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This collection of short reports describes and analyses many of the most contentious aspects of the proposed Canada–EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Dozens of trade and investment experts in Canada and the EU have collaborated to provide a diversity of perspectives on the proposed agreement, but all agree that CETA, as it is written, threatens the public good on both sides of the Atlantic. In a wide variety of policy areas only loosely related to trade, CETA elevates the rights of corporations and foreign investors above the welfare of citizens and the broader public interest. Briefly: - INVESTOR–STATE DISPUTE SETTLEMENT The latest CETA text pays lip service to public concerns about investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) by replacing it with what the EU and Canada are calling an Investment Court System. While it improves some procedural aspects of ISDS—for example, by making arbitrators less prone to conflicts of interest—the protec

The Syrian people are suffering under the ‘moderate rebels’ and ‘opposition forces’ backed by the US, NATO member states and their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. Yet their suffering is largely ignored in the mainstream media unless it furthers the agenda dictated by the State Department. This article is the first in a two-part series of one Western journalist’s journey to Aleppo, a city ravaged by an insurgency supported by the United States, NATO member states, and their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. In Part I, Vanessa Beeley lays out the mainstream narrative on Syria, revealing a neoconservative agenda promoted by NATO-funded NGOs. These NGOs paint the destruction of the historic city as being caused by the Syrian government under Bashar Assad, not the violent armed insurgents which receive arms, funding and training from Western governments and their allies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Aleppo has become synonymous with

Στην ομολογία ότι τα δάνεια - ύψους 13 εκ. ευρώ - που δόθηκαν σε ΝΔ και ΠΑΣΟΚ από την Attica Bank το 2010 και το 2011 δεν ελέγχθηκαν προχώρησε ο Διευθυντής της Διεύθυνσης Επιθεώρησης Εποπτευόμενων Εταιρειών Τράπεζας της Ελλάδος, Γιώργος Πάσχας. Μιλώντας στην εξεταστική επιτροπή της Βουλής για τα δάνεια των κομμάτων αποκάλυψε επίσης ότι τα δυο κόμματα χρωστούν πάνω από 295 εκατομμύρια ευρώ αλλά και ότι η Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος δεν εξέδωσε πόρισμα για τα δάνεια σε ΜΜΕ και πολιτικά κόμματα την περίοδο 2011 – 2014. Ο Γιώργος Πάσχας μιλώντας στην εξεταστική επιτροπή είπε ότι η Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος δεν συμπεριέλαβε στους ελέγχους που έκανε στην Attica Bank, την περίοδο 2011-2014, τα δάνεια της ΝΔ και του ΠΑΣΟΚ. Υποστήριξε δε, ότι δεν έστειλε στην Εξεταστική το πόρισμα της Attica Bank για την περίοδο αυτή διότι δεν περιλάμβανε δάνεια μέσων ενημέρωσης και κομμάτων. Ο εισηγητής του ΣΥΡΙΖΑ Σπύρος Λάππας του επεσήμανε ότι η ΝΔ και το ΠΑΣΟΚ πήραν 13 εκατ. ευρώ δάνειο εκείνη

From high above, Agadez almost blends into the cocoa-colored wasteland that surrounds it. Only when you descend farther can you make out a city that curves around an airfield before fading into the desert. Once a nexus for camel caravans hauling tea and salt across the Sahara, Agadez is now a West African paradise for people smugglers and a way station for refugees and migrants intent on reaching Europe’s shores by any means necessary. Africans fleeing unrest and poverty are not, however, the only foreigners making their way to this town in the center of Niger. U.S. military documents reveal new information about an American drone base under construction on the outskirts of the city. The long-planned project — considered the most important U.S. military construction effort in Africa, according to formerly secret files obtained by The Intercept through the Freedom of Information Act — is slated to cost $100 million, and is just one of a number of recent American mil

Die Koordination bringt politische Parteien und Volksbewegungen zusammen, die die Prinzipien der Freiheit, der sozialen Gleichheit und der Brüderlichkeit der Völker als nicht verhandelbar betrachten. Deswegen stellen wir uns gegen die neoliberale Globalisierung, die sich auf Dogmen stützt, die diesen Prinzipien zuwider laufen: Ersetzung der Demokratie durch die Herrschaft einer oligarchischen Elite, Kult des wilden Wettbewerbs und der zunehmenden sozialen Ungleichheit, Schleifung der nationalen Souveränität zugunsten imperialer Regime. Die Europäische Union, mit ihrer gemeinsamen Währung, repräsentiert den fortgeschrittensten und gefährlichsten Versuch, der durch diese oligarchische Elite bisher ins Werk gesetzt wurde. Die irreversible Krise der EU treibt die herrschenden Klassen dazu, ihre gegen die Völker gerichteten Austeritätsprogramme zu verschärfen. Es gibt keinen Weg diese reaktionäre und imperialistische Union zu reformieren. Sie muss geschliffen w

