GERMANY

Germany’s Traffic Light Coalition Blinks Green for NATO Hostility to Russia

By Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation | December 17, 2021 The new German coalition government headed up by Chancellor Olaf Scholz is only one week in power but already the signals are pointing to Berlin being more amenable to U.S.-led NATO hostility towards Russia. The “traffic light” coalition (based on party colours) comprises the […]

Russia demands YouTube restore RT’s German broadcast channel

RT | December 17, 2021 Russia’s media regulator has warned that it could curtail or block access to YouTube unless the American tech giant restores the “RT auf Sendung” channel. The platform deleted RT DE’s newly launched service on Thursday. Regulator Roskomnadzor, has sent a notice to Google, YouTube’s parent company demanding that the platform […]

Head of European media authority says RT in Germany ‘will be taken care of’

RT | December 17, 2021 Tobias Schmid, the European Representative of the Directors’ Conference of the Media Authorities, in an interview to a German media outlet NDR baselessly disputed the validity of RT’s broadcasting in Germany, but said that the channel “will be taken care of.” German-language television channel RT DE – part of the […]

New German Chancellor Says There Will Be “No Red Lines” As Regards COVID Restrictions

By Steve Watson | Summit News | December 15, 2021 Angela Merkel’s successor in Germany has declared that there is nothing he won’t do to battle COVID, a stark statement given previous pledges to make compulsory vaccinations legal. Chancellor Olaf Scholz used his first address to the nation in Germany to push vaccinations, declaring that they are […]

PSA: Be Careful on Telegram

eugyppius | December 15, 2021 Assume that most large chat groups are infiltrated by security services and that everything you say there is being surveilled by the police. For a few weeks, regime-friendly press outlets in Germany, like the Süddeutsche Zeitung, have been ringing the alarm about Telegram as a “lawless space” that poses a “danger […]

Change Is Coming to Berlin: What Col. Douglas Macgregor Thinks About Germany’s New Foreign Policy

Incoming German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has tapped Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock as foreign minister. Baerbock, a 40-year-old diplomatic novice, has consistently espoused liberal interventionist views that one left-wing American news site has described as a combination of “aloof complacency, ignorance and aggressiveness.” To help understand the implications of this appointment, I interviewed Douglas Macgregor, a retired U.S.