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Syria: Chemical Attack in Ghouta ‘an Accident Caused by Free Syrian Army’ By Gianluca Mezzofiore
The attack that killed over 200 people in the Damascus suburbs could be an accident caused by a riot control agent, and those responsible may be a faction of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and not the Assad regime, according to a chemical weapons specialist. Continue reading
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“Fictitious Enemies” and “Combat Scenarios”: The Pentagon and NATO Rehearse for War against Russia? By Rick Rozoff
Last month was a busy one for U.S.-NATO military exercises in the Baltic Sea. Three major multinational training exercises, including naval maneuvers, amphibious landings and preparation for deployment to Afghanistan, occurred in the region in June, in one case overlapping. Continue reading
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NATO War Council To Target Syria By Rick Rozoff
On Tuesday, June 26 Belgium time the North Atlantic Council, the highest governing body of the U.S.-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization military bloc, will take up the issue of Syria under provisions of its founding document that in the past ten and a half years have resulted in military deployments preparatory to and the subsequent… Continue reading
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Statewatch 11 May 2012: Support the “Call for an Open Europe”
“Access to documents in the EU is not a “gift” from on high to be packaged, sanitised and manipulated. It is a “right” which is fundamental in a democracy”: Tony Bunyan, Deirdre Curtin and Aidan White in Essays for an Open Europe Continue reading
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8 February 2012: Statewatch launches online historical archive of EU Justice and Home Affairs documents
Statewatch today launches a unique online archive of over 4,500 official documents (rising to over 6,500 by the end of 2012) that chart the development of EU justice and home affairs policy over three decades. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 22 December 2011
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: ECJ: Judgment: France’s appeal against the judgment of the General Court removing the PMOI the EU 2. UK: POLICE OFFICER ON JURY: ECHR: Police officer’s presence on jury made trial unfair 3. EU: EURO CRISIS: Statewatch Analysis: Draft Agreement on Reinforced Economic Union (REU Treaty) by Steve Peers Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 9 October 2011 (25/11)
Statewatch News Online, 9 October 2011 (25/11) Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org Migreurop monitoring of the Vincennes detention centre fire appeal EU: European Commission: Security features in travel documents: Belgium does not comply EU: FRONTEX REGULATION DECLARATIONS UK: Draft Enhanced Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 September 2011 (24/11)
28 September 2011 Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Statewatch Analysis: Court of Justice:The NS and ME Opinions -The Death of ‘Mutual Trust’? INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS: ’10 years after 9/11, Journalism in the Shadow of Terror Laws’ EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION: Letter to the European Commission signed by 34 NGOs including Statewatch Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 7 September 2011: UK: Internet censorship looms as government finds alternatives to flawed Digital Economy Act
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org STATEWATCH ANALYSES 1. Statewatch Analysis: UK: Internet censorhip looms as government finds alternatives to flawed Digital Economy Act 2. Statewatch Analysis: Using false documents against “Euro-anarchists”: the exchange of Anglo-German undercover police highlights controversial police operations 3. EU: New Statewatch Analysis: Implementing the “principle of availability”: The European Criminal Records Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 2 of 2: 13 July 2011 (19/11)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org ITALY: Statewatch Analysis: Italy: Series of defeats in court for the ‘security package’ UK: Still spooked – Greater emphasis on the Channel project in the revised Prevent strategy gives much cause for concern EU: Statewatch Analysis: ?The Dialogue for Migration, Mobility and Security with the Southern Mediterranean countries EU: Council Continue reading
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2010 Rosemary Award for Worst Open Government Performance Goes to Federal Chief Information Officers’ Council
National Security Archive cites CIO Council for “lifetime failure” To address crisis in government e-mail preservation Continue reading
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UK: Government will spy on every call and e-mail
GCHQ, the government’s eavesdropping centre, has already been given up to £1 billion to finance the first stage of the project. Hundreds of clandestine probes will be installed to monitor customers live on two of the country’s biggest internet and mobile phone providers – thought to be BT and Vodafone. BT has nearly 5m internet… Continue reading
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