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On 5 December, tens of thousands of high school students demonstrated against conscription and war in around 90 German cities. On the same day, the German Bundestag passed a law on military service that moves towards conscription and ignores the concerns of schoolchildren.

 

Young people want to live in peace

German high school students demonstrate against conscription and war

by Karl-Jürgen Müller

 

Many German media outlets reported on the demonstrations. Short excerpts from students’ statements were often quoted. These quotes and the videos available on the internet with various student statements, but also a look at the many posters carried by the students, show that the demonstrations were coordinated and that party slogans could be heard and seen. However, most participants were independent-minded, unorganised young people who also had their say. Microphones were passed around, and anyone who wanted to say something could do so. The statements were refreshingly unpolished and elaborate.
  In North Rhine-Westphalia, the state’s student representation has also spoken out – with a statement that I would like to see from German politicians. It criticises the federal government’s security policy, warns of “increasing attacks on democracy and society” and sees “exaggerated portrayals of a Russian threat as a form of media manipulation designed to stir up social fear and justify military measures”.1 [emphasis km]
  Chancellor Friedrich Merz set an example of this in his speech at the CSU party conference on 13 December. Contrary to the facts, he once again painted a picture of a Russian threat: Russia wanted to (forcibly) restore the Soviet Union within its old borders. Peace in Ukraine respecting Russian interests was a new “Munich Agreement” of 1938. Germany gave young people “many opportunities […], but then we also want you to make a contribution […] We are doing this on a voluntary basis now, and if necessary, we will make it mandatory before the end of this legislative period.”
  Other politicians had tried to curry favour with the students, Boris Pistorius taking the cake. On 5 December, tagesschau.de wrote: “Defence Minister Boris Pistorius himself did not take offence at the strikes in his speech to the Bundestag. He described them as ‘great’. They showed the interest and commitment of the students – and that they ‘know what is at stake’.” Pistorius is the minister who is at the forefront of making Germany “fit for war” and reintroducing conscription.
  On 5 December, the German website NachDenkSeiten published a lengthy text by a young man of about 30 who commented on conscription (see box). I find this text very worth reading and I was also pleased about the demonstrations. It may be that the students who stayed away from school on the morning of 5 December violated school rules.
  But I also had to think of Wolfgang Borchert.
  He began his short story “On this Tuesday” with a description of a school lesson during dying in war: 

“On this Tuesday,
they practised writing capital letters at school. The teacher wore thick glasses. They had no rims. They were so thick that her eyes looked very quiet. Forty-two girls sat in front of their blackboards, writing in capital letters:
OLD FRITZ HAD A TIN DRINKING CUP. BIG BERTHA [howitzer; heavy gun] SHOT ALL THE WAY TO PARIS. IN WAR, ALL FATHERS ARE SOLDIERS.


Ulla reached her nose with the tip of her tongue. Then the teacher nudged her. You spelled war without the ‘r’, Ulla. War is spelled with an ‘r’. ‘R’ as in rim. How many times have I said that? The teacher took a book and put a tick next to Ulla’s name. Tomorrow you will copy the sentence ten times – neatly – understood? Yes, said Ulla, thinking: She with her glasses.”

So what matters?
  Or should today’s young people wait until, after another big war, the voices of the young victims of war have to be read again – as was the case after the First and Second World Wars: “All Quiet on the Western Front”2, “War Letters of Fallen Students”3 or the memories of a young German soldier of the exterminatory war against the Soviet Union in 1941–1945: “Strangely foreign to myself”4.
  A coordination centre for the student protests has announced on the internet5 that the nationwide demonstrations are to continue on 5 March 2026.
  It also states: 

