Europe
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Stop NATO News March 23, 2011
23 March 2011 — Stop NATO 1. Tbilisi: NATO Conference Discusses Georgia’s “Euro-Atlantic” Integration 2. Saakashvili: Full NATO Membership Georgia’s Main Political Goal 3. NATO Air Strike Kills Afghan Child And “Militants” On Motorcycle, Wounds Civilians 4. Belarus: NATO Courts Europe’s Last Holdout 5. Twelve Years Later: 20 Million Square Meters Of Serbia Contaminated With Continue reading
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Egypt/Serbia/Georgia: Learning from others’ mistakes By Eric Walberg
There is a Russian proverb: only a fool learns from his own mistakes. As Georgia’s foreign minister visits his Egyptian counterpart, there are lessons for Egypt in similar revolutions in eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Stop Nato News 27 February, 2011 – Cyprus / Kurils / Pakistan / Caucasus / Russia / Arab Uprising / KLA
27 February, 2011 — Stop NATO 1. Cyprus: NATO Eyes Only Non-Member/Partner European Nation 2. Defense Minister: Russia To Deploy Troops To Kuril Islands 3. U.S.-Pakistan Row Over CIA Killer Deepens 4. Integration: NATO Caucasus-Central Asia Representative To Visit Washington 5. Unilateral Concession: Russia Allows U.S. Afghan War Troop Transit 6. Pakistan: Blast Destroys Six Continue reading
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Book Review: To the Barricades! Then and Now… By Peter Monaghan
In a new book, The Insurgent Barricade (University of California Press), Mark Traugott relates the history of “the most striking embodiment” of the revolutionary spirit of the times. And it is the dissemination of “barricade consciousness” that most interests the scholar, a professor of history and sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Continue reading
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Europe in the World by Navid Kermani
Navid Kermani: Europe is in fact cementing its ideological borders. . . . Radical openness is an essential feature of the European project. . . . You can’t draw the borders of Europe just as you would draw the borders of a country. Europe isn’t a country — it is an idea. . . .… Continue reading
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Political witch-hunt behind sexual assault charges – claims Assange — RT
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may be out of jail, but his legal battle on sexual assault charges is still ongoing. Continue reading
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Spaniards take to streets to protest austerity measures — RT
People gathered in the streets of Madrid on Saturday to protest against tough austerity cuts as the country struggles with huge debt. The people have been planning this ever since the government announced a new batch of austerity measures in early December. Continue reading
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Revolution Roundup #2: As Mass Rebellion Spreads Throughout Europe, Americans Dance With The Stars By David DeGraw
Over the past few days the people of Ireland, Italy, Britain, Austria and Portugal have all held massive demonstrations against the Global Banking Cartel. Continue reading
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The EU at a Crossroads By Rafe MAIR
I am, God knows, no economist but that may not be all that bad when you remember the words of Harry S Truman who said ‘Give a one-handed economist. All my economists say, ‘on the one hand…on the other’.’ I’m therefore unqualified to examine the EU’s field of economic landmines. Yet perhaps my ignorance of… Continue reading
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Ireland: “We Can’t Pay That Money, and We Won’t Pay That Money” by 50 Halala
“Well, our gallant allies in Europe have arrived 95 years too late and uninvited, and instead of guns to help the revolution they have brought economic weapons of mass destruction. Does anybody in this country or in Dáil Éireann think that we can as a people afford to pay 6.7 percent on money that we… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 October, 2010: Platini: ‘I’ll Kick Israel Out Of Europe’
2 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Uproots Farmlands, Prepares To Annex Them IMEMC – 2 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 02, 2010 – 08:08, Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli army bulldozers uprooted farmlands close to Tiqoua’ settlement, built on lands initially taken away from residents of the Tiqoua’ Palestinian village, Continue reading
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The Neoliberal Experiment and Europe’s anti-Austerity Strikes: Governments must Lower Wages or Suffer Financial Blackmail By Michael Hudson
Most of the press has described Wednesday’s European-wide labor demonstrations and strikes across in terms of the familiar exercise by transport workers irritating travelers with work slowdowns, and large throngs letting off steam by setting fires. But the story goes much deeper than merely a reaction against unemployment and economic recession conditions. At issue are… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 2: 21 June 2010
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. LIBYA-UNHCR: Migreurop statement: the bid is rising, migrants pay the price 2. EU-TRAFFICKING: Council: Latest draft: preventing and combating trafficking in human beings 3. UK: Stop and search used illegally against thousands 4. EU: UK monitors suspected radicals as part of European surveillance Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 6-12 June, 2010
2010-06-11 Pyotr ISKENDEROV Iran and the Balkans: Russia Risks Making the Same Mistakes “The recent UN Security Council resolution slapping new sanctions on Iran is likely to become the worst defeat suffered by the Russian diplomacy over the past years. Its negative impact may be persistent and more serious than that of the proclamation of Continue reading
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Videos from Left Bloc Climate Conference
O Clima Farto de Nos? (Is the climate sick of us?) was held in Lisbon, March 26-27. It was organized by Portugal’s Left Bloc and the parties of the European Left. This important event drew left socialist and green activists from a dozen European countries, to discuss how to build a mass movement for climate… Continue reading
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GM Food: get the facts first
The EC has just allowed GM crops into Europe, ignoring the concerns of the public. I’ve signed a petition for independent research and a moratorium on GM crop development. With 1 million citizens’ signatures, we can make an official legal request to the European Commission. Sign below and let’s get to 1 million Continue reading
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The Iskander Missiles as the Guarantee of Normal Coexistence of Russia and Europe By Anatoly ALIFEROV
Russia went public with the plan to deploy the Iskander missiles at its western frontier – in the Kaliningrad region or on the territories of neighboring countries, but the process of probing into Washington’s reaction is clearly taking too long. In politics, failure to appreciate the importance of acting quickly invariably creates problems, the above… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 