Readers might be forgiven for imagining that the signature depicted below is that of a teenage schoolgirl – perhaps used to dedicate a copy of a friend’s high school yearbook, for instance. I say this, incidentally, on the authority of a former teenage schoolgirl who was kind enough to bring the photo and the similitude [...]
French authorities are fond of accusing media in other countries of “incitement”. As I discussed on the old Trans-Int, French Minister of Defense Michelle Alliot-Marie brandished the charge, for instance, when Ivorian media in November 2004 reported on a massacre of Ivorian civilians by the French military. Some weeks later, nonetheless, Alliot-Marie would be forced [...]
Joschka Fischer’s past as a Frankfurt street-fighter has again caught up with him. For the second time in five years, Fischer has been called as a witness to testify about his experiences in Frankfurt’s anarcho-lefty "scene" during the 1970s. The first time was in the 2001 trial that saw former Fischer friend Hans-Joachim Klein convicted [...]
The following from Henryk Broder in the latest issue of the Berlin weekly Jungle World.
One does not have to have been an admirer of Slobodan Milosevic to have found his trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague to have been a judicial farce. Witness the following observation by Jiri Dienstbier, who served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the former [...]
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While the NYTimes continues its campaign to convince its readers that the German intelligence agents stationed in Iraq during the Iraq War were “helping” the US, a spokesperson for their employer, Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), has a radically different explanation for its apparent cooperation with US forces. A key element in the Times’s – [...]
Citing a “classified German review”, an article in today’s NYTimes advances new claims to the effect that the German intelligence officers based in Iraq during the Iraq War aided the US-led war effort against the regime of Saddam Hussein. (Hat-tip: Medienkritik.) The “review” in question is the same report, prepared by the German government for [...]
