(May 9, 2025)
Die Linke hat die Demokratie gerettet, weil sie Friedrich Merz‘ Kanzlerschaft ermöglicht hat. So jedenfalls rechtfertigt sie sich. Diese »linke« Partei ist der größte Etikettenschwindel in diesem Lande überhaupt.
Daily Archives: 3. Dezember 2025
Die Umfaller von den LINKEN stimmen im Bundesrat für die Kriegskredite
(March 21, 2025)
Was für eine Heuchelei: Im Bundestag den Widerstand zu simulieren und dann im Bundesrat klein beizugeben.
Mehrheitsschwelle sinkt: Linke will sich enthalten – Weg frei für Rentenpaket?
Im Rentenstreit gibt es für die Regierungskoalition Unterstützung von unerwarteter Seite. Die Linksfraktion will sich bei der Abstimmung im Bundestag enthalten – weshalb das Vorhaben wohl eine Mehrheit bekommen würde.
US airstrike in Caribbean draws complaint before human rights watchdog
The commission has long been a way to challenge human rights abuses in the Western Hemisphere, but the U.S. hasn’t ratified the enforcement treaty and does not consider its findings legally binding. Still, an adverse finding is an embarrassment to a nation that has customarily been seen as an advocate for the rule of law.
Colombian family files first known formal complaint over deadly US strike in Caribbean
The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The petition, filed Tuesday by US human rights attorney Dan Kovalik, alleges that Colombian fisherman Alejandro Carranza was killed when the US struck his boat off the coast of Colombia on September 15.
Family of Colombian fisherman killed in US boat strike files complaint alleging he was murdered
The family of a Colombian fisherman who died in a U.S. military boat strike in September has filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging the U.S. government illegally killed him.
Alejandro Carranza was killed in a strike in the Caribbean on Sept. 15, according to the petition, filed on Tuesday.
Slotkin Statement on Washington Post Report on Hegseth’s Cartel Strike Orders
(December 2, 2025)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) released the following statement regarding reports from the Washington Post that on September 2, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued an order to kill all eleven people on the suspected drug boat in the Caribbean:
“At the Pentagon, the buck stops with the Secretary of Defense. Period.
“True leaders own the calls they make and take responsibility for their actions. Secretary Hegseth should release the full video of the strike and lay out publicly what happened, without throwing the uniformed military under the bus.
“Since Signalgate back in the spring, Secretary Hegseth’s leadership has been a distraction from the critical missions of our military, and I called for him to resign then. The President himself yesterday told the country that he would not have wanted a second strike.
“If this reporting is true, President Trump should fire the Secretary, as he did other underperforming cabinet members in his first Administration.”
WATCH: Slotkin Highlights 2016 Video, Hegesth says U.S. troops will not follow unlawful orders from the President
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) shared a 2016 video, first reported in CNN, where Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told an audience that the U.S. military “won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief.” Words remarkably similar to Slotkin’s in a video she posted recently where she simply restated the law.
Major Pete Hegseth, in 2016 said:
“If you are doing something that is completely unlawful and ruthless then there is a consequence for that. That’s why the military said it won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief. There’s a standard; there’s an ethos; there’s a belief that we are above so many things are enemies or others would do.”
Ukraine‘s top negotiators to again meet Trump‘s envoys after Moscow talks, Zelensky says
After their visit to Brussels, the two Ukrainian officials will begin preparations for talks with Trump‘s envoys, Zelensky said, without providing additional details.
Donald Trump Faces Growing Republican Backlash Over Foreign Policy Moves
Some conservative and libertarian-minded Republicans have broken with Trump over his approach to Venezuela. Many Republicans have embraced an “America First” view of foreign policy and oppose regime change in other countries if they do not believe it benefits Americans.
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Trump’s proposal for a peace deal on the Russia-Ukraine war has also drawn scrutiny. Critics have raised concerns that the deal may be too favorable to Russia, pointing to proposals that Ukraine would give up the eastern Donbas region and shrink its army to end a war started by Russia more than three years ago.
European Commission presents solutions to support Ukraine‘s financial needs: EU borrowing, ‚reparation loan‘
The document notes that as Russia „continues to show no signs of readiness to commit to a just and sustainable peace, the pressure on Ukraine‘s resources continues to grow, making continued EU support even more important.“
EU unveils 2 options for getting $90 billion to Ukraine in coming years
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled two options for financing Ukraine over the next two years, as Kyiv approaches an existential cash crunch.
Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, von der Leyen said that under the first option, European countries would jointly borrow and lend the money to Ukraine. All 27 member states would have to be on board for the plan to go ahead.
Trump and Hegseth insist they didn’t know of follow-up strike that killed survivors on suspected drug boat
But Hegseth on Tuesday also denied any direct role in targeting the survivors, saying he’d empowered Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley to make all of the operational decisions — and had left the room well before it became clear that some of the people on the boat had survived.
“I watched that first strike live,” Hegseth said. “I didn’t stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs, so I moved on to my next meeting.”
The defense secretary did not learn about the second strike, he added, until hours later.