Europe
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Big Tech’s war on refugees and immigrants
Across the world, companies like Microsoft and Salesforce are helping ICE and Frontex lead their war against immigrants and refugees. Continue reading
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Statewatch launch Observatory as interoperable Justice and Home Affairs databases morph into a centralised Big Brother database
“The time to ring the alarms bells is not when Big Brother is in place but when there are the first signs of its construction.” (Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Director) Continue reading
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How Israel helped to revive Europe’s ugly ethnic nationalisms By Jonathan Cook
[P]aradoxically, the “western” state that most visibly bucked the trend towards civic nationalism in the post-war period was Israel. It stuck rigidly with a political model of ethnic nationalism that had just been discredited in Europe. Today Israel embodies a political alternative to civic nationalism – one that is slowly and increasingly helping to rehabilitate… Continue reading
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Trump, NATO and ‘Russian aggression’ By Pepe Escobar
The US President’s blitzkrieg at the Brussels summit, calling NATO obsolete and for member states to boost spending to defend themselves is correct, although maybe aimed at more weapons deals; meanwhile, the global balance of power is shifting Continue reading
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NATO Shields U.S. From Its Military Adventures
It is the U.S. that needs NATO, which allows the US to bypass the UN Security Council and engage in military adventures abroad, while keeping a safe distance across the Atlantic, says Eirik Vold of the Red Party of Norway (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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The Refugee Crisis and the Mediterranean Sea – The Largest Graveyard in Modern History By Peter Koenig
In June 2018 alone, more than 500 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Their boats were refused access to land in either Malta, or Italy. They were force-driven back by gun-boats to the North African shores they came from, mostly Libya, but many boats capsized and countless refugees didn’t make it. Continue reading
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EU Copyright Law Rejected!
We did it! Today, the European Parliament voted to reject the proposed copyright proposal, which includes the dangerous Link Tax and Censorship Machine provisions. Continue reading
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Video: The Circuit of Death in the “Enlarged Mediterranean” By Manlio Dinucci
The politico-media projectors, focussed as they are on the migratory flow from South to North across the Mediterranean, are leaving other Mediterranean flows in the dark – those moving from North to South, comprised of military forces and weapons. Perhaps we should say the “Enlarged Mediterranean”, an area which, in the framework of USA /… Continue reading
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Video: The Circuit of Death in the “Enlarged Mediterranean” By Manlio Dinucci
The politico-media projectors, focussed as they are on the migratory flow from South to North across the Mediterranean, are leaving other Mediterranean flows in the dark – those moving from North to South, comprised of military forces and weapons. Perhaps we should say the “Enlarged Mediterranean”, an area which, in the framework of USA /… Continue reading
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IRR News (8 – 21 June 2018)
21 June 2018 — Institute of Race Relations Weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice This week the Guardian published The List of 34,361 known deaths at the EU’s borders since 1993, which includes three teenage Eritrean asylum seekers, who came from the migrant camp in Calais to the UK, who have committed suicide here in the past seven… Continue reading
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Brexit crisis intensifies as “Remain” Tories reject bogus compromise on parliament having “meaningful vote” By Chris Marsden
May is beholden to her hard-Brexit wing, led by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson , and Jacob-Rees Mogg. But even a small rebellion by Remain Tories would endanger her minority government reliant on the votes of 10 Democratic Unionist Party MPs. Therefore, the first day of voting on Tuesday concerning 15 amendments to the Withdrawal Bill… Continue reading
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EU plans to include fingerprints in identity cards are unjustified and unnecessary
The European Commission has published a proposal calling for the mandatory inclusion of biometrics (two fingerprints and a facial image) in all EU Member States’ identity cards. The demands to include fingerprints are an unnecessary and unjustified infringement on the right to privacy of almost 85% of EU citizens, as explained in a new analysis… Continue reading
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Your favourite websites CENSORED!
URGENT: The European Union is just weeks from passing a law that would destroy the best things about the Internet as we know it. As a result of lobbying by big corporate publishers, the European Commission is proposing to force websites to pay a tax to link to news content and use censorship machines to… Continue reading
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Stand up against censoring copyright laws!
The message is clear: The Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive is a broken disastrous proposal. It contains a plan for licensing fees for sharing news links which would result in weakening the foundation of the Web, a loss of media diversity and harm acess to information across Europe. Continue reading
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Agrochemicals and Institutional Corruption: Pleading with the Slave Master Will Not Set You Free By Colin Todhunter
Environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans and Health Commissioner Vytenis Andruikaitis. As set out below, she asks these top officials some very pertinent questions about the EU’s collusion with the agrochemical corporations. Continue reading
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A massive win for the bees
The EU voted for a near-complete ban on three neonics — pesticides that pose a deadly risk to bees and other pollinators. And it’s your actions and the work of our partners across Europe that made this happen. Continue reading
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EU Bans Neonics!
I’m writing quickly to let you know some breaking news: WE WON! The EU neonics ban just passed. Continue reading
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Pseudo-left parties promote US-French-British bombing of Syria By Will Morrow
A number of political parties that call themselves socialist proved they are nothing of the sort by lending support to Friday night’s illegal US, French and British bombing of Syria. Continue reading
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This is how you stop the Link Tax
Axel Voss MEP is determined to push through the legislation that his lobbyist friends have asked for, destroying our ability to link to news, and to find information online. His latest suggestions include copyrighting facts, and making it impossible to share even your own stories for free. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 9 April 2018 (04/18)
9 April 2018 — Statewatch.org/ ANALYSES. 1. Analysis: Suspicion files: German police databases on political activists by Matthias Monroy 2. Briefing: Another step towards ending EU law-making through secret trilogue meetings by Tony Bunyan Continue reading
The New Dark Age 