Tear Gas Sprayed Across Migrants at Turkey-Greece Border
EU leaders accuse Erdogan's government of using the refugees' desperation "for political purposes" as open-borders policy causes rush.
EU leaders accuse Erdogan's government of using the refugees' desperation "for political purposes" as open-borders policy causes rush.
Greece fires tear gas and stun grenades on crowds seeking refuge after Turkey declares its previously guarded gateways to Europe open.
Thousands try to enter Greece by land and sea, trying to escape a Russian-backed Syrian offensive in Idlib province.
After vowing to end America's forever wars, the president has thrust the country head-first into a dangerous, likely intractable conflict.
As long as the U.S. and other nations cling to neoliberal economics, their citizens will continue to drift toward far-right authoritarians.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis' conservative New Democracy party triumphs, but far-right parties fail, bucking Europe's populist trend.
The far-right nationalist leader says the expected result "confirms the new nationalist-globalist division" in France and beyond.
Decrying neoliberal capitalism’s “slow cancellation of the future” in his new book, Srećko Horvat advocates “hope without optimism.”
Author Yves Engler explains how the organization was used to suppress the left and bring the world under the U.S. geopolitical umbrella.
In the aftermath of World War II, the U.S. found a new enemy—its recent Soviet ally—and a new kind of conflict was born.
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