Europe
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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
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European Parliament Elections Results Country by Country
Across Europe political parties opposed to globalisation, unaccountable elites, uncontrolled immigration and fascism have won several seats in the European parliament, and are poised to win further success in national elections, heralding a victory for what the liberal establishment and money serving media (MSM) tools of the globalist elite term ‘right wing’ Continue reading
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Joe Higgins, “the Best Fighter Money Can’t Buy,” Elected as MEP
“This is a roar of opposition by ordinary people in Dublin to the savage policies of the Fianna Fáil-Green Party government in making working people and the unemployed pay for a crisis caused by speculators, by big developers, and by big bankers, facilitated by Fianna Fáil.” — Joe Higgins Continue reading
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Guillaume Andreux and Charlotte Pello, “Ken Loach: ‘Make the Interests of Ordinary People Come First’”
Hundreds of thousands of people are now abandoning the old way of doing politics, tired of the establishment that has caused the current social situation. If we don’t take advantage of this moment, we may have to wait another 15 to 20 years before finding a new political opportunity. That’s why I think the NPA… Continue reading
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Nebojsha VUKOVIC (Serbia) NATO: slaughter of civilians and drugs
While NATO exists, there will exist such parallel stories: the one about the alliance’s humanitarian mission, the other (which is less frequent) about death and destruction NATO is guilty of. Continue reading
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United Europe Represses the Right to Protest Against NATO By Ivan Drury
On April 4th the leaders of the NATO member countries met on the French-German border in Strasbourg France for the 60th anniversary of NATO. A major demonstration was organized to oppose this meeting, the occupation of Afghanistan, and to call for the dismantling of NATO. Continue reading
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Serb Demonization as Propaganda Coup By Edward S. Herman
With Yugoslavia no longer useful as an ally after the fall of the Soviet Union, and actually an obstacle as an independent state with a still social democratic bent, the NATO powers aimed at its dismantlement, and they actively supported the secession of Slovenia, Croatia, the Bosnian Muslims, and the Kosovo Albanians. Continue reading
