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Millions of German taxpayers to finance far right propaganda The German government is preparing to give 70 million euros a year to a foundation run by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). The Desiderius Erasmus Foundation will be able to spread its far-right propaganda with taxpayers’ money. According to the guidelines of the German parliament (Bundestag), a parliamentary group is entitled to state funds for its own foundation if it has been represented in parliament for more than one legislative term. The AfD entered the Bundestag for the first time in 2017 and, according to the guidelines, is eligible for financing following the Bundestag elections to be held in September this year. ....
UK government to appoint "free speech champion" to spearhead right-wing offensive at universities wsws.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wsws.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Right-wing German newspaper agitates against Berlin student For an entire week, Germany’s right-wing Springer media empire has been waging a filthy witch-hunt against the Berlin-based student Bengt R. The 21-year-old, who studies law at Humboldt University and is politically active in the Social Democrats and its youth movement, the Jusos, came under vicious attack from right-wing media outlets, his own party, and Humboldt University management following a few ill-considered posts on Twitter. He initially responded to a sexist post by a member of the Young Liberals, who described a picture of a shelf with cleaning products in a pharmacy as a “bar for women.” In the course of a discussion that developed in response to the post, Bengt wrote in an obviously unserious manner, “Shooting Young Liberal when?” ....
Germany’s “Network for Academic Freedom”: A network for Hitler’s rehabilitation Seventy German academics founded the “Network for Academic Freedom” on February 3. Even though the organization consists merely of an empty website, a brief press release and a list of names, the mainstream media has given it widespread publicity. The “Network’s founding received more recognition in the mainstream media than almost any other political event in academia in recent months,” wrote the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. If the founders were remotely honest, they would name their organization the “Network for the Rehabilitation of Adolf Hitler.” They seek to conceal their true aims behind a barrage of propaganda. They portray themselves, in a press release, as a persecuted minority whose “positions and opinions” have been “marginalised and morally sanctioned,” and complain about “restrictions on academic freedom,” which “often follow an ideological o ....