The 500 million people of the European Union are being denied the right to ratify by referenda major amendments to the two key EU treaties. The Lisbon Treaty, signed by member states in December, will significantly increase the power of unelected EU institutions and enshrine right-wing economic policy.
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Blackwater: The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army
By Jeremy Scahill
Serpents Tail, 2007
452 pages, $35 (pb)
By Jeremy Scahill
Serpents Tail, 2007
452 pages, $35 (pb)
On February 4, a series of massive ostensibly non-political peace demonstrations against the left-wing guerrilla group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) took place in Colombia. Hundreds of thousands took part under the banner of No more FARC, No more kidnappings. Protests also took place around the world.
“Celebrating the completion of nine years in office, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez presented what he considered to be some of the main economic achievements of his government” according to a February 4 Venezuelanalysis.com article.
“With food prices rising, Haiti’s poorest can’t
afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies”, according to a January 29 Associated Press article by Jonathan Katz.
The socialist journal Links, initiated by the Australian Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) to promote international socialist collaboration and regroupment, has been relaunched as an online-only publication.
US and allied foreign forces are facing “a classic growing insurgency” in Afghanistan, Admiral Michael Mullen, the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told US legislators on February 1.
US officials want their puppet Iraqi government to agree to a long-term status of forces agreement that would give the US military broad authority to conduct combat operations and guarantee civilian contractors specific legal protections from Iraqi law, the January 25 New York Times reported.
The polling company Opinion Research Business (ORB) has released detailed data confirming that the death toll from the Iraq war has exceeded 1 million people more than the total number killed in the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Let our revenge be the laughter of our children Bobby Sands
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