Don't say you weren't warned. Many, if not all, EU member states contract Palantir to run their most sensitive and critical systems in the areas of security, police and health care. While national governments publicly lash out at Musk, they quietly do business with Thiel. Palantir is a Trojan horse

If grovelling to Trump is meant to buy us time to end our dependency on the US, you’d expect feverish activity in Europe to rapidly become autonomous. So has Europe made good use of the time it has bought with self-humiliation? It has not. My blog: open.substack.com/pub/sophiein...

While everyone is distracted by Circus Trump, European countries let his far-right sponsor and mentor of JD Vance in via the backdoor. No European government should work with Palantir. None.

"All the contact was conducted discreetly," a diplomatic source familiar with the matter told @haaretzcom.bsky.social. "The 🇬🇷Greeks were wary of being identified with Israel, because shortly beforehand the Greek Watergate affair had exploded." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

📣 The authorities must release Marfa Rabkova, Nasta Lojka and other defenders arbitrarily detained. ✊🏻 Join the call to end arbitrary detention! 🔗 Share our statements: bit.ly/3YnZYWv, bit.ly/3Yo1mbF

Trump n'est pas en croisade contre le narcotrafic. Il n'aurait pas gracié l’ex-président du Honduras condamné à 45 ans de prison aux USA pour trafic de drogue. Trump transpire les dollars, le pouvoir, le pétrole et la prédation des filles #Esptein www.rtbf.be/article/dire...

A united Europe is a Europe that can take decisions by majority and speak with a single voice. Not a fairy-land where all government leaders miraculously hold identical opinions. In other words: unity can be achieved by abolishing vetoes, not by "hopes and prayers".

Europe sucking up to Trump as a strategy to buy time might be defendable. But only if that time is being used to make Europe independent and strong. But in the past twelve months there have been exactly zero efforts for a stronger, more integrated Europe. So the sucking up is a waste of time.

Russia’s Descent Into Tyranny How Four Years of War Have Remade Society Nina Khrushcheva click here to read it: archive.is/QRKD0 www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/russi...

The End of the Longest Peace? One of History’s Greatest Achievements Is Under Threat Graham Allison and James A. Winnefeld, Jr. click here to read it: archive.is/QJK7f www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

"In Trump’s second term, the United States has descended into competitive authoritarianism—a system in which parties compete in elections but incumbents routinely abuse their power to punish critics and tilt the playing field against their opposition.

"During the interwar years, support for revolutionary, anticapitalist parties by the Soviet-led Communist International laid the groundwork for the expansion of communism after World War II.

L'UE pourrait adopter des règles à la Trump qui autoriseraient les perquisitions au domicile et l'expulsion de personnes vers des pays où elles n'ont jamais mis les pieds. Signez pour que ça ne devienne pas la nouvelle norme ! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

Trump’s appointees in the judiciary, military leadership loyally carrying out Trump’s illegal orders, ICE, the damage done by USAID cuts and DEI reversal: even if (big if) a model democrat will be elected president in 2028, (s)he cannot undo the damage. Europe has to stop dreaming and grow up. Fast.

Europeans cling to the idea that by 2028 latest, things will go back to normal. They will not. Much of the Trump devastation is irreversible. Ask Poland how hard it is to restore the democratic rule of law after 8 years of PiS rule (amateurs in comparison). State capture takes decades to undo.

Even wilder that the statement isn't immediately supported by the other NATO and EU members.

Everyone should know that #Greece is a failed state that has put itself at the forefront of those undermining int'l law & #HumanRights, starting w the Geneva Conventions. The PM’s comment on the #VenezuelaInvasion should surprise no one: “not the time to comment on legality”... x.com/i/status/200...

click here to read it archive.is/H3ysJ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

click here to read it archive.is/wRgGb www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

🇻🇪 Nous attendons une condamnation ferme de la part de nos dirigeants belges et européens contre l'attaque illégale des USA au Venezuela. Quel que soit le régime politique en place, Trump ne peut violer le droit international et instaurer le règne de l'arbitraire en toute impunité.

Belgique et UE, en défenseurs du droit international et du multilatéralisme, doivent dénoncer fermement l'attaque des USA contre le Venezuela. Trump est le Président du chaos. ecolo.be/actualites/v...

📢 #Greece: The 🇬🇷 League for Human Rights condemns the gov’t’s attempt—via an outrageous new Defense Ministry bill—to silence whistleblowers and sharply restrict #FreeSpeech. If passed, it could unconstitutionally strip citizens of their citizenship‼️ www.efsyn.gr/ellada/dikai...

Όταν αποκαλείς τη γενοκτονία στη Γάζα, ή, αν δεν σου αρέσει ο όρος, το φόνο 70000 Παλαιστίνιων από τους οποίους 20000 παιδιά "επιβεβλημένη αντίδραση του Ισραήλ, όπως θα αντιδρούσε κάθε κυρίαρχο κράτος που δέχεται επίθεση"

Macedonian Songs: Language, Memory, and Human Dignity aristides.substack.com/p/macedonian...

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Has Linkedin become a puppet of Trump? Look what article by no less than Robert Reich they censored as hate speech!

We of course express our solidarity with the founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a member of the Global Alliance Against Digital Hate & Extremism in which I am a member of the Steering Committee. www.bbc.com/news/article...