Geography Archives: Europe

These military attacks deep inside Russia are in reality also aimed by the United States against China and against the Global South.

Lindsey German on climate chaos and capitalism’s inability to deal with it.

Keir Starmer learned this lesson the hard way. Now, it’s Andy Burnham’s turn.

What is true of the world economy as a whole holds true for countries like India which have enormous labour reserves inherited from the colonial times, reserves hidden away in particular in vast agrarian sectors.

Leaked emails expose how British military-intel officials deliberately provoked riots among occupied Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities, which they then exploited to justify repression. In private diatribes, veterans of occupied Ireland who later became MI6 officers still obsess over “keeping Northern Ireland British” and mock the death of Bobby Sands.

Climate change is making extremely dangerous heat waves like this one more common.

ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes.

Lord Ismay, NATO’s first secretary-general, once said the alliance existed to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.

Born in Bradford and shaped by northern art-school discipline, David Hockney brought a working-class, almost punk refusal to British art: do the work, trust the eye, do not ask for approval.

If Marx in Capital lays bare the “hidden” abode of capitalist production, Joyce, in Ulysses, lays bare the hidden (yet all-too-visible) abode of modern reproduction, the arena that’s both the starting and end point of progressive politics, decreeing its victory or defeat.

I was genuinely surprised by the Starmer regime’s refusal to state that the Israeli boarding of the Global Sumud flotilla on the High Seas was illegal.

In this blog, Jeffrie Quarsie invites us not to dismiss the claim that France is sustaining the Jihadist terrorist insurgency in the Sahel, which it once promised and failed to suppress. He points to France’s self-interested and treacherous role in the region and calls for more rigorous research that can trace the funding infrastructure behind terrorist groups.

As this journalist has previously revealed, in August 1957 the CIA secretly drew up elaborate plans for a U.S. special forces invasion of Ukraine.

The Trump administration’s intent comes amid concerns over the future of the strategically important Diego Garcia military base and Britain’s proposed transfer of sovereignty to Mauritius.

In County Waterford, sheep farmers face eviction as the Duke of Devonshire’s estate imposes rent hikes of up to 900%—a stark reminder that British imperialism still shapes rural Ireland.

The Stammheim trials and Germany’s ideological justice.

It doesn’t take a genius to see the political motivation behind the judicial and police apparatus’s actions against Zapatero, given his clear political ties to the Sánchez government.

Europe’s rulers are arming for a fight over their place in a world Washington can no longer hold together. They wave the banner of “Russian aggression,” but what they are after is control of Eurasia’s resources, pipelines, ports and trade routes.

From Freeports to AI Growth Zones, Britain is quietly being transformed into a network of deregulated corporate enclaves where democracy is replaced by private governance.

Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.