Finnian Cunningham | SCF | 8 Feb 2015 The Ukraine crisis dominated the weekend’s Munich Security Conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel playing host to European and American leaders, as well as Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Merkel had just returned from Moscow where she reportedly had a four-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin…
TheLocal.de | February 5, 2015 Warned government they may cut ties with German counterparts over parliamentary inquiry into spying British spies have warned the government they may cut off ties with their German counterparts over a parliamentary inquiry into spying by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Focus magazine reported on Thursday that top spies…
Daniel McLaughlin | Irish Times | 3 Feb 2015 The leaders of Germany and Hungary have agreed not to sell weapons to Ukraine to use in its war against Russian-backed separatists, but have disagreed over the philosophy of a Budapest government that critics call anti-democratic. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban hosted Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday…
José Ignacio Torreblanca | ECRF | 2 Feb 2015 [AM editor’s note: while the author of the article laments nationalism’s challenge to the tyranny of the EU; a political realignment across Europe may the catalyst that sets free the subjugated peoples from Brussel’s bondage.] EU has gone too far, it has hijacked democracy – it’s…
Greg Palast | 20 Jan 2015 Europe is stunned, and bankers aghast, that the new party of the Left, Syriza, won Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Greece. Syriza won on the promise that it will cure Greece of leprosy. Oddly, Syriza also promises that it will remain in the leper colony. That is, Syriza wants to…
kurtnimmo | January 28, 2015 No sooner than they were sworn in, Syriza came out swinging, asserting strong opposition to an EU statement blaming Russia for Saturday’s deadly attacks in Ukraine: The new Greek government has spoken out against the EU partners over the statement that lays the blame for Saturday’s fatal attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Russia. Hungary,…
Zero Hedge | 14 Jan 2015 Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian state energy giant Gazprom to cut supplies to and through Ukraine amid accusations, according to The Daily Mail, that its neighbor has been siphoning off and stealing Russian gas. Due to these “transit risks for European consumers in the territory of Ukraine,” Gazprom cut…
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt | 6 Jan 2015 Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken. The Greeks have been threatened with a “Cyprus-Style prolonged bank holiday” if they “vote wrong.” But they have been bullied for too long…
Peter Htchens | Daily Mail | 21 Dec 2014 This is a time of year for memories, and the ones that keep bothering me are from my childhood, which seemed at the time to be wholly happy and untroubled. Yet all the adults in my life still dwelt in the shadow of recent war. This…
Robert Parry | Consortium News | 22 December 2014 Among honest and knowledgeable people, there really isn’t much doubt about what happened in Ukraine last winter. There was a U.S.-backed coup which ousted a constitutionally elected president and replaced him with a regime more in line with U.S. interests. Even some smart people who agree with…