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Demonstrators across some 90 cities have denounced the legal change, which lays the groundwork for full conscription being reinstated

Thousands of demonstrators have marched in cities across Germany to protest Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s plan to overhaul the country’s military service system, accusing the government of laying the groundwork for forced mobilization.

On Friday, the German parliament approved changes to the military-service law expanding recruitment and giving Berlin tools to reactivate conscription if volunteer numbers fall short.

Rallies took place in around 90 cities – including Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Cologne – both before and after the vote.

Footage showed protesters chanting anti-war slogans and carrying banners reading “No to conscription,” “We will not be cannon fodder” and “Your war – without us.” Protesters slammed the reform as “recruitment of death” and urged investment in education and welfare instead of weapons.

One protester told Ruptly she feared her teenage sons would soon be drafted, while another said: “Merz should go to the front himself and risk his own life.” Some linked the reform to Germany’s broader military buildup, warning that Berlin is preparing for a war against Russia.

German MPs rubberstamp military service

Several speakers argued the law – and the rearmament push overall – serves the interests of major arms companies rather than the public.

Germany abolished compulsory military service in 2011 and moved to an all-volunteer force. But amid a NATO-driven military, Berlin now seeks to expand the Bundeswehr, citing a worsening security environment.

Germany currently has 182,000 active soldiers and just under 50,000 reservists.

Last month, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius claimed Russia could attack a NATO member “as early as 2028,” using the warning to press for sweeping rearmament.

According to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, since the war began in 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have witnessed more than 250,000 desertions.

Merz approval rating hits record low of only 22% Since entering office, Merz has pushed for increased militarization and has vowed to transform the German Armed Forces into “the strongest conventional army in Europe.” His government’s proposal to reinstate mandatory military service, has been met with opposition and calls for protests. Merz has justified the measures by citing the supposed ‘Russian threat’.

Under the new Military Service Modernization Act, all 18-year-old men must register for potential service by completing a questionnaire and undergoing medical screening starting in 2026.

Germany set to boost Ukraine war by 3 billion euros in 2026 4 Nov 2025 — Germany is Europe’s largest contributor of military aid to Ukraine, having provided around 40 billion euros. (40,000,000,000 euros )

The reform stops short of reinstating full conscription but creates the legal basis for draft call-ups via lottery if voluntary recruitment falls short.

Critics say Berlin is relying on fear-based scenarios to force through unpopular measures and justify massive military spending.

Younger Germans are especially opposed: a recent Forsa survey for Stern found that 63% of adults aged 18 to 29 reject compulsory service.

Russia has dismissed claims that it plans to attack NATO as “nonsense,” calling them an excuse for inflated military budgets and a way to distract the public from domestic problems.

Жители Одессы пришли спасать тех, кого пытались мобилизовать

Люди толпой накинулись на машину военкомов, ломом били окна и вытаскивали людей. В ответ на возмущение сотрудника ТЦК стали говорить, чтобы он сам шёл на фронт. pic.twitter.com/LPKissP3eU

— Советский, злой, твой (@ussrlife) December 6, 2025

TRANSLATION OF TWEET.. The residents of Odessa arrived to help those being mobilized. A crowd attacked the military commissar’s car, smashing windows with crowbars and dragging people out. When the TCC employee protested, they began telling him to go to the front himself.Ukrainians mob vehicle to free men captured by draft officers (VIDEO on X)

.—There have also been reports of injuries, torture, and deaths among those subject to forced mobilization, fueling public outrage and sparking protests. In October, the Ukrainian authorities urged people not to film or share videos of press gangs forcibly detaining men. The exodus from Kiev’s armed forces is mounting. More than 21,000 soldiers deserted without leave in September alone – the highest monthly total since the start of the Ukraine conflict. According to a report by BBC…

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Two children, 8 and 11 years old—Jum’a and Fadi Abu Assi—were executed near Khan Yunis today, shot in the head and face by an Israeli drone.

