Monday, 28 April , 2025

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...