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  • Action by NATO in Europe, brings China and Russia closer
    12 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Action by NATO in Europe, brings China and Russia closer
    F. William Engdahl
    To the extent as it is clear that the U.S. foreign policy under President Obama in all major areas of nothing more than a continuation of the Bush policy, the two great powers in Eurasia - namely Russia and China - cautious steps to deepen their economic and military cooperation. Gradually, the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization" (SCO) as a counterbalance to NATO as a defensive alliance. This development could (…)

  • Obama Protecting Bush from Spain?
    17 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Swanson
    The official story is that Spain has decided not to prosecute Bush’s torture lawyers. Yet the known facts suggest something else entirely...
    http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/n...

  • NEVER TO FORGET: THE FINAL DOCUMENT OF THE BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
    13 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals
    NEVER TO FORGET THE FINAL DOCUMENT OF THE BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Held in Belgrade, 23 & 24 March, 2009
    The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, in cooperation with the other independent associations in Serbia and in coordination with the World Peace Council (WPC), held in Belgrade on March 23rd - 24th, 2009, an International Conference titled „Objectives and consequences of (…)

  • End of Scandinavian Neutrality: NATO’s Militarization Of Europe
    13 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    End of Scandinavian Neutrality: NATO’s Militarization Of Europe
    by Rick Rozoff
    Global Research, April 11, 2009
    There was a noble if naive expectation that with the effective dissolution of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact in 1989 and even more so with its formal dismantling and the breakup of the Soviet Union itself into fifteen new countries two years later that an era of peace in the world and demilitarization of the European continent was dawning.
    The peace might not be a just one, (…)

  • It’s Not Going to Be OK
    5 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s Not Going to Be OK
    Posted on Feb 2, 2009
    By Chris Hedges
    The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Iceland will descend on us. It is only a matter of time. And not much time. When things start to go sour, when Barack Obama is exposed as a mortal waving a sword at a tidal wave, the United States (…)

  • Prof. David Ray Griffin on 9/11 tour of various European cities: "Time for a Second Look"
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Prof. David Ray Griffin on 9/11 tour of various European cities: "Time for a Second Look"
    31 MARCH 2009 Professor David Ray Griffin, renowned author of a series of eye-opening books that recount his painstaking research into the attacks of September 11, 2001, begins his new European tour in London on 14th April. Stressing the fact that the time has come for a second look at the events of that fateful day, the tour will include stops in Paris, Brussels and Madrid, and several other (…)

  • yes we can
    28 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Italy and EMU as a ’Vincolo Estemo’: Empowering the Technocrate, Transforming the State KENNETH DYSON and KEVIN FEATHERSTONE
    Europe matters, but how? The political systems of the European Union (EU) member states are penetrated by European policies, but what is the effect of this process? Is Europeanization making the member states more similar? Or do different domestic political structures ‘refract’ Europeanization in different directions? Has ‘Europe’ changed domestic political (…)

  • Eastern European bailout proposed
    24 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sebastian Moffett The Wall Street Journal
    EUROPEAN leaders called for doubling the International Monetary Fund’s war chest for bailing out financially stricken nations, amid new signs that Europe’s former Communist East is sliding into a full-blown economic crisis with worrying implications for the continent as a whole.
    Europe’s developing economies from Poland to Ukraine are facing their worst economic crisis since the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. Capital is fleeing Europe’s (…)

  • Romania can drive Austria to meltdown
    17 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Romania can drive Austria to meltdown
    17 Februarie 2009
    Countries like Romania are too proud of their economic performances and overconfident that they will dodge financial crisis and this is why they showed reticence and lack of interest toward Vienna’s rescue package for banks, which can lead to a disaster, says the Austrian press. After the last week’s visit of Austrian minister of finance, Josef Pröll in Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria and Ukraine, the commentaries on the Vienna (…)

  • European bank bail-out could push EU into crisis
    13 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    A bail-out of the toxic assets held by European banks’ could plunge the European Union into crisis, according to a confidential Brussels document.
    By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
    “Estimates of total expected asset write-downs suggest that the budgetary costs – actual and contingent - of asset relief could be very large both in absolute terms and relative to GDP in member states,” the EC document, seen by The Daily Telegraph, cautioned.
    "It is essential that government support through (…)