Geography Archives: Europe

Recent indications suggest that NATO may permit Ukraine to use Western-provided missiles to strike Russian territory. This would mark a serious escalation of the conflict.

We should instead be working towards a ceasefire and negotiations, argues Vladimir Unkovski-Korica.

After meeting with Giorgia Meloni, Keir Starmer expressed admiration for the Italian prime minister’s plans to deport refugees to camps in Albania—signaling the Labour government’s willingness to embrace the policies of neofascism.

Before he was caught with an AK-47 on a golf course near Trump, Ryan Routh went to Kiev to fight for Ukraine’s military and recruit for its International Legion. Routh told U.S. media he “had partners meeting with [Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense] every week.”

The famous German sociologist discusses the recent elections in eastern Germany, the need to return to the nation-state, left-wing communitarianism, and the shortfalls of right-populism.

In the post-World War II period, Britain waged a number of covert wars in every corner of the world, as its financial and military clout rapidly withered.

The United States and United Kingdom will imminently announce a major expansion of Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia using NATO weapons, the Guardian and Politico reported on Wednesday.

Election season in the U.S. is witch hunt season, and the White House is determined to burn some ‘witches’–anyone arbitrarily deemed a ‘Russian agent’. Might you be one?

Zhao Dingqi interviews Dave Hill about neoliberalism and the socialist movement in Britain.

The calculated and cruel violence suffered by Gisèle Pelicot has shaken the world to its core, yet her demand to make the trial public and shift the shame to the perpetrators of these acts, has inspired many.

Emmanuel Macron has named a prime minister from the right-wing party that came fourth in June’s elections.

President Emmanuel Macron’s determination to overrule July’s parliamentary election results brings Europe closer to catastrophe.

You never see the dehumanization of Palestinians in western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad happens to Israelis during the genocidal assault on Gaza.

Establishment journalists have often worked closely with intelligence, military officials.

The policies favoured by the ruling class in other words are being pursued despite public opinion being palpably and systematically opposed to them.

Owen Schalk details how Canada’s policies—the hostile moves toward geopolitical opponents, efforts to decrease economic ties to China through critical minerals exploration, and hundreds of billions of dollars in projected military spending over the next decades—do not make Canadians safer.

CROOKED companies dishonestly presenting their products as safe. Corporate incompetents engaged in a merry-go-round of buck-passing.

Is the AfD a fascist party? Björn Höcke, its boss  in Thuringia, one of its three best-known national leaders and its main rabble-rouser, has never concealed his admiration for Germany’s days of swastika glory.

A DUTCH data protection watchdog has issued facial recognition tech Clearview AI with a €30.5 million (£25.7m) fine for creating an “illegal database” of billions of faces.

ON Independence Day–August 15th–we generally take stock of the path we have travelled since 1947. Today, I will take a different tack and focus on how or why a handful of European countries end up controlling major parts of the world.