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12.01.2025 - 18:07 [ Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht ]

Wahlprogramm des BSW zur Bundestagswahl 2025

Die Stationierung von US-Mittelstreckenraketen auf deutschem Boden, die Bundeskanzler Scholz ohne irgendeine Debatte am Rande eines NATO-Gipfels abgesegnet hat und die das nukleare Risiko für uns enorm erhöhen, lehnen wir entschieden ab.

Die aktuellen Probleme der Bundeswehr rühren nicht zuletzt daher, dass sie von einer Verteidigungsarmee immer mehr zur Interventionsarmee umgestaltet wurde. Die Ergebnisse waren desaströs, etwa in Afghanistan und Mali. Wir wollen die Bundeswehr wieder und ausschließlich zu einer Verteidigungsarmee machen.

Die Bundeswehr hat nach dem Grundgesetz den Auftrag, unser Land zu verteidigen. Für diese Aufgabe muss sie angemessen ausgerüstet sein. Den Einsatz deutscher Soldaten in internationalen Kriegen lehnen wir ebenso ab wie ihre Stationierung an der russischen Grenze oder im Südchinesischen Meer.

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Wir lehnen die Wiedereinführung einer Wehrpflicht ab.
Verteidigungsminister Pistorius will Deutschland „kriegstüchtig“ machen. Wir wollen unser Land friedenstüchtig machen.

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In der Ukraine tobt ein Stellvertreterkrieg zwischen Russland und den Vereinigten Staaten, der sich jederzeit zu einem Weltkrieg ausweiten kann. Wir verurteilen den russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine aufs Schärfste. Zugleich sind wir überzeugt, dass dieser schreckliche Krieg vermeidbar war und längst auf dem Verhandlungsweg hätte beendet werden können.
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Wie die Mehrheit der Bundesbürger lehnen wir die Lieferung von Taurus-Marschflugkörpern ab. Nur ein starkes BSW im nächsten Bundestag kann und wird verhindern, dass die Kriegsfalken und Taurus-Befürworter in der SPD nach der Wahl die Oberhand gewinnen. Wir müssen verhindern, dass deutsche Soldaten wieder Raketen auf den Weg bringen, die nach Russland zielen.

15.11.2024 - 18:00 [ AtlanticCouncil.org ]

JCPOA: A New Gold Standard for Non-Proliferation Agreements

(June 7, 2017)

The established pattern of constraints on Iran’s nuclear program could be held as the gold standard for the rest of the international community. This option is readily available to the United States and the partners with which it negotiated the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA): China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the European Union. The international community should draw on that agreement and turn its standards into general, global ones, applying them to all countries seeking to enrich uranium or attempting to use plutonium for any purpose.

15.11.2024 - 17:55 [ ]

IAEA chief tours two key Iranian nuclear facilities

In 2015, Iran proved the peaceful nature of its nuclear program to the world by signing the multilateral nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — with six world powers.

However, Washington’s unilateral withdrawal in 2018 and its subsequent re-imposition of sanctions against Tehran left the future of the deal in limbo.

In 2019, Iran started to roll back the limits it had accepted under the JCPOA after the other parties failed to live up to their commitments.

07.11.2024 - 10:55 [ theHill.com ]

Sanders: Democratic Party ‘has abandoned working class people’

“Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy, which has so much economic power?” Sanders asked.

“Probably not,” he said in response to his own question.

07.11.2024 - 10:41 [ USA Tpday ]

‚The American people are angry and want change‘: Bernie Sanders slams Democrats for loss

Sanders, 83, highlighted several issues he believes the nation has failed to address under the Biden-Harris Administration, from wealth inequality and a worsening standard of living to high prescription drug prices and the lack of guaranteed medical leave.

Though he is an Independent, Sanders caucuses with the Democratic Party, and has long championed policies like Medicare for All and a higher federal minimum wage.

25.10.2024 - 12:12 [ USA Today ]

North Korean troops in Russia, US defense secretary says

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that there is evidence North Korean troops are in Russia, branding their presence a „very serious“ escalation in the war that started with Russia‘s unprovoked invasion in 2022 and has left tens of thousands dead.

18.09.2024 - 16:16 [ Umair Malik / Twitter ]

this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words

(December 9, 2023)

08.04.2024 - 18:59 [ law.Yale.edu ]

Declaration of Israel‘s Independence 1948

WE DECLARE that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People‘s Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People‘s Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called „Israel“.

THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.