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01:23 [ Friedenskooperative.de ]

Mehr als 20.000 Teilnehmende bei Unzwingbar-Kundgebung vor dem Brandenburger-Tor

03.10.2026

Die Konzertkundgebung „Unzwingbar – Kein Bock auf Krieg und Wehrpflicht“ am 2. Oktober 2026 in Berlin hat ein starkes Zeichen für Zusammenhalt, gegen Aufrüstung und gegen die Wehrpflicht gesetzt.

Mehr als 20.000 zumeist junge Menschen haben vor dem Brandenburger Tor in den Abend hinein zu Musik von K.I.Z, Disarstar, Dritte Wahl, Goldie 333 und Mieze getanzt und protestiert. Bis nach 21 Uhr wurde der Platz vor dem Brandenburger Tor immer noch voller.

Viele Teilnehmende trugen Schilder, auf denen sie unter anderem eine Stärkung von Bildung, Gesundheit und Sozialstaat statt blinder Aufrüstung forderten. Die Redebeiträge, die die Militarisierung in vielen Bereichen der Gesellschaft kritisierten, eine lebenswerte Zukunft für junge Menschen einforderten und eindringliche Zeugnisse von Verweigerung des Militärdienstes ablegten, wurden mit Begeisterung aufgenommen.

12.09.2026 - 15:56 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Die „Authorization For Use of Military Force“ vom 14. September 2001 im Wortlaut

(August 19, 2014)

Radio Utopie dokumentiert dieses in jeder Hinsicht verheerende historische Ermächtigungsgesetz im Wortlaut.

07.07.2026 - 03:36 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Meinungsfreiheit: Die Normalisierung des Autoritären

Fast wäre man versucht zu sagen: Was waren das für Zeiten, als Meinungsabweichler nur als „Verschwörungstheoretiker“ öffentlich diffamiert wurden! Im Vergleich zu dem, was heute passiert, waren diese Zeiten geradezu harmlos – könnte man meinen. Doch harmlos waren schon die Übergriffe nur mit Worten nie. Das Feuer war bereits zu sehen.

Und heute? Wer die falsche Meinung vertritt, wird von Medien nach wie vor als „umstritten“ oder als „rechts“ bezeichnet mit dem Ziel: mundtot machen. Zum Schweigen bringen.

Doch längst passiert mehr.

Was wir erleben, hat mit dem Geist der Demokratie nichts mehr zu tun. Vielmehr weht der Wind des Autoritären und zunehmend des Totalitären durch die Republik.

07.07.2026 - 03:24 [ TKP.at ]

Hans-Eckardt Wenzel: Der schleichende Staatsstreich im Westen

(July 4, 2026)

Ein weiteres zentrales Element ist die systematische Spaltung der Gesellschaft. Während der Pandemie wurde die Bevölkerung in „gehorsam“ und „ungehorsam“ geteilt – eine Spaltung, die bis heute nachwirkt. Dieselbe Technik wird nun auf die Frage nach Krieg und Frieden angewendet. Wer Verhandlungen fordert oder die offizielle Darstellung hinterfragt, riskiert, als „Feindbegünstiger“ oder unzuverlässig eingestuft zu werden.

Das Ergebnis ist ein permanenter Staatsstreich, der sich vor aller Augen abspielt, doch für eine Bevölkerung, die darauf trainiert ist, ihn nicht zu sehen, unsichtbar bleibt. Es gibt eine weit verbreitete Selbstzensur. Viele Menschen schweigen, obwohl sie intern andere Positionen vertreten. Wenzel beschreibt eine Gesellschaft, die gelernt hat, Schweigen mit Stabilität zu verwechseln und Widerstand als größere Gefahr zu betrachten als die bestehenden Zustände.

28.06.2026 - 13:56 [ TheHill.com ]

Democratic socialists eye 2028 White House race

(June 25, 2026)

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are eyeing a 2028 presidential bid in the wake of recent electoral successes across the country.

DSA Co-chair Ashik Siddique told The Hill in a Thursday interview that the organization has more than 100,000 members and 200 chapters across the country. “We want people to be talking proactively about what they would want to see in a presidential campaign,” he said. The organization is looking to see how voters would engage and what would motivate them, he added.

18.06.2026 - 18:59 [ Trita Parsi / Common Dreams ]

Ending the Costly, Unnecessary Iran War Is the Right Thing. Period.

