European Union

The Past is Never Past: Collusion in Northern Ireland

2021-04-27White Nettle

The past is never dead. It’s not even past, William Faulkner said. The dark secrets of Northern Ireland’s dirty war seem more intent, year by year, on proving Faulkner’s maxim truer than many could ever have imagined […]

Belgium’s Multicultural Society of “Federalism Laboratory”

2021-03-24White Nettle

The population of the Kingdom of Belgium is 10 million and it is divided into two main linguistic groups: the northern Dutch speakers (the Flemish/Flanders) – 6 million and the southern French-speaking population (the Walloons) – 4 million […]

Did the Nazis Lose World War II?

2021-03-23White Nettle

See who of the Nazis occupied top managerial positions in the European Union, NATO, and the UNO after WWII […]

Suddenly Europe is an Open Question – ‘A Nazi EU?’

2021-03-13White Nettle

In short, in the centuries’ old politics of Europe, Western nations have been characterized by a struggle between two antithetical visions of world order […]

Bombing Libya: The Origins of Europe’s Immigration Crisis

2021-02-19White Nettle

The US/NATO heavy bombing of Libya led also to the widespread dispersal throughout North African and Middle East hotspots of the gigantic arsenal of weaponry that Gaddafi had accumulated […]

Baltic States Between Russia and a Hard Place

2021-02-14White Nettle

The Baltic States, a long dormant political issue, reactivated itself following the Ukrainian coup of 2014, as the leaders of these states believed that they could benefit from fanning the flames of conflict. In that they were likely mistaken, as the status of the Baltics in the future of the European order is far from certain […]

Documentary Movie “The Basque Ball” (2003)

2021-02-11White Nettle

Documentary movie “The Basque Ball” (2003) on Basque nationalism, freedom, terrorism, independence … The movie is with English language subtitles […]

The Rule of Law no Longer Exists in Western Civilization

2021-02-02White Nettle

I can attest with full confidence that the United States no longer has a rule of law. The USA is a lawless country. By that I do not mean what conservative Republicans mean, which is, if I understand them, that racial minorities violate law with something close to impunity […]

Politics is Above Common Sense in Latvia

2021-01-09White Nettle

The more so, Latvia can face the situation when Russia has to defend the so-called compatriots. Thus, the Crimea’s scenario can repeat. Do Latvian authorities want it? […]

The Future of the EU at Stake in Catalonia

2021-01-05White Nettle

After this historic, (relatively) bloody Sunday, more and more Catalans will be asking […]

The Hysterics of Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė

2021-01-05White Nettle

The anti-Russia rhetoric of President Grybauskaitė has certainly become increasingly hysterical, in the same laughable fashion as that of “Yats” (also known as Arseniy Yatsenyuk) […]

The Rabidly Hypocritical EU

2021-01-03White Nettle

Do Europeans really want people such as this to be increasing in the EU? […]

Lithuania’s Minorities: Rights and Problems

2020-12-30White Nettle

What concerns the citizenship, in 1994 Lithuania contained some 81.3 per cent of the population who spoke Lithuanian as their first language […]

Sad Error of Naming 2018 for Someone who “Just” Led a Pro-Nazi “Partisan Squad” in Lithuania in June and July of 1941

2020-12-21White Nettle

The national scandal unleashed by the Lithuanian Rūta Vanagaitė and the Jewish Efraim Zuroff via their statements about Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, is gradually losing momentum […]

Neo-Nazi Marchers on Lithuania’s Cherished March 11th Independence Day (Vilnius 2018)

2020-12-20White Nettle

For the 11th year running, the center of Lithuania’s beautiful capital, Vilnius, was gifted in the high afternoon hours this past Sunday, Match 11th, to far-righters and neo-Nazis on the annual holiday cherished by the free world for its historic importance, in 1990, in the series of events that toppled the Soviet Union’s hated misrule […]

Russophobia Vulgaris: A la Lietuva

2020-12-12White Nettle

The carriers of this virus are not only military professionals, politicians and media warriors on a payroll, but Western academic institutions as well. Lithuania is one example where an academic institution prioritizes political aims to the scientific values and even moral norms […]