Europe

What Germany’s Rearmament Means for World Peace

May 18, 2022 UNAC Editor Germany, NATO, War and Weapons, Weapons Sales

by Michael Makowski, published by The Progressive, April 27, 2022 Three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stood before the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, in an emergency gathering to announce the biggest change to German foreign policy since World War II. “Wir erleben eine Zeitenwende,” he said. “We are experiencing a Zeitenwende.” The Zeitenwende—a watershed moment, a[…]

Germany Follows Washington’s Ramstein War Program

May 7, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, NATO, Russia, Ukraine

by Sevim Dagdelen, published on Workers World, May 5, 2022 The war in Ukraine is now all about weapons, weapons, weapons. More weapons and heavier weapons. Every taboo of the post-war period is falling. Diplomacy has been written off. A new German militarism in the wake of U.S. militarism is the benchmark of this German government. While U.N. Secretary General[…]

U.S. Leaders Claim to Care About Ukrainians, But Will They Step Up and Make the Compromises Necessary to End the War?

April 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Europe, History, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy

by Jack Gilroy, published on Covert Action Magazine, April 8, 2022 The U.S. media have been saturated by reports of Ukrainian suffering since the Russian invasion of February 24, 2022, and of heroic Ukrainian resistance. Even progressive media outlets and politicians have favored more arms supplies to Ukraine in this climate. When Congress passed a massive $13.6 billion aid package[…]

Ukraine Update: Immediate Russian Oil, Gas Embargo Impossible, Says German Finance Minister

April 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Economics, Europe, Global Economics, Ukraine

by Countercurrents Collective, published on Countercurrents, April 9, 2022 A broad survey of economic details from perspective of western press. Not clarified is what it means to workers around the world, but seems like high prices, expensive credit, wage growth not able to keep up with these factors along with shortages of food and other material goods. A major global[…]

Did NATO Just Declare War on Russia?

February 28, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, NATO, Ukraine

by Mike Whitney, published on the Unz Review, February 26, 2022 “No matter who tries to stand in our way… they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history…. I hope that my words will be heard.” Vladimir Putin issues warning to any country that tries[…]

American Overlord Demands Europe Sign Suicide Note

February 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, Russia, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Finian Cunningham, published on Strategic Culture, February 12, 2022 The Anglo-Americans are running a modern-day reworking of Operation Overlord, the June 1944 military invasion plan billed to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. This time around, the billed objective is to “liberate” the European Union from its “tyrannical” dependency on Russian natural gas. In reality, the unspoken objective is[…]

Zelensky’s Munich Speech Implies That Ukraine’s Becoming Increasingly Desperate

February 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, Ukraine

by Andrew Korybko, published on Global Research, February 21, 2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Munich Security Conference on Saturday in a dramatic speech that implies how increasingly desperate his country has become. Comparing the Russian Federation to Nazi Germany and fearmongering about World War III has become standard fare among Moscow’s many critics so it isn’t surprising that[…]

Left-Right White Solidarity Basis of Support for U.S./EU/NATO Wars on Global Humanity

February 9, 2022 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Censorship and Propaganda, Europe, Fascism, Migrants, The War at Home, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Towards Freedom, February 1, 2022 Some years ago, Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri suggested that while not always visible in the social practices of everyday European life, the racist foundation for European fascism was still present, safely confined to a space in the European psyche, but always ready to explode in what he called a “racist[…]

US Pressure on Germany Growing

January 30, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, Russia, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Lucas Leiroz, published on InfoBRICS, January 26, 2022 Washington continues to advance the idea of establishing a new plan of severe sanctions against Russia over the Ukrainian crisis. Recently, US officials presented a draft of anti-Russian sanctions during a trip to Berlin. Considering the seriousness of the measures and the clear objective of suffocating Russia economically, the plan can[…]

U.S. Puts Europe in the Trenches Against the Invented Enemy

January 27, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, NATO, U.S. Aggression

by Manlio Dinucci, published on Workers World, January 25, 2022 I have to say that these actions may be a way to start a war, but this kind of grandstanding and showing off is not the way to win a war. Hopefully the former will fail and the context for the latter will never arise. [jb] “As a precautionary measure[…]