The task now is not to reward Trump politically, nor to excuse the recklessness that produced this war. It is to prevent the war from returning. Democrats can condemn the decision to start it without sabotaging the agreement that ends it. They can hold Trump accountable without helping Netanyahu drag the United States back into conflict. The choice before them is not between opposing Trump and supporting peace. It is between learning from America’s endless wars and repeating them.

30.05.2026 - 17:50 [ American Prospect ]

The Miller Doctrine

(May 27, 2026)

Yet proposals that skirt the edges of international law didn’t come out of nowhere. The U.S. under George W. Bush created legal mechanisms following the September 11th attacks to torture hundreds of people in CIA black sites and then at Guantanamo Bay. The Obama administration’s targeted drone strikes were assassinations by another name. The Biden administration further eroded international norms and subverted its own policies by financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in violation of the Leahy Law, which prohibits foreign military assistance to nations that violate human rights.

“Seems like Miller is sort of taking what he was already willing to do during the first term and then combining that with what Israel has been doing in the way it has just been completely ignoring any kind of international law, Geneva Conventions, any of it in its conduct in Gaza and Lebanon, to then influence U.S. foreign policy,” Annelle Sheline, a research fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, said in an interview.

In other words, Miller and the Trump administration have been able to steamroll what was left of international law; they just had to figure out how to do it.

04.05.2026 - 12:00 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung ]

Aus Völkerrechtsbrüchen lernen? Deutsch-Israelische Militärkooperation im Zeichen der Zeitenwende

(April 23, 2026)

Die Studie untersucht die deutsch-israelische Militärkooperation seit dem Verkünden der „Zeitenwende“ durch
Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, die für eine massive Aufstockung der deutschen Militärausgaben steht. Angesichts
der israelischen Aggressionen und dem Genozid in Gaza seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 stellt der Beitrag fest, dass die Militärkooperation mit Israel einen Verstoß gegen das Völkerrecht darstellt. Sie zeigt weiter auf, wie deutsche Gesetzgeber und Militärvertreter Verbindungen zur IDF und zur israelischen Rüstungsindustrie suchen, sei es beim Erwerb von Militärtechnologie, beim Informationsaustausch über Wirtschaftswachstum durch die Waffenproduktion oder um Erkenntnisse über die effiziente Integration von Frauen
und der Reserve in die Armee zu gewinnen. Die Studie untersucht zudem die Interessen der Akteure, die die Militärkooperation vorantreiben, und skizziert die Folgen des Militarismus für die deutsche Zivilgesellschaft im Hinblick auf die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Staaten.

04.05.2026 - 11:43 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung ]

IMI-Studie zu deutsch-israelischer Militärkooperation veröffentlicht

(Artikel 23, 2026)

In einer neuen Studie der Informationsstelle Militarisierung e.V. untersucht Melchior Grabowski die militärische Zusammenarbeit zwischen Israel und Deutschland seit dem Verkünden der Zeitenwende. Sie zeigt auf, dass trotz massiver Völkerrechtsbrüche Israels umfangreiche Militärkooperationen zwischen den beiden Ländern stattfinden, die tief in Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft eingreifen. Damit deckt die Studie auf, welche deutschen Interessen abseits der „Staatsräson“ in der militärischen Kooperation mit Israel bestehen.

12.03.2026 - 20:05 [ RootsAction.org ]

Tell Democrats in Congress to Insist That Schumer and Jeffries Step Aside

The Democratic leadership in Congress has failed to provide real leadership against a war-crazed Trump administration. Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries have not acted to prevent war on Venezuela or the current war on Iran. They worked to delay a vote on Iran until after the war had started, while failing to clearly oppose it before or after the launch of the war. Schumer and Jeffries have shown that they cannot be trusted to prevent more wars, more threats of wars, or the transfer of another half a trillion dollars a year into the war machine.

It’s time for congressional Democrats to replace Schumer and Jeffries with leaders who are willing and able to challenge the runaway militarism that has dragged our country into launching yet another insanely destructive war.

The form below enables you to quickly send a clear message to the Democrat(s) who represent you in the House and/or Senate.

12.03.2026 - 19:59 [ RootsAction.org ]

Coalition of Antiwar Groups Launches National Campaign Calling for Jeffries and Schumer to Step Aside from Leadership

A coalition of antiwar groups launched a national campaign Wednesday for constituents to urge Democrats in Congress to remove Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer from their posts as minority leaders.

The coalition includes RootsAction and Peace Action, the nation’s largest grassroots peace network, as well as World BEYOND War and the Progressive Democrats of America – Greater Middle East Alliance.

