A Look Back Through Pictures at the Once-Forgotten Young Women of the Bauhaus

Collusion, cut-outs and covert ops; the dangerous ambiguities on which intelligence agencies thrive

Both Barr’s letter and Mueller’s indictments make clear Russian intelligence services aimed to disrupt the 2016 election. Those intelligence operations against our democratic institutions, which persist, operate in similar ways to the aforementioned covert action. They are designed to support and advance Russia’s foreign-policy agenda while hiding the hand of the Russian government.

By approving Articles 11 and 13

the EU Parliament not only rubber stamped bad legislation, but also ignored the voices of millions of its own concerned constituents. The EU Parliament has sided with lobbyists, and ignored the needs of creators and Internet users. This Directive only further entrenches the largest platforms like Facebook and YouTube – the only ones with the resources to actually comply to these dramatic regulations. The ramifications of this decision will be felt for years to come.

Norway’s giant oil fund dives into renewables

“These actions by the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund are noticed and contribute to reducing the cost for renewables, whilst accelerating the global shift away from coal.”

1959 / 2019 - 60 Years of Resistance

A Show of More Than 130 Women Artists From California Is Bringing a Once Sidelined Group Into the Spotlight

The Jokhang fire six months on

Despite the seemingly clear evidence of the fire, the events of that evening quickly became contested, with a range of competing claims over the location of the fire and its effects on the Jokhang. Information about the incident was quickly suppressed by the Chinese authorities and has been restricted ever since, apparently in the hope that the official narrative would be adopted: that there was a fire, but it was quickly contained and that no lasting harm was caused to the site or any of the historical and cultural artefacts within.  In practice, the secrecy around the fire and its aftermath has served to sow further doubt.

Seven EU Countries Labeled ‘Tax Havens’ in Parliament Report

The MEPs found that seven of the EU’s 28 member states — Belgium, Cyprus, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta and The Netherlands — “display traits of a tax haven and facilitate aggressive tax planning.”

Following increased pressure by the Finnish Government for Portugal to ratify the revised treaty between the two countries, on April 30, 2018 the Finnish Parliament voted in favor of denouncing the Portugal-Finland tax treaty signed on April 27, 1970 (the Old Treaty). As a result the Old Treaty will be terminated effective as of January 1, 2019, in accordance with article 30.º of that treaty. If Portugal does not ratify the revised treaty by December 1, 2018, Finnish domestic legislation will apply, and private sector pensions sourced in Finland and paid to Portuguese residents will be subject to tax in Finland from January 1, 2019.

Dutch bank stocks, Austria's Raiffeisen fall on money laundering report

Shares in two Dutch banks and Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) fell on Tuesday after media reports about a money laundering network alleged to have channeled billions of euros from Russia.

The Troika Laundromat

Portuguese judge wants to sue who criticized his decisions

Neto de Moura made public with controversial arguments. The mind-set was exposed to a man who had attacked his wife with a nail because she was unfaithful. "The adultery of a woman is a very grave attack on the honor and dignity of the husband" and there are, as the judge stated, societies "in which the adulterous wife is stoned to death." For Neto de Moura, the aggression in question was not serious enough in this judgment, because "in the Bible we can read that the adulteress should be punished with death."