Europe

Introduction: Reflecting Briefly on Part 1 A considerable portion of part one of this two part article consisted of a synthesis of how and why the last two and 1/2 decades of American foreign policy have been crippling for the…

Poland is finally joining in the scramble for Ukraine after naively sitting on the sidelines all these years. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was surprisingly candid earlier this month when talking about how Poland plans to profit from Ukraine. In his words, “We…

Our friend Carlo Volpi sent us this proposal, which he is sending to all pacifist and nonviolent organizations in an attempt to reach the whole of Europe. Pressenza is publishing it and gladly supports it. Subject: Contemporary events in European…

Two paths clearly lie before us: increasing peace or increasing destruction. In Europe, governments, especially in the UK and France, are pushing for rearmament, under pressure from a financial elite that wants to get out of the crisis by increasing…

A compromise is possible whereby the Europeans are pressured by the US into stockpiling their Ukrainian-destined arms in Poland and Romania for swift shipment across the border if hostilities re-erupt sometime after a ceasefire, armistice, or peace treaty is agreed…

A few weeks ago, I paraphrased Marx’s words from nearly two centuries ago: “A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of irrelevance”. Recent events suggest that the spectre is rapidly becoming a reality. While the European Union and Britain…

Europeans are in shock as they face the latest moves by the U.S. government against the continent. From the paternalistic lecture delivered by Vice President J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Conference in February (see the speech here) to the negotiations over…

Without historical context, which is buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story, but journalists are cut short for trying to tell it now. By Joe Lauria The way to prevent the Ukraine war…

It’s with a very heavy heart that I watch Europe imitate the militarism of the United States, moving massive resources from human and environmental needs to weapons, celebrating proposals from good liberal civic groups to steal money from Russia and…

The recent assembly of European leaders in London, orchestrated by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, was intended to showcase a unified front in addressing the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. However, beneath the veneer of solidarity…