“Schumer and Jeffries have failed their party and country through wobbly leadership when firmness and clarity are needed in opposing a reckless and costly war,” said Jeff Cohen, cofounder of RootsAction. “The Democratic base sees a weak and confused party leadership as Trump demands billions more to attack Iran. While the party needs strong leaders in Congress, both Schumer and Jeffries have shown that they’re not up to the job.”

17.01.2026 - 07:11 [ theGuardian.com ]

Europe must now tell Trump that enough is enough – and cut all ties with the US

So what can Europe do, as this mad historic fantasy comes closer to reality? How do you maintain a space of democracy and the rule of law in a world that is rapidly reverting to imperialism, oligarchy and the rule of power alone? Only by building a protective moat of federalism around it.

If the US actually attacks Denmark by invading Greenland, and declares war on the EU, a treaty-bound defensive alliance, the hand of history will be forced. Europe would need to both expand and restructure to become a defence and intelligence union that absorbs Nato’s non-EU members.

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And if the US doesn’t attack Denmark, Europe’s best chance of surviving as a free and open continent in an imperial world is still to force the rupture with the US, force the consequences, and force the federalism anyway.

11.01.2026 - 15:06 [ Middle East Eye ]

ICE‘s killing in Minneapolis shows American empire has come home

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was created in the shadow of the so-called Global War on Terror that followed the attacks of 11 September 2001.

It became a key pillar of the architecture of repressive surveillance and militarised tactics that emerged during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

ICE itself was specifically designed to pursue „national security threats“ within the United States, granting agents sweeping discretion over who could be deemed to „pose a threat to public safety or national security“.

Since then, it has come to represent a rogue operation, its reputation clouded by harrowing stories of abuse, impunity and a near total lack of oversight.

Its close association with Palantir, a surveillance firm accused of helping generate kill lists for Israel, has also further embedded it within the US military-industrial complex.

Scalawag Magazine described Palantir‘s partnership with ICE as „one of the many links comprising the military-industrial surveillance connections between ICE and Israel Defense Forces“.

These links, it wrote, illustrate the ideological and practical ties between the two bodies, as they work to advance the militarisation of policing through the weaponisation of surveillance technology.

ICE has also participated in several exchanges with the Israeli military, and during the student protests for Gaza, it lifted names from the blacklisting website Canary Mission to identify and arrest protesters.

23.12.2025 - 13:59 [ PBS.org ]

Kremlin’s military goals in Ukraine will be met, Putin says at annual news conference

(December 19, 2025)

Putin, 73, has ruled the country for 25 years and uses the event to cement his power and air his views on domestic and global affairs during a broadcast that mixes criticism of the West with promises of more social payments. Although he is sometimes asked about his personal life, he gives scant details.

This year, the news conference took place against the backdrop of a peace plan in Ukraine put forward by U.S. President Donald Trump. Despite the extensive diplomatic push, Washington’s efforts have run into sharply conflicting demands from Moscow and Kyiv.

21.12.2025 - 15:24 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Das Wörterbuch der Kriegstüchtigkeit (XIX) – Heute dabei: „faul“, „Friedensangst“, „Generation Waschlappen“ und „glasklarer Auftrag“

Vokabelkritik ist zu Kriegszeiten das Gebot der Stunde. Ich veröffentliche in unregelmäßigen Abständen eine Sammlung teils verharmlosender, teils lügenhafter Wörter oder Formulierungen, deren Sinn und Funktion es ist, unsere Gesellschaft – uns alle – an das Undenkbare zu gewöhnen und möglichst geräuschlos in Richtung „Kriegstüchtigkeit“ umzukrempeln.

09.11.2025 - 13:12 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

MK Odeh in Berlin: Germany – Recognize Palestine

According to Odeh, “Every hostage returned from Gaza is a victory. Every child and family who survived Gaza is a victory. But that is not the victory Netanyahu wants.” He said, “What has been achieved and at what price? Palestinian cities have been erased from the map. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza were killed, including 20,000 children. Hundreds of thousands were left without homes. This is not a victory. This is devastation,” and called on “those responsible for crimes against humanity” to be held accountable.

“The Israeli state was already like Sparta – now it has become a super Sparta. If this is victory, what does defeat look like?” Odeh wondered. Odeh also urged Germany to recognize a Palestinian state, saying that the only request he had of U.S. President Donald Trump when he came to address Israel’s Knesset in October was to recognize a Palestinian state. “So, I ask you too: Germany – recognize Palestine! Recognize that there are two people in our shared homeland, both with the right to self-determination,” he cried out, to great applause.

