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  • U.S. and EU Agree ’Single Market’
    2 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States and the European Union have signed up to a new transatlantic economic partnership at a summit in Washington. The pact is designed to boost trade and investment by harmonising regulatory standards, laying the basis for a US-EU single market.
    The two sides also signed an Open Skies deal, designed to reduce fares and boost traffic on transatlantic flights.
    But little of substance was agreed on climate change.
    However, EU leaders were pleased that the US acknowledged (…)

  • Greek riot police prepare attack against prisoners
    25 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Athens - Riot police prepared to mount an attack on a high-security prison in central Greece after inmates refused to return to their cells and set fires in protest over prison abuses for the third straight day. Police surrounded a Malandrino prison in central Greece after some 150 inmates remained on the roof of the prison. Television reports showed many of them setting fires and carrying sticks and cement rocks.
    The inmates are protesting the beating of a prisoner and poor sanitary (…)

  • FOUR DAYS OF “SIMULATED” NUCLEAR TERRORIST SCENARIOS IN THE US & EUROPE
    21 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/190407resolve.htm
    Noble Resolve 07: FOUR DAYS OF “SIMULATED” NUCLEAR TERRORIST SCENARIOS IN THE US & EUROPE
    DL Abrahamson False Flag News Thursday, April 19, 2007
    From April, 23 to April 27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by (…)

  • Polish witchhunt
    18 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ignacio Ramonet
    The Poles call it the law of lustration, a term meaning ritual purification; the word has strong connotations of repentance and penitence in Poland, where history and Catholicism are so closely intertwined.
    Under the law, which was passed last October and entered into force on 15 March this year, 700,000 Poles are required to confess any collaboration with the communists between 1945 and 1989. All senior civil servants, university professors, lawyers, headmasters and (…)

  • VIDEO: Those embarassing ninety nukes in the backyard
    16 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Those embarassing ninety nukes in the backyard by Mario Sanna, Angelo Saso, Maurizio Torrealta
    Despite the deep secret on this issue, an American non governmental organization, NDRC(Natural Resources Defense Council), has published the map of the atomic devices in Europe and in Italy: about 480 atomic bombs in Europe and 90 in Italy.
    Rainews24 has interviewed in the United States Mr Hans M. Krinstensen, the author of the report on the atomic bombs in Europe for NRDC, and also some (…)

  • Spanish Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes
    29 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Vicky Short
    Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who sought to prosecute Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, has called for US President George W. Bush and his allies to be tried for war crimes over Iraq.
    Writing in El Pais on the fourth anniversary of the invasion, Garzón stated, “Today, March 20, marks four years since the formal start of the war on Iraq. Instigated by the United States and Great Britain, and supported by Spain among other countries, one of the most sordid and (…)

  • support for Umgdomhuset
    12 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    the extrem right wing struck in Copenhagen, a concrete example of the repressive policy which becomes a model in Europe. Cheer to danish resistant people rising for its spontaneousness and its solidarity. An exemple to be followed for all.
    We say no! to the single thought, no !to the medias misinforming the people, no! to the repression targeted on youth and alternative currents. Work, slavery, freedom to think confiscated, it is capitalist logic.
    Umgdomhuset symbolic place since 1910 of (…)

  • Ungdomshuset and the Copenhagen Youth Rebellion
    11 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    From workers stronghold to social center, placed in the neighbourhood of Nrrebro historic, Ungdomshuset has been the epicentre of political contestation and social protest in Copenhagen. Today the Youth House is no longer. It was first evicted the torn down. The kids and their supporters hit the streets.
    History crashing down
    The house from 1897 which stood in the centre of the conflict, originally named Folkets Hus (the People’s House), was the result of the early workers movements. In (…)

  • CIA torture: A first step towards justice for Al-Zery, but what about Agiza?
    5 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Swedish GUE/NGL MEP Jens Holm, a member of the parliament’s CIA investigation committee, is supportive of the Swedish government’s decision to revoke the deportation order for Mohammed Al-Zery. It was in December of 2001 that Mohammed Al-Zery and Ahmed Agiza were arrested by Swedish security police, with the help of the CIA, and deported to Egypt. They were tortured during both the deportation and their time in prison in Egypt. "This is a first step towards justice for Mohammed Al-Zery. (…)

  • Old Europe and the Mullah
    22 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Old Europe and the Mullah
    February 22, 2007
    by Philip Giraldi
    There has been a noticeable shift in the rhetoric emanating from the proponents of war with Iran, almost certainly due to the perception that armed conflict with Tehran will not be as easy a sell as was Iraq. The shift is most marked within the Bush Administration itself, where daily attacks on Iran that started with the State of the Union message on January 10th have largely disappeared and where both civilian and military (…)