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Greeman: Police Tear-Gas Climate Campaigners in Paris
If the social struggle rises again next Fall, as it must in this increasingly unequal society with a long revolutionary history and a hereditary hatred of the contemptuous aristocrats who rule over it, who knows what will happen?
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Fisk: The Autocrats of the Middle East are No Longer a Global Anomaly
Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, is absolutely right about Donald Trump. One wonders how he might describe Boris Johnson
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Jahanpour: After Trump’s Breach
Reviewing the history of the nuclear deal or, to give it its full title, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
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Fisk: The West is Silent Over Morsi
The lack of comment from our heads of state is positive encouragement to every Middle Eastern leader who now knows their own misdeeds will go unpunished
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Flanders: Ada Colau: Barcelona’s Fearless Mayor
For close to a decade now, Barcelona had been what my friend Sol Trumbo Vila calls a beacon for the possibilities of transformative change at the city level
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Prashad: Peace is a word that the West has taken from the Afghans
This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the...
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Marlière: France: The Yellow Vests’ Missed Opportunity
The movement’s most fundamental characteristic is its loathing of representative democracy: the Yellow Vests despise professional politicians and describe them as ‘corrupt’ and ‘incompetent’
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Henley: Greens Make Strongest Ever Showing Across Europe
The Green Party could hold balance of power in EU parliament with projected 71 MEPs
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Cook: The western media is key to Syria deceptions
The media are not a watchdog on power but the public relations arm of giant corporations pursuing their narrow interests in the Middle East
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Varoufakis: The left refuses to get its act together in the face of neofascism
While we would have loved not to run, and instead to support existing parties that have worked with us on a meaningful policy agenda, Diem25 has taken the plunge, running in several countries at once with a single, substantive, ambitious green new deal agenda
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Feffer: Russia and the Future of Europe
With EU elections approaching, the Kremlin has backed some of the most noxious reactionaries now operating on the world scene
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Gallagher: France Takes Unprecedented Action Against Reporters
Journalists in France are facing potential jail sentences in an unprecedented case over their handling of secret documents detailing the country’s involvement in the Yemen conflict
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Fisk: Western states avoid culpability for war crimes
When is a war crime not a war crime? When it’s committed by us, of course
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Research: The Propaganda Multiplier
How Global News Agencies and Western Media Report on Geopolitics
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Greeman: Yellow Vests Six Months Later
The Yellow Vests represent a spontaneous, self-organized social movement has ever held out for half a year in spite of repression while retaining its autonomy, resisting cooptation, bureaucratization and sectarian splits
ZMag Europe
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Greeman: Yellow Vests Struggle To Reinvent Democracy
Hundreds of autonomous Yellow Vest activist groups from all over France each chose two delegates (one woman, one man) to gather in the port city of St. Nazaire for a weekend of deliberation
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Jorden: It Has Begun: One in Five Million Protest in Serbia
A common alienation is uniting the people
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Rasmus: Trade War for Real? Parts 2, 3
How China will respond to more U.S. tariffs and technology transfer is the crux of any U.S.-China trade agreement—or trade war
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Jones: Scandinavia in Maryland?
So far at least 10 states (as well as Puerto Rico) and more than 200 cities have committed themselves to work toward the environmental goals of the Paris Accord, just as the United States as a nation had promised to do before Trump trashed the deal
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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?
Europe Video
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Varoufakis: On Julian Assange and the Political Economy & future of Europe
Interview on the socio-economic transformations taking place within the core of the European Union and how much time is left until it disintegrates
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Faber: Spain’s Political Divide
Political parties in Spain are struggling to navigate an increasingly polarized political landscape
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Faber: Catalan Separatists Defy Obstacles
Catalan independence parties won the regional parliamentary vote, defeating the central government's effort to weaken the movement
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Golinkin: Europe’s White Supremacists Have Powerful Allies
After a massive neo-fascist march in Poland and new reports of neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine, Lev Golinkin says both the US and Russia have troubling ties to Europe's far-right
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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?
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...