Europe
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Rampant Militarization of the World: West Risks New Arms Race In Europe
About a month ago, NATO tested first-strike capabilities by using a mobile radar in Turkey. Why would a defensive system need to test offensive capabilities? We have the cyber warfare center. You said it also can be used as an offensive tool by the U.S. We have hypersonic missile tests and the Prompt Global Strike… Continue reading
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Replay-Video: Austerity and the Destruction of Democracy
Rob Johnson: Austerity policies in Europe threaten a deformation of democracy and the rise of ultra-nationalist forces Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: November 8, 2011
8 November 2011 — Stop NATO U.S. Ambassador Daalder Recruits Libya For NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue Obama, Rasmussen Discuss Libya, Afghanistan, Chicago NATO Missile Shield Threat To Region: Iran NATO Implementing Interceptor Missile Shield For Armed Forces In Europe U.S., NATO Move Ahead With MEADS Interceptor Missile Test ‘Cruel And Barbaric Act’: NATO Troops Kill Afghan Continue reading
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Video: EU: Democracy Incompatible with Debt Collection By Michael Hudson
Democracy Now! video stream from Germany by Michael Hudson, who’s been closely following the Greek crisis. Continue reading
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In Kenya, flowers for Europe reap hunger and destruction By Tony Iltis
As the global population approaches 7 Billion, we’re seeing an increasing number of articles declaring that overpopulation is responsible for all of the world’s ills. Africa in particular is regularly singled out as a continent where population growth causes poverty and famine. As this article shows, population growth is a minor issue, compared to the… Continue reading
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Insurrection and Invisible Powers By Gaither Stewart
Italy, like Spain, is a peninsula, but she might as well be an island given the barriers separating her from the rest of the European mass and the Mediterranean cradle itself. This, and her long history, broken by frequent invasions from diverse cultures, has fostered the coalescing of an extraordinary idiosyncrasy rich in mysteries and… Continue reading
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Talk Amongst Yourselves By Dan Hind
On Saturday 14 October people will be heading into the Square Mile, the centre of the UK’s financial sector, in conscious imitation of Occupy Wall Street and similar actions in Europe and the Middle East. Continue reading
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European Conference Against Austerity & Privatisation: European Conference Declaration
After a day of intensive debate, analysis and planning for cooperation and action, the Europe against Austerity Conference heard Coalition of Resistance Secretary Andrew Burgin propose the following Declaration, on behalf of the European Preparatory Committee. The Declaration was unanimously endorsed by the Conference which was attended by over 600 people Continue reading
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The slaughter in Sirte By Patrick O’Connor
NATO countries led by the US, Britain, and France are committing terrible war crimes in the Libyan city of Sirte. In their frenzied drive to crush all remaining resistance in the North African state, NATO and its proxy militia forces aligned with the National Transitional Council are unleashing indiscriminate military force, killing civilians and destroying… Continue reading
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Final timetable out now – Europe Against Austerity Conference
29 September 2011 Saturday 1 October 10am-5pm, Camden Centre, London, WC1H 9AU On Saturday hundreds of activists, trade unionists and left politicians from across the continent are gathering in London for a conference to discuss the crisis and co-ordinate resistance. Greek strikers, activists from the Spanish ‘Indignant’ movement, leaders of the French New Anticapitalist Continue reading
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Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO news: September 22, 2011
22 September 2011 — Stop NATO Pentagon, NATO Plot ‘Next Steps’ In Libya Bolivia’s Morales Sees Oil, Greed Behind NATO Mission In Libya Northrop Wins Missile Defense Agency’s Precision Tracking Space System Bid Turkish Opposition: NATO Missile Radar Part Of Shield For Israel Continue reading
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Europe Against Austerity
‘This conference will be a timely event to both oppose the draconian cuts threatening ordinary people across Europe and to look at progressive alternatives. Continue reading
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Video: The Shape of Things to Come in Libya: Interview with Michael Parenti By Sean Thomas
Michael Parenti: Expect the same thing as you saw happened in Yugoslavia and in Eastern Europe. There will be a massive privatization taking place. The public economy that the Gaddafi government had built over 40 years, which included public subsidies for housing, for education, for healthcare — all those things will be privatized. Continue reading
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Zygmunt Bauman: Palestinian persecution echoes the Shoah, which began with discrimination, ghettoes and pogroms By Paul Mutter, with Eva Smagacz
Several weeks ago, the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman gave a stunning interview to the Polish journal, Polityka, on Zionism, the Holocaust, and Israel’s cult of war. In it he charges Israel’s leaders with actively discouraging peace, with seeking war instead of peace, and accuses them of manipulating the Holocaust’s lessons to justify repression. In one… Continue reading
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The Meaning of the British Riots: Corruption At The Top Leads To Lawlessness By The People
More vigorous policing will drive the thugs off the streets and restore a tenuous calm. But keeping them off the streets, and integrating them — and the hundreds of thousands who have poured onto the streets in peaceful protests — into a socio-economic system that offers them a future and a stake in social stability… Continue reading
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Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2009
Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? From the end of the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1930s to anti-government demonstrations in Greece in 2010-11, austerity has tended to go hand in hand with politically motivated violence and social instability. In this paper, we assemble cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to the present,… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 10, 2011
10 August 2011 — Stop NATO Gruesome Trophies: Britain Brings ‘Civilization’ To Afghanistan Again They Died in Vain; Deal With It Finland’s Defense Minister: Savings Lead To NATO Membership Russia Warns NATO On Missile Shield U.S. Troops In Europe ‘Closer To Current Battlefields, Future Fights’ Pakistan: Another NATO Oil Tanker Set Ablaze NATO Planning Military Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 29 July 2011
29 July 2011 — williambowles.info Anonymous Fantasizes it was Responsible for EBay Stock Drop DailyTech (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Anonymous calls Paypal “corrupt” for refusing to support Wikileaks and cooperating with the FBI in arresting members associated with the attacks. (Source: Furious Fanboys) Anonymous takes credit for an eBay stock drop, … http://www.dailytech.com/Anonymous+Fantasizes+it+was+Responsible+for+EBay+Stock+Drop/article22276.htm Continue reading
The New Dark Age 