Throughout Europe, the drums are beating, the media trumpets are blaring. Warmongers are hammering away with a continuous stream of belligerent propaganda. The entire media-political system is mobilised for this purpose. The rhetoric and arguments upon which this belligerent campaign is based give pause for thought regarding what they reveal about the crisis Europe is experiencing.

Europe: the warmongers are running rampant.

BY Djamel Labidi

Let's examine these arguments.

A year defined by bullying power politics, media cowardice and moral failure – alongside rare but vital acts of courage that point to a different future.

Throughout 2025, nations and policies have been preoccupied with questions about how best to respond to intimidation by President Trump. The performance is nightly: intimidation by tariffs, by tearing up international treaties, by ridiculing the UN, by declaring climate change a hoax, by boasting of respect for dictators.

Stuart Rees

Last week the Pentagon, under “War Secretary” Pete Hegseth, carried out yet another military attack on a boat in the high seas that the Administration claims is smuggling drugs. That makes 23 boats blown up by the US military in the waters off Latin America – most near Venezuela – and nearly 100 persons killed.

by Ron Paul 

There is an EU document in which it is stated there “is a problem with the financing of Ukraine”. No shit. The real problem actually comes with a new lack of confidence from EU member states in this “financing” following recent unconfirmed reports that Donald Trump has told the EU in blunt terms that they can’t dip into the supposed 300 bn USD in Russian “frozen” assets held by the West.

EU summit to decide Zelensky’s fate

BY Martin JAY

When the war started, Russia’s central bank held around $207 billion in euro assets, $67 billion in U.S. dollar assets and $37 billion in British pound assets.

US negotiators have given Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky days to respond to a peace proposal requiring Kiev to accept territorial losses to Russia in exchange for unspecified security guarantees, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing officials familiar with the matter.

One person told the FT that US President Donald Trump was hoping to reach a deal by Christmas. Zelensky reportedly told US envoys that he needed time to consult with Kiev’s European backers.

Although Trump had said last month that he would like to see an agreement by Thanksgiving, he later told journalists that he did not have a specific timeline.

Russia hawks in Congress and their allies in corporate media have been on the warpath against the Trump administration’s 28-point peace plan for ending the Ukraine war, dubbing the plan a “Russian wish-list.” The MSNBC host Rachel Maddow went so far as to hold it up as proof that “the Kremlin runs U.S. foreign policy.” Those cable news narratives have proceeded almost entirely without reference to the actual text of the plan, which—as noted in TAC—is hardly a one-sided victory for Moscow.

Bannon, Mearsheimer: Trump’s Ukraine Plan Won’t End the War

Establishment Ukraine hawking has largely drowned out restraint-oriented criticisms of the 28-point plan.

From being custodians of public knowledge, governments are turning to architects of manufactured ignorance. Amid disappearing evidence, citizens are struggling to hold power to account.

Around the world, governments are quietly deleting, manipulating, or withholding public data at an unprecedented scale, which is a direct threat to democratic accountability.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting with Pope Leo XIV at Castel Gandolfo, located outside Rome.

According to a Vatican statement, the Pope reiterated the need for the continuation of dialogue and "expressed his urgent desire that the current diplomatic initiatives bring about a just and lasting peace."

U.S. confidence in its operation to remove Maduro appears so high that plans are already in motion for privatizing Venezuela’s oil industry. The strategy mirrors the 1989 Panama intervention against Manuel Noriega, who was labeled a drug lord and saw Panamanian elites support U.S. action. Today, the United States has designated the fictional Venezuelan “Sun Cartel” as a foreign terrorist organization and accused Maduro of leading it, citing “terrorist violence” in the Western Hemisphere, effectively putting intervention on the agenda, potentially including a landing operation supported by naval fire.

LYUBA LULKO

USA's Psychological Operations Against Venezuela: Intervention Plans Mirror Panama 1989

European leaders have said "now is a critical moment" to ramp up support for Ukraine and put pressure on Russia to bring an end to the war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in London on Monday to discuss the latest version of a peace plan, drafted between Ukrainian and US officials last week.

The European leaders said more work was needed to obtain security guarantees for Ukraine, as the US puts pressure on Kyiv to agree a swift deal with Russia.

Zelensky, who travelled on to Brussels to meet Nato officials, said that Ukraine would share a revised plan with the US on Tuesday.

After a dizzying year of global upheaval, this reflection looks back on writing as resistance – against war, media failure, imperial power and silence – and why truth-telling still matters heading into 2026.

Eugene Doyle

During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Belém do Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell gave a rousing speech. 

The Earth Is Unhappy with the Capitalist Climate Catastrophe: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)
As Global North countries fail to meet their climate finance obligations, the recent COP30 exposed the importance of class struggle in winning binding commitments for climate justice.

BY Vijay Prashad

The EU has once again strayed beyond acceptable boundaries, slapping Elon Musk’s social media platform X with harsh penalties for being in violation of new draconian EU digital laws that many say are code for censorship.

Elon Musk wants to abolish the EU. He has a point
The “bureaucratic monster” that has just fined X €120 million is wrapping its tentacles around free speech

BY Robert Bridge