Europe

All content relating to Europe, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Greenland and Iceland, Western and Eastern Europe (but not Iceland), or directly impacting Europeans.

As Big Banks Fall: The Bear Has Fallen and the Bull is Gone

New York: If you walk through London’s High Gate cemetery and wander over to the grave of the late Karl Marx and then listen closely with your ear to the ground, you might hear a repetitive murmur of the phrase “I told you so” in a distinctly German inflected accent.

Russia Sends Opposition To Psych Wards

A Russian opposition activist was forced into a mental hospital in one of many signs of the Russian government's crackdown ahead of elections next month.

Database assembles U.S. warnings of Saddam threat

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration's warnings about prewar Iraq, from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's "mushroom cloud" to Vice President Dick Cheney's statements on weapons of mass destruction, were released on Wednesday in a searchable online database.

French Worker Rebellion

Posted November 17th, 2007 by Steve Anderson

Tim Costello: Workers reject President Nicolas Sarkozy's attempt to rollback five decades of gains. Tim Costello is director of the Global Labor Strategies, a resource center based in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., whose objective is helping build a worldwide labor movement.

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EUROPE: 'Participatory Democracy Can Resolve Crisis'

FLORENCE, Oct 19 (IPS) - "Participatory democracy can be the answer to the European crisis," says Ségolène Royal, Socialist candidate in the last general election in France.

How Much are We Spending on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Don't Ask the Pentagon

Determining how much federal funding has been directed to the wars should be a fairly simple proposition. Thanks to the Pentagon, it's anybody's guess.

Why did the markets and the media downplay the subprime crisis?

This question is being asked by The New York Times about the failure to anticipate and potentially pre-empt the Sub-prime mortgage crisis which has since escalated into a deeper meltdown in global financial markets leading to lay-off and predictions of a fall-off in economic growth.