Regarding Germany, Odeh said that Berlin “carries the scars of the 20th century and stands as a living reminder of how far human cruelty can go when power is absolute. When racism is normalized and people are dehumanized. But a city like Berlin can be both a graveyard for history, resistance culture and rebirth,” he said. Odeh also said the history of Berlin teaches that “silence in the face of injustice is deadly. It was silence that made the greatest crime of the century possible. And yet, today we see silence return, dressed up in diplomatic language.”

23.10.2025 - 22:30 [ Congressman Dan Goldman ]

Rep. Dan Goldman, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Comptroller Brad Lander Call on NYPD to Enforce State and Local Law Against Abusive Federal Immigration Officers

NEW YORK, NY — Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) was joined by Comptroller Brad Lander and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams today for a press conference calling on New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to strictly enforce state and local laws and hold federal immigration agents accountable for unlawful conduct, including potentially arresting federal officers who illegally assault or detain New York residents. Assemblymember Tony Simone and Councilmember Alexa Aviles were also in attendance.

The press conference followed Goldman’s letter to NYPD Commissioner Tisch, citing numerous instances of federal immigration officers abusing their authority and detaining, arresting, and deporting American citizens and law-abiding, non-violent New Yorkers.

23.10.2025 - 22:18 [ DocumentedNY.com ]

‘This is Lawless Terror’: Chinatown Reacts to ICE’s Street Vendor Raid on Canal Street

At a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Goldman, who was focused on the detention of citizens — rather than the noncitizens, who remain detained in New Jersey — suggested that the involvement of the NYPD would help prevent federal abuse. “We will continue to call on the NYPD to make sure that they are present for these raids,” he said. “Because it’s the NYPD’s job to protect New Yorkers.”

The Congressman also announced that his office would be starting a “Rapid Response Task Force” to coordinate a response to overreach by federal authorities.

“This is not immigration enforcement,” he said. “This is lawless terror to create a pretext for Donald Trump to send the military into New York City.”

18.10.2025 - 13:58 [ NPR.org ]

No Kings protests: What to expect at Saturday‘s marches around the country

No Kings organizers estimated that more than 5 million people turned out for the June protests. They speculate that Saturday‘s event could be even bigger.

16.10.2025 - 14:52 [ Seymour Hersh / Substack ]

WHY ARE US TROOPS OCCUPYING AMERICAN CITIES?

The Trump administration is playing another long game, or trying to, in the streets of US cities under Democratic Party governance, using existing presidential emergency powers to send National Guard, Army troops and ICE agents to hunt down and arrest suspected undocumented immigrants and detain and deport them, without the due process demanded by the Constitution. What’s happening now may be a trial run for the use of those forces to interfere on the behalf of the president and the Republican Party in states where the Democratic Party has a chance to win crucial seats in next fall’s Congressional elections. I’ve been told by someone with inside knowledge that planning for such action is now under way in the White House.

16.10.2025 - 14:49 [ Seymour Hersh / TKP.at ]

Warum das US-Militär demokratische Städte übernimmt

Trump behauptet, er habe die rechtliche Befugnis, bei Feststellung eines Notstands Kriminalität in allen Staaten zu bekämpfen, einschließlich derer unter demokratischer Kontrolle. Mir wurde jedoch berichtet, dass das politische Team im Weißen Haus eine parallele, tiefere Motivation verfolgt: einen Präzedenzfall für bundesweite Notstandseingriffe zu schaffen – per präsidentieller Anordnung –, um vor den Kongresswahlen im nächsten Herbst mit Truppen intervenieren zu können.

Einige im Weißen Haus – nicht unbedingt der Präsident selbst – wissen, dass diese angerufenen Notstände „falsche Notstände“ sind. Aber wie ein Insider es formulierte: Wenn man es „wiederholt tut“, können solche Maßnahmen zukünftigen politischen Einfluss entfalten. Nennen Sie es eine neue politische Normalität.

16.10.2025 - 14:23 [ Junge Welt ]

»Es gibt einen beängstigenden Opportunismus«

Sehen Sie Deutschland, Europa und die Vereinigten Staaten auf dem Weg zum Totalitarismus oder Faschismus?

Es gibt den Begriff des umgekehrten Totalitarismus, und ich glaube, das trifft es in Europa eher. Die Institutionen bleiben formal bestehen, wir gehen wählen, aber das Meinungsspektrum wird immer weiter eingeschränkt, Berufswege von Menschen, die widersprechen, werden zerstört. Die Repression nimmt zu. Das kann natürlich auch in offenen Totalitarismus kippen, wie wir das in den USA bereits sehen.

