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    stand trial on espionage charges. He faces up to 175 years in prison. The US government accuses him of stealing and publishing secret material from military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with whistleblower Chelsea Manning, thereby endangering the lives of US informants. Assange's supporters, however, see him as a journalist who is responsible for exposing...

  2. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    who, with the help of international media, published thousands of documents on the Wikileaks disclosure platform that allegedly document serious war crimes committed by the US Army in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as many other crimes committed by corporations, governments and private individuals, then faces up to 175 years in prison. “Assange is being criminalized, even though a US court in 2019...

  3. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    serious consequences. At first glance, US foreign policy appears completely irrational. The US is plunging into one catastrophic war after another - in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, Ukraine and now Gaza. In recent days, the United States has faced almost worldwide condemnation for its support of Israel's genocidal actions against the Palestinians.

  4. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    weaker industrial activity and the move away from coal-fired power generation in favor of renewable energy... * Asylum policy | Migration | Deportations Secret migration deal with Iraq The federal government is keeping a migration agreement between Germany and Iraq secret. NDR, WDR and SZ have the written declaration on migration and deportations from both countries...

  5. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    Terror has had its share of stalemates, disasters and defeats. In more than 20 years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts fail spectacularly from Iraq in 2014 to Afghanistan in 2021. However, the greatest failure of their “forever wars” may not lie in the Middle East, but in Africa...

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

    you can set the mood. [...] In Great Britain a survey was carried out in 2013 on the number of victims. It found that around 60 percent of Brits believed that fewer than 10.000 Iraqis died as a result of the war, and 44 percent believed that fewer than 5000 died. Scientific studies at the time assumed at least 500.000 to a million deaths - figures provided by the Press...

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

    a radioactive and chemically toxic heavy metal. As far as is known, these weapons were used by two states: the USA and Great Britain. This first happened in Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War. This was followed by wars in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Somalia from 1994/95. They were probably also used in Libya and Syria. In addition, they are currently being burned in the Ukraine war...

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

    Text in which the now 94-year-old Chomsky is said to have described Russia's military actions in Ukraine as comparatively cautious. “Russia fights more humanely than the USA in Iraq,” was the headline in the paper – but Chomsky never said that. The fact that this was not initially made public was due to the New Statesman itself. The editorial team did publish the text of their Berlin correspondent Ido...

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

    to clean after they had been used in combat. Many of the machines he spent hours scrubbing had loaded and fired depleted uranium shells designed to penetrate and disable Iraq's T-72 tanks, better known as the Lions of Babylon. Dyson spent five months in this war zone ensuring that the...

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

    a resolution to ban the production, distribution and use of DU ammunition. To date this has not been enforced. The US military had already used DU ammunition in Iraq during the Second Gulf War in 2. The abbreviation DU stands for “depleted uranium”. DU ammunition is valued by the military because of its high penetrating power. [...] After...

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

    may continue to be re-approved in the EU. This should satisfy the German transport minister and provide relief for the German auto industry * Uranium ammunition | Uranium dust | Iraq War: British supplies Ukraine with ammunition made from radioactive material: How dangerous are uranium bullets? Together with the Challenger 2 main battle tanks, Great Britain is supplying uranium shells to Ukraine....

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

    District heating regulations violated. At the same time, they disregard the case law of the Federal Court of Justice. Nevertheless, energy suppliers are now demanding state subsidies as part of the price caps... * Ukraine War | Iraq War | double standards Twenty years ago, when the USA was Putin. Russian crimes in Ukraine are rightly condemned. But there is amnesia and hypocrisy in the Iraq war. Above...

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

    flee receive very different treatment. Indeed, it is difficult to ignore the racism that lies behind the thinking of many who claim that one should not compare the US invasion of Iraq with Russia's invasion of Ukraine because the two events are on a different level . This position is represented, for example, by the neoliberal Polish...

  14. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    and military elites with disgraced Congressman Santos. US military leaders came before Congress to testify that they are winning the Iraq War. They told Congress that the war in Afghanistan was being won. They spoke of "progress", of turning points, of successfully trained Iraqi and Afghan soldiers...

  15. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    to states that waged wars, which is actually prohibited under the War Materials Act. The Swiss arms industry sold weapons to NATO countries waging war in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and so on. Today, Switzerland is one of the beneficiaries of all these wars with its arms exports and financing of arms companies. Like in World War II...

  16. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    Hans-Christof Graf von Sponeck (* 1939 in Bremen) is a former German UN diplomat, non-fiction author and university professor. From 1968 to 2000 he worked for the United Nations, most recently in Iraq. He is the son of Lieutenant General Hans von Sponeck, who was murdered by the National Socialists on July 20th. It's not just about "reforms", a weak word anyway in view...

  17. Newsletter XLVIII 2022 - December 01st to 07th - News+ The New York Times and the new climate deniers

    sufficient. In Iran, construction begins on a nuclear power plant in the southwest that has been planned for decades. Nuclear chief Mohammed Eslami accompanied a delegation to the Darchowein site on the border with Iraq, as the Iranian news agency Isna reported on Saturday. According to the report, the pressurized water reactor in Khuzestan province will have an output of 300 megawatts. Considerations for...

  18. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    Justice of the New York University School of Law was published. The report, "Secret War: How the US Uses Partnerships and Proxy Forces to Wage War Under the Radar," says: Afghanistan, Iraq, maybe Libya. If you were to ask the average American where the United States has fought wars over the past two decades, they would probably get this short list...

  19. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    1961 (Tsar bomb AN602) Novaya Zemlya, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: kernare-welt@reaktorpleite.de ** October 22nd Chomsky Chomsky on the Iraq War: Why the USA is getting away with breaches of international law 20 years ago, the US Congress gave the green light for the invasion of Iraq Iraq. The country was devastated and around a million people were killed...

  20. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    exploit states. One of WikiLeaks' most important early revelations was a video released in 2010 showing the US army killing unarmed civilians and journalists in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The footage was taken three years earlier, in 2007, during the early years of the US occupation of Iraq. I urge you all to watch this video titled...

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