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  • The death and torture flights of CIA should be stopped! Bush and his gang should be judged!
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Yildiz Onen Coordinator of the Global Peace and Justice Coalition of Turkey
    As the Global Peace and Justice Coalition we had a press conference in İstanbul on 30 of November about the death and torture flights of CIA and its using Turkish airspace and Sabiha Gökçen airport.
    Last week, there was some news about that CIA has been carrying some people, who had been captured by CIA through secret operations, to the secret prisons which was built in the other countries. In the news it was (…)

  • UK concessions on farm reform fail to win over EU
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Grice and Stephen Castle in Brussels and Philip Thornton
    Tony Blair’s proposals to end the deadlock over the EU budget provoked strong opposition from eastern European nations even though he offered to cut Britain’s rebate by about a fifth.
    Under fire at home for his pledge to offer concessions over the rebate without concrete reforms on farm spending, Mr Blair faced direct criticism from leaders in central and eastern Europe at talks with them in Budapest yesterday. However, (…)

  • Athens Declaration
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We, the European Left, gathered in Athens on the 29th and 30th of October, 2005, acknowledge that the crisis currently afflicting Europe has no borders, and that the neo-liberal policies decided upon in Brussels and by the national governments are to blame for it. These choices have been made over a period of many years, and the result is in front of our eyes, now.
    We also acknowledge that the peoples of Europe, who have suffered most from these policies, are fighting against them and (…)

  • Germans: Bush misused data to justify Iraq war
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Informant’s handlers say they repeatedly warned of unreliability.
    By Bob Drogin and John Goetz
    BERLIN - The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush Aadministration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims before the Iraq war.
    Five senior officials from Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said in interviews with the Los Angeles Times that they warned (…)

  • How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of ’Curveball’
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Iraqi informant’s German handlers say they had told U.S. officials that his information was ’not proven,’ and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches. By Bob Drogin and John Goetz Special to The Times
    November 20, 2005
    BERLIN - The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his (…)

  • CIA Accused of Using Airport in Mallorca
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spanish Court Gets Report Accusing CIA Used Airport on Mediterranean Island to Transfer Suspects
    By MARIA JESUS
    The National Court has received a prosecutor’s report on allegations that the CIA used an airport on the Spanish island of Mallorca for a program of covert transfers of terror suspects, court officials said Monday.
    The chief prosecutor for the Balearic Islands, which include Mallorca, submitted the 114-page report to the court in July, after a four-month investigation (…)

  • THE CIA’S ’BLACK SITES’ : Guantanamos in Europe?
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is the CIA using secret locations in Europe to interrogate prisoners in America’s war against terror? Reports about "black sites" have unsettled even the Bush administration’s closest European partners.
    Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen considers himself "America’s best friend" in Europe. He even broke a long-standing Danish tradition of seeking parliament-wide consensus in contentious foreign policy issues to back Washington’s decision to invade Iraq.
    But the right-wing (…)

  • European Free Arts Sound Systems demonstration POSTPONED
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Due to the recent riots in France, the Demonstration and the Teknival that were supposed to happen the 12th November 2005 in Strasbourg have been postponed !!!!!!
    After receiving authorisation for both events we were told today to postpone them. This is based on the Emergency State that has been declared in France by the President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac.
    >> Restrictions on all kinds of events and on press freedom is possible:
    Furthermore the law allows the closing of meeting (…)

  • Tracing the CIA’s Planes: to Senator’s Office, Poland, Romania
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    News media reported Thursday that the group Human Rights Watch "claims records and other evidence point to POLAND and ROMANIA as countries that allowed their territory to be used by the CIA to hold top suspected al-Qaeda captives." We report that HRW knows that from tracing the movements of CIA planes and we provide a list of the planes.
    http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/131066/index.php
    The HRW report clarifies earlier reports in the mainstream media that declined to reveal (…)

  • European Preparatory Assembly for the European Social forum in Athens 5- 9 April 2006 (Itsanbul 24-25 Sept. 2005)
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Manchester Social Forum
    Decisions on the programme
    Following the main debate and numerous discussions on the political and social situation, the Istanbul EPA came to an agreement on several points in order to put together the programme:
    Agreement on general objectives:
    1. Create an alternative to the European neo-liberal programme and anti-social policies.
    2. Raise the profile and awareness of these alternatives as well as concrete responses to them.
    3. Encourage the convergence (…)