The agents of the global financial mafia are everywhere! globinfo freexchange The creator of Debtocracy and Catastroika documentaries, Aris Chatzistefanou, presents an interview that was not included, finally, in his new documentary "This is not a coup", that actually exposes the authoritarian regime of the European Financial Dictatorship. In this short piece, the former correspondent of the Financial Times in Italy, Alan Friedman, describes how the former president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, came up with the idea, back in 2011, that the then Greek PM George Papandreou could be replaced by the technocrat Lucas Papademos, as eventually happened, when Papandreou "dared" to think to hold a referendum on the acceptance of the terms of the eurozone bailout deal with Greece. An interesting part from the interview: George Papandreou, when he called the referendum at the end of 2011, got "beaten up" b

Με αφορμή την κυκλοφορία του ντοκιμαντέρ This is not a coup από την Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών, το Σάββατο 1η Οκτωβρίου, παρουσιάζουμε αποσπάσματα των συνεντεύξεων που δεν μπορέσαμε να συμπεριλάβουμε στην τελική έκδοση της ταινίας. Στο πρώτο απόσπασμα ο πρώην ανταποκριτής των Financial Times στην Ιταλία, Άλαν Φρίντμαν, αποκαλύπτει στιχομυθία του με τον Μανουέλ Μπαρόζο, o οποίος του αποκάλυψε ότι αυτός επέλεξε τον Λουκά Παπαδήμο για πρωθυπουργό της Ελλάδας. Ο Φρίντμαν μιλά για το “ξύλο” που έφαγε ο Γιώργος Παπανδρέου στη σύνοδο των G20 στις Κάνες και την τελική απομάκρυνσή του μετά τις παρεμβάσεις της Κομισιόν, της Γαλλίας και της Γερμανίας ενώ δεν παραλείπει να αναφερθεί στο σκοτεινό ρόλο του Ευάγγελου Βενιζέλου. info-war.gr

Coup in Brazil In the first exclusive interview following her impeachment, former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said that her unelected successor, installed president Michel Temer, has “confessed to the coup” against her. Rousseff was referring to controversial public remarks delivered by Temer last week in which he explicitly stated that the impeachment process was initiated due to Rousseff’s refusal to accept his party’s neo-liberal economic plan, rather than the alleged budgetary manipulations which served as the stated justification for impeachment. Temer’s remarks were first reported by The Intercept Brasil last Thursday. As Rousseff stated:       “Also, there were those with their own plans who wanted something else: ‘We will implement a political program that was not approved by the ballot box, a different political plan’. And this is being confessed, there’s something curious about this coup, they confess the coup. Two days later. They’

Apple promises that your iMessage conversations are safe and out of reach from anyone other than you and your friends. But according to a document obtained by The Intercept, your blue-bubbled texts do leave behind a log of which phone numbers you are poised to contact and shares this (and other potentially sensitive metadata) with law enforcement when compelled by court order. Every time you type a number into your iPhone for a text conversation, the Messages app contacts Apple servers to determine whether to route a given message over the ubiquitous SMS system, represented in the app by those déclassé green text bubbles, or over Apple’s proprietary and more secure messaging network, represented by pleasant blue bubbles, according to the document. Apple records each query in which your phone calls home to see who’s in the iMessage system and who’s not. This log also includes the date and time when you entered a number, along with your IP address — which could,

Afshin Rattansi goes underground on money and power’s influence on the world. Punk pioneer, fashion designer and activist, with Vivienne Westwood on keynote speech at the opening of the London School of Economics Resist Festival of Ideas and Actions.

The Syrian people are suffering under the ‘moderate rebels’ and ‘opposition forces’ backed by the US, NATO member states and their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. Yet their suffering is largely ignored in the mainstream media unless it furthers the agenda dictated by the State Department. This article is the first in a two-part series of one Western journalist’s journey to Aleppo, a city ravaged by an insurgency supported by the United States, NATO member states, and their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. In Part I, Vanessa Beeley lays out the mainstream narrative on Syria, revealing a neoconservative agenda promoted by NATO-funded NGOs. These NGOs paint the destruction of the historic city as being caused by the Syrian government under Bashar Assad, not the violent armed insurgents which receive arms, funding and training from Western governments and their allies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Aleppo has become synonymous wi

