Threats to the Western World, and Geopolitical Intelligence
The US still has dozens of nuclear war heads stationed throughout Europe, including an estimated 20 in Germany. Yet, hardly anyone thinks this makes sense any more — apart from those at Germany’s Defense Ministry. By Cordula Meyer and Alexander Szandar more…
Russian Bear Roars: Why Is Moscow Risking a New Cold War?
Doubts about Security: German [...]
Officials from a German government party and the opposition demand that Germany should be freed from some 20 or so remaining U.S. nuclear warheads stored in military bases in the country.
The discussion was launched after an internal U.S. Air Force report found security and safety standards at most nuclear weapons storage sites in Europe fall [...]
Traute Grier was 16 years old when the Soviets cut off West Berlin from the rest of the world. Here, she recounts her desparate struggle for survival, her terror of the Russians and how friendships developed between the Americans and occupied Germans. more… [ Video ]
Photo Gallery: The Candy Bombers
Timeline: A Brief History of the [...]
FORTUNA, Spain — Lush fields of lettuce and hothouses of tomatoes line the roads. Verdant new developments of plush pastel vacation homes beckon buyers from Britain and Germany. Golf courses — dozens of them, all recently built — give way to the beach. At last, this hardscrabble corner of southeast Spain is thriving.
There is only [...]
President Sarkozy seeks a rapprochement with NATO while strengthening the European Union’s defense dimension. France’s allies, including the United States and Germany, have welcomed this. But Sarkozy faces strong domestic resistance to changing France’s relationship to NATO. By Leo Michel more…
The Third World War: Why NATO Troops Can’t Deliver Peace in Afghanistan
Trans-Atlantic Identity Crisis: NATO [...]
The BBC’s Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, looks at increasing speculation that Iran may come under attack because of its nuclear programme.
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The talk has alarmed, among others, the former German Foreign Minister, Joshka Fischer.
Germany has, with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, taken the lead in talks with Iran about its nuclear [...]
‘WIPE OUT THE JEWS’
Though most Muslims reject Islamism and its propaganda, anti-Semitic messages from satellite channels like the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa are helping to bring a message of hate and intolerance to Europe. The effects of such hate preaching can already be felt in Germany. By Matthias Küntzel more…
TERROR RAIDS IN EUROPE
Police Arrest Members of Alleged [...]
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned of “extremist structures” within the Left Party. A new report lists a number of left-wing extremist factions within the party, including the Communist Platform, the Marxist Forum and a pro-Cuba group. more…
Letter from Berlin: Germany’s Social Democrats and their Far Left Migraine
Letter from Berlin: Demagogues, Communists, and Germany’s New [...]
These phoney humanitarian protests, however, are in reality nothing more than a cheap camouflage used to cover the real reason for the German left’s opposition to the deal, namely, its deep-rooted anti-Americanism.
It’s bad enough that such anti-accord Germans seem to have forgotten 9/11, a good part of which was planned in their country. Many of [...]
ISRAEL’S 60TH ANNIVERSARY
Israel’s right to exist is questioned on a daily basis — and not just by radical Palestinians, but also by prominent intellectuals. As the country celebrates its 60th anniversary, they are sending their case against Israel in messages disguised as birthday greetings. But their supposed concern about the Middle East is really just [...]
History dictates that protecting and maintaining a nation’s industrial base is critical to its national security and to winning wars. This is why taking out an enemy’s manufacturing infrastructure, as America did to Germany and Japan during World war II, is the first step in rendering it defenseless.
Yet today in America, despite the menace of [...]
The European Union cannot agree over how to deal with Russia. That suits the Kremlin just fine
SEEN from outside, one might imagine that the European Union (population 495m, GDP of $16.8 trillion) was a rather intimidating neighbour for Russia (population 142m, GDP of $1.3 trillion). Yet the reality is the other way round. In recent [...]
Germany’s population is shrinking, with serious consequences for the country’s economy and pension system. Can Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen persuade Germans to breed? By David Gordon Smith in Berlin more…
SPIEGEL Interview with German Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen: ‘A Dangerous Breeding Ground for Right-Wing Extremism’
Rage Against the Baby Machines: Germany’s Neo-Housewives Spark [...]
An exhibition in Paris of color photographs of life under the German occupation has caused such a furore that it was nearly cancelled. The photographs, which were taken by an employee of a Nazi propaganda magazine, are now to be shown with new captions explaining their historical context. more…
Uproar over WWII Exhibition: Occupied Paris Shown [...]
Since the publication of Alexander Yanov’s 1995 book After Yeltsin: ‘Weimar’ Russia (Moscow: KRUK; New York: Slovo-Word), a number of Yanov’s predictions for the post-Yeltsin period have come true. Above all, during the last years, sections of the Russian elite have adopted a paranoid vision of the outside, above all Western, world which, in the [...]
US President George W. Bush wants to bring more Eastern European countries into the military alliance at the upcoming NATO summit. But Germany is thwarting his plans, because of concerns about Ukraine and Georgia — and in deference to Russia. By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Washington D.C. more…
Greece Blocking NATO Expansion: Which Macedonia Was Alexander [...]
Five years ago, the US government presented what it said was proof that Iraq harbored biological weapons. The information came from a source developed by German intelligence — and it turned out to be disastrously wrong. But to this day, Germany denies any responsibility. By Erich Follath, John Goetz, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark more…
SPIEGEL [...]
From doctors to opera singers, teachers to truant schoolchildren, the extermination of European Jews was the work of roughly 200,000 ordinary Germans and their helpers. Years of research — not yet complete — reveal how sane members of a modern society committed murder for an evil regime. By Georg Bönisch and Klaus Wiegrefe more…
Landmines in [...]
Some 40 percent of German soldiers are overweight, according to a leaked parliamentary report due to be presented on Tuesday. The report also says German military personnel smoke to much. more…
High-Tech Infantry Equipment: German Robocop-Style Army Gear Flops With Soldiers
Plans Call Afghanistan Mandate into Question: Will Germany Be Forced to Raise Troop Limit?
The Afghanistan Debate: [...]
The former West Germany’s most-secret place — an underground bunker designed to shelter the government in case of nuclear war — officially opened Thursday in its new incarnation as a Cold war museum.
The bunker complex, which includes a maze of more than 10 miles of tunnel, is tucked into the rolling hills west of the [...]
Recently, two European nations have emerged from a long period of national humiliation and, in a way, subservient position toward the USA: Germany and Russia. In both instances, there is a new sense of stability in the minds of the countries’ elite, and this required a new vision of the past. In this construction of [...]
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