Europe
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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
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The US is attempting to organize a redistribution of the European energy market By Petr Lvov
Once the current and illegitimate authorities in Kiev, in their most insolent manner, ceased hiding the fact that they were being backed by the United States, they immediately began reneging on their payment obligations for Russian gas supplies. It became obvious that the motivation behind Washington’s provocation in the Ukrainian crisis, along with their EU… Continue reading
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Europe’s New Arc of Instability in the 21st Century By Michael Werbowski
But in this tumultuous year of 2014 (marking a hundred years since the start of the “Great War”, and two hundred years after the Congress of Vienna) global events as in the past, are again (and with a vengeance) re-shaping or determining the way the map of Europe might look like in the coming decades.The… Continue reading
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Russia to take necessary measures if NATO military potential comes closer to its borders – envoy
“It is known that in military affairs potentials, not intentions – which, as the latest events have shown, can change – and are taken into account. That is why if we see that new NATO arrangements regarding Russia are implemented in relevant actions of military construction and are manifested in shifting NATO’s military potential towards… Continue reading
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Biotech Companies Set to Be Given Legal Right in Decisions to Ban GM Crops in EU
A new GM law being discussed in Brussels this week could grant biotech companies, like Monsanto and Syngenta, unprecedented power over decisions on whether to ban genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe, according to Friends of the Earth Europe. Continue reading
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The No2EU electoral alliance in the UK: An enemy of the working class and socialism By Michael Barnes
No2EU seeks to exploit the impact of the global economic crisis and the EU’s hated austerity measures to direct growing opposition in the working class into a nationalist dead end. Continue reading
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Video: Thousands across Europe rally against EU policies
Thousands of activists took to the streets of Germany and Spain on Saturday to protest the EU’s policies as the union prepares for parliamentary elections at the end of May. Continue reading