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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