Digital imperialism: How US Social Media Firms Are Using American Law to Challenge Global Tech Regulation
An update on the hard-fought battle between foreign states trying to regulate social media platforms and the broligarchs.
Read more...Category Archives: Europe
Replacing Foreign Aid: A Macroeconomic Plan B for Ukraine (and Europe)
Some Serious Economists make an analytically desperate justification of Europe providing big-ticket economic assistance to Ukraine
Read more...Will Russia Expand Its Ground Campaign Into Sumy, Dniepropetrovsk, and/or Kharkov Regions?
Where might Russia take the Ukraine conflict next?
Read more...Coffee Break: Across the Pond – Europe on the Brink
Europe prepares for war as the democratic deficit grows wider
Read more...Why the EU Is Failing
The Democratic Deficit is one reason why the EU is perceived to be failing; but there are others such as too much power being concentrated in one unelected institution and a lack of transparency
Read more...Putin’s Nyet to US-Ukraine Ceasefire Scheme: More Than Meets the Western Eye?
More on the Russian rejection of the US-Ukraine ceasefire scheme, now from Putin himself.
Read more...Russian Negotiator Reiterates “Nyet” on Ceasefire Even Before US Emissary Steve Witkoff Arrives in Moscow
Russia nixes the barmy US-Ukraine peace scheme faster and more directly than expected. What next?
Read more...Elite Failure and the Collapse of the EU Project
The backstory of how the EU has come to fall short of its considerable potential.
Read more...Authorities Reject Georgescu’s Presidential Candidacy, Sparking Violence In Bucharest
Western media continue to lie about the reason Romanian courts nullified the country’s November presidential election and are now preventing an anti-NATO candidate from running.
Read more...The Empire Rebrands: Foreign Policy Under Trump 2.0
The woke imperium is dead. Long live the American AI “post-democratic” empire.
Read more...France, Germany, & Poland Are Competing For Leadership Of Post-Conflict Europe
France, Germany and Poland are reacting to how relations between Russia, and the US will determine Europe’s future security architecture.
Read more...Coffee Break: Across the Pond
Our first UK/Europe-focused Coffee Break, which examines Europe’s self-inflected energy cost uncompetitiveness
Read more...Trump-Zelensky-Vance Blowup: Does Zelensky Regime End with a Bang, Not a Whimper?
Some hot takes on the epic Trump-Zelensky slugfest.
Read more...Can Europe Resist Concessions to Russia in Trump’s Ukraine Agreement?
An uber neocon contends that Europe has found substitutes for Russian energy and so can and will increase sanctions on Russia.
Read more...Minority Reports: How Endowment Effect Would Make Ukraine Mineral Deal as a Tar Baby; Brian Berletic on US Preserving USAID Regime Change Capabilities; John Helmer on Shambolic US Conduct of Ukraine Negotiations
Challenging mainstream and prevailing independent media views on Trump’s plans for Russia and Ukraine and the US role in the world.
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