Alter-Summit in Athens: A pseudo-left response to growing social opposition in Europe By Christoph Dreier

11 June 2013 — WSWS

Last weekend, approximately 200 European trade unions, political NGOs (non-governmental organizations), charity groups, and feminist, environmentalist and pseudo-left groupings organized a so-called Alter-Summit in Athens. The meeting endorsed the institutions of the European Union (EU), with which union bureaucracies have worked closely in negotiating and approving austerity policies since the outbreak of the European debt crisis.

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Bradley Manning Newslinks 11 June 2013

11 June 2013 — williambowles.info

 

Could Bradley Manning help Edward Snowden win political asylum?

Washington Post (blog)

Right, A November photo shows Bradley E. Manning being escorted from a hearing at Fort Meade, Md. (Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras/Guardian via Reuters; Mark Wilson/Getty Images). Edward Snowden, the now-famous leaker of top-secret NSA programs, …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/10/could-bradley-manning-help-edward-snowden-win-political-asylum/

 

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