Geography Archives: Europe

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote on social media that this was a “deliberately short-term measure” and would not be of “significant financial benefit” to Russia.

Jeremy Corbyn has tabled parliamentary bill that would require parliament’s approval for foreign use of British military bases.

By allowing U.S. forces to use British bases to bomb Iran, Keir Starmer is echoing Tony Blair’s obedience to Washington—dragging Britain into yet another criminal war.

To make sense of present developments it is essential to understand the dialectic of continuity and change in U.S. imperial grand strategy.

Imperial violence was not invented by Trump. It has been an integral part of this nation’s relationships with the rest of the world from its beginning. However, Trump is more direct in saying out loud what former presidents hesitated to acknowledge, instead either keeping it hidden from public view, justifying it as self-defense, or employing subtler means of intimidation.

In a 1952 song entitled “Bye Bye Big Brass,” anti-war singer Woody Guthrie dreamed up a scenario in which he is shipped off to the Korean War and, rather than kill a Chinese soldier he encounters, sits and talks with him by a campfire, hides out with him, and fights back against the U.S. Army with him.

When nations with well-resourced intelligence gathering services, like the United Kingdom and Australia, choose to shield their citizens from the very real impacts of planetary warming and ecological disruption, they risk aligning themselves with climate denialism efforts like those occurring in the United States, such as current National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to excise any mention of climate change from the spy community’s most recent Annual Threat Assessment.

As a key pro-Israel powerbroker, Peter Mandelson and his protégé toppled Jeremy Corbyn, installed Keir Starmer, and reshaped Labour. Now his arrest threatens to shake British politics to its core.

Dogru is the first European Union citizen known to be living inside the EU to face extrajudicial sanctions imposed by Brussels—robbing him of fundamental civil and humanitarian rights.

The Sea Horse ship carrying Russian fuel is heading to Cuba amid the island’s energy situation and defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s sanctions to impose tariffs, Bloomberg reported.

The Labour Together spying scandal shows how Britain’s mainstream press looked the other way when dirty tricks were deployed against the Left — allowing a culture of surveillance and paranoia to take political power.

Europe’s predicament today is thus no different from that of America.

It is not the first time Putin has said there is nothing but historical memory to share between Russia and Cuba; and that he would trade Russia’s military positions in Cuba for its interest in business with the U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump withdraws support for the Chagos Islands agreement as tensions grow over potential U.S. use of Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford in strikes on Iran.

The 62nd Munich Security Conference was not a diplomatic gathering.

President Vladimir Putin has given instructions to accept the Trump Administration’s demand that in exchange for lifting sanctions against Russia, U.S. capital must return to Russia on preferential terms as soon as possible.

While the island faces an unprecedented crisis, the Kremlin is demonstrating Russian solidarity to mitigate the effects of the suffocating U.S. policy toward Cuba.

Experts warn that wealthy political donors and cash-for-access scandals are eroding democratic institutions and public trust in the U.S. and UK.

Chinese regulators have advised major banks to reduce their exposure to U.S. Treasuries, citing market volatility and risk concentration.

Campaigners told The Electronic Intifada on Wednesday that the result was a “monumental” and “total” victory.