The Camorra, the Naples organized crime machine, has declared “war on the state,” Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told the Italian Senate Sept. 24, one day after the government authorized sending 500 soldiers to the Campania region in response to the… Read moreItaly: Camorra declares “war on the state”
At least six were injured and 15 arrested as far-right protesters clashed with police, threw stones and petrol bombs and damaged shops and cars along Andrassy Boulevard in Budapest Sept. 20. Police fired tear gas and water cannons on the… Read moreNeo-fascists riot in Budapest
We have argued before: “Classical” anti-Semitism and contemporary anti-Arab racism (and Islamophobia) are genetically linked phenomena. The fallacy is that just because one exists, the other doesn’t. On the contrary, the prominence of one should be seen as evidence that… Read moreAnti-Semitism, Islamophobia surge in Europe: survey
In a major gathering ignored by US mass media, thousands of migrants met in Spain from Sept. 11 to 14 to articulate a set of demands directed at governments across the world. Meeting at the Third World Social Forum on… Read moreSpain: world migrants say no to walls, yes to legalization
Spain’s supreme court ruled Sept. 18 to ban the Basque Communist Party (EHAK-PCTV) on the grounds that it is linked to the ETA armed separatist group and the successor party of the Batasuna, which was declared illegal in March 2003…. Read moreSpain: more Basque parties banned
A Danish appeals court Sept. 18 convicted six people of selling t-shirts to aid the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). A seventh defendant was acquitted. Most of the defendants were… Read moreDenmark: radical t-shirt peddlers convicted
The UN General Committee, which sets the agenda for the General Assembly, voted unanimously Sept. 18 to approve a Serbian resolution calling for a review of Kosova’s declared independence. The resolution, opposed by the US and UK, next goes before… Read moreWorld Court to review Kosova’s independence?
Spanish Judge Balthasar Garzón has ordered government and religious authorities across Spain to turn over information about those killed at the hands of Francisco Franco’s fascist forces following his 1936 military uprising. Garzón hopes to draw up a comprehensive list… Read moreSpanish Civil War “truth commission”?
Thank goodness Rome’s Jews have got the cogliones to protest this! From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Sept. 8: Roman Jews criticize mayor over Fascist remarks Jewish leaders criticized Rome’s right-wing mayor for declaring that Italy’s Fascist-era anti-Semitic laws, not Fascism… Read moreRome’s mayor: Fascism wasn’t so bad after all
The Polish government signed a deal Aug. 14 to host a 10 interceptor missiles at a site along Poland‘s Baltic Sea coast as a part of the US “missile shield” plan. The site, staffed by US forces, would complement a… Read morePoland signs US “missile shield” deal; Russia pledges “punishment”
Misha Glenny writes for the New Statesman, July 24: Looking a little like God in a Cecil B DeMille film, Radovan Karadzic was genuinely unrecognisable when he was arrested on a Belgrade bus last Monday evening. Yet even more astonishing… Read moreRadovan Karadzic: Sensitive New Age Guy
In the third incident this month at a French nuclear plant, 100 employees were “slightly contaminated” July 23 at the Tricastin plant in the southern Vaucluse region, according to the EDF power company. EDF insisted the exposure was well below… Read moreFrench nuclear industry shaken by string of accidents
