Finance
Politico – European carmakers in crossfire of US-EU trade war
German automanufacturers are facing the perfect storm – falling behind China technologically, and having their access to the US market reduced. Read the article HERE.
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Solutions
Ben Wray – Population Decline Will Transform Our Social World
Population decline is already a reality for many European countries and is looming for the rest of them. This is a seismic change in the nature of our society and the economy and the left […]
Solutions
Lily Lynch – Sense of an Ending
A look at the massive student protests rocking Serbia. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
ARTnews: Fareed Armaly Rejects Käthe Kollwitz Prize Citing Censorship in Germany
Why can’t the Germans have some fun? It is just a genocide and fascism. This is what their culture is about. Read HERE
Geopolitics
Larry C. Johnson: According to US Government Data, Iran is Not the Major Sponsor of Terrorism
When it comes to using terrorism as a political club, the United States government is the grand master, and a deceptive one at that. The establishment media, lubricated with funds from the CIA and USAID, […]
Geopolitics
The Telegraph: UK to take over leadership of Ukraine defence group from US
That’s it then. Europe is stuck with the defeat in Ukraine so that Trump can build a new Riviera in Gaza. Read HERE
Geopolitics
The Electronic Intifada: Israeli Army was ordered to kill Israelis on 7 October, defense minister confirms
Israeli troops were ordered to shoot and kill captive Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, Israel’s then defence minister admitted this week. The order to carry out Israel’s so-called Hannibal Directive was issued “tactically” and […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Germany’s sectoral decline and its obsession with fiscal austerity
On Germany’s inexorable economic decline taking the EU down with it. Read HERE
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: Far-right flying high
The number of racist attacks on refugees is soaring in Germany. Far-right offences average 100 per day, while the AfD are further boosted by a CDU anti-immigrant motion in the Bundestag. Read HERE
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Industrial Production in 2024: -4.5% in comparison to 2023
Production in industry December 2024 (in real terms, provisional): -2.4% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -3.1% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) November 2024 (in real terms, revised): +1.3% […]