For years, Guérot was one of Germany’s most respected political scientists. But after she criticised the pandemic response and the proxy war in Ukraine, she found herself cast as a public enemy
Reading this and thinking about the lines running through Covid, Ukraine, EU, centralized planning and persecution of dissidents, this title for a future article came to mind: Is NATO the mercenary army of a global techno-feudalist crime cartel?
Ulrike’s story would be a great intro to that investigation.
It’s not just Germany. In the UK attempts were made to silence Richard Sakwa, Emeritus Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent 👇
Germany exemplifies this "liberal totalitarianism" spreading through out the west.
I am aware of the case of the 90 year old German woman (whose name I forget) jailed for questioning the mainstream narrative on the Holocaust.
This really says it all when a regime cannot tolerate the free speech of a 90 year old woman and feels the need to imprison her for her views!
It is an easy shift from cancelling and censoring one issue or topic deemed "sacred" and beyond debate or questioning, to expanding this to all other areas of debate and topics deemed settled or "sacred".
Censor one debate, why not censor another? This was the same kind of ridiculous prosecution of CJ Hopkins.
And of course we have the case of Reiner Fuellmich- another disgrace of the German state.
We live in a new age of censorship and totalitarianism.
Well, I guess on May 16th we'll see if "Es gibt einen Richter in Berlin." Meanwhile, maybe professor Guérot changed her mind about EU, coming closer to your skeptycism. Her story makes me think about the novel "Illusioni perdute" by H.d. Balzac, kind of bildungsroman.
Thomas, I appreciate your shedding light on the persecution of Professor Guérot. I was not aware of her or of her being censored and cancelled. I have been following the similar case of Reiner Fuellmich. Your writing is clear and compelling.
Anyone living in Germany can make a little experiment: go to a public square with a protest poster condemning a certain country of being a genocider as this country is committing a genocide in plain sight. How many minutes will take until you go to jail?
I m a German political scientist and my academic career was destroyed by censorship of my ph.d. thesis in the late 1990s. The system is broken. Many talents manage to leave Germany since the 1980s when the neoliberal turn of the German universities began.
Professor Rigg of the University of Queensland made the mistake of criticizing the conventional wisdom of the so called Climate Consensus and met a similar fate.
Very shocking (but no longer surprising) stuff! It seems no-one can escape cancellation, once they cross one those 'red lines'.
I'll just add; it says something of you Thomas, that, despite your disagreements in the past, Ulrike Guérot still saw you as someone she could call when the machine turned against her. Well done.
In academia, taking someone down on the basis of minor errors here and there is a double-edged sword, as no one is 100% immune to error. In order to help her in court, Dr Guerot's allies could pick apart publications of other well-known professors, as well as those of her detractors in academia, the way it was done with her publications.
This is tremendously important, of course. Has been since it first became apparent back at Covid.
I'd like to point out that we are not doing anything about it.
What is clearly needed is truth disseminated throughout the population
AND
a venue, a locus, a point of truth where it can be found and verified, examined.
To this day no such venue exists and I've never seen any call for it from any intellectual. Or similar.
By 'similar' I mean all the serious and intelligent commentators who speak and publish on the issue and perform the functions that our intelligentsia should perform but don't and without pretensions to be 'intelligentsia'.
The closest we get from anyone at any time is publication of books, such as Mr Fazi's 'covid consensus' here. Good as far as it goes. But how far is that? Stats from gpt:
Literacy and Population Metrics
Germany’s adult literacy rate: Approximately 99% .
Adult population (15 years and older): Approximately 70 million.
This suggests that even a successful sociopolitical book reaches a minuscule fraction of the literate population.
We need two things:
. A public forum devoted to finding the truth on questions and displaying them along with evidence and chain of reasoning and open to input from all.
. A concerted effort on the part of all to disseminate awareness of this forum (or forums) to all.
Note: this is not 'fact checker' forums in mind here. They in fact were simply propaganda outlets, disinformation tools.
This is more after the style of a formal debate but with the emphasis on finding provable truth rather than demonstrating 'debating skill' and making your truth appear to be the one trut.
Its pure untruth to say anything connected at this time with Germany is Manichaen becasue Mani was for peace. An absolute peaceful religious figure who was executed by his own king and his body was put on a stake outside the city wallls. Lets respect the names of those who die for us.
I understand its very cool to use the term Manichaeism to describe a polarity - but Mani was not a dualist. He believed that God created everything. Even the dark
I hardly dare to write this, but i agree with Mani. I believe that nothing exists that was NOT created by the one and only Creator, whatever one chooses to call him or her.
I've found a wonderfual author - I'm reading his bigger book now - but he has written a smaller book too - that might interest you - I can only fully recommend the bigger book as I have not read anything else YET - ' Manichaeaism An Early Christian Church '- by Roland van Vliet - truly a spiritual experience and not an easy read.
The two books are somewhat complimentary and the little one about the future is more difficult. The big one - An Early Christian Church is great - and if you're interested in Gnostic - there's a good book by Mark Gaffney - called The Nassenes - incidentally he also wrote a book about Dimona - Israel nuclear site - concerning the scientist Mordecai Vanuatu - my spelling might not be right. That's an easier book ( the Nassenes ) to read - but not so much about Mani
Reading this and thinking about the lines running through Covid, Ukraine, EU, centralized planning and persecution of dissidents, this title for a future article came to mind: Is NATO the mercenary army of a global techno-feudalist crime cartel?
