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The All-Seeing Eye of Big Brother By Nikolai MALISHEVSKI
Europe and the US are being rocked by scandals related to the creation of a system of total surveillance and control over the population of the planet. In the middle of June, human rights defenders from the American Civil Liberties Union sued the US government and US intelligence agencies for wiretapping. At the same time,… Continue reading
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The Wolf Report 27 June 2013: The Lost Art…
Everywhere. And everyone. Smartphones. Everybody’s staring at his or her smartphone. Some are staring at their smartphones, multi-multi-tasking I suppose. Or just showing off, as if one flat screen can’t possibly make him or her available enough to all those out there dying to connect… Continue reading
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Top Secret: NSA Leaked files
EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: here are three three original leaks by Edward Snowden Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 June 2013: EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE
27 June 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE 1. EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: For those that missed here are three three original leaks by Snowden:2. UK: SPYING ON THE EU: Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ’s secret cable trawl3. EU-USA-UK: DATA SURVEILLANCE: GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications Continue reading
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Biotechnology, Genetically Modified Crops and the Destruction of the Local Economy By Lesley Docksey
Will the biotech companies ever give up on trying to sell Europe their genetically modified crops? Their latest PR man is the UK’s Minister for the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Owen Paterson. His website (very bland and uninformative apart from his list of engagements) says he is “a passionate supporter… Continue reading
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Intelsat suspends satellite services to Iranian TV channels
Communications satellite services provider Intelsat has announced the suspension of its services to Iranian channels, especially the English-language news network, Press TV, as the West’s campaign against free speech intensifies Continue reading
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JPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe By Stefan Steinberg
In a document released at the end of May, the American banking and investment giant JP Morgan Chase calls for the overturning of the bourgeois democratic constitutions established in a series of European countries after the Second World War and the installation of authoritarian regimes. Continue reading
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GMO and Monsanto Roundup: Glyphosate Weedkiller in our Food and Water? By Colin Todhunter
Friends of the Earth Europe commissioned laboratory tests on urine samples from volunteers in 18 countries across Europe and found that on average 44 percent of samples contained glyphosate. The proportion of positive samples varied between countries, with Malta, Germany, the UK and Poland having the most positive tests, and lower levels detected in Macedonia… Continue reading
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GMO and Monsanto: Glyphosate Weed Killer Found in Human Urine across Europe
People in 18 countries across Europe have been found to have traces of Monsanto’s weed killer glyphosate in their urine, show the results of tests commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe and released today Continue reading
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Alter-Summit in Athens: A pseudo-left response to growing social opposition in Europe By Christoph Dreier
Last weekend, approximately 200 European trade unions, political NGOs (non-governmental organizations), charity groups, and feminist, environmentalist and pseudo-left groupings organized a so-called Alter-Summit in Athens. The meeting endorsed the institutions of the European Union (EU), with which union bureaucracies have worked closely in negotiating and approving austerity policies since the outbreak of the European debt… Continue reading
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Alter Summit: A People’s Manifesto
The European oligarchy employs ever more authoritarian methods to prop up a failed neoliberal system – all this despite widespread protest and resistance. Democracy and peace are under threat. Discrimination, based on religion, racism, homophobia or sexism and nationalism are on the rise and the crisis is deepening daily. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 7 June 2013: The Euro American blindness in the Middle East
7 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestine Becomes Member of the IFJIMEMC – Palestine became a member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) during the meeting in Dublin Castle, on June 6. Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate head, Abdul-Nasser An-Najjar, was elected as a member of the IFJ Executive Committee by 283 votes out… Continue reading
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Today’s World Environment Reflects Crisis Of Capitalist Civilization By Farooque Chowdhury
The state of today’s global environment reflects the contradiction between the ownership of the world resources by a miniscule group and billions of resource-producing, but resource-starved humans, the contradiction created by an ever accumulating economy, the contradiction between ever greedy capital owners and humanity in chains. Continue reading
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“The Monsanto Protection Plan”: Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe By F. William Engdahl
Before the world opens the champagne to celebrate the death of GMO and its paired herbicides such as Roundup, it is worthwhile to look more closely at what was officially said and what not. Continue reading
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The Geopolitics of Gas and the Syrian Crisis By Dmitry MININ
What has one of the most democratic countries of the Middle East, Syria, done to tick off some of its neighbors in the West, the fierce fighters for democracy? The irrationality and unscrupulousness of the approaches Western countries have taken to the Syrian crisis, when the same people who in Europe are considered terrorists are… Continue reading