Undermining EU Sovereignty: The Reason Behind the U.S. Government’s “Secret Hatred of Europeans”

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By Eric Zuesse Global Research, June 22, 2017 Strategic Culture Foundation 21 June 2017 The reason for the U.S. government’s hostility — at least since 4 February 2014 —toward Europeans, has been a mystery, until now. This hostility wasn’t even publicly recognized at all, until it leaked out, on that date, from a tapped phone-line of arguably […]

Germany And Austria Warn US Over Expanded Russia Sanctions

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‘Europe’s energy supply is a matter for Europe, and not for the United States of America.’ By Christian Krug and Kalina Oroschakoff Germany and Austria on Thursday hit back at proposed U.S. sanctions that would threaten European companies participating in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, accusing the U.S. of politicizing its economic interest in […]

When Germany gives scam lessons

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When Germany gives scam lessons…And it is far from Italy What would happen if a 32-billion fraud to the State was discovered in Italy? Do you imagine the titles of newspapers? Horror, scandal and, above all, loads of self-racism: Italians only know how to steal, Italy is a country of s… who knows what people says […]

Putin in Paris: Europe got the message from world’s most influential man

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AP photo Vladimir Putin’s visit to France and his talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron is likely to be a lot more important than one may assume at first. It is not excluded that the Franco-Russian summit will become a turning point in the relations between the Russian Federation and the European Union. Macron […]

Trump’s Art Of The Deal In The Middle East: Selling Wars And Terrorism

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By Finian Cunningham May 25, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – It would be funny if it were not so sickening. US President Donald Trump’s whirlwind tour through the Middle East was a “triumph” of make-believe rhetoric over reality. Donald “the peace-maker” is sowing decades of further violence in the war-torn region. The horrific repercussions of American […]

Nato – A Dangerous Alliance

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With Nato holding its summit in Brussels this week, Rae Street explains why the military alliance remains a threat to world peace By Morning Star Global Research, May 25, 2017 The Morning Star 24 May 2017 When the Warsaw Pact ended, after the collapse of communism, some optimists might have expected Nato to be broken up […]

Hundreds of Migrants Drown in Mediterranean

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By Bill Van Auken Global Research, May 09, 2017 World Socialist Web Site More than 200 migrants are believed to have died trying to cross the Mediterranean last weekend, according to the UNHCR, the United Nations refugee organization. They are feared to have drowned when the rubber boats into which they were packed by smugglers […]

Growing Divisions, War Threats Loom Over EU Summit in Rome

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By Alex Lantier Global Research, March 31, 2017 World Socialist Web Site 27 March 2017 On Saturday, European Union (EU) heads of state met in Rome, celebrating 60 years of the 1957 Treaty of Rome that founded the European Economic Community, in an exercise designed to highlight the continuing unity of continental Europe despite Britain’s […]

Erdogan’s War of Words Inciting Terror in Europe

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By Finian Cunningham Only hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a bloodcurdling warning about terror attacks against European citizens, four people lay dead on the streets of London. That death toll may rise further because several of those injured in the attack this week in the British capital are in critical condition, fighting for their […]

Europe’s Far Right’s “Leftist Mask”

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The European far right has cynically appropriated left-wing and pro-worker talking points for its own purposes. By Line Rennwald and Alexandre Afonso Global Research, March 22, 2017 Jacobin 17 March 2017 In the early 1980s, Jean-Marie Le Pen took pride in being called the “French Ronald Reagan.” Likening fiscal authorities to the Spanish Inquisition, the […]

Portugal to Hand ex-CIA (?) Agent Convicted of Kidnapping Over to Italy

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By AP February 23, 2017 “Information Clearing House” –  “AP” – LISBON, Portugal — A former CIA agent will be handed over to Italy in the coming days to serve a four-year prison sentence after being convicted of involvement in a U.S. program that kidnapped suspects for interrogation, a lawyer said Tuesday. Sabrina de Sousa […]

Toxic Mines or Costly Lawsuits: How the CETA Trade Agreement Would “Corner Governments”

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By Corporate Europe Observatory Global Research, February 13, 2017 Corporate Europe Observatory 13 February 2017 Ahead of Wednesday’s final European Parliament vote on the Canada-EU trade deal (CETA), a new report shows the devastating effects the agreement could have on EU member states whose citizens and courts block harmful mines. A lawsuit over the controversial Roşia Montană […]

Crisis of EU Banking, Break-Up of the European Union (EU)? ECB Head Mario Draghi

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By Graham Vanbergen Global Research, January 31, 2017 True Publica 31 January 2017 Draghi’s speech at an investment conference in London boosted markets at the time and forced down Spain and Italy’s borrowing costs after saying; “Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it […]

China Extends Economic Influence in Balkans and Southeast Europe, Bank of China Regional Headquarters in Belgrade

