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.

By Mike Whitney - 14/06/08

Ireland delivered a knockout punch to European elites and corporatists and shattered their plan for a...[European Union] Superstate. The so-called Lisbon Treaty was nothing more than a repackaging of the European Constitution that was defeated by French and Dutch voters in 2005. The treaty was loaded with the typical "democratic" gobbledygook to conceal the vicious neoliberal policies at its heart. If it had passed, the treaty would have paved the way for greater privatization of public services, diminished workers rights, less state control over trade policies and civil liberties, and an aggressive plan to militarize Europe.

By Eduard Gismatullin and Marianne Stigset

July 2 (Bloomberg) -- StatoilHydro ASA, Norway's largest oil producer, and Nexen Inc. called for "clarity" in Canadian regulation governing Alberta's tar-sand projects before they proceed with investment in refineries.

Agence France-Presse

LUXEMBOURG - European Union nations approved Thursday tough new rules on expelling visa-overstayers which could see them banned for five years if they resist, the EU's Slovenian presidency announced.

[Translated from GegenStandpunkt: Politische Vierteljahreszeitschrift 4-03, Gegenstandpunkt Verlag, Munich]

Whenever Americans criticize their President the only thing they come out with is pro-American nationalism.

by Bassem Naeem - The Guardian

...[A]t the same time as we unreservedly condemn the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe, we categorically reject the exploitation of the Holocaust by the Zionists to justify their crimes and harness international acceptance of the campaign of ethnic cleansing and subjection they have been waging against us...

by Kevin Doyle

[...I]ncompetence alone cannot account for the sheer scale and seriousness of [mismanagement]. Rather, to fully understand why it happens, we have to look at how organisations are set up and run. This is where the anarchist analysis of hierarchy comes into its own.

Nine Swedish no-border activists face more than two years imprisonment in case they will be sentenced for trying to stop the deportation to Eritrea of an asylum seeker. The activists entered the runway of Bromma Airport, Stockholm, during Monday afternoon.

By Gideon Levy - Haaretz

Public opinion in most of the countries whose leaders are heaping all that praise upon [Israel] is not joining in. Israel remains a state without approval, sometimes even outcast and despised. The world sees images from Gaza on television...and it draws its own conclusions. The natural sense of justice that dictates support for the freedom struggles of oppressed people such as the Tibetan dictates natural support for the Palestinian struggle for liberation...With the exception of the U.S., the world is indeed against us, apart from its statesmen.