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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (11/13): EU-USA: Data surveillance
25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EP Inquiry: Letter from Martin Schulz, MEP, President of the European Parliament to the Council Presidency2. GERMANY-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: ‘Key Partners’: The Secret Link Between Germany and the NSA3. Extract from the Minutes of the 4 July 2013 meeting of COREPER II: EU-US High Level expert group on security… Continue reading
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ICH 23 July 2013: Livni Squeals, Kerry Deals and the EU Picks Up the Tab
23 July 2013 — Information Clearing House War Against Iran, Iraq AND Syria? By Pepe Escobar Britain, the Netherlands and France, have just branded the organization that is fighting jihadis on the ground in Syria/Lebanon “terrorists”, while the jihadis themselves get away with it. So much for European ignorance/arrogance. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35629.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 16 July 2013
16 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettler Stabbed In JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli TV Channel 7 has reported on Tuesday at night [July 16, 2013] that an Israeli settler, 33, was moderately injured after being stabbed in Bab Al- Amoud area, in occupied East Jerusalem. … Continue reading
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Video: 'Earthquake' for Israel: EU To Halt Support For Illegal Settlements
Shir Hever: European Union announces restrictions for funding Israeli colonies; Israeli government in panic because every aspect of Israel’s economy and society could be affected by the EU decision Continue reading
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Video: ‘Earthquake’ for Israel: EU To Halt Support For Illegal Settlements
Shir Hever: European Union announces restrictions for funding Israeli colonies; Israeli government in panic because every aspect of Israel’s economy and society could be affected by the EU decision Continue reading
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The Sinister Monsanto Group: From ‘Agent Orange’ to Genetically Modified Corn
The Americans do not only spy on governments, authorities and private individuals across the world with the help of their secret services; they also understand how to push forward the global interests of their companies with full force. An impressive example of this is the agriculture giant Monsanto, the leading manufacturer of genetically modified seeds… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 7-13 July 2013: Snowden / Syria / Turkey-Israel / Egypt US-EU /Asia
13 July 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Pursuit of Edward Snowden 13.07.2013 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN Latin America responded to the Morales plane incident by rallying to Snowden’s side. Offers of asylum came from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia and Brazilian legislators called for Brazil to reverse its original denial of asylum and grant it… Continue reading
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The infrastructure of a police state emerges in Europe By Peter Schwarz
The right to privacy—a basic human right enshrined in the American and every European Constitution—and the associated guarantee of the confidentiality of the post and telecommunications are being ripped to shreds. The wiretaps are so obviously illegal that intelligence agencies in one country often delegate their activities to foreign partners in order to avoid overly… Continue reading
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US-EU Spy Scandal Challenges Transatlantic Trade Talks By Igor ALEXEEV
Snowden’s revelations have put a deep freeze on US-EU relations. Diplomats in Europe are searching for (and finding) bugs in their embassies. Influential politicians speak about this unprecedented betrayal of the transatlantic partnership. The popular German magazine SPIEGEL has published its bitter conclusion: «Berlin is a third-class ally». Can this super-scandal doom the trade talks… Continue reading
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The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe By Diana Johnstone
Certainly, the facts of NSA spying are significant. But many people suspected that something of the sort was going on. The refusal of France, Italy and Portugal to allow the private aircraft of the President of Bolivia to cross their airspace on the mere suspicion that Edward Snowden might be aboard is rather more astonishing. Continue reading
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‘It’s appropriate EU countries should have attempted to catch Snowden’
What Edward Snowden revealed concerns intelligence sharing between the European Union and America, the American and European intelligence agencies work “hand in glove,” John Laughland, from the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris, told RT. Continue reading
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Snowden’s Cry for Help Is a Cry for America By Pam Martens
In July 2002, less than a year after Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, Nancy Chang, then Senior Litigation Attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, published a prophetic and comprehensive book about the legislation titled: Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-terrorism Measures Threaten our Civil Liberties. Continue reading
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US-EU fallout: Eavesdropping on the free trade
“Snowden did ask to stay in Russia. However, when he found out Russia’s position on the matter and the associated conditions he decided not to stay in Russia,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. Snowden is still held up in a Moscow airport and has issued asylum bids to 15 countries, the spokesman added. Continue reading
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Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America
At least six European Union countries in addition to Britain have been colluding with the US over the mass harvesting of personal communications data, according to a former contractor to America’s National Security Agency, who said the public should not be “kept in the dark”. Continue reading
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