“Conscription is to be reintroduced. Initially as ‘voluntary military service’, but one thing is already certain: if not enough of us sign up, lots will be drawn and then it will become compulsory for everyone. The argument is that we should be able to wage war for Germany.
  But what about our right to live in peace and decide for ourselves how we want to live our lives? What about Article 4, para 3 of the Grundgesetz (German basic law), according to which no one may be forced to serve in the armed forces? We do not want to be locked up in barracks for six months of our lives, trained in drill and obedience, and taught to kill. War is not a prospect for the future and is destroying our livelihoods.
  Whether it’s the news or talk shows, almost everyone is talking and discussing it. Politicians, the armed forces and various presenters are arguing that we should reintroduce conscription.
  But no one is talking to us.
  No one asks us what we want.
  No one wants to know what we think about it.
  But we are the ones affected! It is our lives they want to discuss and decide on! That is why we are forcing them to listen to why we are against conscription!”

Time and again, there have been young people who have had a particular sensitivity to right and wrong. In a time of war and pure power politics – only for one’s own “interests” and no longer for the good of all people – in which the powerful and the “clever” of the world lose all sense of right and wrong, power takes precedence over justice and this is even embellished with propaganda, for example as “realpolitik”, this sensitivity is a valuable treasure.
  Supporting young people in following their sensitivity to right and wrong and not allowing themselves to be swayed is a major task. •

https://www.zeit-fragen.ch/en/archives/2025/nr-26-9-dezember-2025-1/die-jugend-will-im-frieden-leben

 

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

hitlerite lies....

 

The Hitlerite Lie That Drove U.S.-&-Allied ‘News’-Reporting Throughout 2025

 

31 December 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Nazi — that is, racist-supremacist-imperialistic — lies demonize domestic populations that they crave to eliminate (such as in Gaza), and especially demonize foreign Governments that they crave to add to their empire; and, so, in 2025, the U.S. empire’s ‘news’-media ceaslessly focused upon the war in Ukraine as being aggression by Russia against Ukraine that had started on 24 February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, instead of as being what it was: aggression by the U.S. against Russia that had started during 20-27 February 2014 when the Obama regime in Washington DC perpetrated its coup in Ukraine against Russia, which very bloody coup replaced Ukraine’s existing committedly neutralist democratically ellected Government and installed there a rabidly anti-Russian government that promptly started slaughtering supporters of the Government that the U.S. regime had just overthrown. The objective has been to position U.S. nuclear-armed missiles on Ukraine’s border with Russia a mere 300 miles (500 km.) five minutes away from blitz-annihilating Russia’s central command in The Kremlin. That is the U.S. regime’s goal; and, on 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in order to prevent it from ever being achieved.

A typical example of this Hitlerite lie is the ‘news’-report on 18 December 2025 “Who are the Westerners sanctioned by the EU for spreading Russian propaganda?” at EuroNews, which opened:

 

One American and two Europeans have gained legitimacy spreading propaganda off the back of their former careers in Western police forces, military or intelligence.

A former sheriff from Florida, a member of the French military and a Swiss intelligence officer were among 12 individuals sanctioned by the European Union on 15 December.

The measures initiated by France also led a host of Russian nationals to be sanctioned, in light of Russia’s continued hybrid warfare targeting the EU’s member states and its partners.

The three Westerners have used their former careers in Western police forces, military or intelligence to gain credibility, according to experts.

“Their past careers in intelligence and the military conjure up ideas of secrecy, as well as the notion of the ‘deep state’ for the public,” Hervé Letoqueux, CEO at Check First, a company which monitors disinformation, told Euronews’ fact-checking team, The Cube.

“The fact these individuals have these past professions ultimately allows them to say pretty much anything, meaning that they don’t need to prove anything; it gives them a form of authority, so they can say whatever they want,” added Letoqueux, who previously headed France’s agency for foreign digital interference, Viginum.

Xavier Moreau

Xavier Moreau is a French-born former military officer and businessman, described as a disseminator of “Kremlin propaganda” in Europe by France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot.

Moreau, who acquired Russian citizenship in 2013, has lived in Russia since 2000.

He has spread a host of disproven pro-Kremlin narratives, for instance, claiming that Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine was orchestrated by [NO: that it was a response to NATO’s trying to bring Ukraine into] NATO, and that Kyiv was responsible for shooting down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in 2014.

