Ukraine Hawk Who Heads European Commission Has a Nazi Pedigree She Does Not Want You to Know About
Evan Reif - 12
Her father Ernst Albrecht, President of the German state of Lower Saxony from 1978 to 1990, brought unrehabilitated Nazis into his administration and carried out a black-flag terrorist operation designed to discredit the left-wing Red Army Faction.
In the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian war, terms like “European values” have come...
A Dark Tale of Germany’s Most Powerful Party: Covid-19 and the Resurgence of the Christian Democrats
Ellen Rivera - 1
Part 1: Old Nazi Networks and Cold War Crooks
While voter support for Germany’s most powerful party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), had been crumbling in the course of the current legislation period (2017-2021), with the onset of the coronavirus crisis, the tables have turned importantly in favor of the...
Golden Dawn’s export of neo-Nazism
Although more than 5,223 miles separate Charlottesville, Virginia, from Athens, Greece, the political connections are ominously close. One of the major instigators of the August 11-12, 2017, neo-Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville was Matthew Heimbach. In the past he has participated in a cordial conversation with...
Project 2025 bills itself as a comprehensive plan to undo decades of social progress - in its own words, to “dismantle the administrative state” and “return self-governance to the American people.” Democrats have jumped into using it and its connections to the Trump agenda and former staff as a reason to rally behind Joe Biden...
Far-Right Politicians and Identitarians Descend on Greece to Stop Incoming Refugees from Turkey
Andrew Lee - 2
Part 1 - French and Belgian politicians foment jihadist conspiracy
Since the end of February 2020, thousands of refugees and migrants have been trying to cross the Greek border by way of Turkey, specifically in the border region along the Evros River, but also by boat to the Greek island...
The head of
Rassemblement National (RN)—formerly known as Front National—Marine Le Pen (MLP) announced during her New
Year's greetings to the press on January 16, 2020, that she would be a candidate
in the 2022 presidential election. "One can’t improvise oneself as
president, one prepares for it" explained Marine Le Pen, in her
incessant...
CovertAction Bulletin: The U.S., Europe and the Growing Right-Wing Threat
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
As the Trump administration openly threatens historic American allies in Europe, weighs in on German elections in favor of the far-right, and pushes the idea of MEGA—Make Europe Great Again—it’s becoming increasingly clear that the relationships and dynamic between the U.S. and Western Europe is changing at a scale we haven’t seen in almost a century...
Different Shades of Black: The Anatomy of the Far Right in the European Parliament
Ellen Rivera and Masha P. Davis - 2
Of all European elections, the one scheduled for May 23-26, 2019, which will decide the composition of the 9th European Parliament, may be the most unpredictable, as well as the most important, in the history of the European Union. Far-right forces may gain unprecedented ground, with polls suggesting that they...
Dissecting Identity & Democracy: the EU’s new far-right super group
Ellen Rivera and Masha P. Davis - 2
Austria
Denmark
France
Belgium
Estonia
Germany
Czech Republic
Finland
Italy
With the highest voter turnout in two decades (50.5%), the recently held European parliamentary elections were clearly viewed with special importance by Europe’s citizens. The outcome was marked by considerable losses of the center factions in the European...
Many
still see Germany as a beacon of stability in an increasingly polarized Europe,
with the Christian Democratic chancellor Angela Merkel leading the country for
15 years in a row by now. But the façade of ostensible perdurability is
crumbling quickly as the country currently experiences rather drastic shifts in
its political power structure,...










