Europe
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The Gods of Money – German style By F. William Engdahl
The German banks played casino with Wall Street and now demand austerity from Greece Continue reading
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“The People of Greece Are Fighting for the Whole of Europe”: Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot Discuss Greece’s Economic Crisis and Popular Uprising
The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have approved a nearly $1 trillion package to stop Greece’s debt crisis from spilling beyond its borders into the rest of the eurozone. Stocks surged in Europe, Asia and the United States Monday after EU leaders agreed to a $960 billion package to contain Greece’s financial troubles.… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 29 April 2010: Statewatch Analysis: The right to protest: “Troublemakers” to be recorded on database and targeted
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. UK: Metropolitan Police and the killing of Blair Peach in 1979: 2. ITALY: COE: Committee on Torture concern at detention regime for terrorism suspects 3. EU: Council of the European Union:Justice and Home Affairs Council 4. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 23… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 20 April 2010 (07/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ The European Commission is about to adopt its Action Plan on the Stockholm Progamme: 1. European Commission: Action Plan on the Stockholm Programme: Statewatch Analysis: A bit more freedom and justice and a lot more security by Tony Bunyan: www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-95-stockholm-action-plan.pdf “The ‘harnessing of the digital tsunami’ as advocated by the EU Future… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 31 March 2010 (06/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EP: Surveillance of the sea external borders with the involvement of Frontex 2. MALTA: Grupp29: Stop the criminalisation of art Maltese authors and artists 3. EU: Council: rights to interpretation and to translation in criminal proceedings 4. EU-ISRAEL: Should the EU subsidise Israeli… Continue reading
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Hedge funds deliberately undermining Euro – RT
Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic are looking closely at euro trades, following reports that leading US hedge funds have been in collusion to undermine the European currency through the crisis in Greece. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are probing euro-trading on financial markets. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 3 March 2010 (04/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. DUTCH PRISON FOR BELGIANS: Under the European Arrest Warrant 2. EU: “Fishing expeditions” for fingerprints leads to limits being imposed 3. EU Security Research: “NeoConOpticon” blog updated 4. UK: Joint Human Rights Committee: Annual Renewal of Control Orders 5. France/Algeria: Joint maritime surveillance… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 28 January 2010
28 January 2010 — Statewatch.org/ Support Statewatch’s work: Join Friends of Statewatch: www.statewatch.org/fosw.html 1. EU: The Schengen Information System (SIS) has “over half a million terminals” 2. EU: Draft Council Decision the surveillance of the sea external borders 3. EU: Readmission Agreements: Overview 4. UK: Supreme Court quashes law: UN Security Council Resolutions and the… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 15 January 2010
15 January 2010 — Statewatch.org/ Support Statewatch’s work: Join Friends of Statewatch: www.statewatch.org/fosw.html 1. EU: European Security Research and Innovation Forum: ESRIF Final Report 2. Italy: After the racist violence in Italy: a Migreurop mission visits the area 3. UK: House of Commons Justice Committee: Cutting crime: the case for justice reinvestment 4. EU: Background… Continue reading
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Victor Grossman, “SPD — Buridan’s Ass?”
It recalled ancient Greek tragedies. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), founded in the 19th Century, is the country’s oldest party, and now its saddest one. On September 27th it suffered its worst election defeat since 1897, losing six million former voters and ending up with only 23 percent of the vote. It had… Continue reading
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On the Ruins of the Berlin Wall: From the Past to the Future By Dmitriy BAKLIN
In terms of the purpose of its existence the Berlin Wall was a complete analog of the Great Chinese Wall whose construction began in the III century BC (475-221). The Chinese Wall was meant to fortify the frontiers of the Chinese civilization and to help unite the enormous Empire. The second wall – described as… Continue reading
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Alexander MEZYAEV Karadzic Trial Opened
The trial of President of the Serb Republic in Bosnia Radovan Karadzic started on October 26. Karadzic was not present he refused to attend, and this was due to serious reasons. Though the prosecution started putting the indictment together 14 years ago, it kept tailoring the document throughout the term. The most recent changes were… Continue reading
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Little hope for fair trial – Karadzic defense team
As the trial of former Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic gets underway at The Hague Tribunal, a member of Karadzic’s defense team, Goran Petronijevic, said in an interview with RT that he has little hope for a fair trial. Continue reading
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First Order of Business for post-Lisbon EU: Appoint War Criminal As President by James Corbett
As the Daily Mail reported earlier this week, one of the first orders of business for the post-Lisbon EU will be to appoint Tony Blair as the first President of the European Union. This move has been fully expected ever since Tony Blair’s highly suspect conversion to Catholocism two years ago. Of course, the many… Continue reading
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The German Federal Elections: Centre-Right Wins Majority, Social Democracy Suffers Crushing Defeat, The Left Receives a Boost By Ingo Schmidt
Conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was leading a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 2005, will also lead Germany’s next government; this time with support from the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). In an election that saw voter turn out at a record low of 70.8%, Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union… Continue reading
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THE ITALIAN CINEMA AND THE LEFT: On Rediscovering Roberto Rossellini-Filmmaker By Gaither Stewart
The story of Roberto Rossellini is a very Italian story, encompassing Italy in change from the Fascist period and, reaching beyond his lived life, until 2009. Though Europe is not Europe without Italy, Rossellini’s story, in the strictest sense, is a very Italian story; not an European story. For Italy, separated from the rest of… Continue reading
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Italy, Germany and Japan: Former World War II Axis Nations Repudiate Bans against “Preparing for War” By Rick Rozoff
A press report on August 10 revealed that the government of Italy is planning to modify if not dispense with its post-World War II constitutional limitations on conducting offensive military operations; that is, to reverse a 61-year ban on waging war. The news story, reminding readers that “Italy’s post-World War II constitution places stringent limits… Continue reading
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Pyotr ISKENDEROV: International brigandage under the guise of “humanitarian intervention”
Last week the western centres of power under the United States used their docile UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for their first attempt to officially legalize the so-called “humanitarian interventions”. The wily formula masks armed interventions in the internal affairs of independent states on the pretext of countering mass-scale human rights violations and war crimes, a… Continue reading
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Book Review: Alison Frank, “Towards a Great German Oil Empire”
Although the book’s title might seem to imply that Germany waged war in order to secure access to oil, the narrative itself does not suggest that this was the case. On the contrary, the thirst for oil seems to have been as much driven by military success as it was an inspiration for military engagement.… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 