According to the IDF, the „suspects“ crossed the imaginary „Yellow Line” while carrying out “suspicious activity in the ground.”

The supposed crime was crossing a line that two young boys would never understand, simply trying to gather firewood for their injured father.

Israel executed them because it considers a child with firewood a “terrorist” and a threat to its forces. The state repeats this predictable lie daily after murdering Palestinians who are only trying to survive the harsh winter cold or reclaim the life they were stolen from.

They were killed, and no one will move for their sake. The world has grown so accustomed to the killing of Palestinian children, it acts as if they were created for that very purpose.

Shame on every complicit silence.

Credit: Miral Askar (LinkedIn)

The West Papua National Liberation Army has resisted counterinsurgency in the Star Mountains for decades. Drop Site spoke with guerilla leader Lamek Taplo a week before he was killed.

by Kristo Langker on Nov 30, 2025 at dropsitenews.co.-.. via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HIK telegram https://t.me/thefreeonline/4667

Lamek Taplo holding a downed DJI Mavic drone and Pindad grenade. September 28, 2025 (Photo by Ngalum Kupel, TPNPB).

Lamek Taplo (standing) in jungle camp. October 15, 2025 (Photo by Ngalum Kupel, TPNPB). Shortly after Lamek was killed by an Indonesian bombing blitz

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The videos in this story are well worth watching: exclusive interviews with the guerilla group fighting off the drones and airplanes with bows and arrows.

This dispatch from Kristo Langker is from the mountains of West Papua, a part of the world we don’t typically cover, and it’s different in another way, too: we usually report on, and from, parts of the world where the U.S. war machine operates. In this story, the weaponry in question is made by a multinational French weapons manufacturer and Chinese manufacturer, but you’ll see the structure is the same: the Indonesian government using drones and helicopters to terrorize and displace the people of West Papua, while the historical reason imperial interests loom over the region stems from a U.S. mining project in the 1960s.

Guerilla Fighters in West Papua Are Facing Extermination by Indonesia’s High-Tech Forces

KIWIROK, West Papua—On September 25, 2025, Lamek Taplo, the guerilla leader of a wing of the West Papua National Liberation Army (Tentara Pembebasan Nasional Papua Barat, or TPNPB), left the jungle with his command to launch a series of raids on Indonesian military posts.

Still from a video of Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano bombing and strafing the mountains of Kiwirok on October 6, 2025 (Video by Lamek Taplo and Ngalum Kupel, TPNPB).

Indonesia had established three new military posts in the Star Mountains region in the past year, according to NGO Human Rights Monitor, with sources on the ground telling Drop Site News that nearby civilian houses and facilities—including a church, schools, and a health clinic—had been forcibly occupied in support of the military build-up.

Despite being severely outgunned, the command shot five Indonesian soldiers, killing one, while suffering no casualties themselves, according to Taplo and other members of his group. The raids continued for three more days. The command shot the fuselage of a helicopter and burned five buildings that Taplo’s group claimed were occupied by Indonesian security forces.

Taplo was killed less than three weeks later by an apparent drone strike. During an October 13 interview a week before his death, Taplo, a former teacher himself, told Drop Site why TPNPB targeted a school: “It’s because they (Indonesian military) used it as their base. There’s no teacher—only Indonesians. I know, because I was the teacher there, too… Indonesia sent “teachers.” However, they’re actually military intelligence.”

School building set on fire by the TPNPB. September 27, 2025 (Photo by Ngalum Kupel, TPNPB).

Indonesia has laid claim to the western half of New Guinea since the 1960s with the backing of the U.S. For the past year, the Indonesian military has ramped up its indiscriminate attacks on subsistence farming villages, especially those that deny Indonesian rule.

The military presence has been growing exponentially after the October 2024 inauguration of President Prabowo Subianto, who is implicated in historic massacres in Papua from his time as commander of Indonesia’s special forces—called Komando Pasukan Khusus or “Kopassus.” According to witnesses interviewed in Kiwirok and its surrounding hamlets, and documented in videos, there are now snipers stationed along walking tracks, and civilians have been shot and killed attempting to retrieve their pigs.