27.09.2025 - 21:11 [ NPR.org ]

Trump says he‘ll send troops to Portland, Ore., to handle ‚domestic terrorists‘

He made the announcement on social media, writing that he was directing the Department of Defense to „provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland.“ Trump said the decision was necessary to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he described as „under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.“

27.09.2025 - 21:07 [ NewsfromtheStates.com ]

Trump to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon, vows ‘Full Force’

(today)

In a brief post to his social media platform, Trump said he would have Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth order troops deployed to Oregon’s largest city.

Trump did not specify what legal justification he had to do so, what military branch would be used or other key details. The troops would be used to defend U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities from “domestic terrorists,” he said.

27.09.2025 - 21:02 [ Washington Post ]

Pentagon plan envisions 1,000 troops for Louisiana policing mission

(September 13, 2025)

Documents reviewed by The Washington Post illustrate the Trump administration’s evolving strategy for sending the military into cities with Democratic majorities

03.09.2025 - 00:11 [ Los Angeles Times ]

Trump deployment of military troops to Los Angeles was illegal, judge rules in blistering opinion

Experts say the ensuing judicial dust-up it will clarify precedent in a murky corner of the law. But some warn it could also unearth a road map for future deployments in cities across the U.S.

“If Breyer sides with Newsom and the 9th Circuit sides with Trump, we now have a playbook to use the National Guard and maybe the military around the country,” said Mark P. Nevitt, a law professor at Emory University and one of the country’s foremost experts on the law at the heart of the case.

“He’d have a ruling from the most liberal circuit in America giving the legal go-ahead for this deployment,” Nevitt said. “That would make bad law for the country.”

03.07.2025 - 00:30 [ USA Today ]

Donald Trump threatens to arrest NYC mayoral Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani

(July 1, 2025)

Trump threatened to arrest Mamdani if as mayor he follows through on pledges not to assist federal officials enforcing immigration laws.

“Well then, we’ll have to arrest him,” Trump told reporters on July 1 while visiting a detention center in Florida. Trump said that he would “be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation.”

Trump also said „a lot of people are saying he‘s here illegally,“ which is false. Mamdani is a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Uganda, who immigrated to the United States with his parents − film director Mira Nair and Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani − at the age of seven.

28.06.2025 - 21:11 [ Los Angeles Times ]

California hopes law from bloody era of U.S. history can rein in Trump’s use of troops

(Today)

Department of Justice has argued Posse Comitatus does not apply to the military’s current actions in Southern California — and even if it did, the soldiers deployed there haven’t violated the law. It also claimed the 9th Circuit decision endorsing Trump’s authority to call up troops rendered the Posse Comitatus issue moot.

Some experts feel California’s case is strong.

“You literally have military roaming the streets of Los Angeles with civilian law enforcement,” said Shilpi Agarwal, legal director of the ACLU of Northern California, “That’s exactly what the [act] is designed to prevent.”

But Nevitt was more doubtful. Even if Breyer ultimately rules that Trump’s troops are violating the law and grants the injunction California is seeking, the 9th Circuit will almost certainly strike it down, he said.

“It’s going to be an uphill battle,” the attorney said. “And if they find a way to get to the Supreme Court, I see the Supreme Court siding with Trump as well.”

28.06.2025 - 21:02 [ Los Angeles Times ]

Trump’s case for sending troops to help ICE involves precedent from Fugitive Slave Act

(June 14, 2025)

On the streets of Los Angeles, protesters will continue to be met with platoons of armed soldiers. State and local officials remain in open conflict with the president. And in the courts, Trump administration lawyers are digging deep into case law in search of archaic statutes that can be cited to justify the ongoing federal crackdown — including constitutional maneuvers invented to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

26.06.2025 - 05:01 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Künftig fünf Prozent: NATO beschließt Erhöhung der Verteidigungsausgaben

Die Alliierten legten sich in der Abschlusserklärung ihres Gipfels in Den Haag auf das neue Ziel fest, spätestens von 2035 an jährlich fünf Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts in Verteidigung und Sicherheit zu investieren – so viel wie seit dem Kalten Krieg nicht mehr.

Bisher lag das Ziel bei zwei Prozent.

18.06.2025 - 21:05 [ Deadline.com ]

Trump Will Go To Supreme Court If Newsom Wins Fight Over LA Troops Deployment Again; Appeals Court Considers Temporary Restraining Order

Thousands of heavily armed Guard troops, as well as 700 U.S. Marines have been deployed in the city’s downtown core for over a week in response to protests over ongoing ICE raids and abductions of the undocumented (and in some cases, the documented).