If Europeans can unite around a common cause, Putin is more vulnerable than he seems

With each passing day, Trump is looking more like Putin’s enabler. Never has European unity been needed more. The UK’s...

With moderate German politics in turmoil, is this an opportunity for the extreme right to grab power – again? This...

Valery Gergiev and Wilhelm Furtwängler are two conductors who served under their fascist dictator

Communists in the East of Europe used their ‘Love of Peace’ to bolster the Soviet Union. Their successors are now...

Populists like Trump and Farage, themselves descendants of immigrants, attack 'foreigners' and play on the fears of normal people

The remarkable rise of Sahra Wagenknecht, an East German arch communist, Stalin admirer, believer in the GDR and destroyer of...

Noise pollution is a major intrusion into our peace and wellbeing. It needs more publicity and debate to reduce the...

Everyone has to make a living, but it’s a fine line between moving on and cashing in.

The results of the European Parliament elections of June 2024 showed that Farage’s ‘Poison of Nationalism’ is spreading

Dr Helmut Hubel disagrees with reaction to French President Macron’s statement on stationing troops in Ukraine and interprets it as...

Dr Helmut Hubel asks if Germany’s Social Democratic Party, led by Chancellor Scholz, is not betraying Ukraine like Chamberlain did...

Dr Helmut Hubel praises the life of Russian martyr Alexei Navalny who was eliminated by the Kremlin.

Dr Helmut Hubel, in this second part of his analysis of fascism, looks at the rise of fascism this century.

Dr Helmut Hubel, in this first part of his analysis of fascism, charts the rise of fascism in the last...

Dr Helmut Hubel discusses the rise of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and finds unpalatable similarities with English Brexiteers

Dr Helmut Hubel discusses the Israelis’ yearning for a ‘normal life’ in safety and prosperity (Part One) and offers a...

Dr Helmut Hubel discusses the Israelis’ yearning for a ‘normal life’ in safety and prosperity (Part One) and offers a...

Dr Helmut Hubel explains how the West's support of Israel has betrayed the Palestinian Arabs - be it because of...

Dr Helmut Hubel is inspired by Shostakovich’s ‘Requiem’ to give a requiem to some individual victims of Putin’s regime, in...

Dr Helmut Hubel provides a background to the recent Gaza conflict and challenges the viability of the concept of separate...

Helmut Hubel comments on the parallels between 2 sinister revenge killings, and the Wagnerian thread linking the victims

Dr Helmut Hubel lays bare the origins and aims of the Wagner Group supporting Vladimir Putin’s quest for power with...

Now that Finland has joined NATO, on 4 April 2023, Helmut updates his November 2022 article and wonders whether Ukraine...

The chances that the indictment of Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court will lead to an actual conviction are...

Dr Helmut Hubel reviews an Arte TV documentary on Vladimir Putin’s use of energy as a strategic weapon against Europe...

German Chancellor Scholz’s behaviour in eventually agreeing to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine has spawned a new word in...

As Germany’s Chancellor Scholz hesitates to deliver Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Helmut Hubel asks where is ‘Germany’s Churchill’ to...

Our Russia expert calls out the 'Independent' Russia 'specialist' for defending Putin's aggression in Ukraine. Mary Dejevsky writes nonsense!

We can only hope that Western support of Ukraine will remain strong, that they will not have to experience Finland’s...