By Ray Furlong
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has told an election campaign rally that the military option for resolving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme should be "taken off the table".
"We’re all concerned about the developments in Iran," he said.
"We don’t want nuclear weapons to proliferate further."
But Mr Schroeder said diplomacy was the answer.
"I’ve read that military options are also on the table," he said.
"My answer to that is: ’Dear friends in Europe and (…)
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Schroeder plays the Iran card
15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Germany’s new left upsets the applecart
13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentHelmut Scholz is up for a fight - and the political establishment is running scared
by Simon Tisdall
Helmut Scholz is up for a fight - and the political establishment is running scared. The German left, he says, won’t be fooled again.
Speaking in Berlin this week, the international coordinator of Germany’s insurrectionary new electoral phenomenon, the Linkspartei (Left party), said the country was in crisis and the main parties had no solutions.
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Protesters cut fence, walk unchallenged through Stuttgart’s Patch Barracks
13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Charlie Coon
STUTTGART, Germany - Three anti-war protesters, including a 70-year-old woman, turned themselves in to police on Tuesday after they cut a large hole in the fence at Patch Barracks, walked onto the base, hung a banner, and weren’t challenged by anyone.
The three Germans, the woman and two men ages 51 and 22, were apparently surprised they weren’t arrested after breaking onto the base at about 11:30 a.m. So they walked through the base and out the main gate, where they (…) -
US and European allies provoke confrontation with Iran
11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Peter Symonds
The Bush administration with the support of the so-called EU-3-Britain, France and Germany-has seized on Iran’s decision to restart its uranium conversion facility at Esfahan as the pretext for condemning Tehran and threatening UN economic sanctions. Once again Washington and its allies, with the backing of the international media, are conducting a campaign of provocation and lies that will ultimately lead to open confrontation if Iran does not completely capitulate.
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New German Left gains momentum
9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Ray Furlong
Veteran east German pop group Die Puhdys are piped out across a small crowd of mostly grey-haired holidaymakers, gathered around the stands selling smoked fish near the beach.
The small resort of Glowe, on the Baltic island of Ruegen, is witness to one of the first rallies of the election campaign.
The sun is shining and the atmosphere is relaxed as Lothar Bisky, leader of the reformed communist party, the PDS, tells the crowd that "East Germany will have a voice again" (…) -
Police KILL raver at CzechTek
7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
One man confirmed dead as riot police hurl tear gas into tents and vehicles on Friday night (29th July) in their 2200 hrs raid of the legal CzechTek site.
Czechtek is open-air international and multicultural music festival with 12 year tradition. Not only different genres of music, but also videoart and other art performances take place on this unique event of free culture. In all history of festival there were no significant damages or problems, participants while leaving clean the land (…) -
Polish PM on Iraq "It failed totally...Many mistakes, major mistakes, have been committed."
4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsTALLBERG, Sweden - Poland’s prime minister said Monday that postwar nation-building efforts in Iraq have "failed totally," but expressed hope that the country’s different religious groups can work together to build an independent nation.
Prime Minister Marek Belka, whose country has been a close U.S. ally since the invasion of Iraq, said the United States and its allies made a mistake by basing its postwar plan for Iraq on the same model used for Germany after World War II.
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Germany : social Justice or Economic Folly?
2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe new hard-left grouping in Germany, the Left Party, is sending tremors across the political landscape. But, the party’s economic program has industry groups and economists shaking their heads, and worrying.
It calls itself the Left Party, die Linkspartei in German, and it’s making an already unusual election campaign even stranger. Made up of the successors to East Germany’s communist party, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), and disaffected left-wingers who split off from the (…) -
Bush=Milosevich?
26 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsThe more I see and hear, the more this war in Iraq appears to be a form of "ethnic cleansing", although it’s not portrayed as such. When I hear the words related to "democracy" and "freedom" used by this gang/cult in the white house, I now think "torture, imprisonment, intimidation, and tyranny" by this administration. Thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqis’ lives are being snuffed out. These are not "insurgents". These people were like you and me- farmers, policemen, teachers, (…)
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UK pension ’near lowest in West’
25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsUK pension ’near lowest in West’
Britain’s state pension is one of the lowest among the richest nations, a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development claims.
In a comparison of pensions in OECD countries, Britain’s state pension ranks 26th out of 30 in the percentage of average post-tax salary it pays out.
A Briton on average pay of £22,000 could expect their pension to be less than 48% of their post-tax earnings.
The average pay-out from other advanced (…)