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To people outside Germany, a furore about a mere poem might be hard to understand. In Britain or the United States, poets opine and some of the people may listen - and then usually they move on. The chattering class might chatter a little louder, but the great sweep of... » read this article

2 April 2012 On May 19, 2011, 39-year-old Christy Schwundeck was shot and killed by a female police officer in an employment centre in the Gallus city quarter of Frankfurt am Main. Christy Schwundeck came from Nigeria. She was the wife of Peter Schwundeck and mother of a 12-year-old daughter... » read this article

Canada is under fire for exiting the Kyoto Protocol just one day after UN climate talks ended with an agreement to extend the treaty. Putting financial interests ahead of environmental commitments is an affront to global climate protection efforts, German papers write on Wednesday.   While it may not have... » read this article

A German Submarine Defends Palestine On October 31, 2011, Palestine was accepted as full member by UNESCO, which became the first UN agency to recognize it as an independent country. Several other agencies are expected to take a similar decision in following month. The US entered UN Alley, by opposing... » read this article

"Ten murders traced to neo-Nazi terrorists!"  More and more ugly facts splashed through the German media, with echoes around the world. Politicians from the "respectable" parties expressed shock and surprise. In 2007 a German policewoman had been shot to death and her colleague badly wounded. The murder weapon was now... » read this article

The elections to the Berlin House of Representatives (state legislature) on Sunday contain important political lessons for the working class worldwide. The elections were held in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. As was the case at the end of the Weimar Republic eighty years ago,... » read this article

Editor's Note: Does Max have it right? Who can say? It's food for thought ... LMB "RT's eye-catching video reports are lined up online on our Youtube channel - where we've now reached a milestone 500-million views! RT is the first-ever 24-hour international TV news channel to reach such a... » read this article

16 March 2011 The German government has responded to the nuclear disaster in Japan by doing a panicky about-face in its nuclear policy. The main concern of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to drum up support for her ailing party in important state elections that will take place over the... » read this article

On December 5th one or two hundred people left a movie theater in Berlin, mostly silent and deeply moved though the film they had seen was first released in 1930. This American-made epic had lost none of its extremely emotional appeal. It was All Quiet on the Western Front and... » read this article

12 November 2010 The recent protests against the nuclear policy of the German government and the building project Stuttgart 21 are being systematically exploited to increase the electoral fortunes of the Green Party. The Greens have sought to pose as the leadership of these protest movements. In a joint statement... » read this article

4 October 2010 The 20th anniversary of the reunification of Germany is not only a historical landmark; it also stands out in another respect. The two decades that have passed since 1990 represent half the life of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The GDR was founded on October 7,... » read this article

Pope Benedict XVI is embarking on a missionary journey to the UK in a bid to get the heathen Brits back into the fold. But the pope can expect a cool welcome as militant secularists and victims of pedophile priests prepare to protest.   The Catholic Church is used to... » read this article

28 August 2010 A major environmental scandal has featured in the German media since the spring of this year. In Dortmund transformers were dismantled and recycled by the company Envio Recycling GmbH & Co. The recycling process resulted in setting free highly poisonous PCB chemicals in what amounts to a... » read this article

Germany’s foreign policy is split between, on the one hand, the ties it developed with the U.S. occupier during the 20th Century and, on the other hand, its economic interests vis-à-vis its historical partner, Russia. Gerard Shroder embodies this dilemma best. Formerly an atlantistic Chancellor, he is today CEO of... » read this article

Editor's Note: It is interesting to see those in big finance fighting amongst themselves about who is responsible for people who are losing their homes due to their own deceptive mortgage practices and greed. When the corporate media isn't blaming the people themselves for buying beyond their means, they turn on... » read this article

17 May 2010 In certain critical respects, the world of 2010 resembles the conditions that existed on the eve of World War I and World War II. Economic crisis, geopolitical tensions and social instability are greater today than at any time since 1945 —Report on “Perspectives and Tasks of the... » read this article

Original publication on April 26, 2010   The Greek government's appeal for help is putting Chancellor Angela Merkel under pressure. With Germany required to provide billions over the coming years to pay for the Greek bailout, there are growing calls in the German government for Greece to withdraw from the... » read this article

Merkel Reaches Her Overdraft Limit When Chancellor Angela Merkel's current government came into power, Germany was just emerging from the economic crisis. But despite pledges to curb deficit spending, Merkel's administration has been running up debt at a record pace -- and bailing out Greece will only exacerbate the situation.... » read this article