Germany Tipping Point: AfD Surges as CDU Crumbles

 

Germany is at a political tipping point as the AfD surges past 29% while Friedrich Merz and the CDU face historic collapse. Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris on The Duran break down why Alice Weidel has become Europe's most effective opposition leader, why Merz's rearmament economic plan is a disaster for the German economy, and how the political establishment is preparing to blame Russia rather than their own failures. Is Germany about to experience its most transformative political moment since the founding of the Federal Republic?

The Rise of the New German Militarism

 

In an interview in Berlin, German journalist Patrik Babb explains the rise of the new German militarism and why Germany is so obedient to the U.S.

Perfidious Albion - the Tony Blair Interview and The Key to British Imperialism

 

Fairies and their servile ogres

Polish-Palestinian survivors take Israeli leaders to court over Gaza genocide

 

Yoav Gallant, Israel Katz and military top brass accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Lawyers call it a test for the country's justice system

Five-year-old Malik still hides food beside his pillow before he goes to sleep - sometimes a piece of bread, sometimes fruit, sometimes a sweet.

His four-year-old sister Razan sets aside part of every meal, even when there is plenty on her plate.

Malik confuses the words "tent" and "home". Both children flinch at smoke and flashing red lights, bracing for bombs.

More than two years have passed since their parents got them out of Gaza. The memories have not left them.

On Monday, their father, Amjad Agha, and another Palestinian-Polish survivor, Ahmed Elsaftawy, walked into the district prosecutor's office in Wrocław, southern Poland, and filed a criminal complaint accusing senior Israeli officials of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.

Among those named are former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant and his successor, Israel Katz; the former and current chiefs of staff of the Israeli army; the commander of the Israeli navy; the minister of energy and water; and the current and former heads of the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat), the body that controls humanitarian access to Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

It is one of the first cases of its kind in Europe brought by named survivors with dual citizenship, and lawyers say it is designed to test whether Polish prosecutors will treat international crimes against their own nationals with the seriousness the law demands.  (more...)

Polish-Palestinian survivors take Israeli leaders to court over Gaza genocide

How the War on Terror Created the Age of Trump

 

Matt Kennard claims in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism. We now face the consequences of empowering extremists to the upper echelons of government power.

Montreal Protests and Manufacturing Antisemitism in Canada

 

Don't believe your lying eyes and ears

How Palestine Activists Eked Out a Win at the Canadian Labour Congress

 

Canada's biggest labour body agreed to cut ties with its Israeli counterpart

The largest labour organization in Canada has committed to cutting ties with Israel’s trade federation, the Histadrut.

A resolution passed at the constitutional convention of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) in Winnipeg earlier this month also calls on the Canadian government to support a two-way arms embargo, suspend the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement and condemn Israeli settlement expansion.

Kevin MacKay, who attended the convention as a delegate from the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), told PressProgress that, when it came time for the vote, “We had a lot of the biggest labour leaders in the hall lining up at the mic to either speak or show support for the resolution.”

“It’s amazing to have leadership on board,” said MacKay, an anthropology professor at Mohawk College. “That’s not always the case.”

Until the eleventh hour, delegates like MacKay weren’t sure if they would be voting on a resolution to cut ties with the Histadrut — after a resolution to declare trade, services and relationships with Israel to be “hot cargo” was disqualified altogether.

MacKay is a member of Labour For Palestine (L4P), a volunteer-run effort made up of workers from across Canada. The group has been organizing to pass hot-cargo resolutions at provincial labour federations that would instruct workers to refrain from handling all goods produced by, or going to, Israel.

Less than a week before the convention began, activists with L4P got word that the resolution they spearheaded, which would have committed the CLC to issuing a hot-cargo declaration and cutting ties with the Histadrut, had been given a “non-concurrence” decision by the CLC’s General Resolutions Committee, meaning it wouldn’t be presented to delegates for a vote.

“We believe that this is a political discussion and a political decision,” Hassan Husseini, a member of L4P’s national steering committee, told PressProgress just ahead of the convention.  (more...)

How Palestine Activists Eked Out a Win at the Canadian Labour Congress