John Steppling If you want to deprive citizens of freedom of movement, freedom of assembly and the right to family life, there should be written reasons. They ask the...

Belarus had their presidential election last Sunday, and the incumbent Alexandr Lukashenko apparently won. This was evidently not supposed to happen, or in some other way counter to the...

Philip Roddis I enjoy schadenfreude as much as the next guy and for the millions of us who detest Boris, last night brought the stuff in spades. I was...

Frank Lee We’ll start with the 10 per capita poorest countries in the whole of Europe. In rank order: Moldova – GDP US$2560 Ukraine – GDP US$3560 Kosovo –...

The weekend just gone, Manifestation 23, marked a seismic shift in the five month battle between the Gilets Jaunes and the French state. The Notre Dame fire has...

Philip Roddis Remember this man? It’s close to three years ago he split the delightfully small Anyone-But-Corbyn vote when Angela Eagle, too lacking in self awareness to see she...

Michael Antony This week, appropriately beginning 1st April, Brexit descended into farce after merely being a two-year comedy of errors. In fact it went beyond farce and became more...

Kit Knightly 1.3 million people marched in the streets of Barcelona on the 11th of November. They were protesting the arrest of Catalonian MPs and other officials. The charges?...

Apart from the criminally insane, (John McCain, Lindsey Graham et al.) nobody wants war, particularly nuclear war. Unfortunately, however, war happens, sometimes by accident sometimes by design. The present...

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org On Friday night, July 28th, U.S. President Donald Trump said that he would sign into law the increased economic sanctions (passed by 98-2...

by Brian Cloughley, via Strategic Culture Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States are the world’s five “nuclear weapons states”, a description officially recognised in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...

A night view of Moscow’s financial district in 2012. Photo by Dmytro RT reports: Outgoing US President Obama made a big mistake calling Russia a “regional power,” the European...

by Frank After all the initial eu(ro)phoria and hopes placed upon the original concept of a non-aligned, social-democratic Euro-bloc, the reality has turned out somewhat differently. In a pamphlet...

by Frank There is a human tendency to cling on to cherished beliefs even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. There was a time, during the...

by Giulietto Chiesa, Defend Democracy In summary: separate Russia from China and set them against each other, persuading whichever of the two will agree to become a privileged partner...

We know how the EU responds when referendums don't go the way they're supposed to. Yes, that's right, they either ignore it, or insist on a second vote (and...

by James O’Neill, from New Eastern Outlook The Sun Herald (Sydney) of 22 May 2016 reported that the Australian families of the MH17 disaster had “served” the European court...

Hollande’s dilemma: Join Russia or remain a Neocon poodle Ajay Goyal writes for Sputnik International: When François Hollande arrives in Moscow [on November 26] to meet President Vladimir Putin,...