Europe
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Statewatch News 5 August 2022 Issue 13/22
Friday, 5 August 2022 — Statewatch News (Issue 13/22, also available as a PDF) Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring: Frontex: covert interrogations at the Spanish border with no legal guarantees EU criminal records database access extended for migrant ‘screening’ In-depth research to keep you informed Continue reading
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Serbian Leader Aleksandr Vučić Pushes for European Union Accession Despite Opposition Among Majority of Serbs
SERBIA IS ONE OF THE KEY BATTLEGROUND COUNTRIES IN THE NEW COLD WAR THAT IS BEING CAJOLED INTO THE WESTERN ORBIT. During the 1990s, the Clinton administration orchestated a regime change in Serbia targeting the socialist Slobodan Milošević, first by bombing and military attack, and then by sponsoring a “color revolution” and having Milošević arrested… Continue reading
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The nightmare of “Russian Europe”
Our society shows tremendous unity in relation to current news from the fields of special operations. The actions of the army, navy, and aerospace forces, as well as the alleged plans of the Russian political leadership, are supported both in general and in particular by the overwhelming majority of the population, even though these plans… Continue reading
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lllusions of Superiority. What’s Next?
In January 2013, President Xi Jinping gave a speech to the members of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. His speech gave insight into our world as it ‘is’, and secondly, though its analysis was firmly focused on the causes to the Soviet implosion, Xi’s exposition very clearly had wider meaning. Yes, it… Continue reading
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Europe: caught in a trap
The major economies are moving closer to recession, if they are not already there; and yet inflation rates continue to rise (for now). The latest surveys of business activity, called Purchasing Managers Indexes (PMIs), show that both the Euro area and the US are now in contraction territory (i.e. any level below 50). The composite… Continue reading
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Ukraine grain deal is a feel-good event. But road to peace is long and winding
The agreements signed in Istanbul on Friday regarding the export of grain out of Ukraine and Russia catch the headlines as a major development from the angle of global food security, which it surely is. Between around 22 million tonnes of grain from last year’s harvest now trapped inside Ukraine due to the war, and… Continue reading
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How The CIA Made Google
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups… Continue reading
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Why Nord Stream II Must Be Opened Immediately
Next winter Germany, and other European countries, will have an energy crisis. This crisis, we are told, is caused by the proxy war between the U.S. and Russia in Europe. They say that Russia has cut us off from its natural gas deliveries. That is a lie. Continue reading
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Three Other Writers With Thoughts On Ukraine
Today I will point to three other writers with current thoughts around the war in Ukraine. Continue reading
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Dumb Dogs
This week has not seen any great developments in the Ukraine, yet an increasingly bizarre situation is developing in the West. With things being what they are, this would be a great opportunity to take a sideways look at how western nations are reacting to Russia doing as it pleases. Continue reading
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Crashing a Continent
This week has seen the euro plummet against the dollar as well as the German government publishing pretty dire figures and with even worse prospects, affairs in Europe are bleak. This article will examine why this is and what can be expected from both East and West over coming months. Continue reading
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EU economies are down on their knees
On July 1 at the White House, US President Joe Biden made a startling disclosure that “the idea we’re going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term.” Continue reading
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Statewatch News 6 July (Issue 11/22)
Wednesday, 6 July 2022 — Statewatch News (Also available as a PDF Welcome to our latest edition, featuring: EU police forces authorized to transmit DNA and fingerprint data to the UK from 30 June Deportations: EU to push for new readmission agreements “using all levers and incentives available” EU: End game approaching for e-evidence negotiations, says French Presidency Continue reading
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Europe Wants War
Europe must prepare for the deluge that is coming its way, and all because NATO’s Lithuanian satrap thinks she is a Moses, who can hold apart two parts of sovereign Russia to support the world’s richest clown who has NATO’s Kiev gig. Continue reading
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Europe’s Third Attempt at Suicide and Generation Z+
Europe is a serial suicide. The first attempt began in Sarajevo in 1914 and finished in Versailles in 1919. The second began a generation later in Warsaw in 1939 and ended in Berlin in 1945. Having very nearly succeeded at the second attempt (it missed atomic bombs by mere months), Europe sobered up and slowed… Continue reading
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Lavrov gets it right by comparing European Union and NATO to Hitler’s old Axis
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on 06/24/2022 that the European Union and NATO appear to be carrying out a military coalition for a war against Russia. The statement was given in Baku in Azerbaijan during an interview. Continue reading
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US Prepares to Oust Erdoğan
After Recep Tayyip Erdoğan officially announced his intention to run in the upcoming 2023 presidential elections in Turkey, the current White House administration gave a clear signal to its Western “allies” to intensify the campaign against the current Turkish leader and prepare measures to oust him. Although there is no talk of a coup d’état… Continue reading
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Statewatch News 24 June 2022 Issue 10/22: Fortress Europe: 50,000 deaths; (No) border monitoring; Ireland ups support for Frontex
Friday, 24 June 2022 — Statewatch (Also available as as a PDF) Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter Welcome to our latest edition, featuring: Fortress Europe: nearly 50,000 deaths since 1993 Council guts plans for rights monitoring at borders Ireland ups support for Frontex deportations We also have reports on Europol’s limited efforts at increasing transparency, Continue reading
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Zugzwang*
Western self-destruction – a puzzle defying any unique causal explanation – continues. The examples where policy is pursued in apparent indifference to anything resembling rigorous reflection, has become so extreme as to provoke a former British military chief (and former head of NATO forces in Afghanistan), Lord Richards, to huff that the relationship between strategy… Continue reading
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West at inflection point in Ukraine war
Henry Kissinger predicted some three weeks ago that the Ukraine war was dangerously close to becoming a war against Russia. That was a prescient remark. The NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in a weekend interview told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper that in the alliance’s estimation, the Ukraine war could wage for years. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 