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  • Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets (video)
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Video from Bellaciao - Paris - 09-01-29
    By Ian Traynor,
    Arcellor Mittal workers demonstrate during a protest march in Marseille. Photograph: Jean-paul Pelissier/Reuters
    France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battlefield. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment figure rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produce. New figures from the (…)

  • Looming Public Debt Crisis: S&P strips Spain of its AAA credit rating
    20 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bloomberg News Monday, January 19, 2009
    MADRID: Spain’s AAA sovereign credit rating was downgraded Monday by Standard & Poor’s, the agency, as the country’s first recession in 15 years swelled the budget deficit.
    The rating was lowered one step to AA+, S&P said in a statement from London, assigning the grade a "stable" outlook.
    It was S&P’s first reduction in Spain’s rating.
    "Current economic and financial market conditions have highlighted structural weaknesses in the (…)

  • We must stop arming Israel
    15 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brown has to stop sitting on his hands, halt British weapons exports and insist the EU do the same
    by Nick Clegg
    The world watched in horror yesterday as the conflict in Gaza claimed its latest innocent victims in the rubble of a UN school. Any hopes of reconciliation are being snuffed out as anger spills into protests around the world.
    The past two weeks have been a telling indictment of the international community. We have an outgoing US president sanctioning Israel’s military (…)

  • Rembetiko - An History of the Greek Blues (Hommage à Sotiria Tsili)
    21 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rembetiko: Music of the Outsiders
    A 52’ documentary made in around 1988. (English subtitles).
    Hommage à Sosso Tsili, Sociologue (1947-2000)
    Résistante grecque pendant le régime des colonels
    qui aurait participé à la révolte actuelle.
    Source: umbc.edu
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-26003899.html

  • London Banker: "The market has failed, and officialdom is perpetuating that failure."
    18 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    London Banker: "The market has failed, and officialdom is perpetuating that failure."
    By Mike Whitney
    December 18, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" --- Ever since the two Bear Stearns hedge funds defaulted 17 months ago triggering a global financial crisis, the Federal Reserve has been busy putting out one fire after another. Fed chief Ben Bernanke has slashed interest rates to .25 percent, handed out billions in emergency funding to teetering insurance companies and mortgage lenders, (…)

  • Irish People Smashing the EU Treaty, AGAIN ! (Celtic music video)
    18 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: blog.mlive.com
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-25918550.html

  • PETITION - "We will not pay for your crisis !". For a European social movement
    16 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    PETITION - "We will not pay for your crisis !". For a European social movement
    « We will not pay for your crisis !!
    « We will not pay for your crisis » is the slogan that has been echoing in all Italy for more than a month now. The wave of protests is spreading and more than 300 000 demonstrators on November 14th have taken up the slogan that across the borders shout at our political leaders. They are thousands of students, teachers and parents, who are thinking and acting for another (…)

  • Barroso: Britain closer to joining euro than ever before
    1 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Barroso: Britain closer to joining euro than ever before
    Senior Labour politicians believe that Britain would now be financially better off had the country joined the euro, according to the president of the European Commission. By Matthew Moore Last Updated: 1:03AM GMT 01 Dec 2008
    EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says Britain is closer to joining the euro than ever before. Photo: AP
    José Manuel Barroso said that the UK is "closer than ever before" to entering the single (…)

  • Scientology will not be banned in Germany
    19 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Elly von Murk
    The head of the secret service of the German State of Brandenburg who also is the chairman of the Conference of Interior Ministers in Germany broke the news on the weekend that "Scientology will not be banned" in Germany.
    A year ago plans in this direction had been announced broadly and reported about internationally.
    A secret 46-page report on Scientology of the German internal secret service, Office for Protection of the Constitution was leaked to the media earlier (…)

  • PORTUGAL: "Angolagate" Bribes in Local Banks
    11 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mario de Queiroz
    LISBON, Nov 3 (IPS) - Portuguese banks that received transfers of money to Angolan politicians implicated in illegal arms sales have kept mum after the Lisbon paper Público reported their involvement.
    The Banco de Portugal, the country’s central bank, has remained silent, and the banks mentioned by the newspaper declined to comment in response to queries from IPS Monday, invoking the law on bank secrecy.
    Público Journalist Ana Dias Cordeiro, an expert on African (…)