Indonesia immediately retaliated against TPNPB’s September attacks by sending two consumer-grade DJI Mavic drones, rigged with servo motors, to drop Pindad-manufactured hand grenades. One drone targeted a hut that Taplo claimed did not house TPNPB but belonged to civilians. No one was killed as the grenade bounced off the sheet metal roof and exploded a few meters away. The other drone flew over a group of TPNPBraising the Morning Star flag of West Papua but was taken down by the guerrillas before a grenade could be dropped.

Ngalum Kupel TPNPB celebrating the capture of a drone. September 28, 2025 (Video by Ngalum Kupel, TPNPB).

Holding the downed drone and grenade, Taplo likened the ordeal to Moses parting the Red Sea for the escaping Israelites: “It’s like Firaun and Moses… It was a miracle.” Then joking, “The bomb (grenade) was caught since it’s like the cucumber we eat.”

Over the next few weeks, a series of heavier aerial bombardments followed. Videos taken by Taplo show two Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano turboprop aircraft darting through the air, followed by the thunderous sound of ordnance hitting the mountains.

Despite the fact that thousands of West Papuans have been killed in bombings like these since the 1970s, Taplo’s videos are the first to ever capture an aerial bombardment from the ground in West Papua, owing to the extreme isolation of the interior. In fact, many highland West Papuans’ first contact with the outside world was with Indonesian military campaigns.

Ostensibly a counter-insurgency operation against a guerrilla independence movement, these bombings are primarily hitting civilians—tribal communities of subsistence farmers. The few fighters Indonesia is targeting are poorly armed—lacking bullets, let alone bombs—and live on ancestral land with their families. The most ubiquitous weapon among these groups remains the bow and arrow.

Taplo told Drop Site the bombings began on Monday, October 6. “Firstly they (Indonesia) did an unorganized attack: they dropped the bomb randomly… they just dropped it everywhere. You can see where the smoke was coming from. Even though it was an Indonesian military house, they just dropped it on there anyway. That was the first one; then they came back. The first place bombed after was a civilian house; the second was our base.”

Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano bombing and strafing the mountains. October 6, 2025 (Videos by Lamek Taplo and Ngalum Kupel, TPNPB).

“I live with the people, because there’s no military to protect my people”

West Papua was a Dutch colony until 1962, when Indonesia, after a bitter dispute with the Netherlands, secured Washington’s backing to take over the territory.

see also:

• Selling Out West Papua: Stop Ethnicide and Ecocide of corrupt colonial Regime – The Free
• KILL THE MESSENGER:Andre Vltchek: 52 Years After Fascist Genocide, Indonesians Scared of “Communist Ghosts” – The Free
• Global Action: Free West Papua! 5th to 7th Sept – The Free↗thefreeonline.com/2019/0
• Australia’s shameful racist pro-US Imperialist Foreign Policy – The Free↗thefreeonline.com/2022/0

Just three years after Washington tipped the scales in favor of Indonesia in their dispute with the Netherlands, the nationalist Indonesian President Sukarno was ousted in a U.S.-backed military coup in 1965. Hundreds of thousands of Indonesian leftists (or suspected leftists) were killed in just a few months by the new regime led by General Suharto.

Indonesia’s acquisition of West Papua is often treated as an event peripheral to this coup, yet both events held a symbiotic relationship that would become the impetus for many of the mass killings perpetrated by Indonesia in West Papua.

Continue reading “West Papuans resist ongoing Ethnocide by US backed Indonesian colonial Forces”

The Alleged 28-Point Ukrainian and Russian Peace Plan

20 Nov 2025 by Larry C. Johnson 195 CommentsXTelegram VK FacebookEmailCopy Link via hefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-HI9

A full version of the alleged 28-point US drafted peace plan to bring an end to the war in Ukraine appeared on line courtesy of Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski (you can read the original post on X here).

