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The CIA’s Chinese Walls
It is not in dispute that the CIA is in possession of Julian Assange’s legal and medical files seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy, including correspondence and drafting by his lawyers on his defence against extradition to the USA on Espionage charges. The defence submitted evidence of this in court. After Julian was arrested in the… Continue reading
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Who Ordered The CIA To Assault North Korea’s Embassy In Spain?
Did John Bolton, President Trump’s national security advisor, order an assault on the North Korean embassy in Spain to get an advantage in the nuclear talks? Continue reading
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Police State UK: Britain’s GCHQ shepherding mass surveillance operations throughout Europe
British intelligence agency GCHQ has helped counterpart entities in France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden develop methods of mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic in the last five years, a new report reveals. Continue reading
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Abdullah Ibrahim: ‘The Mountain / Nisa / Mississippi’
17 October 2013 — Jazz on the Tube Festival de Jazz de San Sebastian 2011. Filmed in Plaza de la Trinidad, Donosti, Spain. Beautiful music Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim, piano, Cleave Guyton, alto sax, flute, Keith Loftis , tenor sax, Andrae Murchinson, trombone, Toni Kofi, baritone sax, Belden Bullock, bass, George Gray, drums Continue reading
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JPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe By Stefan Steinberg
In a document released at the end of May, the American banking and investment giant JP Morgan Chase calls for the overturning of the bourgeois democratic constitutions established in a series of European countries after the Second World War and the installation of authoritarian regimes. Continue reading
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Ireland and the Basque Country By James Petras
Many billions of Euros are being extracted from Europe’s vassal-debtor nations – Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland –and transferred to the creditor banks, financial speculators and swindlers located in the City of London, Wall Street, Geneva and Frankfort. Under what has been termed ‘austerity’ programs vast tributary payments are amassed by ruling Conservative and Social… Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (VI) Dmitry MININ
The rebirth of the imperial spirit in the West is moving along two sometimes converging, but in recent times increasingly diverging, lines. Looking at Europe’s relations with its neighbours, one can see that the European Union initially pursued an imperial policy with regard to countries in Central and Eastern Europe that had joined the EU,… Continue reading
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US Decline? (No. 7) Deepa Kumar: Anti-Imperialist Sentiments Growing across the World
The United States has established a military base whenever it set foot into a new country. According to former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ron Paul, the United States has military personnel in some 130 countries and statistics show that it has bases in more than 30 countries, from Singapore, South Korea and… 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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Money Laundering and Offshore Fraud for the Rich, Economic Austerity for the Poor By Julie Lévesque
Drug cartels, fraud, tax evasion and money laundering are common answers to those questions. Despite this reality and even in this era of fiscal austerity, the question world leaders avoid is: why is secret banking still allowed? Are they capable of putting a term to it but unwilling to do it because of the benefits… Continue reading
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Fidel Castro Denounces Media Deception, Lies
The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, said today that although many people in the world are deceived by the media which is almost completely in the hands of privileged and wealthy owners who publish garbage, generally speaking, people are less and less taken in by such lies. Continue reading
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Video: Anti-Austerity Protests and Strikes Rock Spain
Spain’s struggling public sector workers and the unemployed converged on Spain’s capitol to denounce their governments decision to implement deeper spending cuts. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 June 2012: “Netanyahu has Decided to Attack Iran Before the U.S. Elections in November”
25 June 2012 — Information Clearing House “Netanyahu has Decided to Attack Iran Before the U.S. Elections in November”By Michael CarmichaelNetanyahu‘s agenda is much broader than knocking out Iranian nuclear installations for his aim is to reshape the political landscape in the USA and Israel shifting everything to the far, far right in order to Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-22 June 2012: Iran / Asia / Greece /nEgypt / Ecuador / CIA / Media
23 June 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation US shopping for «lily pads» in Central Asia22.06.2012 | 10:24 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The hidden agenda of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 lay enveloped by the fog of the war for most of the past ten-year period… Even now, when the topic of discussion is the Continue reading
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A different kind of Europe By Trevor Evans
The growth of private international financial institutions since the 1970s has seriously curtailed the ability of national governments to exercise democratic control over economic policy. This was vividly demonstrated early in the 1980s, when capital flight forced the French government to abandon its programme of progressive economic reforms. Since then, finance has become much stronger,… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 March 2012: “The End Of Israel”?
17 March 2012— Information Clearing House “The End Of Israel” Israel Too Small to Last Even One Week of Real War Video “If Israel ever makes that mistake [attacking Iran’s nuclear sites], that will set the time for the end of Israel. They know it very well…. We don’t consider Israel a country. Israel Continue reading