Europe
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Hillary Clinton: Thwarting “Re-Sovietization” or Imposing Americanization? By Boris Volkhonsky
As reported by the Financial Times, on Thursday, hours before meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a news conference that the US is to prevent Russia from integrating more closely with its neighbors in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Continue reading
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Released: WikiLeaks cash blockade ‘ordered’ by American ‘hard-right’
WikiLeaks has released European Commission documents which allegedly show ‘hard-right US politicians’ orchestrated an ‘extrajudicial’ banking blockade against the whistle-blowing site. Continue reading
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Released: WikiLeaks cash blockade 'ordered' by American 'hard-right'
WikiLeaks has released European Commission documents which allegedly show ‘hard-right US politicians’ orchestrated an ‘extrajudicial’ banking blockade against the whistle-blowing site. Continue reading
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The Death Agony of Anti-Imperialism, 2 Egypt, 1 By S. Artesian
The organization of landed property, of the landed estate, and of landed labor in Egypt was driven and determined by that which could not truly be appropriated as property—water. Water and the lack thereof, regulated, so to speak, the oscillations between scarcity and abundance. Water and the lack thereof imposed an approximate egalitarianism; a communalism… Continue reading
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Video: Austerity and Low Wages will Lead to Years of Recession
Engelbert Stockhammer: Europe has shown that cuts in public spending and lowering wages leads to deep stagnation Continue reading
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A World in Which Truth is a Dying Species by GAITHER STEWART
Hidden away somewhere within the labyrinth of the Pentagon there must be a top secret euphemism department engaged in the invention of the Orwellian surrogate words that have crept surreptitiously into the American English vocabulary and from there translated into many other languages. In my mind I see a unit of studiously serious executives, coffee… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS EVENTS NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2012
25 October 2012 — Housmans BooksNEWS1. Housmans Peace Diary 2013012 – A Tribute Continue reading
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20th October demo & Europe Against Austerity conference
Coalition of Resistance has produced thousands of No Cuts placards and a ‘demo special’ broadsheet which includes statements from Tony Benn, Len McCluskey from Unite, Frances O’Grady the new General Secretary of the TUC and Natalie Bennett the new Green Party leader. Continue reading
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Video: SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras on political and social situation facing Greece and Europe
Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece’s left party SYRIZA, visited the European Parliament as a guest of the United Left Group/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL), the coalition of radical left parliamentarians in the European Parliament to which SYRIZA is affiliated. At a press conference, Tsipras discussed the current economic, political and social situation facing Greece and the… Continue reading
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When Is A Terrorist No Longer A Terrorist? By Danny Schechter
When the Mujhadeen in Afghanistan were assassinating members of their government and the Russian troops dispatched to support it, they were, in Washington’s view, freedom fighters, even as their enemies branded them terrorists. When they turned against an Afghan government imposed by the United States or revolted against a US invasion, they were once again… Continue reading
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Video: Restructuring Europe – For Whom?
The structural reform now being discussed in Europe would mean an even more neoliberal agenda Continue reading
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Russian Position On Syria: Myths And Reality Russia By Alexander Yakovenko*
I consider it important to share with readers the basic elements of Russia’s real position on the situation in Syria. Unfortunately, public opinion has formed a distorted view of Russia’s approach to the current political crisis in the country with which we have long-standing bonds of friendship and whose fate is not a matter of… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: March 14, 2012: Western Demands For Syrian Regime Change Fuel Conflict: Russia
14 March 2012 — Stop NATO UN: Russia Calls For Probe Into NATO’s “Massive Bombings” In Libya Western Demands For Syrian Regime Change Fuel Conflict: Russia Caucasus, Central Asia: “Arab Spring” Brings Destabilization To Russia’s Borders U.S. Drone Strikes Kill At Least 16 In Pakistan No Missile Shield Deal Likely By NATO Summit: Russia CIA Chief, Continue reading
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One Year after Fukushima: Defining and Classifying a Disaster By Lucas W. Hickson
This coming week will mark the first anniversary of Fukushima’s multiple meltdown nuclear disaster. There is little data on how badly contaminated the now-abandoned area of forced evacuation is in the 20-kilometer (12-mile) zone around the Fukushima plant. The mainstream media has already begun trotting out assorted “experts” to assure anyone who might be still… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 3-10 March 2012: Africa / India-Pakistan / Arab Socialism / Russia-USA / Syria /
9 March 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Africa on the Brink of New Shocks 10.03.2012 | 11:33 | Alexander MEZYAEV The state powers of North Africa and the Middle East overtly routed, the process of destabilization in Nigeria and some other Africa South of Sahara countries moved a little away from the radar screen. But the Continue reading
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Zionism loves colonialism, Zionism is colonialism By William Bowles
I don’t know who Rafael Castro is but surely no relation of Fidel’s? In any case, I thought long and hard before posting this attempt at revising the traditional view of anti-semitism being the same as being anti-Israeli and it’s obvious why: it doesn’t work. Hauling out the ‘Holocaust’ every time Israel behaves like the… Continue reading
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Video: Austerity anger on Europe's streets
EuroNews: Widespread protests in Europe reflected the impact and pain of austerity measures around the European Union Continue reading
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