Europe

World Hunger and the War in Ukraine

July 20, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Commodity Markets, Europe, Global Trade, Humanitarian Aid, Russia, Ukraine

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, July 19 2023 The header image gives a little perspective. It says that Ukraine is not in the same class as Russia in terms of the amount of grain it exports. In fact The U.S., Canada, Australia and France all export larger quantities of wheat than Ukraine, but significantlu less than Russia. [jb] On[…]

Biden’s Nord Stream Pipeline Obliteration

June 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Austerity, Censorship and Propaganda, Cold War, Germany, Global Trade, Hybrid Warfare, NATO, Russia, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, June 14, 2023 “U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline” was the Washington Post’s June 6, 2023 headline. A blatant lie if there ever was one – a corporate media-manufactured lie, in concert with the US government, aimed at covering up US imperialism’s multi billion and trillion dollar[…]

U.S. Sanctions are Drowning Syrians

June 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Greece, Migrants and Refugees, Occupation, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, US Foreign Policy

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, June 16, 2023 Hundreds of Syrian men, women and children have drowned early Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Greece after the sinking of an Egyptian trawler headed for Italy. It is being called one of the deadliest migrant ship disasters in the Mediterranean Sea. As many as 750 persons[…]

Clash in Kosovo With NATO Troops

June 7, 2023 UNAC Editor Serbia, US Foreign Bases, US Meddling in Europe

by Otis Grotewuhl, published on Workers World, June 2, 2023 Protesters in northern Kosovo clashed with NATO occupation forces and Kosovo police May 29. On May 30, a CNN article stated that “protesters threw Molotov cocktails at NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops and used batons to beat their riot shields.” The fighting stems from the period in the 1990s when[…]

Finland’s NATO Move Leaves Others to Carry On the “Helsinki Spirit”

April 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Finland, NATO, Nuclear Agendas

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, April 12, 2023 On April 4, 2023, Finland officially became the 31st member of the NATO military alliance. The 830-mile border between Finland and Russia is now by far the longest border between any NATO country and Russia, which otherwise borders only Norway, Latvia, Estonia, and short stretches of the Polish and[…]

Mass French Strikes and Mobilizations Challenge Macron’s Pension Reform

April 3, 2023 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, France, Labor Struggles, Socio-Economic Struggles

By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 31, 2023 What the corporate media ban from their coverage of the unfolding and ever massive French protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to add two years to the French retirement age, from 62 to 64, is the origin of the pension plan itself, perhaps the best in the world. This magnificent[…]

Germany: Warning Strike Turns Up the Steam

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Austerity, Europe, Germany, Labor, Labor Struggles, Protest

by Arnold Schölzel, published on Workers World, March 27, 2023 (Translation by John Catalinoto) A foretaste of the depth of the strike waves in France or Britain occurred in Germany on March 27: For 24 hours, buses and trains remained largely in depots, airplanes on the ground. Some 335,000 workers responded to the joint call by the United Services Trade[…]

Pension reform or Revolution! Crisis for the French Fifth Republic?

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Europe, France, Labor Struggles, Protest, Resistance

by Muhammad Shabeer, published by People’s Dispatch, March 29, 2023 When it bypassed Parliament and forced through pension system changes, Macron’s government exposed the anti-democratic deterioration in the Fifth Republic’s dual-executive system, writes Muhammed Shabeer. Major trade unions in France estimate that two million people hit the streets across France on Tuesday, March 28, denouncing the controversial pension reforms pushed by Emmanuel Macron’s[…]

General National Strike March 16 in Greece

March 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Democracy and Consent, Greece

International PAME, Rail Issues, Solidarity, published on Labor Today, March 13, 2023 The victims of capitalism raise their voices in Greece. They are our victims and also a reflection of where we are headed unless we embrace major changes. It is time for the people to stand up and demand a change of direction. [jb] New Huge Demonstrations yesterday– Escalation[…]

5 Reasons Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine

March 2, 2023 UNAC Editor China, Europe, Global Alliances, Multipolar World

by Krishen Mehta, produced by Globetrotter, February 24, 2023 Krishen Mehta is a member of the Board of the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord (ACURA), and a Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University. This article is distributed by Globetrotter in partnership with ACURA. In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK[…]