Europe

The current international political context allows us to clearly see the serious limits to the possibilities of social change through institutional routes. On the one hand, the new left-wing political experiences in Latin America have had scant impact on actual…

By Ann Wright http://worldbeyondwar.org/8141-2/ Photo of Russian kids attending a youth camp called Artek in Crimea. Photo by Ann Wright I’ve just ended two weeks visiting cities in four regions of Russia. The one question that was asked over and…

By Yannis Natsis, Policy Coordinator for Universal Access & Affordable Medicines @ynatsis Original article at epha, Universal Access and Affordable Medicines | Blog The Netherlands’ Presidency of the European Council proved to be far from quiet in relation to pharmaceutical…

The main architects of the Brexit disaster have resigned, pretending to do so with “a heavy heart”. In reality once this new episode of Naomi Klein’s well described Disaster Capitalism was in full flight Tories Boris Johnson and Michel Gove…

God is dead This is what Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in his Aphorism 125 of the Fröhliche Wissenschaft. The consequences are a theology without God and believers without God. All this applies to Western philosophy – at least this is what…

Media, Press Releases, 30 June 2016 By Campaign Against the Arms Trade High Court grants judicial review into arms exports to Saudi Arabia, following unprecedented case brought by Campaign Against Arms Trade Extensive evidence suggests Saudi Arabian forces have committed…

One politician posits that Labour Party leadership’s turn against Corbyn is a move to protect Blair from damning Chilcot [1] findings. by Nika Knight, staff writer for Common Dreams In the tumultuous wake of Brexit, why has the Labour Party…

In this video the former finance minister of Greece and founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), Yanis Varoufakis, provides us insights into why the European constitution does not represent European cititzens and lacks democratic substance. He also talks…

Vienna, Jul 2 (Prensa Latina) Austrian Far right presidnetial candidate Norbert Hofer,said that if he wins he will cary out a referendum similar to the Brexit of UK, to leave the European Union. Hofer,leader of Freedom Party (FPO),he justified his…

This is a crisis of astonishing proportions, but also an opportunity for the changes the left has long sought By George Monbiot for The Guardian Let’s sack the electorate and appoint a new one: this is the demand made by…