Orbán evokes ghost of Goebbels and courts EU isolation
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by Mark Porter
Cannes, July 28, 2022 (updated 01/08/22)
Viktor Orbán, 59, veteran Hungarian prime minister and Putin cheerleader, is hardly renowned for his restraint. His...
Six months on – a reporter describes how it has been
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‘It has been like hell’: life under fire in Donbas
from Guardian reporter Peter Beaumont, six months in Ukraine
“I sleep in my clothes so I...
Odessa – will grain at last relieve world hunger?
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es Vienna, July 23, 2022
Maybe not. Just after yesterday's supposedly landmark deal in Istanbul to start shipping millions of tons of grain to a...
Meduza – behind the scenes at the Kremlin
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es Vienna, July 22, 2022
Meduza, banished along with its staff to Lavia, remains one of the best sources of information on Russia. Today it...
Google banned in occupied Ukraine
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es Vienna, July 22, 2022
Russia's clampdown on independent news has been remarkably effective in creating a parallel reality/ unreality. Now the same method is...
Killings haunt Biden visit to Israel and Saudi prince
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es Vienna, July 14, 2022
The shadow over President Biden's four-day tour of the Middle East has a name, that of the legendary American-Palestinian Al...
Trumpism – interview reveals “why we got into it”
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es Vienna, July 14, 2022
This remarkable interview with a former "Trumper" is worth reading, and explains the kind of herd instinct and straight idiocy...
Press review – extreme heat everywhere in Europe
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es Vienna, 13 July, 2022
Eurotopics today publishes its usual excellent review of the European press, dealing especially with the extreme weather across the world,...
Council of Europe flexes muscles on UK
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es/wh Strasbourg, July 11, 2022
The "yes, but not quite yet" resignation of UK prime minister Boris Johnson has left the remains of his assaults...
Do sanctions actually work?
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London, July 11, 2022
The AEJ's ever-active UK Section invited international economic strategist and sanctions expert Timothy Ash for a midday session to assess the...