Europe
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Sanctions on Russia’s Energy Sector: Shale Gas ‘Fracking’ Will Invade Europe? By Timothy Alexander Guzman
Fracking will be “good for our country,” was a statement made by British Prime Minister David Cameron at a recent Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague according to the UK based news agency The Guardian. Cameron believes that the fracking industry will have the public’s support since reliance on Russia’s energy sources will be halted… Continue reading
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Statewatch 27 March 2014: Two new Analyses exposing secrecy in the EU
– The Commission has failed to implement the Lisbon Treaty to ensure that all legislative documents are made public as they are produced – this means that 60% of Council documents relating to legislative decision-making are made public after “the final adoption” of measures Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 24 March 2014 (05/14): Borders, deaths and resistance
24 March 2014 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWShttp://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. STATEWATCH: New issue of Journal: Borders, deaths and resistance2. EU: European Parliament: Strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence3. FINLAND: SMART BORDERS4. UK: Jimmy Mubenga: G4S guards face plane death charges Continue reading
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The Ukraine Crisis and Vladimir Putin: A New Financial System Free from Wall Street and the City of London? By Umberto Pascali
It is Putin, the first leader who resisted and defeated the strategy of world domination, who is enjoying the enthusiastic support of his people and the growing admiration of the world. The well financed media and politicians do not want to hear this, but this is the reality. Without exaggeration, one can compare this resistance… Continue reading
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Ukraine and the “Americanization of the European Project”: Towards a New Iron Curtain To Fall on the EU?
When, in November 2013, Russia asked the EU for tripartite negotiations on the Ukraine’s free trade agreements with its two neighbours in order to find areas of common ground for all parties directly concerned (1), what was at stake was stability, integrity and independence for the Ukraine and that it should remain as the natural… Continue reading
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Ukraine: Why did Europe choose the chaff over the wheat? By Patrick L Young
Engagement in Ukraine by the European Parliament has been clearly apparent in recent years. Alas the transcripts provide an unfortunate reminder that the size of the EU apparatus has ultimately fed an incompetent blob as opposed to producing rational decisions. An obsession with expansion at all costs of the EU sphere of influence has dominated… Continue reading
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Economy as a weapon By Manlio Dinucci
The heavy debt of Ukraine is a catastrophe for the European Union, which will have to take it on at least partially, but it is a boon to Washington: Kiev will be forced to comply with all the IMF demands and to privatize what can still be privatized, for the greater good of corporations. Continue reading
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Obama’s Ukrainian Power Grab, Sanctions and the Boomerang Effect By Prof. James Petras
In the biggest power grab since George Bush seized Eastern Europe and converted it into a NATO bastion confronting Russia, the Obama regime, together with the EU, financed and organized a violent putsch in the Ukraine which established a puppet regime in Kiev. Continue reading
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Snowden: NSA pressured EU into creating ‘European bazaar’ of spy networks
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden answered questions before the European Parliament on Friday, saying that the United States spy agency pressures its allies to take steps towards further enabling widespread and indiscriminate surveillance. Continue reading
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Phone Wrecks: The Secret Agenda of Ashton and Nuland Revealed By Wayne Madsen
Two war-mongering women who represent the West’s foreign policy apparatus, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland and EU official and onetime British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament activist Catherine Ashton, have seen their secret agenda for Ukraine revealed as a result of leaked phone conversations. Continue reading
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What purpose could mass surveillance in the EU possibly serve?
The European Parliament commissioned a report on the mass surveillance programs implemented in the European Union. The document lays down the data available regarding five member States (France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Sweden) and ponders about their impact on the economic system. Continue reading
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Lighting the Fires for Chaos in Ukraine By Bruce Gagnon
Two of the first things that happened following the US led coup d’etat in Ukraine was the “new government” declaring that the Russian language would be outlawed in the country (which has millions of Russians in it) and that the ban on Nazi symbols and ideology would be lifted. It cannot be said often enough… Continue reading
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Ukraine: “Go West, Young Man” By Jeffrey Sommers & Michael Hudson
“Let them loot.” That is the demand of the West when its NGO subsidiaries firebomb government buildings, murder policemen and loot the arms depots of military forts. Kiev is the equivalent of Kosovo as a Slavic city-of-origin. Are we seeing a replay? Continue reading
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Russia, Europe, and the Geopolitics of Energy By Eric Draitser
Russia’s dominant position in the European energy market solidifies Moscow as an integral part of the West’s future, forcing Washington and its allies to engage with their eastern rival. Moreover, it is this precisely this necessary engagement that grows Russia’s influence both in Europe and around the world – influence which necessitates the continued Russophobic… Continue reading
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In the name of “peace”, the European Union readies for war By Jean Shaoul
A series of European Union (EU) discussion papers and meetings have made it clear that the European powers are pushing for a more assertive militarist policy. The unfolding of this aggressive imperialist foreign policy takes place amid concerns that these powers are, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, losing influence in the scramble… Continue reading
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European Parliament adopts irrelevant resolution on Ukraine
They recognize the putchist “government” and self-nominated “Supreme Rada” in Kiev as the legitimate central authorities in Ukraine. They call to enforce “targeted sanctions against those responsible for violence” despite the fact that the leaders of the principle initiators of violent clashes in Kiev (Pravyi Sector) are now heading the putchist “Ministry of Defense”. Continue reading
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Looks Like US Played Hardball in the Ukraine…and Against the EU
In parsing the circumstances of Yanukovich’s downfall, it is interesting to look for the machinations of Victoria Nuland, the State Department neo-con (wife of Robert Kagan) who was apparently given a free hand in matters Ukrainian by President Obama. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 February 2014 (04/14)
18 February 2014 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org Thanks to all those who made a generous donation last month. It would be really appreciated if other Statewatchers could make a contribution this month. Kind regards, Tony Bunyan Continue reading
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Snowden’s lawyer: ‘Lawyers targeted in ‘democratic countries’ on the basis of who they represent’
Questions must be raised about the integrity of a judicial system that allows attorneys working on someone’s case to be harassed and intimidated on the basis of whom they represent, Jesselyn Radack, Snowden’s lawyer, told RT. Continue reading
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