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  • Analysis: Kiev`s Orange Revolution sours
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Roland Flamini
    WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) — Less than a year after coming to power in the ’Orange Revolution’ and making Ukraine the envy of people in less democratic former Soviet regimes President Viktor Yushchenko has sacked key political supporters amid accusations of graft and corruption. Thursday he fired Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko who had been his champion in the non-violent winter revolution. Earlier, he had accepted the resignation of Petro Poroshenko, another (…)

  • Minister: Bush must be ’shot down’
    8 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thursday, September 8, 2005
    BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — A conservative German minister in a southern state has caused uproar by saying U.S. President George W. Bush should be "shot down" for his handling of the crisis in hurricane-struck New Orleans.
    Andreas Renner, Social Minister in Germany’s southern state of Baden-Wuertemberg, clarified later that he had only meant Bush should be downed politically.
    During a visit to a local company on Tuesday, Renner said of Bush: "He ought to be (…)

  • New left strikes chord in disillusioned east
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Luke Harding in Cottbus
    Sixteen years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Ellen Müller looks back with nostalgia at her life in the then communist East Germany.
    "I didn’t have to worry whether we had enough to eat," she says. "Brötchen [bread rolls] cost five pfennigs. People cared more about children. And if you were ill you didn’t have to wait to see a doctor. It was all free."
    Far from enjoying the "blooming landscapes" promised by the then chancellor, Helmut Kohl, when the wall (…)

  • KATRINA’S TRANS-ATLANTIC WAVES : German Minister Stands Behind Criticism of Bush
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    German Environmental Minister Jürgen Trittin remains stolid in his assertion that Hurricane Katrina is linked to global warming and America’s refusal to reduce emissions. He may be right, but the timing of his tirade is way off.
    Germany’s Minister of the Environment, Jürgen Trittin of the Green Party, on Tuesday unleashed a firestorm of criticism in the United States over comments he made in a newspaper column directly linking the natural catastrophe in the American South to global (…)

  • Berlin : US bases undermine sovereignty, says Lafontaine
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Bertrand Benoit in Berlin
    Oskar Lafontaine, one of two lead candidates for the Left party at the German election, has called into question the presence of US military bases in the country, saying they undermine Germany’s sovereignty.
    Addressing the congress of the party, an alliance of Social Democratic dissidents and neo-Communists, in Berlin on Saturday, Mr Lafontaine said: "We are not a sovereign country; as long as the US can operate from here, we are a participant in the Iraq (…)

  • Left Party pushes itself as alternative to German status quo
    30 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Rising, Associated Press
    BERLIN - Leaders of Germany’s new party - combining ex-communists and left-wing defectors from Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats - pitched themselves on Saturday as an alternative to the status quo.
    The Left Party has emerged as a serious force before Sept. 18 elections, sapping strength from Schroeder’s Social Democrats. The party’s attacks on Schroeder’s social welfare reform programs, its pledges to raise unemployment insurance and seek (…)

  • The story of the White Rose inevitably makes people with a military mindset very uncomfortable
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The White Rose: A Lesson in Dissent
    Hans and Sophie Scholl were German teenagers in the 1930s. Like other young Germans, they enthusiastically joined the Hitler Youth. They believed that Adolf Hitler was leading Germany and the German people back to greatness.
    Their parents were not so enthusiastic. Their father—Robert Scholl—told his children that Hitler and the Nazis were leading Germany down a road of destruction. Later—in 1942—he would serve time in a Nazi prison for telling his (…)

  • Americans Surrendering Liberties: Shades Of German History
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chuck Baldwin
    Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon
    It appears that a strengthened U.S.A. Patriot Act will soon sail through Congress with little opposition or consternation on the part of the American people. The new Patriot Act is even more stringent than the original. In addition, many of the more egregious elements of the Patriot Act which were originally scheduled to sunset are made permanent in the latest version. And the vast majority of the American people do not seem to mind. (…)

  • The New "Left" in Germany Jumps Another Hurdle
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Victor Grossman, Berlin
    One big hurdle has been overcome; the election officials in all 16 German states have ruled that the new party "The Left" (or the "Left.PDS") is entitled to a place on the ballot in the key September 16th election. Some opponents of the new party had raised constitutional objections and even plan to go to court if necessary - but their chances are now much slimmer.
    The new party is a temporary sort of alliance - "sort of" because electoral alliances of two (…)

  • When spirituality meets commerce. Pope’s German visit spawns product spree
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — The unofficial beer of World Youth Day is drawing more than just small sips from thirsty pilgrims.
    The beer, bearing a photo of Benedict XVI and brewed in his home of Bavaria, is among the scores of items being sold or traded among the more than 415,000 pilgrims that have journeyed to Cologne for the 20th World Youth Day.
    Officially sanctioned T-shirts and mugs with the event’s logo, finger rosaries and pictures of Benedict are also selling quickly as retailers (…)