CIA-Connected Private Equity to Buy Italy’s Critical Communications Infrastructure
Telecom Italia’s downfall over the past thirty years mirrors the disastrous path of the Italian state since joining the EU.
Read more...Telecom Italia’s downfall over the past thirty years mirrors the disastrous path of the Italian state since joining the EU.
Read more...German auto industry is representative of wider EU efforts to use the Balkans as a low-wage, polluted sacrifice zone.
Read more...Although some analysts have given reasons why negotiated solutions to the wars in the Gaza and Ukraine are not in the cards, for the most part, they have also been hesitant to say that in a simple noun-verb sentence. Perhaps they hope against hope that a frame-breaking event will radically shift the current boundary conditions […]
Read more...Turkish public opinion has been hardening against the West for years, and worsening of ME situation could be the definitive break.
Read more...Attempts to use Armenia to destabilize Caucasus backfire spectacularly.
Read more...A new party on the left joins the far-right AfD in challenging Berlin’s subservience to Washington as public anger grows against current government.
Read more...Beijing asked Washington numerous times to partner in the Belt and Road Initiative. Instead the US works against it.
Read more...Ukraine’s local authorities are undes serious budget stress despite government assurances of support
Read more...EU trade policy also relies to a large extent on ‘mini-deals’. The scope and the legal nature of these mini-deals vary considerably, and while most are invisible, some of them may be quite important in terms of their impact on trade.
Read more...The Israel shelling of the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza was an escalation too far. But that does not mean Israel or the US will put on the brakes
Read more...A divergent take on Poland elections: PiS lost becaue it promised to address the costs of 1990s shock doctrine but then did little.
Read more...European “nationalist” governments embrace EU-prescribed austerity and pursue exploitable immigrant labor for their overlords despite running on anti-immigrant platforms.
Read more...Russia, which has tried to be even-handed in the Middle East, now looks to be moving into the pro-Arab camp.
Read more...Filling in details on how far gas storage goes in meeting EU needs over the winter, and the other measures it uses to assure supply.
Read more...It’s not the oil palm plant that is the problem, but rather the way it’s grown.
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