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The US sends Germany into the fire
Even as some whispers of dissent emerge in the rest of Europe, Germany's increasingly zealous devotion to Washington's military ambitions is dragging the continent into all-out war, warns MARCEL CARTIER
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) and the Green Party Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who has emerged as a leading 'hawk' eager to confront Russia militarily
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN 1984, a socialist activist from West Germany found himself in East Berlin sitting across from members of the DDR’s (East Germany’s) political leadership. The militant deputy chairman of the Young Socialists (Jusos), the youth wing of the SPD, was only 25.
He was known for supporting the Marxist tendency within Jusos, and would often rant about needing to not only overcome capitalism but of the need to dissolve “aggressive, imperialist” Nato.
Over the next several years, he would occasionally return to the DDR, including to participate in a protest for nuclear disarmament in 1987. That young activist for peace was Olaf Scholz: fast forward nearly three decades and he is now the Chancellor of a united Germany.
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