Tag: Europe

On September 16, 2026, former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague for war crimes. Known in his guerrilla fighting days as the “snake,” Thaçi, 58, was sentenced along with three other senior members of the since-disbanded Kosovo...
Part II of a two-part series “Like a Resistance fighter dead before May 45,I shall begin to decomposeever so slowly in the harrowing light of this sea,a poet and citizen forgotten.”- Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Poems in the Form of a Rose” This is the second installment of a two-part series exploring...
Part I of Two-Part Series “Killed to keep the world turningThrow his bones overThe white cliffs of DoverAnd into the sea, the sea of RomeAnd the bloodstained coast of Ostia.”- Coil, “Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)” In light of the on-going revelations and public obsession surrounding the sordid saga of the...
Julian Assange is back. On September 17, Assange heralded his own return to X by posting a picture of himself standing in front of a Sydney street mural. The mural, painted by Scott Marsh, shows a bearded bust of Assange looking out on the world above the hashtag, “#FreeAssange,” only...
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was up to its old tricks at its awards banquet on September 10th, which took place at the estate of George Washington in Mount Vernon, Virginia, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the writing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The honorees...
CIA Director John Brennan was key to U.S. foreign policy strategy that aimed to draw Russia into quagmire in Ukraine and attack its energy infrastructure so U.S. oil and gas producers could take over its depleted markets The Russia-Ukraine War, really a U.S.-Ukraine proxy war on Russia, has taken a...
The passage of the “sanctions from hell” bill by both houses of Congress provides a fitting tribute to its original sponsor, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the warmonger who died from an alleged heart attack on July 11 after returning to Washington, D.C., from a visit to Ukraine. Targeting Russian oil and...
Ukrainian intelligence units are conducting drone-warfare operations in Africa and the Middle East as proxies for the U.S. A consolidation of U.S. elite interests has taken shape in the Russo-Ukrainian war, with a network of Western venture capitalists, high-tech start-ups, NATO military advisers, and CIA intelligence officials reaping material...
Perverse system represents a 21st century high-tech version of Robert S. McNamara’s infamous body count that led to so many atrocities during the Vietnam War The Ukrainian government operates an “Amazon for the military,” called Brave1 Market, that awards military units “e-points” for uploading videos generated by drone strikes. In return,...
Never Forget: Germany’s Horrific Past Has No Equal—And Now It Threatens the Future Consider the historical weight: From German soil emerged two world wars in the 20th century that claimed tens of millions of lives—with the Russians paying the heaviest price—alongside the Holocaust in Europe, the genocide of the Herero...