Mccarthyism
Peace, War and Europe
By Oksana Chelysheva *
The ”Confidence Building Measures In the Face Of Sharp Polarization in Europe” roundtable at the European Parliament on March 20 (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/brussels-call-stop-the-war-stop-sending-arms-to-ukraine/)...
Journalists persecuted in the Baltics
January 5, 2023
Marat Kasem from Sputnik Lithuania has been accused of espionage and could face up to 20 years behind bars
Latvia has arrested the...
An Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany
By Phil Wilayto
June 22, 2022, was the 81st anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and a prominent German antiwar activist took...
Guarding Democracy From News
As Orwellian as the Disinformation Governance Board may be, it’s not even the most immediate threat to our freedom of speech, writes John Kiriakou.
By...
German journalist faces three years prison over reporting from eastern Ukraine
By Steve Sweeney
June 27, 2022
GERMAN journalist Alina Lipp has said she faces three years in prison in her home country for her reporting...
La gauche en Pologne et le conflit en Ukraine
Par Bruno Drweski
Depuis 1989, alors même qu’il existe dans la société polonaise, une forte sensibilité socialisante, anticapitaliste, et souvent nostalgique à l’égard des aspects...
The Polish left and the conflict in Ukraine
by Bruno Drweski
Since 1989, even though there exists in Polish society a strong socializing, anti-capitalist and often nostalgic sensitivity towards the social aspects of...
The War between East and West, the Non-Aligned and the Struggle...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*)
Second of two parts. Here you can read the first part The War between East and West, the Non-Aligned and the struggle...
Russian DJ and performer Nina Kraviz banned from three music festivals
By David Walsh
24 May 2022
In another deplorable, anti-democratic action by the cultural establishment in the US and Europe, three music festivals have excluded Russian...
McCarthyism re-emerging stronger than ever in Ukraine policy debates
Zealous anti-Rssia voices are actually demanding that anyone opposing their views be silenced, and even criminally prosecuted.
by Ted Galen Carpenter
April 11, 2022
A troubling pattern has...