1. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    Climate movement is losing support Only half as many people as two years ago support environmental activists, a survey shows. 85 percent reject the last generation. BERLIN taz | According to a survey, support for the climate and environmental movement in Germany has halved in the past two years. In 2021, they basically had their support...

  2. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    a municipal partnership... * EU Commission | Decarbonization | Hydrogen economy | Steel production Green Steel: EU Commission approves largest German decarbonization project Berlin - The largest decarbonization project in Germany to date has reached an important milestone. Yesterday (July 20.07.2023, XNUMX) the European Commission approved state aid for...

  3. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    High temperatures are forcing people and governments to take action. In Germany, statutory health insurance doctors are calling for air conditioning in old people's homes. The temperatures have reached around 35 degrees in Berlin so far on Saturday - and could even rise a little during the day. From the evening onwards the wind will pick up in some places and it will become darker, as the German Weather Service (DWD) announced. In Cottbus...

  4. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    Pay euros. This has revived the debate about whether politicians should be held personally liable for their decisions. Yes, with certain restrictions, says Tim Szent-Ivanyi. Berlin. The federal government must pay 243 million euros in damages to the operating companies actually intended for the car toll. A quarter of a billion euros! If the federal government didn't have to give this money to...

  5. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    celebrated, is on a par with a right-wing group that was founded just ten years ago and has since become increasingly radical, even extremist in some ways. Since then, a remarkable spectacle has been observed in political Berlin: the government and the opposition are alternately passing the buck to each other - and are doing practically everything to help the AfD reach new heights...

  6. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    Renewables for West Africa: Sun for Senegal Germany, France and other industrialized countries are giving the West African country 2,5 billion euros. The goal: the expansion of renewable energies.​ BERLIN taz | The West African state of Senegal is to receive 2,5 billion euros from Germany, among others, to invest in renewable energies. This was announced by Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD),...

  7. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    Rainforest in Brazil: Deforestation is declining In the first five months of the new left-wing government, things have probably improved in the Amazon region. President Lula wants to save the rainforest. BERLIN taz | Brazilian President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva said in the capital Brasília that he was aware of the size of the task. But he and his government would do everything they could to stop the illegal...

  8. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    more humane than the USA in Iraq," was the headline of the paper - but Chomsky had never said that. The fact that this was not initially made public was due to the New Statesman itself. The editorial team did put the text of their Berlin correspondent Ido Vock online, who had spoken to Chomsky . But the video of the interview was searched in vain on the homepage. It is now clear: Chomsky, an exposed representative...

  9. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    in winter ensures that they don't freeze and that they can bear the costs. Why does the idea of ​​a heat register cause so much fear? Just because the current attempt at useful energy comes from Berlin does it have to be bad? Both individual federal states and several municipalities have already made further progress and no one has been bothered by it. [...] Without much excitement...

  10. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    Climate activists: They call it self-defense Violence often occurs during road blockades. Why is it that so many people feel offended by the actions of the Last Generation? BERLIN taz | When the man swings his fist, Irma Trommer braces herself for the pain. She narrows her eyes and waits for the impact. But then the fist doesn't hit...

  11. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    artificial intelligences lead to enormously high energy consumption... * AfD | Right-wing extremist | Racist right-wing extremism in Brandenburg: Look at the Nazis in the East The attacks on a Berlin school class show: Racist violence is still normal in rural regions of Brandenburg.... At the weekend, a group of right-wing extremist young people attacked a Berlin school class...

  12. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    has repeatedly attracted attention in recent years, the “Last Generation” is now often causing a stir. Only recently there were a number of police operations due to the climate adhesive protests in Berlin. Blocking climate activists' roads and highways is controversial. [...] Another user at least gave him credit for his honesty: “But...

  13. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    he sounded different. Why nuclear power is an obsolete model not only in this country but worldwide. Energy economist Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin calls the recent demand from liberals, conservatives and right-wing extremists for a stop to the demolition of nuclear power plants absurd. [...] More nuclear power plants have been shut down worldwide for years than...

  14. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    switched off again. Even after 16 years, the French one has still not delivered a kilowatt hour... * Once again, really switch off before we continue: 9 a.m. to 15 p.m. at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 12 p.m. on Odeonsplatz in Munich, 13 p.m. in front of the fuel element factory in Lingen, 13 p.m. on the parking lot in front of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant * Sanctions | Russia | Fuel elements uranium "An extremely...

  15. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    between Moscow and Kiev, an end to arms aid for Ukraine and the renunciation of arming the Bundeswehr. Probably the largest Easter march with up to 2000 peace activists took place in Berlin. The organizers there warned of an escalation of the war in Ukraine. Germany is partly to blame for this - through arms deliveries to Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia, "permanent...

  16. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    Reform of the Climate Protection Act: Moving away from sector goals The government wants to reform the Climate Protection Act. This distracts attention from those ministries that have some catching up to do on climate policy. BERLIN taz | It is an inconspicuous sentence that is intended to gut the German climate protection law. “In the future, compliance with climate protection goals should be based on a cross-sectoral and multi-year...

  17. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    roofs and open spaces. This means that almost a third of the total new installations from the previous year were achieved in the first two months of 2023. This emerges from a study by the Berlin start-up Enpal (provider of rental solar systems), which is available to the Editorial Network Germany (RND). The data basis was the market master data register of the Federal Network Agency. With...

  18. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    Combustion engines: E-fuels could save Big Oil The FDP is fighting against the end of combustion engines and the use of synthetic fuels. Who is lobbying for it – and who benefits from it. BERLIN taz | The FDP has plunged Europe into chaos: It suddenly no longer wants to agree to the long-standing decision to end new cars with combustion engines in the European Union from 2035. That...

  19. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    “Bild” newspaper: Habeck doesn’t cost us a trillion. The Green Vice Chancellor’s plans to replace old heating systems cost us 1.000 billion euros, as the tabloid newspaper claims? A fact check. BERLIN taz | The headline has it all. “Institute warns: Habeck’s housing hammer is costing us 1.000 billion,” writes the Bild newspaper on Friday. The accompanying text is about the planned reform...

  20. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    with, there is now a real chance of achieving the expansion targets for 2030. After six months of energy policy fire brigade operations, the EU Commission in Brussels and the traffic light government in Berlin have moved forward and are accelerating the approval process for new green electricity systems. This is also urgently needed, especially with wind energy... * Disposal | EnBW | Philippsburg...