In 2014, Moreau participated in Russia’s so-called referendums on the annexation of Crimea and later of the Donbas region — which were not recognised by the international community — as a “foreign observer”.

 

As regards the allegation that “Kyiv [Ukraine’s U.S.-installed government] was responsible for shooting down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 [the “MH17” airliner] in 2014,” I had fully documented (with links to all sources, each one of which is available online) that that allegation is true, headlining on 7 October 2019, “Update on the MH17 Case”. You can see right there the entire case, and directly access each item of evidence in the case. The EU, even more than the U.S. regime, is censoring-out ALL presentations of the banned-by-them evidences on this matter, that “Obama was, at that time, in early July 2014, desperate for there to be a pretext on which the European Union would join the U.S. in greatly hiking sanctions against Russia regarding Ukraine. What the most-recent information will show is this: Obama and his NATO were intending to use this false accusation against Russia as a pretext not only to hike anti-Russia sanctions but ultimately to invade both Donetsk and Crimea.” (Obama finally decided not to invade.) Even earlier, on 27 February 2015, I had headlined “The Entire Case for Sanctions Against Russia Is Pure Lies”; and, even then, the evidences regarding the MH17 shoot-down were already overwhelming:

 

Regarding the shoot-down of the MH17 Malaysian airliner (the pretext for Obama’s getting the EU to support increased anti-Russian sanctions): the U.S.-Ukrainian account of the downing is that pro-Russian rebels shot it down by mistake, with a missile. For this, Obama blamed Russia, and his agents who run European governments and the EU went along with that and hiked their economic sanctions against Russia; but, nobody in power believed it, because the postulated scenario is absurd to anyone who knows anything. However, even if that scenario had been true, yet still, Obama definitely caused the Malaysian airliner to be downed. Furthermore, the reason why the official ‘investigation’ into the downing is not being made public is that Obama’s own Ukrainian Government was given veto-power over everything that will be in it, and they won’t allow the additional evidence, above and beyond the already dispositive evidence that has been revealed but not publicized, to be included in it; so, the report is not issued. The Ukrainian Government weren’t able to prevent the decisive proof that their own Air Force plane had intentionally shot it down from leaking out; but the Western press have cooperated with Obama to suppress that information. More information keeps leaking out supporting that earlier proof; but, actually, additional proof isn’t even needed. Publication of the existing damning evidence is. However, no one will be able to suppress the ‘findings’ by the official ‘investigation.’ So: it doesn’t yet exist, and maybe it never will.

 

As regards “Russia’s so-called referendums on the annexation of Crimea and later of the Donbas region — which were not recognised by the international community,” I headlined on 23 March 2017 “Are U.S. Economic Sanctions Against Russia Based on an Obama Lie?” and presented multiple evidences that the answer to that is yes. And on 20 February 2015, I had headlined “Crimea: Was It Seized by Russia, or Did Russia Block Its Seizure by the U.S.?”, and presented (and linked to) the findings from U.S.-Government-sponsored polls in Crimea taken both before the coup and after the referendum there, and that what both showed was that over 90% of Crimeans wanted Crimea again to be a part of Russia as it had been before 1954, and that 96% of them after the referendum who had an opinion on its result said that they believed that the published result honestly represented the public’s preferences there.

In short: the U.S. and its colonies (‘allies’), and their ‘news’-media, lie when reporting about Russia and about Ukraine. The billionaires who control firms such as Lockheed Martin, that profit from wars, control also the ‘news’-media. And this is the reason why the Hitlerite lie that drove U.S.-and-‘allied’ ‘news’-reporting throughout 2025 was that the aggressor in the war in Ukraine is Russia, instead of the truth, that it is America, and that Russia is doing what it must do in order to protect its national security against that aggressor and its slave-states or ‘allies’.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.

 

https://theduran.com/the-hitlerite-lie-that-drove-u-s-allied-news-reporting-throughout-2025/

 

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.