Category Archives: Europe
Intense video challenges Catalan and Spanish collaboration with the Israeli occupation | Mondoweiss
This year, the Palestine solidarity movement in Catalonia, formed by the platform “Amb Palestina al Cor”, “BDS Catalunya”, “Plataforma: Aturem la Guerra”, “Rumb a Gaza” and “Dones en Rebel·lia”, denounce the role that Israel plays in the dessign, research, implementation and global sale of different security and repression systems. We have proves that Catalonia and […]
This is how racism takes root | Joseph Harker | Comment is free | The Guardian
Imagine if, after Anders Breivik’s carnage in Norway last year, which he claimed to be in defence of the Christian world, British people were repeatedly asked whether they supported him? Lumped together in the same white religious group as the killer and constantly told they must renounce him, or explain why we should believe that […]
Rule, Britannia? UK ‘shadow military’ may return to Gulf over instability fears — RT News
The UK army is planning to build up a strong “shadow presence” in the Gulf, marking a return to the seat of its old imperial power, a UK think tank said. The Arab Spring and security fears over a nuclear Iran are among the reasons for the move. The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) published […]
The IRA veteran and the daughter of a slain MP who preached peace to Israelis – Twilight Zone – Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
She is the bereaved daughter of the British member of Parliament who was one of five people killed in one of the biggest terror attacks in the history of the Irish Republican Army – an attack meant to kill the prime minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher. He is the man who planted the bomb […]
Human rights laws: supremely serious judgment | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
Britains judges have traditionally disliked involving themselves in public controversy almost as strongly as Britains politicians wish the judges would keep their criticisms firmly under their wigs. That is why Tuesdays Guardian interview with the president of the UK supreme court, Lord Neuberger, is such an important and even astonishing event. The wigless Lord Neuberger […]
Greek military prepares for mass repression – World Socialist Web Site
Former high-level Greek diplomat Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos told the UK’s New Statesman last week that discussions had taken place between senior Greek politicians and the armed forces on the military’s response to what Chrysanthopoulos described as an “explosion of social unrest” expected to occur “quite soon.” Chrysanthopoulos said that in the coming months, “There will be […]
British terror suspects quietly stripped of citizenship… then killed by drones – Crime – UK – The Independent
The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism for The Independent has established that since 2010, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has revoked […]
Greece: “A promise from the army has been obtained to not intervene against a civil uprising”
Chrysanthopoulos says that the government has hired Blackwater, the American private military firm infamous for its activities in Iraq, which now goes by the name “Academi”, along with five other international for-profit security outfits. Explaining why this has happened, he says bluntly: “The Greek government does not trust the police whose salaries have also been […]
The rise of Europe’s far-right voices – Interactive – Al Jazeera English
The rise of Europe’s far-right voices – Interactive – Al Jazeera English.
Banksy Arrested In London, Identity Revealed | PRLog
London Police Chief Wayne Leppard held a press conference to answer questions about how Banksy was finally apprehended. “We had a 24-hour Anti-Graffiti Task Force monitoring different groups known to have associated with Banksy. We received word that around 2am a group of individuals left a flat speculated to be one of Banky’s art studios. […]