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By Živadin Jovanović Global Research, January 22, 2017 On January 21st, 2017, the Bank of China has officially opened its regional branch headquarters in Serbian capital Belgrade, to provide banking services for cooperation in investments, trade, tourism and other fields, for countries in the region – Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and […]

Trump’s Cat Among European Pigeons

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By Finian Cunningham January 17, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – “Sputnik” – Incoming US President Donald Trump threw a cat among the European pigeons this week after he said that the EU was heading for breakup and that he didn’t care much if that were to happen. In interviews with British and German newspapers, Trump said […]

Blackwater Founder Returns to Save Europe from Refugees

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By Belén Fernández Global Research, January 08, 2017 Middle East Eye 5 January 2017 Starting the new year off with a bang, the Financial Times has just published a dispatch by Erik Prince, notorious founder and former CEO of the private security contracting firm Blackwater, the outfit responsible for projects such as the 2007 Nisour Square massacre of Iraqi children […]

Video: Economic, Geopolitical, Military and Diplomatic Trends in 2016. What Prospects for 2017

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By South Front Global Research, January 03, 2017 South Front 1 January 2016 2016 marked by important of diplomatic, political and military developments around the world. Britain voted to leave the European Union by 52% to 48% in a national referendum. The outcome of the Brexit referendum has caused strong reaction at home and worldwide. […]

Video: Post World War II History of Central Europe, From Yalta to Donald Trump

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By South Front Global Research, December 27, 2016 South Front 25 December 2016 The First World War and the collapse of German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian Empires led to the creation of a band of newly independent states which, due to their economic underdevelopment, were too weak to serve as a buffer zone between the revanchist […]

Paris, Brussels, Nice, Berlin… The Role of “Massive Casualty Producing Events”. The Roadmap to a Police State

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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, December 26, 2016 Global Research 3 February 2004 Author’s Note This article first published by Global Research in February 2004 examines the relationship between terrorist attacks (resulting in the tragic loss of life) and the transition in Western countries towards a totalitarian police State.  This article which focusses on the role […]

EU Shoots Itself in the Foot by Prolonging Sanctions on Russia. Will Trump Normalize Relations with Moscow?

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By Alex Gorka Global Research, December 25, 2016 Strategic Culture Foundation 22 December 2016 On December 15, the European Union extended by six months its main economic sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. The decision, to large extent spurred on by US President-elect Donald Trump’s stated willingness to normalize the relations with Moscow, […]

The Euro Is Murdering Europe

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By F. William Engdahl November 13, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “NEO” –  The Euro is murdering the nations and economies of the EU quite literally. Since the fixed currency regime came into effect, replacing national currencies in transactions in 2002, the fixed exchange rate regime has devastated industry in the periphery states of the […]

US, UK, France, Scandinavian Countries Fund “Local Councils” Affiliated to Terrorist Organizations in Aleppo

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By Hazem Sabbagh and Manar al-Freih Global Research, November 10, 2016 Syrian Arab News Agency 8 November 2016 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova affirmed that Western countries including the United States are currently funding the so called “local councils” which are affiliated to terrorist organizations in the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city. In a […]

Europe Beware: Russian Slavers On the March!

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By Phil Butler Global Research, November 03, 2016 New Eastern Outlook 3 November 2016 The headline read “Lithuania issues updated Russian invasion advice booklets”. This author’s thoughts immediately returned to a “duck and cover” film they showed us in El Paso, Texas when I was in the 2nd grade. These pesky Russians, simply will not […]

The Causes of the Refugee Crisis: Mediterranean Refugee Death Toll in 2016 “Worst We Have Seen”

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Introductory Note by Michel Chossudovsky By United Nations Global Research, October 28, 2016 UN News Centre 25 October 2016 Introduction The refugee crisis is triggered by US-NATO led wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya… ) “regime change”, “civil wars” and extreme poverty. Poverty and despair are the result of  the imposition of neoliberal economic reforms which have […]

European Parliament Votes In Favour Of A Ban on Nuclear Weapons

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By International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Global Research, October 27, 2016 International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons Brussels/Strasbourg. European Union’s legislature takes clear stance on upcoming negotiations on international treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons: the EU’s Member States should “support the convening” and “participate substantively” in its negotiation.  Today the European Parliament took a […]

Former President of EU Commission Juan Manuel Barroso: Conflict of Interest, “Deep Ties” to Goldman Sachs

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By Aleksandra Eriksson Global Research, September 28, 2016 EU Observer 26 September 2016 Jose Manuel Barroso had closer contact with Goldman Sachs during his tenure as European Commission chief than he has previously admitted, according to Portuguese media. Correspondence obtained by Portuguese daily Publico under a freedom of information request suggests that Barroso, who took a […]

Burkin And Lack Of Freedom In Europe

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By Andre Vltchek Jonathan Cook is a Nazareth- based journalist and winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism – See more at: http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2016-09-19/palestinians-lose-in-us-military-aid-deal-with-israel/#sthash.H1NbQCac.dpuf September 21, 2016 “Information Clearing House” –  In Europe, oppression is never really called by its true ugly name. It is constantly concealed by lofty slogans such as culture, even […]

The EU Migration Crisis: Towards the “Palestinianization” of the Refugees within the EU?

