Europe
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Brexit Backlash Against EU, Revolt Against Elites By Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers
26 June 2016 — CounterCurrents The globalized economy is not working for most people of the world. International trade agreements and new government structures like the European Union serve corporate power and put the people and planet aside to ensure profits continue to come first. They undermine democracy and national sovereignty, leaving people feeling more Continue reading
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What Next? Post-It Series #3 By S. Artesian
This “mess,” this eruption of history, also contains class struggle. So the workers of Northern England, of Wales, of that portion of the “United Kingdom” asset-stripped, beat down, abandoned, zombified by banks and property speculators didn’t miss the opportunity to tell the too-clever-by half Cameron to “sod off” with his prospects for a “greater Britain… Continue reading
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What Next? Post-It Series #2 By S. Artesian
Logical question, not that anything at all has been accomplished, but still…..the votes are in and Britain, temporarily, has voted to exit the European Union. Temporarily…not temporarily the exit stuff; but temporarily the “Britain” part, because Scotland and Northern Ireland voted remain. So it’s England and Wales, or soon will be. Cameron and Osborne and… Continue reading
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Putin Conspiracies, Obama Nonintervention Blamed for Brexit By Adam Johnson
The referendum results in favor of Britain leaving the European Union seemed to have caught most Western media off guard. Betting markets and the pundit class had heavily favored a vote to keep the UK in the EU, but at around midnight on the US East Coast, it became increasingly clear Britain would be supporting… Continue reading
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Video: Can the EU be Reformed from Within?
Prof. Neil Davidson presents the left argument for why Britain should leave the EU Continue reading
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Brexit, Neoliberalism and the Eurozone: What Is at Stake in the British Referendum By Takis Fotopoulos
The reason the elites are fighting so hard against Brexit is because they know that a victory for Brexit could set in motion a domino effect that could demolish the EU. Continue reading
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Video: Hollande Capitulates to EU Pressure on Labor Laws Risking His Own Presidency
Renaud Lambert of Le Monde Diplomatique says Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, came to France to endorse Hollande and his decree on restrictive labor reforms Continue reading
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Statewatch 10 June 2016: Statewatching Europe Conference, 25 June: Final programme
Workshops and discussions on the refugee crisis in the Med and in the EU; mass surveillance; the EU’s crisis of legitimacy and accountability; the policing of protest and criminalisation of communities; racism, xenophobia and the far right; strategies of resistance and the defence of civil liberties. Continue reading
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Another Tamriel is Possible: Brexit Proposals vs Solutions by Elliot Murphy
The mainstream Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe campaigns effectively reduce to a battle internal to the Tory party, and not much else can be gleaned from them with respect to the shortcomings and benefits of the EU, and so a broader perspective is needed at a time when recent Guardian/ICM polls are suggesting… Continue reading
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Statewatch: 3 June 2016 : STATEWATCHING EUROPE
3 June 2016 — Statewatch • E-mail: office@statewatch.org European conference marking Statewatch’s anniversary STATEWATCHING EUROPE Civil liberties, the state and the European Union 09.45 – 17:00, Saturday 25 June 2016 Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 ( map) For 25 years Statewatch has been working to publish and promote investigative journalism and critical Continue reading
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Little Ado About Something By S. Artesian
The big worry, apparently, for some socialists in the United Kingdom is that a majority of people in Great Britain might actually vote to leave this confederation of capitalists; this union of exploiters; this common market designed to flatten every particular impediment to the accumulation of capital. Continue reading
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EU Link Tax Update
On Wednesday the European Commission announced the results of their consultation on platforms where thousands of you gave your views on the link tax and proposed new copyright laws. We’ve been sifting through all of this for what it means for our campaign to save the link. Turns out there’s good news and there’s some… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 May 2016 (10/16)
27 May 2016 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/may/e-mail-gen-27-may.pdf European conference marking Statewatch’s 25th anniversary STATEWATCHING EUROPE Civil liberties, the state and the European Union 10:00 – 17:00, Saturday 25 June 2016 Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 Workshops and discussions on the refugee crisis in Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 9 May 2016 (08/16)
9 May 2016 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/may/e-mail-gen-9-5-16.pdf European conference marking Statewatch’s 25th anniversary STATEWATCHING EUROPE Civil liberties, the state and the European Union 10:00 – 17:00, Saturday 25 June 2016, London BOOK NOW Continue reading
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Best Reasons Ever For Brexit! By S. Artesian
19 April 2016 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor The Financial Times April 18, 2016 Fears over British EU referendum hold back hiring and investment -Uncertainty chills business -Top London Property hit -European groups delay plans Continue reading
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Fake Video Used in News Coverage of Brussels Terror Attacks
Brussels News media Dernière Heure at dhnet.be as well as La Libre reported on the terror attacks by providing a CC Camera Airport Surveillance Video of the terror attacks. The published video footage was fake as documented by a blog posting on Media Part. Continue reading
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Media Manipulation: More Fake Video Reports of the Brussels Terror Attacks
One of the first videos published by Belgium’s mainstream media, was, according to reports, from the CC security surveillance cameras at Brussels airport. The video report was released at 9.07am, one hour after the first bomb attack at the airport. Screen Shot 2016-03-23 at 17.17.57 One of the first videos published by Belgium’s mainstream media,… Continue reading
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Is the ISIS Behind the Brussels Attacks? Who is Behind the ISIS? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Dramatic loss of life in the terror attacks in Brussels: 34 killed and more than 180 wounded according to the latest reports. Prior to the conduct of a police investigation, in the hours following the attacks, the Western media went into overdrive, intimating without evidence that the Islamic State (ISIS) operating out of Raqqa, Northern… Continue reading
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Statewatch: Greece: NGO/volunteers helping refugees to be placed under state control (05/16)
22 February 2016 — Statewatch Statewatch monitoring the state and civil liberties: 8 February 2016 (05/16) NGOs and volunteers helping refugees in Greece to be placed under state control: View as pdf: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/feb/greece-state-control-ngos.pdf – only in the Soviet Union and under the STASI in East Germany were NGOs expected to hand over lists and personal Continue reading
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Statewatch: Looking for a new home: 7,000 JHA documents (04/16)
Our archive of 7,000+ paper documents on EU justice and home affairs policy needs a new home. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 