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  • German nuclear debate heats up
    18 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Diet Simon Debate is heating up in Germany over keeping or scrapping nuclear power production and over what to do with nuclear waste, which is dangerously radioactive for a million years.
    Chancellor Angelika Merkel’s CDU conservatives want the establishment of dumps speeded up and nuclear power generation extended. Their parliamentary group has teamed up with Merkel’s office, the economics ministry and experts from the state of Lower Saxony to make “an understanding offer” to the (…)

  • From little fascist Denmark: another ordinary day in the news
    15 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many people I speak with around the world, friends or casual acquaintances, have expressed what might best be described as feelings of cognitive dissonance when I have attempted to explain how bad things are in today’s Denmark. It just doesn’t match the fairy-tale picture of a modern, progressive, peace-loving, little country which most people have acquired throughout the previous decades. This problem has been particularly acute when I’ve had to explain what currents underlay the rather (…)

  • 1,000 protestors demonstrate against the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Essen
    12 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    About 1,000 protestors demonstrate against the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Essen, Germany, February 10, 2007
    Members of non-governmental organisations wear masks of the G7 finance minsiters as they protest for development aid and the remission of debt for poorest contries in front of the G7 finance ministers meeting in Essen, western Germany.
    World finance chiefs gathering for a G7 summit were upbeat on the outlook for the global economy, but warned that high oil prices could put an (…)

  • Photos - Hundreds protest against Munich security meeting - 10/02/2007
    11 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    10.02.2007
    Several hundred people on Saturday took to the streets of downtown Munich amid tight security to protest against the three-day Munich Security Conference which opened in the Bavarian capital on Friday evening.
    Holding anti-US and pro-peace signs, radical leftists, anarchists and peace activists marched near the bastion-like conference site as hundreds of policemen kept a watchful eye on the peaceful crowd.
    Protest organizers expected to see around 5,000 people for the (…)

  • Bird Flu Remains A Global Threat
    7 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Oxford Analytica 02.07.07, 6:00 AM ET
    Authorities in the United Kingdom on Feb. 5 completed a cull of turkeys on a commercial poultry farm, following confirmation that H5N1 avian influenza had entered the flock. Recent research on the "rescued" 1918 strain of human influenza has revealed how it and H5N1 kill by irreparably damaging the lungs, and what parts of the virus structure are required to make it highly transmissible.
    The threat remains of a human pandemic arising from avian (…)

  • Spain suffering worst drought ever
    5 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spain suffering worst drought ever Mon 5 Feb 2007 4:44 AM ET
    By Julia Hayley
    MADRID, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Jose Maria Macias has been in the water business for the best part of four decades and cannot remember a drought as bad as the one Spain is suffering now.
    "We are going through a terrible drought. This is the third year of it and it’s probably the worst there has been in Spain," he told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
    Macias is president of the Tagus water basin, which (…)

  • NAMES, PHOTO OF 13 CIAs Germany Just Issued Warrants For
    1 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The arrest warrant issued in Germany today for 13 CIA employees has not been made public, but here are the names that will appear on it anyway. Most if not all are aliases, although the first names of the three pilots probably are correct.
    The warrants are for the kidnaping and torture by U.S. Government agents of Khalid el-Masri. El-Masri was on vacation in Macedonia when he was kidnapped and transported to a CIA-run "black site" in Afghanistan. After several months of confinement in (…)

  • Police clash with anarchists in Athens - January 17, 2007
    19 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Greek protesters clash with riot police during a rally in Athens January 17, 2007. Students and teachers participated in a rally against the government’s plans to reform higher education and introduce private universities
    Greek riot police clashed with anarchist youths in Athens on Wednesday, turning the city centre into a battleground of billowing smoke for hours.
    The youths hurled hundreds of petrol bombs at police, burning four cars and one shop. Police retaliated with several rounds (…)

  • Blair a war criminal
    11 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ’Blair a war criminal’ 09 January, 2007
    Putra Jaya: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said British Prime Minister Tony Blair is as much a war criminal as he (Blair) accused hanged former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of being one.
    The former Prime Minister MALAYSIA said the number of people Blair caused to be killed was "very many more" than the number Saddam caused to be killed.
    "Mr Blair has not said a word (on the hanging). Whether he says a word or not, he is a culprit. He is as much (…)

  • The European Constitution: 2007 and the Great Trial of Strength
    9 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A position statement by Francis Wurtz, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and president of the Confederal Group of the United European Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL)
    "The year 2007, especially during its first half, weighed heavily in the struggle to determine the direction of a future European treaty. I recall that the European Council of Heads of State and Government assigned to the German EU presidency (which covers the first half of 2007) the task of opening a process of talks (…)