FPI / November 20, 2020 BERLIN — As they say, the last check on tyranny is civil disobedience. In Germany, police in riot gear fired water cannons in an attempt to disperse thousands of protesters fed up with the government’s highly restrictive covid lockdown and outraged at a new law that was pushed through with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 15, 2020 Citing former “intel people,” Rep. Louie Gohmert said the software company Scytl’s headquarters in Germany would have information on how many votes had been switched from Republican to Democrat during the 2020 election. Gohmert said in a Nov. 13 video conference (see below) that he received information that there […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Germany’s reunification is now history. It seemed not so long ago that the Berlin Wall had fallen in 1989, Central European countries had regained their sovereignty through the freedom tsunami sweeping Europe, and unimaginably on Oct. 3, 1990, West and East Germany, the front line frontier of a very […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 30, 2020 President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he was shifting 12,000 troops out of Germany to other NATO allies and stateside. Trump said he would reconsider his position if Germany begins “paying their bills.” U.S. troops are “there to protect Europe,” the president said. “They’re there to protect Germany, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 26, 2020 Germany appears reluctant to take sides amid increasing tensions between the United States and China. “Of all advanced economies outside Asia, Germany has the deepest economic ties in both camps and would have the most to lose from a Cold War between Washington and Beijing,” the Wall Street Journal […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2020 A violent mob chanting “Allahu Akbar” attacked police and went on a rampage of looting and destruction on Saturday after a German teenager was arrested for a drug offense, sparking what locals said were the worst ever riots in Stuttgart. Of the 24 people arrested, 12 were foreign nationals […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2020 Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping made a personal plea to the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) to delay the release of critical information regarding the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, German intelligence reported. Xi spoke with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Jan. 21 to press the WHO to […]
Special to WorldTribune Robert Morton, April 28, 1999 The vacuum of power in the post-Soviet western world has been filled by three men whose past should have disqualified them. Bill Clinton, Britain’s Tony Blair and Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder once marched against using military force to stop communist aggression. The Cold War ended and the communists […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy A century ago, in 1918-20, Europe sunk into the “red terror”. Inspired by the Russian revolution, people with red armbands, red flags and red stars were determined to celebrate the “new bright future”. At factories, the power was transferred to factory committees, banks were nationalized, churches were turned into […]
FPI / February 4, 2020 Though U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized European countries for not contributing enough to NATO’s budget, in the Spring of 2020 the United States will signal its resolve to defend its NATO allies by deploying the largest number of troops to Europe since the Cold War. Resembling the NATO REFORGER […]
