Europe

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Foreign Minister warns that Europe will take the Russian and Chinese side on the Iran issue against the USA. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (Democratic Socialist Party: SPD) warned this week that if Trump pulls out of the Iran deal, it would provoke an immediate danger of […]

Buddhism

Can the West Help the Rohingya of Myanmar/ Burma?

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By Ludovica Marchi | (LSE: British Politics and Policy) | – – Violence in Myanmar has resulted in more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims leaving the country and seeking refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh.Ludovica Marchi argues that the EU should take advantage of its good relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to help ease […]

Colonialism

Colonial Legacy: When Dutch ‘Policing’ Op tried to bring down Indonesian Republic

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By Anne-Ruth Wertheim | (Informed Comment) | – – (This essay irst appeared in Dutch in De Groene Amsterdammer) Inexplicable sounds entered our internment camp Seventy years ago this year the Netherlands began its first so-called ‘policing operation’ – an attempt to bring down the Indonesian republic by force. As is clear from Wim Wertheim […]

Far Right

Germany and the Rise of a ‘Fascist International’

Juan Cole

John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Germany funds foundations for its political parties. If the far right gets one, we’re one step closer to globalizing the alt-right. Germany got its very own electoral shock this week when the far right won 13 percent of the vote in country’s parliamentary elections. […]

Austria

Austria Bans Burqa, Demands Muslim ‘Integration’ before Elections

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TeleSur | – – The move comes ahead of the Oct.15 elections that critics worry might favor anti-immigration parties. Austria has decided to ban the full Islamic veil or Burqa and other items that mask the face in public spaces. The move comes ahead of the Oct.15 elections that critics worry might place the parties […]

Democratic Socialism

UK: Is Corbyn’s call to Nationalize Utilities the end of Neoliberalism?

Juan Cole

By Andy Price | (The Conversation) | – – Let’s be under no illusion about the significance of what we have just seen: a Labour Party leader calling, at the party’s annual conference, for the nationalisation of public utilities – not to cries of derision or the dropping of jaws, but to a standing ovation […]

Far Right

Germany: Will strong Neo-Fascist showing push Merkel to the Right?

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By Patricia Hogwood | (The Conversation) | – – Angela Merkel will continue as chancellor of Germany. But following an election that saw the rise of smaller parties – most notably the far right – her fourth term will probably be an eventful one in ways she would not wish for. The Union parties (Merkel’s […]

Democracy

Merkel barely holds on as Neo-Fascists enter German Parliament

Juan Cole

By Catherine Stupp | ( EURACTIV.com ) | – – Angela Merkel’s CDU came in first place–but lost a huge amount of supporters. The far-right AfD will move into the Bundestag for the first time. [Clemens Bilan/ EPA] Chancellor Angela Merkel secured her fourth term in office in Sunday’s (24 September) parliamentary election but her […]