German Imperialism: An Urgent Explainer
Kit Klarenberg Substack The fate of Central and Eastern Europe after the People’s Democracies’ post-1989 fall cannot be fully appreciated without reference to the EU as an extension of German…
How Serbian Students Toppled An Authoritarian
Breza Race Maksimovic and Jelena Trajčevski Waging Nonviolence With months-long blockades and nonviolent discipline, students successfully removed strongman Aleksandar Vučić. Now Serbia has to show that a country can heal.…
The ‘War Of Grand Design’
Alastair Crooke, Consortium News. To preserve its supremacy, Washington is pushing Europe to the front line against Russia. Even at the risk of nuclear escalation. The paradigm shifts. The networked…
Thousands March Across Europe Against Inequality And ‘for Young People’s Future’
Olivia Rosane Common Dreams “Looking at countries like the United States, we don’t want to end up like them, where part of the population has everything and the others have…
Inside The Resistance To Spain’s Crackdown On Migrants In Ceuta
Mehk Chakraborty Waging Nonviolence Despite violence by Spain’s police and military, some 10,000 migrants who made it to Ceuta are resisting expulsion, and surviving with the help of solidarity groups.…
Why Europe Embraced Authoritarianism For Israel
Nate Bear Do Not Panic This week the UK revoked the visas of leftist American influencer Hasan Piker and the podcaster Cenk Uygur who were both scheduled to speak at…
EU Imperialism Rising After Hungarian Coup
Kit Klarenberg Substack On April 12th, a political earthquake in Hungary upended 16 years of continuous rule by Viktor Orban. It was a period characterised by ever-mounting and fractious confrontation…
Turning Point: Wind and Solar Outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time
Wind, solar and hydro accounted for 47.1% of electricity generation, nearly half, in the Eurozone.
EU Official Plotted To ‘Organise Resistance’ Against Hungary’s Orban, Files Show
As the EU has sought to prolong the Ukraine proxy war, expropriate frozen Russian assets, and enlarge the bloc at any cost, Viktor Orban’s Hungary opposed it at every turn.…
The Left Wins the Presidential Election in Ireland by a Landslide
Both Catherine Connolly and Michael D are unabashedly left-wing, absorbed by the struggle for people to live with dignity in Ireland itself and gripped by severe global challenges, particularly those…
Spain Announces Arms Embargo on Israel and Other Steps ‘to Stop the Genocide in Gaza’
"This is not self-defense," Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez asserted, "it is the extermination of a defenseless people and a violation of every international law."
Belgium To Recognize Palestine, Impose Sanctions on Israel
The Belgian foreign minister said the country will ban imports from illegal settlements and sanction extremist ministers and settlers.
Belgian Court Bans Military Shipments to Israel in Activist Victory
Anti-armament activists in Belgium celebrated a major victory as a judge ordered the Flemish government to halt military shipments to Israel.
Iran Agrees to Nuclear Talks With EU States: Report
The UK, France, and Germany have recently threatened to reimpose sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Austerity Linked to Over 1 Million Preventable Deaths in EU
In 2022, over 1 million people in the EU died from preventable causes. Trade unions are urging increased public investment and wealth taxes to reverse the trend.