La Coordinación reúne a los partidos políticos y movimientos populares que consideran que los principios de la libertad, la igualdad social y la fraternidad entre los pueblos no son negociables. Es por ello que nos oponemos a la globalización neoliberal, que se basa en dogmas que se encuentran en las antípodas: la sustitución de la democracia por el régimen despótico de la élite oligárquica, el culto de la competencia salvaje y el aumento de la injusticia social, la supresión de la soberanía nacional a favor de los regímenes imperiales. La Unión Europea, con su moneda única, representa el intento más avanzado y peligroso puesto en práctica por la élite oligárquica. La crisis irreversible de la Unión Europea empuja a las clases dominantes a endurecer las políticas de austeridad y anti-populares. No hay manera de reformar esta Unión reaccionaria e imperialista. Hay que demolerla, apoyando todos los movimientos de emancipación social. La coordinación es un lug

A few points from Monday's presidential debate globinfo freexchange As expected, Monday's presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, didn't make us wiser. However, it would be useful to focus on a few moments, anyway. Generally, the rhetoric of the two candidates was based on simple conclusions concerning various US internal problems, which anyone knows and actually experiencing to a much higher degree than themselves. This type of rhetoric, of course, is very usual for the establishment politicians around the globe in our days. For example, you may notice that they frequently used the phrase "we have to ...", or, "we need to ..." deal with (put whatever issue you like in the dots), which actually only identifies the problem, does not provide a solution for it. The debate was full of such generalities. Another example is the phrase of Hillary Clinton that “ We just have a different view about wh

Αν σε κάτι έχει πλεόνασμα αυτή η χώρα είναι σε εργολάβους και στημένους διαγωνισμούς. Η μόνη μέριμνα που υπήρξε μετά τη μεταπολίτευση ήταν να έχουν να ασφαλτοστρώνουν οι εργολάβοι. Δρόμους σε πενταπλάσιες τιμές, αεροδρόμια σε διπλάσιες από τις πραγματικές και όλα αυτά σε διαγωνισμούς που είναι στημένοι. του Κώστα Βαξεβάνη “ Εγώ φταίω για τις τιμές”, έλεγε πριν μερικά χρόνια γνωστός εθνικός εργολάβος, “οι πολιτικοί φταίνε που απαιτούν μεγάλες μίζες”. Απλά πράγματα, ξεκάθαρες κουβέντες. Ακόμη και τον καιρό της κρίσης που σταμάτησαν τα πάντα στην Ελλάδα, δρόμοι και έργα συνέχισαν να γίνονται με επιχειρήματα που μπορείτε να βρείτε εύκολα στο διαδίκτυο ως δηλώσεις Χρυσοχοΐδη και άλλων εργοπατέρων. Πρόσφατα , αποκαλύφθηκε πως το καρτέλ των κατασκευαστικών, επί 27 χρόνια έστηνε διαγωνισμούς, ενώ το HOT DOC έχει αποκαλύψει πως 11,5 δισεκατομμύρια από τα 21 του συνόλου του ΕΣΠΑ της χώρας πήγαν σε τρεις μόνο κατασκευαστές. Πάμε τώρα στο ερώτημα. Πότε έγινε από τη Ν

La coordination rassemble les partis politiques et les mouvements populaires qui considèrent non négociables les principes de la liberté, l’égalité sociale et la fraternité entre les peuples. Voilà pourquoi nous nous opposons à la mondialisation néo-libérale, qui est basée sur des dogmes qui sont aux antipodes: la confiscation de la démocratie par le régime despotique de l’élite oligarchique, le culte de la compétition sauvage et l’augmentation de l’injustice sociale, la suppression de la souveraineté nationale au profit des régimes impériaux. L’Union européenne, avec sa monnaie unique représente le système le plus avancé et le plus dangereux jamais mis en place par les élites oligarchiques. La crise irréversible de l’Union européenne pousse les classes dominantes à durcir les politiques austéritaires contre les peuples anti-populaire. Il n’y a aucun moyen de réformer cette Union réactionnaire et impérialiste. Il faut en sortir en s’appuyant sur les mouvements d’éma

Coup in Brazil During a recent appearance at a corporate think tank, Brazilian President Michel Temer admitted that his predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached because she refused to implement a neoliberal reform plan published by Temer’s party. Rousseff was formally removed from office on Aug. 31 after the Brazilian senate voted to impeach her for breaking budgetary laws. This allowed Temer to take office despite a court ruling barring him from running for election. However, Rousseff and other critics of Temer have argued that her impeachment was actually a coup d’etat which set the stage for Temer to take power, backed by a government that’s more favorable to corporate investors. Appearing Wednesday before an audience in New York at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, a corporate think tank founded in 1965 by the powerful banker David Rockefeller, Temer appeared to admit that the impeachment had more to do with Rousseff’s refusal to ad