC Editor Germany, Hybrid Warfare, Militarism, Russia, Ukraine

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 21, 2022 The US-engineered sabotage of Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, as we shall see, aimed at guaranteeing the success of the US trillion dollar Ukraine fossil fuel war gambit to permanently substitute US-fracked Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) for Russia’s significantly less expensive fossil fuels. The US sabotage instantly eliminated[…]

Ukraine: Wage a Class War Against Imperialist War

October 20, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, Europe, Germany, Paths to Emancipation, Political Analysis, Russia, Sweden, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, October 18, 2022 The latest U.S.-NATO-Kiev aggressions in the Ukraine war theater — bombing the bridge to Crimea and the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines — have escalated the fighting, threatening a continental or even a worldwide conflagration. The world’s richest bosses, bankers and billionaires, and their agents in Washington, London, Berlin[…]

Nord Stream Sabotage − ‘Cui Bono’? /Who Benefits?

October 6, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, Germany, Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, US Meddling in Europe

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, October 4, 2022 Underwater explosions Sept. 26 severely damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Germany. World leaders, technical experts and engineers are nearly unanimous that the pipelines were attacked by a planned powerful underwater explosion of a highly complex nature. Such industrial sabotage will impact millions of[…]

Germany and EU Have Been Handed Over a Declaration of War

September 29, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Europe, False Flags, Germany

by Pepe Escobar, published on PressTV, September 28, 2022 The sabotage of the Nord Stream (NS) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) pipelines in the Baltic Sea has ominously propelled ‘Disaster Capitalism‘ to a whole new, toxic level. This episode of Hybrid Industrial/Commercial War, in the form of a terror attack against energy infrastructure in international waters signals the absolute collapse of[…]