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May 25 ‘March Against Monsanto’ planned for over 30 countries
March Against Monsanto has announced that on May 25, tens of thousands of activists around the world will “March Against Monsanto.” Currently, marches are being planned on six continents, in 36 countries, totaling events in over 250 cities, and in the US, events are slated to occur simultaneously at 11 a.m. Pacific in 47 states. Continue reading
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My Big Fat Greek Minister By Greg Palast
Fat Bastard – or Theodoros Pangalos, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Party (PASOK), Greece’s equivalent to UK’s Labour Party – thinks the little Greek kiddies should stop belly-aching. Pangalos, as you can see from the photo below, is not bent over with hunger pains. In fact, he looks more likely to be bent over with… Continue reading
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The Manifesto of the Mediterranean Meeting in Tunisia
1. For more than a quarter of a century, neoliberal capitalist globalization has extended its dominance over the entire planet. The processes launched have accelerated the commodization of the world in favour of a minority and have confiscated people’s citizenship and nations’ sovereignty. They are exacerbating economic insecurity and social inequality in the North and… Continue reading
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Video: Privatizing Europe
Nick Buxton: A massive European fire sale is one way finance is using the crisis to entrench neo-liberalism (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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For the Finance Minister of Germany, Crisis Is a “Necessity” By Victor Grossman
Angela Merkel’s face usually displays a rather plain, friendly, almost benign expression, matching her simple, benign words. But in rare unguarded moments, some claim, they glimpse a very hard visage, which is matched, equally rarely, by hardly benign words, like her annoyed statement that Cyprus was “exhausting the patience of its euro partners.” Continue reading
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Videos worth watching
15 February 2013 — The Real News Network Worker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of OwnershipCan co-ops come out of the margins of the economy and be part of a larger political project to transform how things are owned?Go to story | Go to homepage Continue reading
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Europe: Existential Danger: New Political Challenges By Elisabeth Gauthier
In Europe, an ‘oligarchy’ has increasingly gotten hold of various powers; it is becoming radicalized and sees the moment as having come in which brutally to accelerate the dismantling of social and democratic gains, notably by profiting from the ‘crisis of public debt,’ generalizing austerity policies which, in turn feed the crisis. Continue reading
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The Left in Europe: From Social Democracy to the Crisis in the Euro Zone. An Interview with Leo Panitch
Because we need time. If the catastrophists, of which there are a great many, are right that we’ve only got five or ten years, we’re screwed. I mean, really screwed. Whether that’s the ecological crisis, or before fascism takes over, or what have you. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 31 December 2012 (22/12)
012 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: European Parliament study: Evaluating current and forthcoming proposals on JHA databases and a smart borders system at EU external borders2. EU: Council of the European Union: Exchange of EU classified information (EUCI) with third States and international organisations3. Council of Europe: Human Rights Commissioner: Restrictions on defenders of migrants’ rights should Continue reading
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Video: Eurozone Austerity Policies Will Spark New Crisis in 2013
Costas Lapavitsas: There is an impression that the crisis has been handled by ECB but economies are deteriorating quickly Continue reading
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The Greek Left and the Rise of the Neo-Fascist Golden Dawn By Panagiotis Sotiris
For the past months there has been an intense debate both in Greece but also in international media regarding the rise of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn in Greece. The reason is obvious: for the first time in a European Union (EU) country a political party that in contrast to most of the varieties of the… Continue reading
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Video: Portugal General Strike: This is What Austerity Looks Like By grtv
Events in Southern Europe show the political strike to be an indispensable tool for self-defence. What the EU and the International Monetary Fund are demanding of states such as Greece and Portugal has nothing to do with neutral crisis management, but is rather brutal class struggle executed from above. Cutbacks and elimination of government services… Continue reading
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ICH November 7, 2012: Gulf States: British Arms Deals – Quick Death, Fast Profits
7 November 2012 — Information Clearing House To Humiliate and Degrade Impressions of Gaza By Noam Chomsky Where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32968.htm Continue reading
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Video: Greek Parliament Approves Contentious Law to Expand Privatization
Dimitri Lascaris: New budget makes it clear Greece will never pay off its debts, real aim of austerity is to break unions and privatize public assets Continue reading
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ICH 30/31 October 2012: Israel Lobby Calls for an ‘Iranian Pearl Harbor’
31 October 2012 — Information Clearing House Israel Lobby Calls for an ‘Iranian Pearl Harbor’ By Muhammad Sahimi The War Party has revived the idea of creating the “right incident” for provoking a war with Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32891.htm Continue reading
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