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Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2012
Allain Jules
22nd July, 2012
Alors que l’Europe va inéluctablement vers une explosion sociale, les bisounours des médias et les politiques agents de la Finance mondiale, devenus complètement séniles et handicapés du cerveau parlent d’instaurer la démocratie ailleurs. En bons donneurs de leçons, ils se croient tout permis, avalisent la terreur terroriste, toujours ailleurs, sous prétexte que, Kadhafi aurait imposé la dictature durant 40 ans, alors que les Assad, père et fils, mettent leur peuple depuis des décennies, aussi, sous le joug de la dictature. De quoi parle-t-on ?
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2012
Jean-Paul Baquiast
Europe Solidaire
14th July, 2012
Les images opèrent encore. Ceux qui regardaient les puissants moyens déployés par la République sur les Champs-Elysées, couvrant un vaste domaine d’armes et d’interventions, pouvaient s’imaginer que la France était encore une grande puissance. ..Ce qui est le cas d’ailleurs quand on la compare aux piètres capacités des autres pays européens, y compris la mirifique Allemagne – pour ne pas mentionner le Royaume Uni, tristement tenu en laisse par les Etats-Unis.
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Posted by seumasach on July 19, 2012
All this is part of the so-called flight to safety whereby alternative investment outlets are blocked off forcing funds into US/UK bonds as the least bad option. The systematic devaluation of the euro via quantitative easing, long sought by Wall Street and the City of London and now seemingly being carried out with the direct bailout of the Spanish banks without creditor or shareholder write-downs, is another pillar of this policy.
Paul Craig Roberts and Nomi Prins
Institute for Political Economy
14th July, 2012
According to news reports, UK banks fixed the London interbank borrowing rate (Libor) with the complicity of the Bank of England (UK central bank) at a low rate in order to obtain a cheap borrowing cost. The way this scandal is playing out is that the banks benefitted from borrowing at these low rates. Whereas this is true, it also strikes us as simplistic and as a diversion from the deeper, darker scandal.
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Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2012
Cailean Bochanan
8th July, 2012
Francois Hollande’s clear espousal of Hilary Clinton’s position at the recent “Friends of Syria” conference, a gathering of international outlaws dedicated to a regime change programme for Syria supposedly at the behest of the Syrian people, should set alarm bells ringing for those who support the emerging Euroland project.
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Posted by seumasach on July 7, 2012
Our man in the Elysee! William Hague will be overjoyed to find in Francois Hollande continuity with the Atlanticist foreign policy of Sarkozy. He can take heart that without an independent foreign policy Euroland is going nowhere and London and Washington can perpetually replay a cold war against Russia and China.
Allain Jules
7th July, 2012
Après avoir supprimé la vidéo de la Conférence des “amis” de la Syrie sur son site Internet, l’Elysée tente-t-il de faire pression sur Youtube pour trapper la vidéo n°2 de ce post ? Déjà deux vidéos effacées.
Ah, la France éternelle est de retour !
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Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2012
Nikos Konstandaras
Ekathimerini
6th July, 2012
In the end, Italy and Spain got what they wanted at the summit in Brussels: Spanish banks will be recapitalized directly by the EU’s emergency fund, sparing Spain greater public debt and raising the hope that Madrid and Rome’s borrowing costs will drop. With last Friday’s decision, Europe can hope that at last the markets will believe that the eurozone’s members will protect their common currency as well as their own economies — something that was not evident from the moment that the Greek crisis broke out. Now we need to learn how much the European banks will be under the control of a central, European mechanism. In other words, we must see the extent to which Germany achieved its goal of the eurozone exerting greater central control over its members’ economies.
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Posted by seumasach on July 2, 2012
EU Observer
29th June, 2012
The eurozone has priority when it comes to further integration, says French President Francois Hollande, something that will eventually have to be reflected in the European Parliament.
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Posted by seumasach on June 6, 2012
Having marginalised ourselves in Europe we are now in a difficult position as the USA engages with China. Britain’s only realistic course is a constructive engagement with Europe but we prefer to dream the Atlanticist dream to the last.
PressTV
6th June, 2012
British Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey has launched a veiled criticism of the US for shifting naval capacity to Asia saying the move undermines the Atlantic security.
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Posted by seumasach on June 6, 2012
Marek Belka
CS Monitor
5th June, 2012
As Spain’s credit possibilities dry up, the strength of the eurozone is further tested. If the European Union is to shield against the negative effects of globalization – like the current debt crisis – it needs a fully empowered, legitimate central government, writes a former Polish prime minister.
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Posted by seumasach on June 5, 2012
Jean-Paul Baquiast
Europe Solidaire
4th June, 2012
On aurait pu espérer que la visite de Vladimir Poutin à Berlin puis à Paris les 31 mai et ler juin aurait marqué le renforcement des liens de coopération stratégique entre l’Europe et la Russie.
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Posted by seumasach on June 4, 2012
Michael Burke
Guardian
3rd June, 2012
In the days when Britannia ruled the waves, the British political tradition was to keep Europe down by keeping it disunited. Enthralling notions can linger long past their usefulness. Just as former British naval supremacy is being unconsciously parodied on the Thames, so a growing array of political forces in Britain are clamouring for a break-up of the euro and even of the European Union.
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In These New Times 