Selected Articles: Social Crisis and Political Corruption in Europe
U.S. Will Station New Nuclear Weapons in Germany Against Russia
By Eric Zuesse, September 22, 2015
Germany’s ZDF public television network headlines on Tuesday September 22nd, “New U.S. Atomic Weapons to Be Stationed in Germany,” and reports that the U.S. will bring into Germany 20 new nuclear bombs, each being four times the destructive power of the one that was used on Hiroshima. Hans Kristensen, the Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, says, “With the new bombs the boundaries blur between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.”
Who Is Twitter-Luring Refugees To Germany?
By Oriental Review, September 22, 2015
Content-analysis of a great number of tweets that triggered the ongoing wave of migration from Turkey to Germany since August this year suggests that these human streams were inspired and channeled from outside of continental Europe.
EU Political Divisions Leave Thousands of Migrants Stranded and Abused
By Abayomi Azikiwe, September 22, 2015
Successive meetings fail to reach an agreement on how to deal with refugees from oppressed nations. Tens of thousands of migrants are living under precarious conditions in Hungary and Croatia as well as other states in the European Union (EU).
UN Condemns Ukrainian Government Cover-Ups
By Eric Zuesse, September 22, 2015
On September 18th, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights headlined “Statement of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns Ukraine: Lives lost in an accountability vacuum,” and condemned there the current Ukrainian Government in strong language, regarding not only the coup which had brought them to power in February 2014, but regarding also the massacre of the people who on 2 May 2014 had been peacefully demonstrating in Odessa against the coup. Specifically, the ongoing cover-ups by the Ukrainian Government concerning both of these matters were condemned by him.
Managing the Occupation: Syriza Wins Again, … on Behalf of the Banksters
By Binoy Kampmark, September 22, 2015
Greeks are the victim[s] of anti-democratic and criminal policies that carry with them the threat of a humanitarian crisis. Zoi Konstantopoulou, The Daily Beast, Sep 20, 2015