RT | 14 Jan 2016 For political reasons the police wanted to conceal the fact that the offenders in the mass sex assaults on women in Cologne, Germany were refugees, says Professor Christian Pfeiffer, head of the Criminology Research Centre, and a former state justice minister. READ MORE: ‘Everyone opposed to Merkel’s migration policy was…
Eric Zuesse | 14 Dec 2015 The following text is a translation by Eric Zuesse of an article in deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de The EU is in the surprising situation of needing to deal, at its upcoming summit meeting at the end of this week, with the question of whether to extend sanctions against Russia. It had been expected…
The Telegraph | 6 Dec 2015 In a highly unusual moment of a Western politician attacking a critical Arab ally, Sigmar Gabriel says the time has come to make it clear to Riyadh the time of looking away is over The German vice-chancellor has publicly accused Saudi Arabia of financing Islamic extremism in the West…
RT | 20 July 2015 A leaked NSA intercept shows that German FM Steinmeier was relieved to have “not received any definitive response” from the US on its rendition program at the time of the scandal, which exempted him from the need to act on the matter, WikiLeaks claims. The WikiLeaks publication intercept of the German…
Sputnik | 30 April 2015 The claims that Merkel’s government knew about German state intelligence spying on behalf of the Americans against the country’s own industrial interests raise disturbing questions about the i ntegrity of German government leaders. The apparent betrayal of German national interests by Chancellor Angela Merkel is not only evident over the…
VT | 15 April 2015 Former IAEA investigator, nuclear physicist and VT editor, Jeff Smith fills in the blanks The interview below discusses recent revelations from the German press tying that nation to the covert funding of Israel’s nuclear weapons program. The organization discussed, the DVD, was brought to light during the Thatcher government when…
VT | 21 March 2015 Freshman US Senator Tom Cotton already has two claims to fame. First he wrote a letter to Iran in an effort to sabotage his own President’s diplomatic efforts and start a war. And then he set an all-time record by invoking Hitler in less than one minute during his first…
Glenn Greenwald | 19 March 2015 German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel (above) said this week in Homburg that the U.S. government threatened to cease sharing intelligence with Germany if Berlin offered asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden or otherwise arranged for him to travel to that country. “They told us they would stop notifying us of…
Eric Zuesse | Global Research | March 18, 2015 Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten The head of the private intelligence agency Stratfor has for the first time publicly said that the US government considers to be its overriding strategic objective the prevention of a German-Russian alliance. Blocking that alliance is the only way to prevent an alternative world power capable of challenging extension of the American position of being the world’s lone…
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation |16 March 2015 German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s reprimand last week to Japanese leaders to «face up to their wartime past» had an ironic twist that went scarcely noticed. The irony is that it is the German leader who actually stands accused of not facing up to her country’s wartime past. More…