The New German Warfare State
Boundless militarization has become the key project of Germany and the European Union to halt their decline.
Jeffrey Sachs: An Open Letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz: Security Is Indivisible — and History Matters
Germany has a duty to approach this moment with historical seriousness and honesty. On that score, recent rhetoric and policy choices fall dangerously short.
Russia, China, Reject Attempt of E3 To Reimpose Sanctions on Iran Over Nuclear Program
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the actions of the three European countries in this regard as “unjustified, illegal and lacking in any legal basis.”
Patrick Lawrence: War in Our Time
It is well to remind ourselves that Russians view Merz’s ambitions on the military side, including his apparent determination to escalate Germany’s military support for Ukraine, through history’s lens.
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 4: Wanderers and Seekers
Editor’s note: Earlier versions of this story reported Germany’s shock when Friedrich Merz initially failed to win sufficient Bundestag votes to assume office. After intense negotiations, he won back the…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 3: A Culture of Submission
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is the third of four reports on Germany in crisis. Part 1 of this series is here and Part 2 here. BERLIN—…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 2: A Short History of Exploding Gas Pipelines
In the postwar era this ambiguity, this state of “in between,” is best understood not as Germany’s burden but its great gift, and it is with this gift it could…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 1 —The Lost Man of Europe
Of the many things said as the results of Germany’s national elections arrived on Sunday evening, Feb. 23, the most remarkable to me was the exclamation of the Federal Republic’s…
Patrick Lawrence: The Centrists Cannot Hold
What is unfolding now in France is unfolding one or another way across those Western powers that form the walls of the neoliberal fortress.
‘Europe’s Long Rightward Lurch Continues’ as Germany’s AfD Projected to Win
First time a far-right party has won an election in Germany since the 1930s Nazi-era.
Michael Brenner: Humiliation Upon Request
By Michael Brenner EUROPE -JEWS-MUSLIMS Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few…
US Announces It Will Deploy Previously Banned Nuclear-Capable Missiles to Germany
The deployment of land-based Tomahawk missiles would have violated the INF Treaty, which the US withdrew from in 2019.
ICJ Rejects Nicaragua’s Request to Block German Arms Sales to Israel
However, the World Court did not grant Germany's request to dismiss the case‚ in which Nicaragua accuses Berlin of enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Gaza and Germany’s Path to Authoritarianism
How the German government has embarked on a dangerous confrontation course with freedom of expression and international law.
Nicaragua Takes Germany to the World Court for Facilitating Israel’s Genocide
Germany is second only to the US as the largest supplier of weapons to Israel.