Numerous political parties and social movements have sprung up that support former and current Nazis and Nazi causes. This March 16 will see the emergence of the worst of this onto the world stage.
AP | GARY PEACH | Posted 04.19.2012
RIGA, Latvia — Latvian voters resoundingly rejected a proposal to give official status to Russian, the mother tongue of their former Soviet occu...
AP | Posted 01.27.2012
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators have filed civil charges against a trader in Latvia whom they accuse of hacking into U.S. customers' online brokerage...
Richard Brodsky | Posted 03.21.2012
The conference is attracting major figures such as Elie Weisel partially because of its focus on the Holocaust, but the running conversation about the re-emergence of political activity that mimics Nazi ideology is an important one.
Andrew Nagorski | Posted 09.27.2011
There was a time when Americans were firmly convinced that European problems were ones that they did not have to worry about. Suddenly, Europe's problems don't look that remote or dissimilar.
Posted 09.14.2011
In Latvia, 16 artists used 500 tons of sand to create beautiful sand sculptures around a circus theme. This is the fifth year that the festival has ta...
Carl Berman | Posted 09.05.2011
The United States (5-0) defeated Lithuania (3-2) 107-105 in OT at the FIBA U19 World Championships in Latvia. This was the game of the tournament thus far.
AP | Posted 07.19.2011
BERLIN -- A man who was separated from his mother at the end of World War II and raised in New Zealand is meeting his German family for the first time...
Posted 05.25.2011
This is more sad than ridiculous. Call it sadly ridiculous. The Guardian of London reports, with a clarification from The Register, that a man in L...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011
This is a train going in the wrong direction, and once you go down this track there is no telling where the end will be. Greece - like Latvia and Estonia - will be at the mercy of external events to rescue its economy.
Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011
To reduce their budget deficits, nations across Europe are slashing public sector wages, axing child benefits and closing hospitals. Battered by ye...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011
The Latvian Association of Blondes (LAB) is doing its part to ensure their country has a robust economic comeback. Hundreds of blondes from around th...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is pouring millions of dollars into equipment and training for its smaller partner nations in the Afghanistan war, a n...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011
As the EU summit meeting convenes, Greece is dominating the agenda much more than Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel had wanted. This week she has thr...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011
Before making a commitment to indefinite recession and slow recovery, which will include many years of high unemployment and other social costs, Greece may want to consider the alternatives.
Reggie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011
The economic contagion in Latvia will be transmitted as both financial and economic contagion to the wealthier western countries that have large economic claims on Latvia and do trade with them.
Barry D. Wood | Posted 05.25.2011
Now the Greeks don't know what hit them and they're already wishing they still had their tattered drachmas. Why?
Reggie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the 2nd to last installment in my Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis series. After covering western and southern Europe, we are moving eastwa...
AP | ROMANS KOKSAROVS and GARY PEACH | Posted 05.25.2011
SKRUNDA, Latvia — Latvia sold a deserted town built around a Soviet-era radar station to a Russian investor who bid $3.1 million at an unusual a...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
RIGA, Latvia — Scientists investigating a large crater initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite said a closer analysis Monday revea...
Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
Total financial collapse, once a problem only for developing countries, has now come to Europe. The International Monetary Fund is imposing its "austerity measures" on the outer circle of the European Union.
The Independent | Independent | Posted 05.25.2011
A Swedish mobile phone operator acknowledged today it was behind an elaborate meteorite hoax in Latvia and pledged to reimburse the Baltic nation...
Max Keiser | Posted 05.25.2011
Latvia should not pay back its loans to Sweden says renowned economist Dr. Michael Hudson. I interviewed him after reading his piece; The Specter o...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Ten years ago, Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden reached the point where she could no longer witness the appalling conditions of children around the ...
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011
"I have to admit that I'm beginning to miss George W. Bush," is the way former Republican Senator "Chuck" Hagel responded when being asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer to assess the foreign policy record of the administration of Republican President John McCain.
Richard Brodsky | Posted 05.13.2012