Geography Archives: Europe

Gil Mualem-Doron’s fake ads for villas in Gaza are actually based on a real Israeli estate agent advertising property on Gaza’s beachfront.

Today we are at roughly the same point, but oligarchs think in commercial terms, not social or ethical ones. For the oligarchs, the point on both sides is that the sanctions war over the past three years has created the largest gap between true asset value and trade value which exists in the global market today–this is the gap between the pre-war bankable value of Russian commodities, resources, and corporate assets and their discounted price under sanctions.

In this republished essay from 2017, John Bellamy Foster discusses how U.S. neofascism in certain ways resembles the classical fascism of Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, but with historically distinct features specific to the political economy and culture of the United States in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced by the Commission of Inquiry into War Criminals in Canada (Deschênes Commission) that names 900 Canadians accused of war crimes committed on behalf of the Nazis.

Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. This manufactured crisis, however, is far from inevitable. The time has come to revitalise higher education funding in the UK by extending what Cornell legal scholars Robert Hockett and Saule Omarova call ‘the finance franchise’ to universities.

John Mullen writes about the Nazi and colonial origins of Jean Marie Le Pen, and how they continue to influence French politics today.

There are at least three basic differences between European nationalism as it developed in the seventeenth century and the anti-colonial third world nationalism of the twentieth century.

RICHARD CLARKE applauds the assertion that Western Marxism represents a withdrawal from action to change the world into the academy.

Democrats speak of the fight against “Russian disinformation,” while the Republicans pledge to combat “fake news” about Israel.

The trial over the decade-long abuse involving numerous men has shaken many, and requires us to demand societal and judicial change.

Negotiations have also been influenced by India, which supports Mauritius due to shared cultural and historical ties.

It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power.

After the fall of right-wing PM Michel Barnier to a no-confidence vote, Emmanuel Macron has appointed a new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, to attempt to apply the same policies. The Left Berlin spoke to Paris activist, John Mullen.

The billionaire wants to insert the power of his money into British politics, but Reform can be crushed if we mount a campaign of real protest, unafraid to attack Labour, argues John Westmoreland.

The Crimean Central Library is showcasing for the first time a selection of 30 paintings by Cuban artists, featuring landscapes, portraits, cityscapes, and depictions of Cuban life.

After Elon Musk posted his support for Germany’s far-right AfD, the party’s leader Alice Weidel expressed her gratitude. Other German lawmakers have criticized “interference” in the country’s upcoming federal elections.

Heralded as a hero in Western media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has allowed foreign private interests to steal his country’s best land.

I’m old enough to remember, just barely, the Great Depression: lines of shabby men waiting for free soup, better-dressed men selling apples on streetcorners, miles of evil-smelling, self-made shacks in a Hooverville near Newark.… In February 1937 I recall the movie newsreel with happy, unshaven sit-down strikers at GM in Flint, waving from the factory windows in a dramatic (Communist-led) victory which changed the USA.

Maurice Coakley, in an important assessment of capitalist interstate rivalry, analyses the changing and contradictory nature of imperialism and its impact on revolt against the system.

The sentiment that the West is an unreliable trade partner in now common in Russia. In an interview with GUANCHA.CN, Russian consumer market expert Dmitry Reva noted that Western corps left the Russian market after the war broke out, leaving a vacuum. Following this, China-Russian trade has enhanced, with prospects for deeper cooperation in agriculture, Far East development, and other fields.