Geography Archives: Europe

The supporters of the Ukraine Solidarity Network (USN) inhabit the same contradictory moral and political space as the European leaders who met with Volodymyr Zelensky, their frontman from Ukraine, to reaffirm their collective commitment to the proxy war in Ukraine.

ON Friday, February 28, when U.S. President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office of the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump mused: ‘I hope I will be remembered as a peacemaker’.

In its response to AUKUS with its objective of militarily confronting China in the South China Sea, we should not be surprised by Chinese naval vessels sailing around Australia to pick up some intelligence or at least showing us their growing naval power.

This conflict has exposed all of us to the serious risk of a European or even global nuclear war and has caused enormous ecological devastation.

Fifty years ago, the UN designated 1975 as the International Year of Women.

We must be able to acknowledge that Donald Trump has created a serious constitutional crisis while also recognizing that changing the U.S. relationship with Russia is groundbreaking and a necessity.

Today’s countries such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, and France have, to varying degrees, confronted their imperial legacies, however incomplete or contested these reckonings may be.

The outcry spread quickly across the Western world: Donald Trump dared say Ukraine started the war.

The Trump administration is increasing its pressure on Ukraine’s (former) president Zelenski to swallow the shit sandwich.

The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled neo-fascist activity to spill over into East Germany, laying the groundwork for the strengthening of right-wing forces today.

The hard right is making serious ground globally. But, while increasingly powerful, their ideas are not hegemonic. Now is not the time to despair, but to fight for a better world.

For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back!

As part of reading up on the JD Vance speech I stumbled over an outrageously arrogant attempt of reader manipulation in the New York Times.

Today the Trump administration told the Ukraine war party that their game is finally up.

Trump Speaks With Putin, Says Talks To End Ukraine War Will Start ‘Immediately’. The Kremlin said the call lasted almost an hour and a half.

Far-right Patriots for Europe group meets in Madrid to lament loss of Europe’s supposed greatness.

In this interview, Mamadou Koné, curator at the Musée historique des forces armées du Sénégal, looks back at the long history of the Senegalese riflemen, the African troops employed by the French army during the colonial period.

In the Basque Country, land is being expropriated in order to build a luxury hotel and seven people are scheduled to got to trial, facing a sentence of twenty years in jail and 43 million euros in damages. Once again, Spanish authorities are trying to criminalize popular protest. Read more about the movement and how you can help.

A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group.

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.