Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Tag: Europe

Record-breaking heatwave throughout Europe increasing the desire for climate change action

Temperatures have soared to historic highs in many Western European towns this last week. Countries like Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and...

Russia and the future of Europe

With EU elections approaching, the Kremlin has backed some of the most noxious reactionaries now operating on the world scene.

Trump-linked Christian fundamentalists are pouring dark money into Europe, boosting the...

The rise of far-right movements in Europe aligns with a significant increase over the last five years in spending by Christian groups here in the United States.

People power: 160,000 European protesters demand action on climate crisis

"The objective of the march is to challenge the Belgian government as well as the heads of state and government who will attend the European Council summit in Brussels on 21 and 22 March."

EU approval of glyphosate based on review that plagiarized Monsanto studies

"Just as tobacco companies can no longer talk about the health benefits of smoking, the chemical industry shouldn't be able to write its own authorization for its own potentially harmful products."

EU to ban common single-use plastics to address environment and marine...

"Europe now has a legislative model to defend and promote at international level, given the global nature of the issue of marine pollution involving plastics."

Trumping Europe? Steve Bannon’s manufactured ‘movement’

The new reality is that progressives, here in North America as in Europe, must fight on two fronts simultaneously.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 14, 2018

DNC will take fossil fuel money after all, Income inequality in America vs. Europe, and more.

What’s behind Trump’s assault on Europe

Trump is attacking Europe and siding with Russia for political – and not just personal – reasons.

Can the Brit’s Baby Trump blimp come play at Trump’s DC...

In these grim times, we could use a good dose of British humor.

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The General James M. Gavin coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the country. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...

Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage at Landing Zone 1. Photo: SpaceX (CC0)

The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls

The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A satellite view of Tehran, Iran. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran

The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.