According to my friend, Pepe Escobar, this document was leaked to the Russian press by Kiril Dimitriev. This proposal is worse than I imagined. During an interview with Maria Zakharova that I hosted on Wednesday, along with Alexander Kazakov and Pepe Escobar, she stated that the Russian Foreign Ministry had not yet received an official copy of the proposal.

Once the proposed document is submitted to the Russian Foreign Ministry, I believe that Sergei Lavrov will use careful diplomatic language welcoming it as a starting point for negotiations, but there is no way in hell that Russia will agree to this in its current form.

Russia is winning on the battlefield and is confident that it will prevail, not only over Ukraine, but over NATO. The proposed document assumes that Russia is looking for a way out… It is not.

The biggest problem with this document is that it assumes that Russia and Ukraine are negotiating from a position of equal strength. However, given the current collapse of the Ukrainian military, it will be Russia who will dictate the terms.

I have highlighted in BOLD some of the more problematic portions of this document:

1. Ukraine’s sovereignty will be confirmed.

2. A full and comprehensive non-aggression agreement will be concluded between Russia, Ukraine, and Europe. All ambiguities of the past 30 years will be considered resolved.

3. It is expected that Russia will not invade neighbouring countries and that NATO will not expand further.

The word, expected, is a major stumbling block… Russia will insist on an iron-clad guarantee that NATO will end expansion and remove weapon systems from Romania and Poland that are capable of launching nuclear missiles.

4. A dialogue will be conducted between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States, to resolve all security issues and create conditions for de-escalation, thereby ensuring global security and increasing opportunities for cooperation and future economic development.

5. Ukraine will receive reliable security guarantees.

6. The size of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be limited to 600,000 personnel.

In February 2022, at the start of Russia’s special military operation, the total size of the Ukrainian military was about 260,000–280,000 active-duty personnel, including all branches (ground forces, air force, navy, airborne, marines, and special operations). There is no way that Russia will agree to a 600,000 number. During the negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul in March 2022, Russia demanded a peacetime cap of 85,000 active personnel for Ukraine’s armed forces, a figure far below Ukraine’s pre-war standing army of approximately 200,000–250,000 troops. This was part of broader Russian demands for demilitarization, including restrictions on tanks (e.g., fewer than 400), aircraft (e.g., 60–80 combat aircraft), missiles (range limited to 40 km), and artillery systems.

7. Ukraine agrees to enshrine in its constitution that it will not join NATO, and NATO agrees to include in its statutes a provision that it will not accept Ukraine in the future.

8. NATO agrees not to deploy troops in Ukraine.

9. European fighter aircraft will be stationed in Poland.

I believe that Russia will demand specific limitations on the type of NATO aircraft that will be allowed in Poland.

10. U.S. Guarantees: The United States will receive compensation for the guarantee. If Ukraine invades Russia, it will lose the guarantee. If Russia invades Ukraine, in addition to a decisive coordinated military response, all global sanctions will be reinstated, recognition of new territories and all other benefits of this deal will be revoked. If Ukraine without cause launches a missile at Moscow or Saint Petersburg, the security guarantee will be considered invalid.

As currently presented, this is a problem for Moscow, especially given the history of NATO working with Ukrainian intelligence services to launch false flag attacks.

Continue reading “Zelensky may agree fake Trump Plan for ‘Amnesty’ coercion- Winning Russia may play for time.”

A new dataset, 54,449 articles across eight major outlets, maps out what so many of us already feel in our bones: on purpose.. Palestine is disappeared

by mediabiasmeter.com/fram…  via Marginalia Subversiva  and thefreeonline  at.  https://t.me/thefreeonline/4613   on 23rd Nov 2025

Every genocide has an accomplice with ‘clean hands’. For Palestinians, that accomplice is Western media.

