Category Archives: Germany

German Television Interview With Snowden

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Muller

Update below. http://vimeo.com/85155619 Whether German television channel ARD intentionally hid its interview with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden Sunday night is not clear. That it was immediately taken off its media center so that interested viewers who had missed the broadcast … Continue reading →

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Edward Snowden’s Enigmatic Letter “To Whom it May Concern”

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Muller

Germany’s Green Party member of parliament Hans-Christian-Ströbele returned from Moskow yesterday with a letter by Edward Snowden [pdf]. The purpose of his letter (co-signed by Ströbele as “witness”) is completely unclear. Ströbele allegedly visited Snowden to ask him whether he … Continue reading →

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Snowden May Testify in German Parliamentary Board of Inquiry

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Muller

Member of German Parliament (Bundestag) Hans-Christian Ströbele of the Green Party has met with Edward Snowden in Moskow and discussed whether there is a possibility to testify in the Merkel NSA tapping case which has been a wake up call … Continue reading →

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Merkel’s Mobile Phone

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Muller

NSA’s interception of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone is just another scandal in Barack Obama’s all-too-sad presidential term. That Ms. Merkel had directly complained to Obama only when she was personally targeted by the total surveillance spy organization and … Continue reading →

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Germany’s Pope of Letters R.I.P.

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Muller

Marcel Reich-Ranicki passed away yesterday at the age of 93. His remarkable life as survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and, in post-World War II Germany, his rise as the number one literary critic of German literature had been told in … Continue reading →

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