Germany

250,000 march in Berlin against trade pact, austerity

Organizers reported that 250,000 people marched in Berlin on Oct. 10 to protest the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and…

October 16, 2015

Deportations, racism vs. “humane” democracy

Jorge Ramos, the nightly news co-anchor on Spanish-language TV station Univisión who was thrown out of Donald Trump’s press conference…

September 3, 2015

New books on USSR’s role in World War II

World War II, which ended 70 years ago, was the bloodiest war ever fought. It brought tens of millions of…

September 1, 2015

German imperialism and the Greek debt crisis

Introduction The following article was written last March 4, shortly after the anti-austerity electoral victory of Syriza. The hostile reaction…

July 18, 2015

Iran nuclear-free, but U.S. sends A-bombs to Italy

"Today is a historic day and it is a great honor for us to announce that we have reached an…

July 18, 2015

Greece feels iron fist of a German Ahab

Berlin Bulletin No. 95, July 16, 2015 The crisis over Greece has put German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, the chief…

July 18, 2015

On U.S. bases, schools, roads and parks – Symbols, names reinforce institutional racism

Following the June 17 racist massacre in South Carolina, a groundswell of activists has pushed to eliminate the glorification of…

July 7, 2015

German political leader says: ‘Fuck U.S. imperialism’

Oskar Lafontaine, former German finance minister and political leader of, first, the Social Democratic Party, and most recently the Left…

June 29, 2015

Israeli gov’t targets dissident IDF veterans

“Cases of abuse toward Palestinians, looting, and destruction of property have been the norm for years, but are still explained…

June 28, 2015

Mass protest confronts G7 summit

Like medieval lords plotting against an impending peasant revolt after a bad harvest, the heads of the seven most powerful…

June 9, 2015