Story Ember leGaïe2d via Marginalia Subversiva

A new dataset, 54,449 articles across eight major outlets, maps out what so many of us already feel in our bones: Palestine is disappeared on purpose. Not by accident. Not by oversight. Not because the news cycle is “overwhelmed.” Because erasure is the editorial line.

This isn’t about one scandalized headline or one bad reporter. It’s the infrastructure. The architecture. The algorithm of empire dressed up as journalism.

And for two years straight, it has worked exactly as designed.

1. Palestine is treated like a rumor. Israel is treated like a nation.

At The New York Times, “Israel” appeared 186 times for every single mention of “Palestine.”

Not articles,  headlines.

The emotional front door of the story.

Half the time “Palestine” shows up, it doesn’t even refer to Palestinians. It refers to Western protestors, almost always framed as violent, unruly, threatening.

When a people’s name appears only to criminalize solidarity, that isn’t journalism. It’s narrative warfare.

see also Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds

2. The occupation is treated like an opinion.

“Illegal settlements,” the actual legal term,  show up in less than 5% of references across all outlets.

Fifty-four thousand articles. Only three headlines used the phrase “illegal settlements.”

Three.

The theft of land becomes “construction.”

Colonization becomes “housing expansion.”

Armed settlers become “residents.”

This is how language launders violence: one missing adjective and a war crime becomes a zoning dispute.

3. October 7 is a drumbeat. The 2007 blockade is a whisper.

At Corriere della Sera, October 7 is mentioned 215 times for every one mention of the blockade.

At the BBC, the ratio is 104 to 1.

Eighteen years of siege,  the entire lives of Gaza’s children  erased.

One day elevated to divine scripture.

Context becomes optional only when the truth would indict the powerful.

4. The famine is happening in real time ,  but the media sees only “terror.”

As children starved in front of the world, as bodies shrank under blockade-induced hunger, coverage still leaned toward one word: terrorism.

Even in months when famine warnings were everywhere, “terrorism” dwarfed “famine,” “starvation,” or “hunger” in nearly every outlet.

Security for the colonizer always outranks survival for the colonized.

5. Precision is a lie told with confidence.

The phrase “precision strike(s)” appears 68 times at the New York Times alone.

If there is such a thing as a “precision strike,” the corpse count would prove it.

Instead, more than 168,000 Palestinians were killed in these “precise” attacks.

A genocide cannot be “targeted.”

A child cannot be collateral.

The language is engineered to make murder feel clinical.

6. Terrorism becomes the air readers breathe.

At the BBC and Le Monde, two-thirds of Gaza coverage includes terrorism terminology.

Repetition is persuasion.

Conditioning.

A drumbeat designed to make Palestinian life sound like a threat.

Once a population is framed as terrorists, their death becomes background noise. Their hunger becomes unfortunate. Their extermination becomes “self-defense.”

7. And the right to return, the core wound of this entire history,  is nearly unspeakable.

Thirty-eight mentions.

Out of 54,449 articles.

The oldest refugee crisis on earth, and Western media treats return as a superstition. A ghost story. A taboo.

Israel’s “right to exist” is treated as sacred scripture.

Palestine’s right to exist is treated as dangerous.

That asymmetry isn’t accidental. It is the moral architecture of settler-colonial storytelling.

The takeaway is blunt:

The genocide wasn’t just enabled by bombs, siege, and U.S. weapons.

It was enabled by headlines.

Erasure is policy.

Narrative control is artillery.

Language is one of empire’s sharpest tools.

And what this dataset proves,  beyond argument, beyond euphemism,  is that Western media chose a side. Not passively. Not accidentally. Structurally.

This is not a media failure.

It’s a media function.

The question now is what we build in its place,  and whose names we refuse to let disappear.

mediabiasmeter.com/fram…

Drop Site News reports that the IDF quietly moved part of the “yellow line” which divides Gaza 300 meters forward, and then started shelling Palestinians for being on the “wrong side” of the line.They just keep finding new ways to carve off more pieces of Gaza and murder more Palestinians.