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  • Kosovo: Serbia demands probe of former UN mission chief
    10 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.2059141586
    ADN Kronos International (Italy) April 10, 2008
    Kosovo: Serbia demands probe of former UN mission chief
    Belgrade - Serbia decided on Thursday to ask United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon to probe the former chief of the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Soren Jessen Petersen for allegedly obstructing the investigation of crimes against Serb civilians.
    The Serbian National Council for Cooperation with UN’s Hague-based (…)

  • Germany’s Green Party Opens Chapter in Washington
    9 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    09.04.2008
    Germany’s Green Party is setting up a branch in the United States. The bottom-up initiative aims to bring a more international perspective to the party’s work and combat anti-Americanism among some members back home.
    The chapter is due to be officially founded next weekend in Washington DC. It hopes to tap into the experiences of the growing number of Germans working in the US capital in international organizations, foundations and think tanks, as well as in the media, the (…)

  • Spain’s property market headed for a fall
    29 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spain’s property market headed for a fall
    By Mark Mulligan in Madrid
    Published: March 26 2008 18:22 | Last updated: March 26 2008 18:22
    Spain’s residential property market is heading for a hard landing, as tightening credit conditions exacerbate problems of oversupply and years of rampant price inflation, figures released Wednesday confirmed.
    Completed house sales for January dropped 27 per cent year-on-year, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE), while total lending (…)

  • Europhobia and Where it’s Taking Us
    24 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Alf Garnett: Patron Saint of British Europhobes and Bigots
    This essay was written as a counterblast at the Europhobes on the UK 911 Truth Forum.
    As I’ve been away from this thread whilst dealing with the Europe issue elsewhere, I thought it would be a good idea to summarise what has been going on.
    It started with my publishing the European Left’s Athens Declaration in order that forum readers could be given an insight into an alternative Europe which they would otherwise miss given the (…)

  • Greeks stage third nationwide general strike since December
    20 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Associated Press Wednesday, March 19, 2008
    ATHENS, Greece: Riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators throwing rocks and firebombs in central Athens during a nationwide general strike Wednesday by millions of Greeks protesting government pension reforms.
    An estimated 100,000 people marched in downtown Athens, and when the demonstration ended, groups of anarchists fought running battles with riot police in the capital. Clouds of tear gas hung over Exarhia Square and cafe customers (…)

  • Irish banks may need life-support as property prices crash
    15 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Irish banks may need life-support as property prices crash
    Last Updated: 1:02am GMT 13/03/2008
    The Dublin government appears to be almost powerless to prevent a severe downturn. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports
    The Irish banking system faces acute strains and may require a phase of temporary nationalisation as the property slump leads to a wave of defaults, according to a leading Irish economist.
    Morgan Kelly, of University College Dublin, said the government is almost powerless to (…)

  • Toxic Textiles - Pesticides drench most cotton products (video, 26’)
    7 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Deutsche Welle TV 25 mn 54 s - 5 févr. 2006
    Toxic Textiles - Pesticides drench most cotton products, including many we eat.
    Toxic Textiles? Are the sales personnel of Germany’s clothing retailers at risk of being poisoned? The textiles they sell are contaminated with highly toxic chemicals. The chemical PCP (Pentachlorophenol), which is prohibited in Germany, is applied to garments to protect them during transport to Europe. Other hazardous pesticides used in the cultivation of cotton in (…)

  • The United Nations Contributed to the Establishment (Michel Chossudovsky)
    5 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Global Research March 1, 2008
    International Tribunal for U.S./NATO War Crimes in Yugoslavia - 2000-06-10
    The EU, the US, NATO and the UN Mission in Kosovo bear responsibility in the criminalization of Kosovo State institutions.
    The following article, written in March 2000, focusses on the formation of a Kosovar Mafia State integrated by former members of the KLA.
    With the February 2008 declaration of Independence, this process has reached its completion. Kosovo is not a mafia state (…)

  • Campaign Against the EU Constitution Next public meeting: 15/02/2008 - 19:30
    14 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Campaign Against the EU Constitution
    Vote No to the Lisbon Treaty
    Next public meeting: Reject the Lisbon Treaty
    Start: 15/02/2008 - 19:30
    A public meeting organised by Sinn Féin outlining the arguments for rejecting the Lisbon Treaty.
    Date: Friday, 15 February at 7.30pm.
    Venue: Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey St., Dublin 1.
    All welcome.
    http://www.caeuc.org/

  • Pádraig Mac Lochlainn to head Sinn Féin Lisbon Treaty campaign
    13 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    DONEGAL Sinn Féin Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has been appointed the party’s director of the Lisbon Treaty referendum campaign.
    Speaking at the launch of the party’s Lisbon Treaty alternative in Dublin on Tuesday, Councillor Mac Lochlainn said Sinn Féin will be mounting a major campaign against the Lisbon Treaty and he is calling on people from across the political divide to get involved. He said Sinn Féin members across the country will be going door to door to distribute more than (…)