The German Minister of Justice who in 2002 famously compared George Bush to Adolf Hitler. Däubler-Gmelin continues to play an important role in German and European politics. As turns out, moreover, her own father, Hans Gmelin, was a high-ranking Nazi official in the German satellite state of Slovakia during the Second World War. For the details, see my new article on World Politics Review here.

See my new translation on World Politics Review here.

Apart from the sheer mass of the Clintons’ earnings, perhaps the most intriguing revelation contained in the recent release of the Clinton tax data was that Bill Clinton received a whopping $15 million advance for what would become his autobiography, My Life. Who would pay such an enormous sum to Bill Clinton — thus, in effect, erasing in one fell swoop the well-known financial burden of his outstanding legal fees? The answer is that Germany’s Bertelsmann Corporation would.

 
For the details, see my new article on Pajamas Media here.

My discussion of a new book in German by the historian Klaus Gensicke. In Policy Review magazine here. 

“At the age of 19, Murat Kurnaz vanished into America’s shadow prison system in the war on terror. He was from Germany, traveling in Pakistan, and was picked up three months after 9/11. But there seemed to be ample evidence that Kurnaz was an innocent man with no connection to terrorism. The FBI thought so, U.S. intelligence thought so, and German intelligence agreed.” Thus intoned CBS correspondent Scott Pelley on Sunday night in introducing the 60 Minutes report on former Guantánamo inmate Murat Kurnaz. But the problem with CBS’s claim is that there is, on the contrary, ample evidence that Kurnaz was indeed connected to terrorist circles and had left Germany to fight with the Taliban, just as US authorities have maintained.

 
For the details, see my new report on Pajamas Media here.