It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today’s “purported leaders” remain in office.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year’s Notes on Purported Leaders
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Europa Ante Novum Bellum (Europe Before the New War)
Whose interests are served by predictions of a third general European war in little more than a century? The answer is clear: politicians who have led Europe into this nearly hopeless situation, says Uros Lipuscek.
Intrigue — and Confusion — Reign Over Ukraine
U.S. President Donald Trump aired frustrations that his efforts to end the Ukraine war are not working with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The matrix is getting complicated, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
Whitewashing Germany & Japan’s WWII Crimes
In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, Sevim Dagdelen warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII.
Quo Vadis Deutschland? An Obituary in Twelve Theses
Germany once again sits sullied among the nations with the blood of those who lie in the streets in imperialist wars. Patrik Baab delivers an obituary in twelve theses or the crash of a discontinued model.
Medhurst Case: Test of a Turning Tide on Gaza
British police have given the Crown Prosecution Service the file on journalist Richard Medhurst in a test of how far Western governments will go to continue defending Israel’s monstrous atrocities in Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.
Patrick Lawrence: Wanderers & Seekers — Germany in Crisis
In this fourth and final part of his series on Germany, the author writes of the end of an era in the country and a renewed search for its identity.
Patrick Lawrence: The Lost Man of Europe
Germany demonstrates the Continent’s abandonment of its honorable social-democratic traditions and its embrace, with the zealotry of the convert, of the neoliberalism of the Anglosphere.
It’s Up to Europe’s Citizens
As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speak about ending the Ukraine war on Tuesday, European leaders are talking war and only their citizens can stop them, says Edward Lozansky.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump Takes on the Deep State?
The U.S. president’s unfolding offensive against the institutions and agencies comprising the Deep State — the permanent state or the invisible government, as it is also commonly known — continues.