The crisis that struck Ukraine last year was the result of problems that had been festering, not only in Ukraine but all along the former frontiers of the USSR since the end of the cold war
Remember when Goldman Sachs delivered a thinly-veiled threat to the Greek Parliament, warning them to elect a pro-austerity prime minister or risk having central bank liquidity cut off to their banks?
Bryan Gould and George Tait Edwards describe Shimomuran Economics
Many anti-Russian commentators today have no problem with classifying Vladimir Putin's government as kleptocratic
The negotiations between the newly elected Greek Government and the other Eurozone states have been a battle between pragmatism and extremism
Netanyahu went to Paris as part of his election campaign
Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken
A poem by John Gohorry
Reams have been written about how awful and oppressive East Germany was - a virtual slave state with Stasi surveillance informers everywhere. That image was rudely demolished in a curious way the other day
This bill of corporate rights threatens to blow the sovereignty of parliament unless it can be stopped, writes George Monbiot.