Tag: European Union

The Onward March of European Nationalism

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks in Rome with Giorgia Meloni, president of the Italian Fratelli d’Italia party, on Friday. At the meeting, the two politicians discussed the situation of the European anti-globalist right and the growing threat to Europe and the European peoples of migration, Orbán’s press secretary Bertalan told national news agency MTI on Saturday.

The Cost of the Afghan War to Workers and Taxpayers

Brown University’s Costs of War Project estimates that the US has spent some $2.26 trillion on the war in Afghanistan over the past two decades. More than 100,000 Afghan civilians, tens of thousands of Afghan security forces personnel and Taliban fighters, about 3,500 US and NATO troops and 4,000+ Western mercenaries were killed in that time, with hundreds of thousands more injured, and millions becoming refugees.