Europe
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Statewatch: States of Control the dark side of pandemic politics: Webinar 29 April
This Wednesday, our friends at the Transnational Institute will be hosting a webinar to examine the repressive measures taken by states across the globe to address the coronavirus pandemic. The event starts at 16:00 Central European Time this Wednesday, 29 April. Statewatch is co-sponsoring the event, for wprivacyhich you can register online here. Continue reading
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The Greek tragedy: Act Three
On Thursday night, EU leaders again failed to agree on how to provide proper fiscal support for hard-hit member states to cope with the health costs of the coronavirus pandemic and collapse of their economies from the lockdowns. Continue reading
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The euro’s corona crisis
This coming Thursday 23 April there is a video conference meeting of the EU leaders to discuss once again what to do about the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing lockdown of production across the area. In particular, there is the vexed question of how to help out those EU members states like Italy and Spain… Continue reading
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Life vs Profit: the real ‘war’ in times of coronavirus
The State needs people to be alive to construct the mythical social contract with them. But Capital is the actual deep state. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 10 April 2020 (06/20)
10 April 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/apr/email-10-4-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSES & BRIEFING 1. Italy renews Memorandum with Libya, as evidence of a secret Malta-Libya deal 2. Anti-migration cooperation between the EU, Italy and Libya: some truths surfaces 3. Briefing: Spain: Migrants’ rights must be guaranteed and put at the core of measures… Continue reading
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Coronavirus: The view from Germany
29 March 2020 — Youtube An open letter to the Chancellor of Germany Continue reading
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Covid19 yet to impact Europe’s overall mortality Year-to-date statistics show excess mortality lower than previous years
The official figures for 24 countries across Europe show, not only that overall mortality is not increasing, but – so far – it is actually well below recent averages. Continue reading
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Italy Calls General Strike: “Our Lives Are Worth More Than Your Profits”
Italy is the global epicenter of the pandemic, with more than 64,000 cases of infection and almost 7,000 deaths, half of which occurred in the last week. This is the result of both neoliberal austerity measures that defunded healthcare in Italy and the criminal negligence of the EU. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 March 2020 (04/20)
18 March 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/mar/email-18-3-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSIS 1. Frontex launches “game-changing” recruitment drive for standing corps of border guards Continue reading
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U.S. Army invades virus plagued Europe
In the midst of a staggering virus epidemic that has shut much of Europe down, the insane and arrogant United States is presently sending 30,000 Army troops throughout Europe for war games. Continue reading
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China’s Offers Experience in Europe’s Fight Against COVID-19
8 March 2020 — Telesur The World Health Organization stressed that international cooperation is crucial to managing the outbreak. At an extraordinary council on the COVID-19 epidemic held in Brussels on Friday, the European Union (EU) health ministers agreed to develop a coordinated approach to prevention and protection of people at risk, and establish coherent containment measures, including… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 February 2020 (03/20)
26 February 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/feb/email-26-2-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSES & VIEWPOINT 1. Analysis: Spain: Will the new ‘progressive’ government uphold freedom of expression? 2. Analysis: Fort Vert: Nature conservation as border regime in Calais by Hanna Rullman: 3. Viewpoint: The shadowy business of fear-mongers by Ana González-Páramo STATEWATCH NEWS 1. Refugee… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 17 February 2020 (02/20): No saving lives at sea
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has called on EU governments to limit the saving of lives at sea by Operation Sophia. A note sent to the member states’ permanent representatives in Brussels says the mission should prioritise the enforcement of a UN arms embargo on Libya, rather than monitoring migrant smuggling activities, and suggests… Continue reading
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Toxic residues through the back door
Pesticide corporations and trade partners pressured EU to allow banned substances in imported crops Continue reading
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The West Displays Its Insecurity Complex
The only complaint the U.S. allows is that the United States might not defend us enough, when the greater danger comes from being defended too much, writes Diana Johnstone on the Munich conference. Continue reading
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Operation Barbarossa II: Setting The Stage For War
I have written several times about the continuing NATO preparations for an attack on Russia, a second Operation Barbarossa, the code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941. Circumstances prompt me to write about it again, for as of the last week in January the Americans and their gang of lieutenant nations… Continue reading
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RAY McGOVERN: German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange
Truth has broken through for those confused about how a publisher ended up in a maximum security prison in London with a one-way extradition ticket to court in the U.S. and the rest of his life behind bars. Continue reading
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UK Came & Went, Leaving Europe in a Mess
As Great Britain returns to the uncertainties of the open sea, it leaves behind a European Union that is bureaucratically governed to serve the interests of financial capital, writes Diana Johnstone. Continue reading
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Trump’s EU Poodles – Germany, Britain And France – Obey His Order To Kill The Nuclear Deal With Iran
The European poodles who co-signed the nuclear deal with Iran – Britain, France and Germany (the EU3) – have been told by the Trump administration to kill the agreement. Today they started the process to do so. The other co-signers, Russia, China and Iran, continue to support the deal. Continue reading
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Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration
A bigger bang awaits us throughout the decade: the myriad declinations of the New Great Game in Eurasia, which pits the US against Russia, China and Iran, the three major nodes of Eurasia integration. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 