Albanian Youth & Che

By Leigh Phillips - Znet

As disparate but linked militant youth protests simultaneously erupt in a number of countries across the continent, French President Nicholas Sarkozy has retreated on two controversial pieces of domestic legislation out of fear that a spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of 1968...Sarkozy...has dropped plans for changes to high school curricula and Sunday retail opening hours in dread that the "Greek syndrome"...could spread to France, or even across the continent.

By Paul Haven and Daniel Flynn - 13 December 2008

THE unrest that has gripped Greece this week is spilling into the rest of Europe, raising concerns that it could be a trigger for opponents of globalisation, disaffected youth and others outraged by economic turmoil...Protesters in Spain, Denmark and Italy smashed shop windows, pelted police with bottles and attacked banks this week, while in France cars were set ablaze on Thursday outside the Greek consulate in Bordeaux, where protesters warned about a looming "insurrection".

Authorities have oft labeled the insane as Rebellion Personified. Michel Foucault, in his classic book, Madness and Civilization (1961), writes “This is why idleness is rebellion – the worst form of all, in a sense: it waits for nature to be generous as in the innocence of Eden, and seeks to constrain a Goodness to which man cannot lay claim since Adam. Pride was the sin of man before the Fall; but the sin of idleness is the supreme pride of man once he has fallen, the absurd pride of poverty.”

Foucault also writes, “the question Voltaire would soon formulate, Colbert’s contemporaries had already asked: “Since you have established yourselves as a people, have you not yet discovered the secret of forcing all the rich to make all the poor work? Are you still ignorant of the first principles of the police?”

By David Cronin - November 16, 2008

BRUSSELS, Nov 13 (IPS) - A political ideology based on the desire to exterminate Roma gypsies is emerging in parts of Europe, a Brussels conference has been told...Following a number of violent attacks on Roma by skinheads and other extremists in Bulgaria, it was announced during August 2007 that the far-right National Guard party was being established.

By Boris Kagarlitsky - November 11, 2008

...[F]ormer enemies are ready to express solidarity with each other. Unfortunately, it is too late...The situation will resemble an old Soviet joke. There will be no war, but there will be such a struggle for peace that everything will be razed to the ground.

by Stephanie Nebehay - Thursday, October 02, 2008

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights voiced concern on Thursday that increasing numbers of immigrants and asylum-seekers are being put behind bars in rich countries...Navanethem Pillay, a judge from South Africa, said they are among millions of people believed to be detained arbitrarily or unlawfully worldwide, with many held in inhumane conditions without facing charges.

SchNEWS - Friday 12th September 2008 | Issue 646

With food prices soaring, Greek anarchists have decided [to] do something about the problem by becoming modern day Robbin' Hoodies.

By John Pilger - August, 16 2008

The secrets of the crushing of Yugoslavia are emerging, telling us more about how the modern world is policed...At a 1999 Kosovo "peace" conference in France, the Serbs were told to accept occupation by Nato forces and a market economy, or be bombed into submission. It was the perfect precursor to the bloodbaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Ian Sinclair at the Morning Star...did an interesting interview with "Catherine, a prostitute, dominatrix and activist with the International Union of Sex Workers..."

"...[W]e didn't go out and rescue the miners, take them away and give them a wash, and say ‘come and do this you will be much happier'. We gave them rights, we gave them bargaining power."

Le samedi 16 août, un grand Reclaim the streets aura lieu à Anvers dans le cadre de la première édition du KlimaatAxieKamp (camp d'action pour le climat). Par cette action directe et ludique, nous voulons montrer notre mécontentement face aux choix obtus dans le dossier du Lange Wapper, un projet controversé qui prévoit la construction d'un viaduc au-dessus de la ville d'Anvers.

LONDON - Security has become by far the largest cost for field trials of genetically modified crops in Britain as researchers seek to protect sites against vandalism, a scientist said on Monday.

Stop Islamisation Of Europe (SIOE) describes itself as[:] "...an alliance of people across Europe with the single aim of preventing Islam becoming a dominant political force in Europe"...You can guess what these folks are all about.

by Ted Chernecki - Canwest News Service

One of the people interviewed by RCMP investigators who went to Poland in April to talk to people close to Robert Dziekanski described the experience as an "ordeal"...Ivona Kosowska said the questions the team was asking about Dziekanski struck her as odd..."What kind of person was he, was he a drinker, drug user? Was he aggressive?"..."Most questions were to expose him as not a nice human being - not to find out what kind of person he really was."

By Toni Solo - July, 16 2008

It may well be time to start taking NATO's role as an aspiring global enforcer of Western Bloc economic strategy more seriously. However true it may be to argue that it is still the United States government that makes the running, the US is less and less able to do so without the willing support of its allies. Their joint global military activity can well be interpreted as an effort to compensate for the growing discomfort they feel at the increasing power and influence of other countries like China and Russia, globally, and Iran and Venezuela regionally.