Germany is the principle agent behind the euro crisis" - Rodney Atkinson

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The idea that Germany is using its financial clout to influence the political shape of Europe has been criticised by the businessman and political economist Rodney Atkinson. He is particularly concerned that think-tanks in the US have received donations from Germany to promote the cause of German domination. VoR's Tim Ecott spoke to Mr Atkinson.

 

Writing on www.freenations.net Mr Atkinson argues that there has been a 'wave of German propaganda in the UK and the USA'.

 

He told VoR that as in all successful propaganda, “Articles that have appeared and the activities of German foundations in America - funding German-friendly publications - are 75 percent generally accepted truth and decent things said about German people, and 25 percent lies and deceit about the activities of the German state.”

 

When you talk about lies and deceit, what kind of things might they be saying that is not true?

 

“For instance the idea that they managed to persuade the Americans that Germany would be the best country to solve the euro crisis. And of course Germany is the principle agent behind the euro crisis, refusing to loosen up monetary policy or even to run in the immediate future budget deficit in order to relieve its new state, which is called the eurozone.

 

“The idea that Germany can help other countries in Europe is a complete fallacy given the fact that the constitutional destructions wrought by European treaties over the last 40 years have effectively surrendered the democracy and sovereignty of those nations to the European state, which Germany now effectively controls.

 

“In the EU there are 25 million unemployed. There is up to 60 percent youth unemployment in places like Greece and Spain. The Mediterranean countries are effectively being depopulated – young Spaniards, Greeks and Italians flee to Germany and the UK to work for German interests, rather than being able to return to employment in their own countries.”

 

“The use of NATO and Washington politics to promote an aggressive policy in Ukraine has led to the return of Cold War.”

 

And would you lay the blame for that impetus particularly on Germany vis-à-vis Ukraine?

 

“After all the very German foundations that we are talking about that are attached the three major parties in Germany, have been active in Ukraine for years trying to break it from the influence of Russia.

 

“As we know, the violence that overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian government was very well anticipated and organised from afar. After all, the Americans have contributed on their own admission five billion dollars to the overthrow of the Ukrainian government.”

 

Chancellor Angela Merkel seems to be held up on one hand as a person, with whom David Cameron says he can do business. But when it comes to foreign relations, she is also touted as the person, who President Putin in Russia feels he can do business with. That doesn’t sound like the leader of a country that neither side can trust, does it?

 

“Well, I think Merkel has broken with Putin. There has always been a German double-take on Russia. On one hand, they are nervous about the old USSR returning, which of course is a complete nonsense. On the other side, they always had a soft spot for Russia as opposed to the Soviet Union. Merkel is like most leading German politicians, the victim of the post-war system in Germany, which set the points to this new form of German hegemony in western Europe.

 

“Whether she understand what she is doing or not – I can’t say.

“One doesn’t have to say that politicians in Germany and elsewhere in Europe are obnoxious politically and are Nazis and fascists. But what one has to admit is that leading Nazis and fascists were involved in the launch of the European Union.”

 

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