Europe
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The Wolf Report 27 June 2013: The Lost Art…
Everywhere. And everyone. Smartphones. Everybody’s staring at his or her smartphone. Some are staring at their smartphones, multi-multi-tasking I suppose. Or just showing off, as if one flat screen can’t possibly make him or her available enough to all those out there dying to connect… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 June 2013: EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE
27 June 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE 1. EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: For those that missed here are three three original leaks by Snowden:2. UK: SPYING ON THE EU: Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ’s secret cable trawl3. EU-USA-UK: DATA SURVEILLANCE: GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications Continue reading
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Biotechnology, Genetically Modified Crops and the Destruction of the Local Economy By Lesley Docksey
Will the biotech companies ever give up on trying to sell Europe their genetically modified crops? Their latest PR man is the UK’s Minister for the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Owen Paterson. His website (very bland and uninformative apart from his list of engagements) says he is “a passionate supporter… Continue reading
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JPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe By Stefan Steinberg
In a document released at the end of May, the American banking and investment giant JP Morgan Chase calls for the overturning of the bourgeois democratic constitutions established in a series of European countries after the Second World War and the installation of authoritarian regimes. Continue reading
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GMO and Monsanto: Glyphosate Weed Killer Found in Human Urine across Europe
People in 18 countries across Europe have been found to have traces of Monsanto’s weed killer glyphosate in their urine, show the results of tests commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe and released today Continue reading
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Luxembourg trial into 1980s terror bombings reveals involvement of German police, intelligence agents By Dietmar Henning
A trial is taking place in Luxembourg dealing with a series of terror bombings committed in the 1980s. Although the bombings implicate NATO troops and its top secret Stay Behind operation in terrorist activities, the trial has been largely ignored by the German and international media. Continue reading
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Alter-Summit in Athens: A pseudo-left response to growing social opposition in Europe By Christoph Dreier
Last weekend, approximately 200 European trade unions, political NGOs (non-governmental organizations), charity groups, and feminist, environmentalist and pseudo-left groupings organized a so-called Alter-Summit in Athens. The meeting endorsed the institutions of the European Union (EU), with which union bureaucracies have worked closely in negotiating and approving austerity policies since the outbreak of the European debt… Continue reading
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Alter Summit: A People’s Manifesto
The European oligarchy employs ever more authoritarian methods to prop up a failed neoliberal system – all this despite widespread protest and resistance. Democracy and peace are under threat. Discrimination, based on religion, racism, homophobia or sexism and nationalism are on the rise and the crisis is deepening daily. Continue reading
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Ireland and the Basque Country By James Petras
Many billions of Euros are being extracted from Europe’s vassal-debtor nations – Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland –and transferred to the creditor banks, financial speculators and swindlers located in the City of London, Wall Street, Geneva and Frankfort. Under what has been termed ‘austerity’ programs vast tributary payments are amassed by ruling Conservative and Social… Continue reading
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Sweden Rebellions Reveal Deepening Racial and Class Divisions By Abayomi Azikiwe
The unrest began when a nearly 70-year-old Portuguese immigrant died in Husby as a result of police actions. The official story was that the senior citizen had welded a machete at officers, however, other sources from the community said that it was not a machete but a knife and that no one had been held… Continue reading
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A minimal program by S. Artesian
It’s not often that I read the articles on the New York Times Op-Ed page. And I can’t remember ever recommending any such article to anyone for any reason. But today, May 13, 2013, I read and I recommend “How Austerity Kills” by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basau. Continue reading
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Statewatch: Austerity, democracy and civil liberties
The Journal has been redesigned and each issue will now have a thematic focus. This issue focuses on the nexus between austerity, civil liberties and democracy. Continue reading
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The European Union and the McJihad in Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Interesting developments have been taking place in the European Union. Red flags are going up across the EU, with officials in the European Union and various EU member states expressing fears about their returning nationals fighting in Syria. Continue reading
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Video: Privatizing Europe
Nick Buxton: A massive European fire sale is one way finance is using the crisis to entrench neo-liberalism (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Study Debunking Austerity Research Sparks Wide Reaction
Bob Pollin (Co-Author of Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff): Deficit Hawks still defend conclusions of a study that contained spreadsheet errors and weighted selected countries in an inappropriate way; led to incorrect theory about public debt and growth (Inc. transcript). Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 17 April 2012 (05/13)
17 April 2013 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Dublin III: Council of the European Union 2. EU: Agency for Fundamental Rights report: Fundamental rights at the EU’s southern sea borders3. EU: European Commission: Proposal for a Regulation for the surveillance of the external sea borders in the context of operational cooperation4. UK: Secret mission? UK “homeland security” Continue reading
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European Trade Unions and the Struggle for Public Services By Christoph Hermann
The public sector is a key battleground for a progressive trade union strategy and for an alternative to neoliberalism in Europe. On the one hand the existence of a public sector is a continuing example that a not for profit driven production of goods and services is not only possible in the 21st century –… Continue reading
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