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Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany

16May

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Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany

From Coca-Cola to Nestle, some of the most iconic American brands eagerly took part in the Nazi experiment. A damaged Nazi swastika flag hangs among other flags decorating Market Street in San Francisco, Calif., in anticipation of the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta, May 27, 1937. Richard J. Fry | AP By Alan Macleod May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies’ victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed in fighting, famines or exterminated in death camps. While many novel socially-distanced celebrations across the world are going on, some large corporations are laying low in the knowledge that they actively collaborated with and helped Hitler’s war machine. ...

Germany Wants to Replace Poland’s “Patriotic Government” with “Europhile Puppets”?

12May

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Germany, Poland

Germany Wants to Replace Poland’s “Patriotic Government” with “Europhile Puppets”?

By Andrew Korybko The former Polish Minister of Defense accused Germany of conspiring with a few other foreign actors to replace the patriotic Polish government with Europhile puppets, arguing that the country’s latest political controversy over the date of its presidential elections is proof of an attempt being made to carry out regime change in this geostrategically positioned country. Foreign Coup Or Fake Conspiracy? Poles are often criticized for being “paranoid”, but given their history, it’s understandable why they’re perpetually concerned about foreign conspiracies to undermine their hard-fought independence. Such is the case with former Minister of Defense Jan Parys, who recently accused Germany of covertly working with a few other actors to replace the patr...

8May

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Germany, United Kingdom

Grim UK, Germany economic data highlights virus devastation

So far, more than 73,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 -- more than a quarter of global deaths. By Ben Perry, with AFP Bureaus The economic carnage unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic was brought into sharper focus on Thursday, with grim data showing major slumps in German and French industrial output and the British economy forecast to slump 14 percent this year. Clinical staff test a key worker for the novel coronavirus at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Britain, which has suffered a rising coronavirus death toll Photo: POOL / Neil HALL Governments around the world are under immense pressure to ease the economic pain caused by measures to stop the virus, which has claimed at least 260,000 lives, left half of humanity under some form of lockdown and made millions joble...

Germany: Working Class Protests Against Unemployment in May Day

1May

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Germany: Working Class Protests Against Unemployment in May Day

In April, the unemployment annual rate stood at 5.8 percent, up 0.9 percent from a year earlier. On International Workers' Day, Germany's trade unions protested over the collapse of labor rights and the significant increase of unemployment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. RELATED: Germany Bans All Hezbollah Activities According to forecasts by Angela Merkel's administration, Germany will experience the worst recession since World War II this year. Recent unemployment figures have soared despite the economic aid that Germany's authorities have set up to prevent mass layoffs. In April, the unemployment rate stood at 5.8 percent, up 0.9 percent from a year earlier. "The government must ensure that every worker keeps their job," German Tra...

27Apr

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Germany, ZIO-NAZI

Jews in Germany Don’t Need Special Treatment Any More

Germany’s relationship with Jews and with Israel is understandably shaped by the Holocaust. But this has caused it to be ritualized, abnormal – and, sometimes, actively harmful David Ranan German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the Ohel Jakob award ceremony on the 10th anniversary of the Munich synagogue's rededication. Nov. 9, 2016Matthias Schrader,AP Germany is going through difficult times, and not only because of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Angela Merkel, the embodiment of German, even European, common-sense and stability, and a staunch supporter of Germany's post-war special relationship with Israel, is on her way out, whilst the extreme right-wing Alternative for Germany party is the third strongest political force in the Bundestag, and is&n...

5Apr

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Germany, Health, Politics, USA

Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists

Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine and offered cash so it would be exclusive to the US Thomas Colson and Andrew Dunn An employee of the German biopharmaceutical company CureVac demonstrating research workflow on a vaccine for COVID-19 at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, on Thursday. President Donald Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine so he could secure exclusive rights to it for the US.The newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported that the Trump administration had offered large sums of cash to Germany-based biotech company CureVac to secure rights for the vaccine work, "but only for the USA."The German government is battling back, offering financial incentives to the company to rema...

1Apr

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COVID-19 in Germany: Explaining a Low Death Rate

by THOMAS KLIKAUER Photo: privately owned by the author and the man in the picture. On 31st March 2020, www.worldometers.info calculated the global death toll from Corona tallied 38,000. Among comparable European countries, Italy (population 60 million) had 11,600 Corona deaths, Spain (46,6 million) registered 7,700, France (67 million) 3,000, the UK (67 million) noted 1,400 deaths, the Netherlands (17 million) 740, the USA (330 million) 3,000, and Germany (83 million) just 645 deaths. In other words, despite Germany’s relative high population, it registered a surprisingly low number of Corona deaths. Seen as death per one million people, Italy had 192 deaths per million and Germany just 8. Surprisingly, Italy has 28%...

28Mar

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China, France, Germany, Russia

Corona vaccine: Good news from Germany, France and Russia, no injuries for the third day in China

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr While the numbers of people living with the Coronavirus around the world are increasing alarmingly, and about one billion people are subject to compulsory isolation in their homes, good news comes from the vaccine and treatment of the emerging virus from Germany and France. Franz Werner Haas, the acting German head of the German company, Corvac, said that tens of thousands of people infected with corona could get a vaccine for the virus this fall. He added that after "the progress made by the company's scientists, the clinical trials for this vaccine will be launched next summer." "If the German authorities agree, we will start production," Hass said, adding that his company has a production capacity of between 200 and 400 million doses of vacci...

28Mar

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Germany Signals a Historic Shift From Austerity That Could Upend the Economy of Europe

by MARSHALL AUERBACK Photograph Source: European Peoples Party – CC BY 2.0 Until March 21, Germany’s policymakers were like the Japanese soldiers who spent years lingering in the jungles of the Philippines, refusing to accept the reality that their country had lost World War II. In the case of Berlin, it was a case of the country stubbornly refusing to abandon six years of fiscal restraint, even as it became clear that such spending would be required to mitigate the impact of a pandemic that was bringing the global economy to a virtual standstill. That all appears to have changed now, with the government announcing a series of proposals that represent in aggregate approximately 10 percent of Germany’s GDP. Part of the package takes the form of direct public spendi...

21Mar

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Europe, France, Germany, Turkey

Merkel, Macron, Erdogan to Analyze Migration Crisis

Erdogan wants to update the 2016 immigration agreement to receive more resources from the European Union. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Emmanuel Macron will meet him in Istanbul on March 17 to discuss the migration crisis generated by the Syrian war and the announcement that Turkey will not prevent refugees cross into the European Union (EU). RELATED:Greece Blocks 35,000 Migrants in a Week, Will Deport Hundreds "Merkel and Macron will come to Istanbul," Erdogan said and added that he agreed with the EU leaders a consultation process to clarify how the 2016 EU immigration agreement is being applied According to this international deal, Turkey undertook to ke...