Europe
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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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ColdType, March 2012
The cover story of this month’s biggest-ever issue returns to the Middle East where the world is being prepared for a replay of the just-ended war in Iraq. Our seven essays by writers in North America and Europe point out, among other things, that there seems to be a media blackout of the fact that… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: March 1, 2012: Air Force Chief: U.S. Prepared To Bomb Iran
1 March 2012 — Stop NATO News 2020 And Beyond: NATO Chief Meets With U.S. Elites In Washington Air Force Chief: U.S. Prepared To Bomb Iran 500 U.S. Military, Diplomatic Officials Discuss New European Strategy U.S. Navy Tests Electromagnetic Railgun Launcher Prototype NATO’s Mediterranean Surveillance, Interdiction Operation In Year 12 Mediterranean Dialogue: NATO Naval Group Ends Continue reading
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Video: Greeks Look to the Left for Solutions
Costas Lapavitsas: The left is gaining in popular support but have so far failed to present a coherent program Continue reading
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GR Week in Review: Anti-Iran Fear-Mongering, Wall Street Attack in Europe and Social Media Censorship
23 February, 2012 — Global Research WAR PLAN IRAN: Dispelling the Lies, Telling the Truth about Western Aggression in the Persian Gulf GR ONLINE NEWS READER – by Finian Cunningham, Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-03-16 GR ONLINE NEWS READER. The region is on a hair-trigger for a conflagration that would involve nuclear weapons and the Continue reading
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Palestine: Hackney PSC’s Catastrophe Club presents a film and discussion
Tuesday 28th February, 7 for 7.30 start: on “Defamation” (dir. <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Yoav Shamir, 2010, 93 mins) Plus: Q&A with <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Miri Weingarten This fascinating film looks at the political use of <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Holocaust memory and anti-semitism claims. In his exploration of modern Israeli life, the filmmaker travels the world in search of the most modern Continue reading
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Europe’s cheap imperialism: Libya’s Colonial War One Year Later By Konstantin Bogdanov
The uprising against the regime of Col. Muammar Gaddafi started in Libya one year ago, on February 15, 2011. France and Britain conducted the supporting military operation with great difficulty and much deeper involvement than they had planned, hoping initially for a quick colonial campaign. Continue reading
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Hungary: The gallows of capitalism By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
To call Hungary the gallows of capitalism is as right as calling it the gallows of human decency. Recently, the Hungarian Parliament legislated that homelessness is a criminal activity, meaning that those forced to live on the streets, through no fault of their own, can be thrown into a jail and be locked away. So… Continue reading
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Disaster Capitalism in Action in Europe (with Video) By Moira Dalgetty in Athens
Make no mistake: what took place in Greece on the 12th of February 2012 – the agreement by the Greek parliament to the wholesale sell-off of their country – is about something far bigger, and much more insidious and dangerous, than debt, the story that is being sold to the public across Europe. To demonise… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 6, 2012
6 February 2012 — Stop NATO Pentagon Chief: NATO Core Of Network Of Partnerships Across The Globe NATO Missile Radar In Turkey Will Be Run From German Air Base Russia To Build Defenses Against NATO Missile Threat U.S.-NATO Missile System: Russia May Boost Nuclear Potential Clinton: Series Of Joint U.S.-Bulgarian War Games This Year Munich: Continue reading
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The Truth Behind the Coming “Regime Change” in Syria By Shamus Cooke
After meeting again to decide Syria’s fate, the Arab League again decided to extend its “monitoring mission” in Syria. However, some Arab League nations under U.S. diplomatic control are clamoring for blood. These countries — virtual sock puppets of U.S. foreign policy — want to declare the Arab League monitoring mission “a failure,” so that… Continue reading
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U.S. THREAT TO ATTACK IRAN WITH NUKES IS “CRIMINAL” By Sherwood Ross
The U.S. today is threatening to attack Iran “under the completely bogus pretext” that it might have a nuclear weapon, a distinguished American international legal authority says. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 21, 2011
21 December 2011 — Stop NATO CSTO Warns U.S., NATO Over European Missile System Israel: U.S. Commander Finalizes Largest-Ever Interceptor Missile Drill NATO Doubles Georgian Troop Deployment To Afghanistan NATO Pushes Permanent Mission In Baltic Sea Hungary: U.S.-NATO Strategic Airlift Operation Logs 6,000 Flight Hours AFRICOM-Trained Djibouti Troops Arrive In Somalia Troops Out, U.S. Military Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 18, 2011
18 December 2011 — Stop NATO U.S.-NATO Missiles In Europe: Potential Threat To World Peace NATO System: U.S. Could Target Russia With THAAD Interceptor Missiles Raytheon Awarded $685.7 Million: New Interceptors For Taiwan New Defense Authorization Act Approves Arms For Georgia Post-Libya Wars: NATO/EUCOM Commander Inspects Warplane Crews In Germany Three Mistakes Will Defeat U.S. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 11-17 December 2011
17 December 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation European Union: From economic crisis to constitutional disaster17.12.2011 | 11:50 | Hannes HOFBAUER (Austria) The Brussels summit of December 2011 intended to solve a huge fiscal and budget (and in reality an economic) problem in the Euro-zone. It let to a political split within the EU-27 and risks Continue reading
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Video: Degredation of Democracy By Michael Hudson
Michael appears on Capital Account to discuss his two most recent articles, Democracy & Debt and Europe’s Transition from Social Democracy to Oligarchy. Continue reading
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Video: Public Dialogue Situations: The Left’s Responses to the Crisis in Europe and North America
With Leo Panitch, Stephanie Ross, Albert Scharenberg and Bill Fletcher. Moderated by Greg Albo. Sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the Centre for Social Justice, and the Socialist Project. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 26 November – 2 December 2011
3 December 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Iran and the Strategic Encirclement of Syria and Lebanon02.12.2011 | 10:26 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA (Canada) The encirclement of Syria and Lebanon has long been in the works. Since 2001, Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria… While Washington is engaged in Continue reading
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Decolonizing Our Occupations By Jared Ball
White privilege, the legacy of 500 years of European military and economic suppression of the rest of the planet, is manifest even in movements that purport to be transformational, like Occupy Wall Street. Beneath the politics of economic reordering lie notions that the ‘new’ and overwhelmingly white movement somehow supersedes the centuries-old aspirations of Europe’s… Continue reading
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