Tag: Germany
The Lies That Form Our Consciousness and False Historical Awareness
May 10, 2019 | Viewpoints, Europe, Politics, US
What living and learning has taught me is that history tends to always be falsified, and historians who insist on the truth suffer for it.
Read MoreNo One Trusts the US Government, Not Even the American People
Feb 25, 2019 | Viewpoints, Europe, Politics, US
The world is awakening to the realization that the United States is not a democracy, but an oligarchy ruled by moneyed private interest groups.
Read MoreDarker Clouds over Europe
Feb 4, 2019 | News & Analysis, Economy & Business, Europe
Not only is Europe’s expansionary cycle fading, but the region is about to face challenges that it has to tackle amid growing political fragmentation.
Read MoreJapan’s “Comfort Women”: Asian Protests and Imperial Japan’s Sexual Slavery
Jan 15, 2019 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Politics
If the Abe administration fails to acknowledge the past, it cannot win the future that overshadows over a declining nation.
Read MoreA Golden (Long-Term) Opportunity
Jan 7, 2019 | News & Analysis, Economy & Business, US
With most physical demand for gold coming from emerging economies that are also fueling global growth prospects, gold is on the right side of the future.
Read MoreThe USMCA and Trump’s Quest for ‘America First’ World Trade
Oct 25, 2018 | News & Analysis, Americas, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, US
The era of post-1945 multilateralism is fading. After the revised NAFTA, Trump’s dream is U.S.-dominated world trade and the ‘America First’ Asian Century.
Read MoreHow US Trade War Is Spreading from Goods to Services
Aug 22, 2018 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, US
As the White House is expanding its tariff wars, collateral damage is about to spread from goods to services – much of it in the U.S.
Read MoreEurope’s Iron Curtain: The Refugee Crisis is about to Worsen
Jul 10, 2018 | Viewpoints, Africa, Europe, Politics
As long as Europe continues to approach the refugee crisis without addressing its root causes, the crisis will continue to grow.
Read MoreThe Absence of Diplomacy Is Isolating Washington
Jun 8, 2018 | Viewpoints, Economy & Business, Europe, US
Washington, wallowing in its fabled incompetence, is now worsening all of its empire relationships by threatening its own allies with trade wars.
Read MoreTrump Is A Disaster
May 12, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Will we see a rebellion of European political figures, essentially Washington’s whores, that will break up the Empire and lead to an independent Europe? Such a development would justify all of Putin’s hesitation to put his foot down.
Read MoreHistoric Government Crisis in Germany
Dec 1, 2017 | News & Analysis, Europe
Merkel’s future is in peril while the far-right anti-immigrant AfD benefits from the recent breakdown of coalition talks.
Read MoreEuropean Subservience to Washington: What Can Be Done?
Sep 28, 2017 | Viewpoints, Europe, Politics
Western Europe is captive by Washington and will go to its destruction rather than dissociate from Washington’s foreign policy.
Read MoreTyranny at Nuremberg
Aug 11, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Robert Jackson had a noble goal in prosecuting Nazis at Nuremberg, but sought to achieve it by undermining the very rule of law he hoped to strengthen.
Read MoreThis Is Not Your Grandparents’ Resistance
Mar 3, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
If we want to resist strategically, if we want to transform positively, we will have to update our toolkit dramatically.
Read MoreThe Profound Disappointment of Angela Merkel
Dec 9, 2016 | Viewpoints, Europe, Politics
Obama and his political associate, Hillary Clinton, are total failures as figures of principle and as leaders, and Merkel very much resembles them.
Read MoreArmageddon Approaches
Jul 29, 2016 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Europe, Politics, US
Americans need to wake up to the dangerous situation that Washington has created, but I doubt they will.
Read MoreGermany’s Artful Acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide
Jul 8, 2016 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Europe
Despite its constructive elements, the Bundestag resolution is rife with errors and deficiencies.
Read MoreUse of armed force against refugees deemed justifiable by 29 percent of Germans
Mar 4, 2016 | Viewpoints, Europe
An alarming number of Germans favor using violence against human beings who are desperately fleeing their countries from war and misery.
Read MoreThe Lure of the Yuan: Europe Kowtows to Chinese Ambition
Feb 5, 2016 | Asia Pacific, Europe, News & Analysis
The takeover of agrochemical giant Sygenta by ChemChina has sparked criticism about handing the rein over to a state-owned company.
Read MoreNetanyahu Young to Old: The Purpose of His Big Lie About Hitler and the Mufti
Dec 11, 2015 | Middle East, Palestine, Viewpoints
Netanyahu’s big lie serves to demonize the Arabs to justify Israel’s repression of the Palestinians.
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