France has rejected the European Union’s constitution in a national referendum, in a blow to President Jacques Chirac and European integration. 56% voted against the treaty, Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin said, citing official results with 90% of ballots counted…. Read moreThe French “Non!”: goat-cheese or anti-Semitism?
Police in Edinburgh are asking for a ban on a major anti-war rally slated for the Scottish capital during the G8 summit meeting, alleging that its organizers have been linked with “violence and disruption.” The UK’s Stop the War Coalition… Read moreEdinburgh police: no anti-war march at G8 summit
A team from the United States is expected to arrive in Bulgaria within days for talks on possible US military bases, Defence Minister Nikolai Svinarov told a news conference on May 17. Svinarov’s announcement on May 17 confirmed a statement… Read moreU.S. plans more military bases in ex-Soviet sphere
President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, who leads a Moscow-aligned Soviet-nostalgist authoritarian regime, has got to be concerned about the recent unrest in Uzbekistan–especially coming on the heels of regime change in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan over the past year-and-a-half. However… Read moreBelarus: the last domino?
The most prominent separatists in Italy have long been the right-wing Lega Nord, who want to create an independent state called "Padania" in the prosperous Po Valley (yet are, ironically, part of Italy’s ruling coalition). But now word comes of… Read moreSardinian separatists crash Berlusconi’s villa
A new party in Ukraine allegedly aligned with US-based neo-Nazi, former Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard and Louisiana state representative David Duke has Ukrainian Jews concerned. The Ukranian Conservative Party was registered with the country’s Justice Ministry last month and… Read moreNew party aligned with David Duke has Ukrainian Jews concerned
David Horowitz, center-right editor of the center-right Jerusalem Post, reports with concern some recent fascist nostalgia in Rome: "Maybe we should shrug off the ongoing little rumpus in Romesurrounding Lazio soccer team captain Paolo Di Canio’s recent Fascistsalute to his… Read moreMussolini thanks soccer captain for Fascist salute
The March 17 attempted assassination of Anatoly Chubais, head of Russia’s state energy monopoly, Unified Energy Systems (EES), and architect of the highly unpopular post-Soviet crash privatization program, has rocked Russia’s political elite. Although Chubais is one of the most… Read moreChubais assassination attempt: inside job?
Prime Minister Tony Blair has won the support of Parliament for a new anti-terrorism law, which will allow the government to move quickly against eight foreign terror suspects who have been granted bail. The House of Lords approved new powers… Read moreDraconian UK terror law passes
Ramush Haradunaj, the ethnic Albanian prime minister of Kosovo (known to the Albanians as Kosova) stepped down from his post and boarded a flight for the The Netherlands March 9, turning himself over to international authorities at The Hague, where… Read moreKosovo prime minister to The Hague
Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel is being deported by Canada back to his German homeland, where he is expected to be arrested for inciting racial hatred. Zundel, who has been sitting in a jail cell in Canada for the last two… Read moreZundel goes home
About 12,000 protesters, many carrying banners reading "Bush go home," "No. 1 Terrorist" and "Warmonger," marched through the German city of Mainz Feb. 23, during President Bush’s official visit. The rally, which was twice as big as expected, never got… Read moreGermans protest Bush
