Europe

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – We now know that Michael Cohen lied to Congress about the timeline of Trump’s negotiations with Russia for a skyscraper in Moscow, telling them that the bid for a Trump Tower hotel in Moscow ended in January, 2016. It did not, but rather continued to be a live possibility into […]

Donald Trump

Shattering Europe? The Debris of Trump’s Paris Fiasco

Rajan Menon

(Tomdispatch.com) – You’ve probably had your fill of the media coverage, punditry, tweets, and wisecracks surrounding President Trump’s controversial trip to Paris, officially undertaken to honor the Allied soldiers, especially the Americans, who perished in France during World War I. By now, we’re used to the president’s words and deeds prompting eye-rolling and jokes. But […]

Donald Trump

Trump Lashes out at France’s Macron over ‘Nationalism’ as Bromance Dies

AFP

By Maggy DONALDSON and Shaun TANDON | – Washington (AFP) – Donald Trump on Tuesday unleashed an extraordinary attack on Emmanuel Macron, mocking the French president’s approval rating and lashing him over European defense proposals which enjoyed a crucial new boost from Germany. On the heels of a rocky trip to Paris to mark the […]

Russia

Russia Seeks to Dump Dollar as New US Sanctions Loom

AFP

By Andrea PALASCIANO | – Moscow (AFP) – Moscow is intensifying efforts to wean its economy off the dollar as Washington considers tough new sanctions that could deny Russia access to foreign debt markets and cut its banks from the greenback. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly slammed the US unit’s dominance on the world’s stage […]

Featured

Germany halts arms Sales to Riyadh, as Investors sell $1 bn in Saudi Stocks

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that Germany would put arms sales to Saudi Arabia on hold in light of the murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. She said that they “could not take place in our current circumstances.” Meanwhile, foreign investors sold […]

Russia

Is Putin using Syria Conflict to detach Turkey from NATO?

The Conversation

By Mustafa Demi | – Turkey, Russia and Iran have actively involved themselves in the Syrian conflict, each with their own divergent interests. Moscow and Tehran have put their support behind the regime of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, hoping it retains its influence over the strategic Syrian region. Meanwhile, since the very beginning of […]

Germany

“Untrump the World”: Hundreds of Thousands March in Berlin against Far Right

Common Dreams

By Common Dreams staff | – BERLIN, GERMANY: Protesters participate in the Unteilbar (‘indivisible’) march against racism, exclusion and exploitation and for an open society on October 13, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Organizers of the march decry the growing divisions in European society that they claim are being fuelled by policies that accentuate the gap […]

Russia

Putin: Other Powers will Dump Dollar as Reserve Currency if US goes on With Sanctions

TeleSur

(TeleSur) – “It seems to me that our American partners make a colossal strategic mistake,” Putin said, adding that it is a “typical mistake of any empire.” Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a speech on the Russian Energy Week, on Wednesday, saying that his Washington counterparts are making a “typical” and “colossal” mistake, referring to […]

Israel

Russia’s Relationship with Israel hits Rock Bottom as it gives Syria S-300 Air Defence System

Antoinette Chalaby-Moualla

By Antoinette Chalaby-Moualla | – Paris (AFP) – From a honeymoon in the years after Israel’s founding, to strained ties after the mistaken downing of a Russian plane in Syria, relations between Israel and Russia have gone through several periods of tensions. These have mainly revolved around disagreements on Middle Eastern issues. – One of […]