Europe
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Statewatch News Online, 12 December 2018 (18/18)
13 December 2018 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2018/dec/email-dec.pdf Please DONATE to support our work ANALYSIS 1. Statewatch Analysis: ‘More police’ is not a synonym for ‘more security’ by Andreu Merino. STATEWATCH NEWS 1. Talk by Aidan White at the launch of Statewatch’s Library & Archive 2. IRELAND: High Court strikes down Ireland’s data Continue reading
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Brexit: Corbyn’s Cakeism; Norway Rejects “Norway”
So the odds now seem to favor May putting off the vote, and running to the EU Council meeting of December 13-14. If so, this means her fallback it to try to run out the clock so as to make the no deal risk even more imminent, and perhaps also to get the EU Council… Continue reading
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A Public Service Internet for Europe?
The French Government announced in October that the National Assembly and Army Ministry would no longer be relying on American digital companies for Internet search. They are in future going to be using the French and German developed Quant search system which doesn’t track its users’ personal data and doesn’t therefore expose users to the… Continue reading
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Kiev Regime – A Western Frankenstein Creation
Russian President Vladimir Putin put it succinctly when he recently warned that prospects for peace in Ukraine were negligible as long as the current authorities in Kiev remain in power. Worse, given a new rash of provocations by the Kiev regime, the entire region is being threatened with conflict, and even all-out war. Continue reading
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If US quits INF Treaty, Europe loses By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
The statement issued by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on December 4 regarding the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty following the meeting of the foreign ministers of the alliance in Brussels puts the seal on the US decision to withdraw from the pact. Continue reading
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Yet Another America’s Runaway Bacteria is getting Rampant in Europe By Jean Perier
In my previous articles I’ve touched upon the deadly weapons of tomorrow, those that reek of death and destruction for the mankind, developed in top-secret US laboratories. Previously, I’ve examined the mutated bacteria codenamed Cynthia, that was originally designed to consume hydrocarbon wastes but instead it started to consume human flesh. Even though there’s been… Continue reading
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How To Avoid A New War In Europe By Vladimir Kozin
There is a rather embarrassing negative perspective for maintaining rational military strategic parity between Russia and USA and Russia and NATO as a whole in the coming decades due to future tremendous expenditures of the USA for modernizing strategic and tactical nuclear forces that will require $ U.S. 1,2-1,7 trillion during next three decades for… Continue reading
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How the West eats its children By Thierry Meyssan
For Thierry Meyssan, by taking to the streets, the French have become the first Western population to take personal risks to oppose financial globalisation. Although they do not realise it, and still imagine that their problems are exclusively national, their enemy is the same force that crushed the region of the African Great Lakes and… Continue reading
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Italy, the EU, and the Fall of the Roman Empire By Alastair Crooke
The French Movement, the “Yellow Gilets” has been tirelessly demonstrating throughout France without a break since 17 November 2018. On 1 December, it organized its second national demonstration in Paris. Continue reading
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The Never-Ending Brexit
The Brexit agreement between the UK and the EU is a temporary arrangement that maintains much of the status quo and does not really provide a clear path forward. As it stands, it could lead to Prime Minister Theresa May’s fall, says Prof. Leo Panitch (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Strikes and demonstrations shake France By Alex Lantier
A growing wave of strikes and student demonstrations, coinciding with the “Yellow Vest” movement, is shaking the government of French president Emmanuel Macron. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 November 2018 (17/18)
26 November 2018 — Statewatch ANALYSES 1. Analysis: Decriminalising solidarity by promoting the regularisation of migrants by Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo (Osservatorio Solidarieta Carta di Milano 2. Viewpoint: Morocco: Wherever EU immigration policy rears its ugly head, violence and abuses follow by Yasha Maccanico Continue reading
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Anonymous blows lid off huge psyop in Europe and it’s funded by UK & US
Anonymous has published documents which it claims have unearthed a massive UK-led psyop to create a “large-scale information secret service” in Europe – all under the guise of countering “Russian propaganda.” Continue reading
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Why Britain will take the Brexit deal, in five charts By David P. Goldman
The UK’s Economic fundamentals are in some ways worse than Italy’s, and British spite for EU rules is not enough to risk ‘hard-Brexit’-fueled capital flight Continue reading
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Portugal: Convention gears up Left Bloc for year of critical fights By Dick Nichols
In 2019, European and legislative elections will take place in Portugal in a national political context different from any other in the European Union (EU), where austerity policy still prevails and the rise of the racist and xenophobic right seems unstoppable. Continue reading
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Secession from the European Union By Thierry Meyssan
For Thierry Meyssan, the way in which Germany and France are refusing the right of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union demonstrates the fact that the EU is not simply a straight-jacket – it also goes to show that the Europeans still care as little about their neighbours as they did during the… Continue reading
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The only answer to Brexit is the United Socialist States of Europe By Chris Marsden
Brexit is a fight over Britain’s geostrategic orientation and economic and political alliances, amid developing protectionism and trade war and an eruption of militarism. Every faction—whether pro- or anti-EU membership or urging some form of continued relations with the EU—is viciously opposed to the interests of the working class. Continue reading
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Labour MPs Should Vote Against Theresa May’s Brexit Deal. It Is a Poison Pill
Yves here. Due to the hour, I am running this Brexit post with less of introduction than I might otherwise. Recall that we flagged Shadow Brexit Minister Kier Starmer’s “No deal is a bluff” messaging as perhaps the talking point of the week or just astonishingly badly informed. Continue reading
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Brexit Agreement: A Deal Between German Manufacturing and UK Finance Sectors
As Britain’s Theresa May inches closer towards a final Brexit agreement, for leaving the European Union, behind the scenes it is not quite the compromise politicians and the media make it out to be, says economist John Weeks Continue reading
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Washington Going after the Dismemberment of the EU? By Grete Mautner
As evidenced by the actions of the sitting American president Donald Trump, the whole system of international relations is getting revamped by Washington, and the Western world is going to take a major hit in the process. Among the reasons why this is happening one can mention the failure of the Western world to satisfy… Continue reading