Germany and Europe: On a fatal Path
From my Writing RoomCopyright © 2024 by Uwe Bahr On the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz chooses strong words. And he is obviously forgetting the successful policies of his own Social Democratic Party not too long ago. Not without a small pinch of uncertainty, Scholz told his fellow citizens…
This has become of Germany
From my Writing RoomCopyright © 2024 by Uwe Bahr After the Second World War, the Germans had sworn off any involvement in war. The world agreed, for we were the evil Nazis. In 1999, however, active participation in military operations was resumed – the conservative chancellor Helmut Kohl had been voted out of office a…
A Missed Penalty Kick
From my Writing RoomCopyright © 2023 by Uwe Bahr A missed penalty kick and an inappropriate smile – already some blinded American “patriots” are gasping for breath. Instead of blue hair and woke policies they should think and name what makes them so proud of their country. The storming of the Capitol by a mindless,…
With Stones Against Russian Tanks
Long before the Berlin Wall was built, the Soviet satellite state of East Germany was doomed to fall From my Writing RoomCopyright © 2023 by Uwe Bahr Seventy years ago, on June 17, 1953, about one million people took to the streets in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany, which had been called the “German Democratic…
How the Americans “Won” a Nazi Ship
From my Writing RoomCopyright © 2023 by Uwe Bahr On the German Baltic coast, not only are seawater-polluting LNG terminals being built to accommodate environmentally harmful American fracking gas, but every now and then useful things are also being done. In the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, the original three-masted barque “Gorch Fock,” now only a…
Eisenhower, the Union Man
From my Writing RoomCopyright © 2023 by Uwe Bahr In our age of cutting-edge technology, where greedy corporations shamelessly exploit the labor of the mass of their employees and leave them to live little more than from payday to payday, no one remembers words like the following. They did, in fact, come from a Republican…
American Socialism
Most Americans today don’t seem to know this – that in their history they have had presidents from both major parties who were nothing more than socialists helping millions of people out of economic despair with government measures, such as FDR during the Great Depression. The views of Bernie Sanders today are not even half…
Gone
If I weren’t so appalled at the state of my own homeland, I could laugh my head off at the Trump saga. Germany is in the process of ruining itself beyond repair, and in the U.S. the Punch and Judy show is ruling to the detriment of the people, only a minority of whom -…
A Free Country
It’s not because I am writing this – it’s something to think about: As a child, I had no choice but to attend a so-called “socialist school.” There was no other kind of school in my childhood. We sometimes had a bleeding knee or elbow, which we got while playing in the schoolyard. But none…
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