Expandable and increasingly expensive, NATO spreads over Europe
- Manlio Dinucci Μάνλιο Ντινούτσι مانليو دينوتشي
Atlantic weapons. Today Trump, at the summit in the mega-seat of the Alliance in Brussels, will raise the voice: "Increase military spending or I’ll lose patience"
Tom Janssen
The NATO Summit is taking place on July 11 and 12 ...
EU’s debt deal is “kiss of death” for Greece
- C. J. Polychroniou Χ.Ι. Πολυχρονίου
After eight long and extremely painful years of austerity due to gigantic rescue packages that were accompanied by brutal neoliberal measures, in Athens, the “leftist” government of Alexis Tsipras has announced that the era of austerity ...
EU takes first step in passing controversial copyright law that could ‘censor the internet’
- James Vincent
The legislation passed an initial vote, but it will need parliamentary approval before becoming law
The European Union has taken the first step in passing new copyright legislation that critics say will tear the internet apart.
This ...
US RITA (anti-war) GI’s in the Paris of May 1968
- Max Watts (1928-2010)
Max Watts (Tomi Schwätzer, 1928-2010) fled the Nazis in Vienna with his parents and sister in 1938, left the U.S. to avoid fighting Koreans in the early 1950s, while in Paris in the 1960s became a mentor to soldiers deserting the U.S. military and ...
With his choice of prime minister, Italy’s president has gifted the far right
- Yanis Varoufakis Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης Янис Варуфакис يانيس فاروفاكيس
Sergio Mattarella’s defence of the status quo has ensured the success of racist and populist policies.
Italy should be doing well. Unlike Britain, it exports considerably more to the rest of the world than it imports, while its government ...
Merkel was not elected by Italians, Italy better off leaving Euro
- Hans-Olaf Henkel
Whatever challenge the EU is facing, the answer we hear quite often is “more Europe”. The same recipe for various severe diseases. Yet, before a doctor recommends a treatment, he or she needs provide a diagnosis and then a prognosis, and ...
Urging ‘Sovereignty’ from Brussels, but not from Washington : Steve Bannon supports the Italian ‘nation-populists’
- Manlio Dinucci Μάνλιο Ντινούτσι مانليو دينوتشي
Steve Bannon – the former strategist of Donald Trump, theorist of national-populism -- expressed his enthusiastic support for the alliance of the Lega with the 5 Star Movement for "the government of change." In an interview he stated: ...
Living in an Orwellian Dystopia
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
It is puzzling to witness the speed and ferocity with which Britain is deteriorating into an Orwellian nightmare.
The Evening Standard reported yesterday that “a London council worker has been suspended after being caught claiming ...
Why Europe is afraid of the New Silk Roads
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Many EU countries are concerned about one-way traffic along the new trade routes Beijing is trying to set up to Europe
French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a press conference in Beijing on January 9, 2018. ...
The EU cannot be democratised —here’s why
- Thomas Fazi - Bill Mitchell
As the EU’s internal crisis increases with many citizens rebelling against what has become a neo-liberal project, European politicians are racing to strip national governments of all power to prevent any further democratic interventions. The centre-left ...
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