The current global crisis triggered by Covid-19 is the third capitalist crash in this century. And governments' incapacity to consider non-capitalist solutions threatens to keep deepening this crisis into capitalism's worst. The first was in early 2000. Because it was triggered by the absurdly high prices of dot-com stocks, it got named the “dotcom crisis.”...
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, setting out the imposition of new sanctions on companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The move comes despite Vice President of the European Commission Josep Borrell's statement last week that the European Union...
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A 28-year-old German right-wing extremist has gone on trial for a Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue that is considered one of the worst anti-Semitic assaults in the country's post-war history, telling the court he saw Jews as a threat to the white race.
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France's Foreign Minister Yves Le Drian has dismissed accusations by right-wing and left-wing parties that President Emmanuel Macron had struck an EU economic recovery deal that sold Paris short. “You call this a failure. I call this a historic advance,” Le Drian said on Tuesday, responding to critical questions from lawmakers in parliament. “It was...
The London markets nudged higher despite a decline in European trading sentiment after the EU's 750 billion euro rescue-package had sparked early positivity.