International

Once again preparations for nuclear armament

Construction work at Büchel airbase in Germany

Press release IPPNW

(13 April 2021) The medical organisation "International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War" (IPPNW) criticises the decision of the German government to prepare the re-stationing of nuclear weapons in Büchel despite the pandemic and before the elections on 26 September.

In an answer to the parliamentary group DIE LINKE dated 1 March 2021, the federal government confirms that construction work at the Bundeswehr airbase in Büchel on the runway will begin in 2022 and continue until 2026. The planned costs of the conversion and expansion measures amount to almost 260 million euros.

Crimea: a bone of contention with conflict potential

On the 7^th anniversary of the referendum

by Wolfgang Effenberger

(31 March 2021) The referendum of 16 March 2014 – the vote for a joining with the Russian Federation – in Crimea and Sevastopol showed a clear result: with a turnout of 83 per cent, 96.7 per cent voted for annexation to Russia.¹

The U.S. Peace Council Strongly Condemns the Illegal Bombing of Syria

by the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council

(15 March 2021) Only 36 days after taking office, President Biden took his first illegal foreign-policy action by ordering an air strike on the sovereign nation of Syria, killing more than a dozen Syrian citizens.

USA bomb Syria

Biden missuses the International Law

by Binoy KAMPMARK*

(15 March 2021) On February 25, President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes against Syria. The premise for the attacks was implausible. “These strikes were authorized in response to recent attacks against American and Coalition personnel in Iraq,” claimed Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, “and to ongoing threats to those personnel.”

Biden and the exploitation of the Chinese workforce

by Thierry Meyssan*

(15 March 2021) The Biden administration is driven by a fanatical ideology borrowed from small groups of left-wing believers.¹ It is supported by two powerful lobbies: the military-industrial complex² on the one hand, and the transnational corporations producing in China on the other. Thierry Meyssan presents this little-known lobby.

“War preparation”

In Ghedi preparing the new base for the F-35

by Manlio Dinucci

(15 March 2021) The United States continues to modernise its nuclear strike force, also in Europe. In violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty it has signed, Italy is housing more and more of these weapons.