Editorial – The Guardian After a series of European elections in which radical right parties gained national influence, Spain has bucked the trend In the lead-up to Sunday’s election in Spain, Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, delivered a buoyant video message to…
Analysis, by Noa Landau – Haaretz, Israel Those who believe that the elimination of the reasonableness standard is a final defeat for the pro-democracy camp must remember the Netanyahu government has far more ambitious plans. Israel’s protest movement cannot be abandoned now…
Dambre – Modern Diplomacy The presence of Chinese in Africa has generated differing debates about the real reason they are there. Some have suggested that Africa is on the verge of re-colonization The real reason the Chinese are in Africa may have yet to be…
By Sam Jones- Analysis, The Guardian Pedro Sanchéz said Sunday’s election was a binary choice between left and right and could affect ‘balances within Europe’ The last time Spain went to the polls – in November 2019 – the cover of the satirical magazine El Jueves showed a manic…
Editorial – The Guardian The UK has invited Mohammed bin Salman for an official visit. Relying on the kingdom for energy or regional stability is a grave error Five years ago, Jeremy Hunt, then foreign secretary, echoed the widely voiced horror at the murder of the Saudi…
By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter/Independent Media Institute On Monday, June 17, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, announced, “The Black Sea agreements are no longer in effect.” This was a blunt statement to suspend the Black Sea…
By Nan Levinson* – TomDispatch How Disturbed Is the U.S. In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question…
By Enver Solomon* – The Guardian The new law will not act as the deterrent the UK government says it will – it just puts more vulnerable people in harm’s way There have been a number of migration bills in recent years, but make no mistake: the illegal migration bill that has now…
by Nick Corbishley – Naked Capitalism Spain’s general elections this Sunday (July 22) could be a milestone event — of the bad rather than good kind. If the latest polls are right — and, of course, they may not be — the until recently reasonably fringe party VOX could be about to…
By Jonathan Power* – IDN-InDepthNews LUND, Sweden. 18 July 2023 (IDN) — That bar, the Red Star, on the far side of eastern Europe was closed—until the Ukraine war started. So why did the White Moon bar on this side of the street decide to stay open, even extending its drinking…