Ulrike’s story would be a great intro to that investigation.
Just a small correction: Guérot's hearing on May 16 will not take place at the Bonn Labor Court but at the Cologne Regional/State Labor Court.
Thanks – corrected!
Great! Thank you 🙏🏼
It’s not just Germany. In the UK attempts were made to silence Richard Sakwa, Emeritus Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent 👇
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/01/british-intel-top-russia-academic-leaks/
Germany exemplifies this "liberal totalitarianism" spreading through out the west.
I am aware of the case of the 90 year old German woman (whose name I forget) jailed for questioning the mainstream narrative on the Holocaust.
This really says it all when a regime cannot tolerate the free speech of a 90 year old woman and feels the need to imprison her for her views!
It is an easy shift from cancelling and censoring one issue or topic deemed "sacred" and beyond debate or questioning, to expanding this to all other areas of debate and topics deemed settled or "sacred".
Censor one debate, why not censor another? This was the same kind of ridiculous prosecution of CJ Hopkins.
And of course we have the case of Reiner Fuellmich- another disgrace of the German state.
We live in a new age of censorship and totalitarianism.
Well, I guess on May 16th we'll see if "Es gibt einen Richter in Berlin." Meanwhile, maybe professor Guérot changed her mind about EU, coming closer to your skeptycism. Her story makes me think about the novel "Illusioni perdute" by H.d. Balzac, kind of bildungsroman.
Thomas, I appreciate your shedding light on the persecution of Professor Guérot. I was not aware of her or of her being censored and cancelled. I have been following the similar case of Reiner Fuellmich. Your writing is clear and compelling.
Anyone living in Germany can make a little experiment: go to a public square with a protest poster condemning a certain country of being a genocider as this country is committing a genocide in plain sight. How many minutes will take until you go to jail?
"Never Again" !
The part about her wikipedia entry being altered to include the FAZ article the day before it was even released is particularly telling.
I m a German political scientist and my academic career was destroyed by censorship of my ph.d. thesis in the late 1990s. The system is broken. Many talents manage to leave Germany since the 1980s when the neoliberal turn of the German universities began.
Great piece, Thomas. I stand with Ulrike.
Professor Rigg of the University of Queensland made the mistake of criticizing the conventional wisdom of the so called Climate Consensus and met a similar fate.
Very shocking (but no longer surprising) stuff! It seems no-one can escape cancellation, once they cross one those 'red lines'.
I'll just add; it says something of you Thomas, that, despite your disagreements in the past, Ulrike Guérot still saw you as someone she could call when the machine turned against her. Well done.
I hope she wins her appeal.
In academia, taking someone down on the basis of minor errors here and there is a double-edged sword, as no one is 100% immune to error. In order to help her in court, Dr Guerot's allies could pick apart publications of other well-known professors, as well as those of her detractors in academia, the way it was done with her publications.
This is tremendously important, of course. Has been since it first became apparent back at Covid.
I'd like to point out that we are not doing anything about it.
What is clearly needed is truth disseminated throughout the population
AND
a venue, a locus, a point of truth where it can be found and verified, examined.
To this day no such venue exists and I've never seen any call for it from any intellectual. Or similar.
By 'similar' I mean all the serious and intelligent commentators who speak and publish on the issue and perform the functions that our intelligentsia should perform but don't and without pretensions to be 'intelligentsia'.
The closest we get from anyone at any time is publication of books, such as Mr Fazi's 'covid consensus' here. Good as far as it goes. But how far is that? Stats from gpt:
Literacy and Population Metrics
Germany’s adult literacy rate: Approximately 99% .
Adult population (15 years and older): Approximately 70 million.
Estimated reach: 30,000 copies sold / 70,000,000 literate adults = ~0.043% penetration.
This suggests that even a successful sociopolitical book reaches a minuscule fraction of the literate population.
We need two things:
. A public forum devoted to finding the truth on questions and displaying them along with evidence and chain of reasoning and open to input from all.
. A concerted effort on the part of all to disseminate awareness of this forum (or forums) to all.
Note: this is not 'fact checker' forums in mind here. They in fact were simply propaganda outlets, disinformation tools.
This is more after the style of a formal debate but with the emphasis on finding provable truth rather than demonstrating 'debating skill' and making your truth appear to be the one trut.
Its pure untruth to say anything connected at this time with Germany is Manichaen becasue Mani was for peace. An absolute peaceful religious figure who was executed by his own king and his body was put on a stake outside the city wallls. Lets respect the names of those who die for us.
I understand its very cool to use the term Manichaeism to describe a polarity - but Mani was not a dualist. He believed that God created everything. Even the dark
I hardly dare to write this, but i agree with Mani. I believe that nothing exists that was NOT created by the one and only Creator, whatever one chooses to call him or her.
I've found a wonderfual author - I'm reading his bigger book now - but he has written a smaller book too - that might interest you - I can only fully recommend the bigger book as I have not read anything else YET - ' Manichaeaism An Early Christian Church '- by Roland van Vliet - truly a spiritual experience and not an easy read.
Thanks for the tip! Will look into it! <3
The two books are somewhat complimentary and the little one about the future is more difficult. The big one - An Early Christian Church is great - and if you're interested in Gnostic - there's a good book by Mark Gaffney - called The Nassenes - incidentally he also wrote a book about Dimona - Israel nuclear site - concerning the scientist Mordecai Vanuatu - my spelling might not be right. That's an easier book ( the Nassenes ) to read - but not so much about Mani