Germany Unlikely to Pursue Independent Foreign Policy. Will Follow Biden
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-14
In an interview with The Guardian in June, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germans grew up knowing that the U.S. wanted to be a world power. Despite Washington abusing its power against some of its strongest allies, Germany, whose six-month …
globalresearch.ca/germany-unlikely-pursue-independent-foreign-policy-follow-biden/5732223

Radical De-Globalization: Finding Back Our Freedom and Sovereignty: Tyrants Don't Create Tyranny. Your Obedience Does
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-14
People are waking up. | Art is being applied to protests. As very well demonstrated in Germany the Netherlands and Denmark — see video " Lockstep" Protest Marches in Netherland, Germany, Denmark (4 December 2020). | It is not without reference tongue-in-cheek | …
globalresearch.ca/radical-de-globalization-finding-back-our-freedom-sovereignty-tyrants-dont-create-tyranny-obedience-does/5732186

The Most Lethal Virus Is Not Covid. It Is War
John Pilger | zcomm.org | 2020-12-14
Britain has no enemies other than those within who betray the trust of its ordinary people, its nurses and doctors, its carers, elderly, homeless and youth, as successive neo-liberal governments have done, Conservative and Labour…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-most-lethal-virus-is-not-covid-it-is-war/

John Pilger: The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War
John Pilger | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-14
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with more than 4 million surgical procedures delayed by the National Health Service, Britain has announced a record increase of £16.5 billion in so-called defense spending.
mintpressnews.com/john-pilger-lethal-virus-not-covid-war/273597/

Armenia refutes reports about PM resignation
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-14
TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (MNA) — Pashinyan's press secretary Mane Gevorgyan dismissed rumors about Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's resignation, stating that this issue has nothing to do with the real state of things.
en.mehrnews.com/news/167155/Armenia-refutes-reports-about-PM-resignation

Lavrov underlines need for dialogue on Persian Gulf security
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-14
TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (MNA) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed Moscow's readiness to provide the grounds for dialogue among the Persian Gulf countries over security concerns.
en.mehrnews.com/news/167172/Lavrov-underlines-need-for-dialogue-on-Persian-Gulf-security

Antisemitism Claims Mask a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror Across Europe
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-14
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has run a fascinating long report this week offering a disturbing snapshot of the political climate rapidly emerging across Europe on the issue of antisemitism. The article documents a kind of cultural, political and intellectual reign …
globalresearch.ca/antisemitism-claims-mask-reign-political-cultural-terror-across-europe/5732174

Belgian working class protests persecution of trade unionists
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-14
On International Human Rights Day, workers across Belgium appealed to revoke the sentences against 17 trade unionists for participating in a roadblock as part of a general strike in 2015…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/14/belgian-working-class-protests-persecution-of-trade-unionists/

Tehran keen on expanding Persian languages courses in Italy
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-14
TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (MNA) –Deputy Director of Iran's CISSC and first secretary of the Cultural and Press Section of the Italian Embassy in Tehran, discussed the expansion of Persian language courses in Italian Universies.
en.mehrnews.com/news/167142/Tehran-keen-on-expanding-Persian-languages-courses-in-Italy

School students in Germany protest and enforce online teaching to combat coronavirus infection
wsws.org | 2020-12-14
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/14/brem-d14.html

Borrel says EU should find ways to return US to JCPOA
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-14
TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (MNA) — The European Union's chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, says the bloc should find a way with the Biden administration to return the US to its commitments under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
en.mehrnews.com/news/167160/Borrel-says-EU-should-find-ways-to-return-US-to-JCPOA

Sweden's "herd immunity" policy produces disaster
wsws.org | 2020-12-14
Sweden's response to the pandemic, which involved allowing schools and businesses to stay open while most of the world enacted lockdowns, was hailed as a model by all sections of the US and European political establishment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/14/pers-d14.html

Europe's Anti-Russia Sanctions Result in Extensive Economic Losses and Growing Tensions with Russia
Strategic Culture Foundation | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-14
New data out this week indicates that the European Union has suffered aggregate economic losses amounting to over ‚Ǩ120 billion due to its policy of imposing sanctions against Russia. That's according to figures released by the Dusseldorf Chamber of Commerce …