James Kanter

James Kanter is co-founder and editor EU Scream. For 12 years he was an EU Correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times based in Paris and Brussels.  

92 Published Articles

How to Take On Elon Musk
Israel-Hamas | Elon Musk | Toxic Twitter | Imran Ahmed | Center for Countering Digital Hate | Censorship industrial complex | Strategic litigation | Vermin | TikTok | Thierry Breton | Digital Services Act | APIs | Jo Cox
Eurowhiteness and a Far-Right EU
Elections 2024 | Opposition | Peter Mair | Le Pen | Meloni | Hans Kundnani | Populism | European spirit | Mehreen Khan | Progressive Islamophobia | Manfred Weber | Orbán & Merkel | Euroscepticism | German Greens | Paul Gilroy
How Eurowhiteness Shapes the EU
Hans Kundnani | Mehreen Khan | Treaty of Rome | József Böröcz | 1989 | Robert Schuman | Algeria | Frits Bolkestein | Charlemagne | Charles Michel | Charles Martel | Coudenhove-Kalergi | Srebrenica | Eurafrica
Polish State Media Gone Rogue
Trolling | Spyware | Dorota Bawołek | Stacja Bruksela | Donald Tusk | Smolensk | Shooting targets | TVP | Midday briefing in Brussels | Brexit and Polexit | SLAPPs | European Media Freedom Act | European Broadcasting Union
The Assault on NGOs
Thomas Davies | NGOs through history | Young Europe | League of Nations | Cold War | Anti-globalisation | Viktor Orbán | Carlotta Besozzi | Věra Jourová | Foreign agents laws | Loyalty tests | MEPs and Islamophobia | Femyso
Corruption in the Family
Qatargate | Socialists at the European Parliament | Lara Wolters | Manon Aubry | Gaslighting | Vindication | Jail and compassion | Truth to power | Due diligence | Malaysia | Bahrain | Philippines | Boskalis | Conservatives bullying NGOs
Mars Returns
David Rowe | A flying bullet | Ariana Reines | Raimundas Malasauskas | Ukraine's sacrifice | Leopards | Liberal Democracy | Violence | Immanual Kant | Robert Kagan | 2024 | Mars & Venus | Nationalist democracy | Long vs short war | EU accession
Ethics After Qatargate
Qatar scandal | Blame game | Alberto Alemanno | Foreign interference | NGOs | Bad apples | Roberta Metsola | Ursula von der Leyen | Independent oversight of ethics | Party hacks | Quantum leap
Bad Karma
Rana Ayyub | Yoga | Incredible India | Online violence | Hindu Nationalism | RSS | Narendra Modi | The Gujarat Violence | Nero | Von der Leyen | Bezos in India | Russia | Wilful indifference | Agnes Jongerius | Labour standards | Visas | Promises,...
The Decolonisers
Josep Borrell and the jungle | Dylan Mathews | Shada Islam | EU indifference | Ukraine | Double standards | Degan Ali | Pakistan | Climate reparations | Robtel Pailey | The white gaze of development | Building resilience | Power | Fear about funding
How Europe Helped Normalise Giorgia Meloni
Praising Mussolini | Lauding Putin | Russian influence | Airbrushing Meloni | European Conservatives and Reformists | Trumpists | Berlusconi's heritage | Vox and ultraconservatives | The Fiamme Tricolore | Deviance | Ethnic substitution | Eroding ...
Model Minority Myths
Stereotypes | Invisible minority | Little banana | Kiffe Ta Race | Waiting for Europe | Brice Hortefeux | Mixed couples | Attacks on Asians after Covid | Importing wokism | Pap Ndiaye | Meritocracy
Bianca's Story Revisited
Backsliding on abortion | Bianca’s story | Religion and medicine in Romania | Ultraconservatives and Austrian democracy | Croatian hospitals | Waiting periods in Germany | Criminalisation persists | Helena Dalli on equal protection | Macron and th...
Bonjour, Vladimir
Emmanuel Macron | Guy Lagache | Engagement and appeasement | Putin and ice hockey | Ukraine and Nato | All is not lost | Putin's lies | WWI | Boris Johnson | Les Anglo-Saxons | Oil and gas | Marie-Antoinette
To Kyiv and Back
Weapons and helmets | Army or militia | Lying to friends and family | War and sobriety | Trumpists and anti-vaxxers | Filtering Russian spies | Bags on heads in the basement | Praying with guns | Under fire in Kyiv | Drones and trenches
In the Line of Fire
Georgian Legion | Kalashnikovs at the gym | Snoring soldiers | Coloured tape | Fighting for values | Field medic | "I think I'm ready" | "Ready for the worst" | Lviv vs Kyiv | Families underground | Bunkers
Foreign Fighter Diaries
Into Ukraine | Leaving family | Boots and a Kalashnikov | Air raids and sleeplessness | The unit gets a nurse | Night patrol | Urban fortifications | Thermal imaging | Donated drones
Eurafrique
White fear | Postponed migration promises | Macron's civilisational trope | Michel's clumsy counting | Vaccine ideology | A guinea pig for clean energy | Carbon shocks | Debt solutions | Europe vs China | Lethal aid | Wagner Group | Brexit and the...
European Shibboleths
Mehreen Khan and a cast of shibboleths | Gildeadites and Ephraimites | Europe is diverse | Europe has been too naïve | Europe is green | Europe isn’t protectionist | Europe is humane to migrants | Europe has defeated populism | Defining separatism