By Ron Ridenour - March 16th, 2010

Denmark’s Rebellion (Oprør) spokesman Patrick Mac Manus was found guilty today...for: “attempting to collect funds” for “terrorist organizations” Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); and for “encouraging [hundreds of organizations] to collect funds” for the same.

By Christakis Georgiou

Behind Greece, a group of other countries are waiting to take their turns. The Greek deficits aren't much higher than those of Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, or even Great Britain...If Greece receives aid, it's a signal that the major European powers...will do the same for others. That would diminish the pressures put on them to impose austerity measures.

By Matthew Rothschild - February 19, 2010

The anarchist author Gabriel Kuhn was planning on visiting the United States in early March and staying until May. He had speaking engagements set up at several colleges, bookstores, and coffeehouses. But he’s no longer coming...[T]he rejection of Kuhn’s travel authorization application “seems to represent a turn towards targeting radicals who have hitherto not fit the ‘war on terror’ profile.”

The banking crisis was not cataclysmic; the financing bubbles that caused it had been developing for many years. So where were the banks’ auditors? Why were bank financial statements showing high levels of profitability right up to the point of the financial collapse? What went wrong with the audit of these banks? Could it have had something to do with excessive standardization? Less than a decade after Arthur Andersen, has the CA profession learnt anything?

By Chris Marsden - February 27, 2010

Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain...have been targeted by the banks and financial speculators and ordered by the European Union to drastically slash their budget deficits. This will set a precedent for similar cuts across Europe. But the fact that industrial unrest has spread to Germany, France and the UK indicates the potential development of a truly pan-European movement.

By MICHAEL HUDSON and JEFF SOMMERS - February 15, 2010

While most of the world’s press focuses on Greece...as the most troubled euro-area, the much more severe, more devastating and downright deadly crisis in the post-Soviet economies...somehow has escaped widespread notice...Latvia has experienced one of the world’s worst economic crises...Yet nobody in the West is asking why Latvia has suffered this fate, so typical of the Baltics and other post-Soviet economies but only slightly more extreme.

By Stefan Steinberg - 19 January 2010

When it comes to weaker economies with high levels of indebtedness, European bankers and political leaders are making it clear that they are opposed to any bailout. Instead, these countries are expected to impose the type of “pain” which will stretch levels of “social tolerance” to the breaking point.

By Mark Weisbrot - January 16, 2010

...Latvia is an extreme case, partly because the macro-economic policy is so far to the right, and 19th-century-brutal. The World Bank has complained about the pension cuts that disproportionately hurt the poor, and the long-term damage to the educational system from mandated budget cuts in that area.

By Elise Hugus - January 07, 2010

"Twenty years ago we went out in the streets hoping it's going to be like in the West, or at least what we perceived as the West...I didn't realize that we were heading towards a big lie. What happened, in fact, is really far from what we were expecting. It's a lot worse than what it was."

By Cnaan Liphshiz - 18/06/2009

Israel will be a major part of Geert Wilders' next film on Islam, the rightist Dutch legislator said last week in an interview for Haaretz. He praised Avigdor Lieberman, observing "similarities" between Yisrael Beiteinu and the Party for Freedom - a small movement which has grown to become Holland's second most popular.

By Shamus Cooke - December 19, 2009

Contrary to the hopes of billions of people, the talks were a purely elite affair. Many of the thousands of delegates sent to the conference were not looking to save the planet, as advertised, but were looking out for the national interest of their native governments. Most of these countries are dominated by the “special interests” of giant corporations.

Monday, December 28 2009 - Infoshop News

Shortly after releasing this communique, windows of the Danish stock exchange and Foreign Ministry were broken. When the police attempted arrests, the Black Bloc was physically prevented by some members of Climate Justice Action from joining the "System Change Not Climate Change" bloc. While the COP15 is over, the debate over the role of internal policing and the "non-violence" code of Climate Justice Action has just begun in the European autonomous movements.

By Ramzy Baroud - December 25, 2009

It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can...turn ugly...if the French government doesn't get a grip on reality. The world, including France...cannot be co-opted to fit national specificities determined by a group of irritable far right racists...Unfortunately, France is not alone; it merely highlights the most obvious manifestation of growing anti-Muslim sentiments throughout Europe.

By SHAMUS COOKE - December 25-27, 2009

Unbeknownst to most Europeans, the public money that financed the bank bailouts created a massive public debt problem, to be solved by massively slashing public programs that benefit workers and the poor. This amounts to a blatant transfer of billions...in public wealth...These “tough decisions” should act as warnings to the American working class, since the U.S. corporate-elite...has clear-cut plans for who is to pay for their colossal spending spree on bank giveaways and foreign wars...

By Oscar Reyes - December 16, 2009

With thousands of activists gearing up to "turn Copenhagen into Seattle" at protests on 16 December, the UN climate negotiations are increasingly being driven by the type of "divide and rule" techniques that are commonplace in discussions on world trade..."The WTO is very well known for its exclusive and untransparent, undemocratic processes, and that is what is happening here right now."