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Latest Europe
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Bello: Contagion: how the crisis spread
Were there commonalities between the financial crisis that happened in...
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Abunimah: EU washes its hands of Gaza
After 10 years of Israeli blockade, conditions for two million...
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Konstantakopoulos: The Left in Britain and the Middle East
The youth is looking for a solution to its huge social problems, but also feels that the planet is on the wrong course
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Hallinan: Europe: The Danger of the Center
Europe is enmeshed in an economic crisis brought on by the structure of the European Union (EU), on one hand, and the nature of capitalism, on the other
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Beneath the European claim to being the planet’s champion of human rights lies a singularly ugly truth—that Trump is the id to Europe’s superego
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Feffer: When Trump’s Push Comes to Shove
In one video clip, a glimpse of the Trump team's plan to divide Europe, cozy up to right-wing dictatorships, and rally the extreme right
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Bello: Europe’s Faustian Bargain with Big Finance
Europe's social democrats played a central role in unleashing the financial sector that created the European economic crisis that continues to today
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Cole: Pope to Trump: Climate Change is Real
Pope Francis notes the near unanimity of scientists on the danger of human-made climate change
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While the UK left is divided over how to respond to Brexit, the people of Greece continue to groan under the burden of EU-backed austerity
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Polychroniou: The Effects of Greece’s Loss of Sovereignty
For the last several months, Greece's international creditors -- the European Union and the International Monetary Fund -- had been at a standoff over debt relief
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Solomon: Warfare State at War with Trump
Interview on the Trump/Russia affair and plans to isolate and perhaps attack Iran
ZMag Europe
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Coleman-Adebayo: “Negroes Need Not Apply:” The EU-Africa Malta Conference
Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, offers the solution of pouring “hundreds of millions in additional aid into Africa to try to discourage hundreds of thousands of people from heading to the EU.”
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Musto: The Threatening Advancement of the Far Right in Europe
We should mention that neo-Nazi organizations have spread in some parts of Europe. The biggest of them is Golden Dawn, which has become the third political force in Greece.
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Glazebrook: Refugees Don’t Cause Fascism, Timmermans, You Do
Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, following recent negotiations over the so-called refugee crisis, remarked to reporters: “We have to patrol our borders better.
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Posey: Mainstreaming Domestic Terrorism
In April 2009, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report leaked to the public entitled “Right Wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” was released within months of President Obama’s inauguration, sketching the broad strokes of a nascent white nationalist backlash
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Rasmus: The Greek Debt Interim Agreement
Greece and Syriza have not sold out. To declare such is premature at best and counterproductive politically at worst. Yes, Greece blinked at the February 28 deadline. If it hadn’t what would have been the consequences?
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Johnstone: Ukraine and Yugoslavia
Up to now, I have remained speechless in the face of what appears to me to be utter madness.
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Herman: Srebrenica: The Star Witness
Book by Germinal Civikov, translated from the German by John...
Europe Video
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Varoufakis: Europe’s hidden agenda
What happened in Greece during the crisis? And what happens when you take on the establishment?
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Chomsky: I would vote for Jeremy Corbyn
Interview on Donald Trump, populism in Europe and Julian Assange
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Rasmus: Labor Uprising in France
Massive labor actions have been roiling France, as unions protest the policies of the nominally Socialist government
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Cohen: Why Is The Western Media Ignoring The New Cold War?
Interview on Russia, NATO, and our mainstream media's refusal to report on the New Cold War
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Varoufakis: Privatization, Human Rights & Capitalism
Interview on privatization, human rights, media, experience with the EU and capitalism’s ability to reform
Europe Audio
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Rasmus: Oil Deflation, Russia’s Recession, and Ukraine Depression
Reviewing the continuing collapse of global oil prices and its effect on the emerging recession in Russia, continuing economic stagnation in Europe, and the deepening Depression in the Ukraine economy
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Rasmus: Europe’s Continuing Epic Recession
A talk on how Europe’s ‘stop-go’ recovery and its version of an ‘Epic recession’ (i.e. short, shallow recoveries followed by economic relapses and double dip recessions) is proving worse than the USA’s experience with ‘stop-go’ recovery since 2009
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Barrett: March for the Alternative – Peoples Assemblies
Mark Barrett shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March...
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Davies: March for the Alternative – UK Uncut
Liam Davies shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March...
Europe Blogs
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Bohmer: Thomas Herndon’s Dismantling of Study Justifying Austerity
April 20, 2013 Thomas Herndon studied economics and political...
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Wilson: Bread Crumbs for the World: The Failure of Hunger and Church Groups to Support Farm Justice
“A little child shall lead them.” Isaiah 11:6d “In truth...
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Wilson: Commodity Crops Vs. Vegetables? Data Slides Fix the Myth
(Authors note, 8/12/14: This blog introduced a new “Photo album”...
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Greeman: Scrooge Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
Brussels, Chrismas Eve, 2012. (From our Special Correspondant). Reactions...
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: England v Serbia Racism & European football
At a recent under 21 football match between Serbia and...
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Greeman: The horrors of socialized medicine in France
I have reached a hoary age where more and more...
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Wilson: Slides: The Dairy Crisis and the Farm Bill
The US (and beyond) dairy crisis is an enormous tragedy...
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Hahnel: Some Quick Thoughts on Recent Greek Tragedies
The Greek economy and society have been unraveling for well...