Europe

Stop the threat to Internet freedom!

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Spectrezine has received this communication from US-based Avaaz, which is campaigning to keep the Internet free of corporate control, a campaign which we fully support.

Austerity Treaty: no democracy without referendums

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The only way the public is likely to be consulted on the changes to the European Union that are being made in response to the euro crisis, is if citizens force governments to hold referendums. This urgent battle for democracy must be won.

Of Six-Packs and Straitjackets

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Odd to find oneself in even partial agreement with US ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P), one of the bodies which now determines government policy throughout most of the developed world, or at least has far greater influence on it than do the hapless voters.

The crisis of the European Union and the failure of its ‘salvation plans’

I. The crisis of European imperialist integration
The year 2011 (and as it seems today quite probably 2012 also) was marked by the crisis of one of the main international pillars of capitalism: the European Union (EU). What is usually described as a crisis of the Eurozone (strictly speaking the European Monetary Union – EMU) is in fact a crisis of the whole EU edifice system, of which EMU is its most avant-gardist structure.

Europe’s corporate coup d’état

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The long-running corporate coup d’état being carried out in Europe has intensified with new treaty proposals that would impose a common EU austerity policy across the Eurozone.

The EU’s techno party is hollowing out democracy

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BRUSSELS - Not everybody's into techno music. Some folks are a little bit country; others a little bit rock and roll.

Antidote to bullshit poisoning: ‘Real-World Economics’

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On-line discussion reveals and debates the truth about what’s being done to us.

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