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By Daniel Deiss, J. Hawk, and Edwin Watson Global Research, September 08, 2016 South Front 8 September 2016 The EU migration crisis is still at the top of the agenda. Various political forces are trying to use this problem for their own benefit, often forgetting that most of the refugees from the Middle East and […]

Secretive Tax Rulings and the Apple Tax Repayment: The EU Commission’s Apple Decision. The Beginning of the End of Tax Wars?

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The Beginning of the End of Tax Wars? By Tax Justice Network Global Research, August 31, 2016 Tax Justice Network 30 August 2016 Today, the European Commission has ruled that two tax rulings issued by the Irish tax administration on the tax treatment of Apple’s corporate profits represent illegal state aid under EU law. As […]

Banning Burkinis: The Politics of Beachwear

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By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, August 29, 2016 For as long as women have gone to the beach to try to enjoy themselves, it seems, people have followed them there to pester them about their clothes. Selina Cheng, Quartz, Aug 24, 2016 Revolutions are often sparked by folly driven ideas about regulating human behaviour.  Banning the […]

What Does the EU Stand for: Globalization or Universalism?

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By William Hawes Global Research, August 01, 2016 What is the purpose of the European Union? This question has been on the minds of everyone following the UK vote in favor of Brexit. Yet in the mad scramble to make sense of the United Kingdom’s rejection of the EU, little lucid commentary has been made. […]

Building a Progressive International

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By Yanis Varoufakis July 31, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – ATHENS – Politics in the advanced economies of the West is in the throes of a political shakeup unseen since the 1930s. The Great Deflation now gripping both sides of the Atlantic is reviving political forces that had lain dormant since the end of World […]

Terrorism and “False Flags”. “Dead Men Don’t Talk”…

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By Peter Koenig Global Research, July 20, 2016 Another false flag in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. A young man attacks four passengers in a train and later a passerby in the street. The scenes repeat themselves now in rapid cadence. Paris, Brussels, Nice, Bangladesh… Same patterns, same motives – and same group of terrorists claiming credit. […]

War and Destabilization: NATO Expansion and the European Union Crisis

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By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research, July 13, 2016 Obama attends summit in Warsaw amid a national outbreak of racial unrest in the United States A meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member-states in Warsaw, Poland agreed to expand the presence of western-allied troops in the region further intensifying tensions with the Russian Federation. In addition […]

Europe’s Economic Crisis Has Spread from the Periphery to the Core

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By Washington’s Blog Global Research, July 12, 2016 Washington’s Blog 11 July 2016 We’ve noted for more than 5 years that the European crisis would spread in the following order … more or less: Greece → Ireland → Portugal → Spain → Italy → UK We also warned that the EU’s approach to economic problems in the periphery would […]

Is This The End Of Europe As We Know It? Economic Uncertainty Compounded by Political Divisions

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By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research, July 06, 2016 Brexit vote, European Union turmoil prompts reevaluation of world situation Since the June 23 vote on whether the United Kingdom (UK) would “Leave” or “Remain” within the 28 member-state European Union (EU), uncertainty has accelerated not just in London but throughout the international community. The vote to […]

EU Leaders call for Rapid British Exit and European Military Buildup

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By Alex Lantier Global Research, June 29, 2016 World Socialist Web Site 28 June 2016 German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi met in Berlin yesterday to discuss Britain’s vote to exit the European Union. The leaders of the three largest euro zone economies held a joint press […]

Post-Brexit: Imagine a New European Community

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By Martin Winiecki Global Research, June 26, 2016 The news of Brexit triggered shock waves around the globe, chaos in stock markets and plunging Pound and Euro exchange rates. As the surprise settles an even more uncomfortable sobering spreads: the disintegration of the globalized power blocks may happen much faster than we have originally imagined. […]

Brexit Vote Intensifies Conflicts within European Union

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By Alex Lantier Global Research, June 26, 2016 World Socialist Web Site 25 June 2016 As news that Britain had voted to exit the European Union triggered a global financial panic, it became clear that the Brexit vote will have vast and unforeseen consequences throughout Europe and beyond. The process of European integration launched just […]

European Court of Justice upholds UK ban on migrant benefits

By Robert Stevens 16 June 2016 The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday that Britain’s laws denying many European Union migrants child benefit and child tax credits are legal. The judgment states that the British government can withhold family welfare benefits to EU migrants who are not working if they do not have the […]

More than 2,500 refugees drowned in Mediterranean so far this year

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By Martin Kreickenbaum 2 June 2016 The mass deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea has reached a new, grim record over the first five months of 2016. According to the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR), at least 2,510 refugees drowned between January and May during their attempts to cross to Europe. The European governments and […]