Europe
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Greece: Syriza’s Challenge. Combating Post-Democracy By Binoy Kampmark
Across Europe, and more specifically, the euro-zone, a spectre did not so much haunt as totally materialise in the form of Alex Tsipras and the Syriza party. Greece woke up to a new party that had never seen office, coming within a few seats of governing in its own right. Any European party would have… Continue reading
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Paris Charlie: The “Shock Doctrine” par Excellence By Peter Koenig
On 12 January the French Parliament approved with almost unanimity – with one abstention only – the budget for France’s continuous and enlarged involvement in the new war on Iraq, a new war engagement led by Washington and supported by its vassals, UK, Canada, Australia and France. Aircraft carriers and troops were immediately mobilized, not… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 November 2014 (16/14): UK: NEW POWER TO GATHER IP ADDRESSES IS NOT LIMITED TO TERRORISM, IT WILL COVER ALL CRIME
28 November 2014 — Statewatch NEWShttp://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. UK: NEW POWER TO GATHER IP ADDRESSES IS NOT LIMITED TO TERRORISM, IT WILL COVER ALL CRIME2. Germany, Austria and Italy launch “trilateral control” to deal with “the increasing number of migrants”3. New Frontex Director Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 17 November 2014 (15/14)
17 November 2014 — Statewatch.org NEWS: http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. EU: Red Cross EU: Press release: Recommendations on international protection: Press release and report2. SPAIN: Statewatch Viewpoint: LIke imprisonment in Spain: An inhuman and unlawful punishment3. EU: Council of the European Union: DATA PROTECTION REGULATION: Council developing its negotiating positions: Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 October 2014 (14/14): Operation ‘Mos Maiorum’
26 October 2014 — Statewatch.org/ NEWShttp://www.statewatch.org/news/ JOINT POLICE OPERATION “MOS MAIORUM” 1. EU: Joint Operation “Mos Maiorum” (13-26 October 2014): Statewatch Summary of News/Web of coverage2. Joint Police Operation “Mos Maiorum”: Statewatch can confirm that the UK is taking part3. Joint Police Operation “Mos Maiorum”: Document from Italian Interior Ministry giving instructions on how to treat migrants Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 11 August 2014: Mass surveillance of communications in the EU: CJEU judgment and DRIPA 2014/RIPA 2000 in the UK
“The CJEU ruled that mass surveillance under the EU Data Retention Directive entails an interference with the fundamental rights of practically the entire European population and is a clear breach of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Continue reading
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The European Union in Crisis. The Geopolitics of Russia-EU Pipeline Corridors By Tony Cartalucci
Every day I go to the Red Crescent Society to treat children, women and men who are coming in with terrible injuries—head wounds and missing limbs, severe burns and shrapnel in their bodies. And we are running out of medicine. Continue reading
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U.S. law imposes itself on European territory By Jean-Claude Paye
European governments most hypocritically claim that the mandate given to the European Commission to negotiate a transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement with Washington falls within European law. Actually as with previous agreements such as Swift, data related to air passengers, and to tax evasion, the Commission has been told to suspend the application of… Continue reading
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European governments prepare for military suppression of popular opposition By Denis Krassnin
European governments are working together to prepare to militarily suppress social unrest. This effort—involving legal, technical, as well as military plans—is in an advanced stage of development, according to a report by Aureliana Sorrento that aired on June 20 on Germany’s Deutschlandfun k radio station . “In the framework of collaborative foreign and security policy,”… Continue reading
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The Glyphosate Toxicity Studies You’re Not Allowed to See
On opposite sides of the globe, pesticide regulators are refusing to release to the public the key industry studies on glyphosate that underpin regulatory authorizations and safety limits set for the herbicide. Continue reading
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A European Police Force for European ‘Civil Unrest?’ By Andrei Akulov
The European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) is a multinational initiative of six EU Member States – France, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Spain – established in 2006 by treaty with the aim to strengthen international crisis management capacities and contribute to the development of the Common Security and Defense Policy. Continue reading
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The “European Gendarmerie Force” Project: EU Creates Legal Framwork For “Military Use” against its Citizens By Andrej Hunko
The EU creates a legal framework for Europe-wide deployment of police and military units. At the same time, the EU Commission is working intensively on the creation of a single EU police unit as well as an EU public prosecutor. Continue reading
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Ukraine and the Rise of Euro-Fascism By Sergei Glazyev
Current events in Ukraine are guided by the evil spirit of fascism and Nazism, though it seemed to have dissipated long ago, after World War II. Seventy years after the war, the genie has escaped from the bottle once again, posing a threat not merely in the form of the insignia and rhetoric of Hitler’s… Continue reading
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Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex
Today, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Financial Services Annex, which covers 50 countries and 68.2%1 of world trade in services. The US and the EU are the main proponents of the agreement, and the authors of most joint changes, which also covers cross-border data flow. In a… Continue reading
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The West Marches East By Andrew Gavin Marshall
After nearly a quarter-century of Western expansion – militarily, politically, economically – to Russia’s borders, Russia has had enough. But Ukraine was not the first instance in which Russia has been provoked by the West into a response that the West subsequently declared as an act of imperial “aggression.” In 2008, the small Caucasus nation… Continue reading
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Portugese Communist Party Central Committee Statement – May 27, 2014
The Central Committee of the PCP met on May 27, 2014, and assessed the results of the elections for the European Parliament as well as their political consequences; assessed the most relevant aspects of the country’s economic and social situation and the consequences of the Troika’s policies, the campaign of mystification surrounding the so-called “clean… Continue reading
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Greece: The Dilemmas of Democratic Socialism By James Petras
Greece is experiencing a triple crisis which has a profound impact on the economy, society and political system. The economy has experienced a deep, prolonged depression lasting six years and continuing. Continue reading
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‘US blocking gas settlement in Ukraine to prolong conflict’ By Neil Clark
Washington is making Ukraine stall on a gas settlement agreement with Russia to try and draw out the conflict, journalist and broadcaster Neil Clark told RT. Moscow offered Ukraine a 25 percent discount on gas, but Kiev insists this is not enough. Continue reading
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A Matter of Principle: The True Aims of the Terror War By Chris Floyd
The moral insanity of the Terror War continues to spawn more violence, more extremism, more repression, more injustice, and the total subversion of the “Western values,” all of which it is ostensibly designed to defend. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 10 June 2014: EU: When the state is complicit in hate
10 June 2014 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWShttp://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. EU: Council of the European Union: Foreign fighter and returnees from a counter-terrorism perspective2. COE: Parliamentary Assembly (PACE): ‘Crucial gaps’ in the legal framework on search and rescue in the Mediterranean 3. EU-INTERPOL-WEST AFRICA: Creating the West African Police Information System (WAPIS) Continue reading
The New Dark Age 