Germany

Posted by: John Phoenix by Vikki Harper Speech delivered at CPGB-ML Southall seminar on 28 Feb. 2026 It’s Munich, November 1923 and Germany is in deep crisis. Defeat in the First World War, the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles and an economy on the verge of collapse gripped by hyperinflation and mass unemployment – the German working class is being crushed. At this moment Adolf Hitler led a small but growing party calling itself the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. So named because then, as now, deceiving workers requires the language of socialism. Hitler believed the time had come to overthrow the Weimar Republic. Inspired by Mussolini’s March on Rome, he attempted to seize power by storming a beer hall where Bavarian leaders were meeting, declaring a ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Outgoing German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock resigned as co-chair of the Greens. In a letter to her parliamentary group and the Brandenburg provincial branch, Baerbock stated that she decided to step down from the political leadership after intense years of engagement and a recent divorce from her husband. “After years at high speed,” Baerbock wrote in the letter that she wanted to take some time to think about “what this moment means for my family and me.” “In all this time, I have always given my all. At the same time, these intensive years also had a private price. For personal reasons, I have therefore decided to take a step back from the glare of the spotlight and not apply for a leading position in the parliamentary group,” she added. Ba...

Posted by: John Phoniex December 18, 2024 Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant. The political crisis in Germany is deepening. Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in parliament on December 16, effectively dismantling his government. With the collapse of the coalition and the need for early elections, it seems clear that the irresponsible policies of support for Ukraine have been a “death sentence” for the Scholz government. Scholz lost w...

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, November 20, 2024 The last several years have been a disaster for the collective West’s political stability, with governments and shaky coalitions falling one after another. This political back and forth has made ruling parties in the vast majority of NATO member states extremely unpopular. It was precisely these governments and coalitions that escalated the EU/NATO’s crawling aggression in Eastern Europe, bringing the world to the brink of thermonuclear annihilation. The latter half of this year took a particularly hefty toll on both Washington DC and Brussels, as well as their other geopolitical pendants, vassals and satellite states. Western leaders have been effectively illegitimate for months, as their popularity is...

Walt King  As we approach the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, to which celebration, bizarrely, the creators of the concentration camp, but not the liberators, have been invited – are we celebrating then the liberation, or the creation? – it seems an appropriate time to dig deeper into its history and find out what it truly was all about. What follows are six indisputable facts, followed by my opinion. Argue with the latter, if you like. Any difficulty with length, here is the link https://open.substack.com/pub/waltking/p/auschwitz-six-facts-and-seven-questions FACT ONE: AUSCHWITZ WAS A MAJOR MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Early on in WW2, Germany, lacking control of the seas, found itself cut off from vital supplies of petroleum and rubber for ...