The European Parliament will hold a mini plenary session in Brussels this week (24-25 February). The reform of the common fisheries policies is one of the items on the agenda. The EPs opinions on the EU’s fisheries policies have become very important, since the institution now has full co-decision rights within this area. I think that one particular area of the fisheries policies of the EU deserves special attention, namely the fisheries agreements with developing countries.
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The reform of the fisheries policies to be discussed in the EP
22 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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Viva The White Rose!
22 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
67 years ago today Sophie Scholl was beheaded by the Nazis for distributing leaflets published by the White Rose Society, along with her brother Hans and Christoph Probst. She was 22 years old. I suppose many of us have seen the movie, but I feel a proper tribute to her and her fellow resisters would be to read their words, as printed in their first leaftlet, especially if we substitute "American" for "German" and (with a bit more gumption) "New York City" (WTC) for "Cologne": (...)
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U.S. – Iran Power Struggle over Iraq
18 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
By Nicola Nasser*
U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill’s warning on February 18 that it could take months to form a new government in Baghdad after the Iraqi elections, scheduled for March 7, and that in turn could mean considerable political turmoil in Iraq, and the warnings of observers and experts as well as officials against the looming specter of a renewed sectarian war in the country, indicate that security, stability, let alone democracy, and a successful “victorious” withdrawal of (...) -
RECENT THOUGHTS ON OBAMA AND THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
16 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
OBAMA AND THE GRIM SHADOW OF AMERICA’S TORTURE PRISONS - AND THE BRUTAL FACT ONLY DREAMERS AND FOOLS BELIEVE IN CHANGE IN AMERICA
POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JOHANN HARI IN THE INDEPENDENT
Yes, absolutely, the secret prisons in Afghanistan, and those in other places, cast a grim shadow across Obama’s smiling face.
I believe that decisions like keeping America’s torture gulag operating abroad are the greatest source of people’s disappointment with Obama.
But I’m afraid people (...) -
RECENT THOUGHTS ON ISRAEL’S POSTURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
16 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
WHY IS THE UK STILL THREATENING ISRAELI POLITICIANS ASKS PHILIP JOHNSTON? THE ANSWER PLUS A COMPARISON OF GUERNICA AND OPERATION CAST LEAD
POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY PHILIP JOHNSTON IN THE TELEGRAPH: ISRAELI POLITICIANS FEAR CHARGES
Why are we (the UK ) still threatening to arrest Israeli politicians?
Gee, I wonder?
Could it possibly be that they are war criminals?
In the recent past, an author from Britain served time in jail for "holocaust denial," a stupidity but hardly a (...) -
Helicopter armada heralds biggest ever Afghan operation
15 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Thomas Harding
An armada of helicopters lifted a vast force against Taliban strongholds today in the biggest operation ever mounted in Afghanistan.
Wave after wave of helicopters landed across central Helmand marking the start of the major offensive that aims to finally defeat the insurgency.
Two hours before dawn the first Chinooks swept low over the Taliban district capital of Showal disgorging a force of British, Afghan and French troops signalling “D-Day”, the start of (...) -
In the memory of 13Feb1991 massacre
12 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Tomorrow is the 19th memory of the Amiriyah shelter massacre[1] when more than 408 civilians were killed[2] on February 13, 1991 during the Gulf War, by US military air-raid on shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25"), also referred to as the Al Firdos C3 bunker at Baghdad, Iraq. The USAF destroyed the shelter by with two laser-guided "smart bombs".[3]
The shelter was used in the Iran–Iraq War and the Gulf War by hundreds of civilians. It was built by an European company in mid 1980’s (...) -
The Philippine War is Not So Different from Afghanistan
10 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsAmerican history has been dominated by war; so, too, may the American future be.
The war in Afghanistan feels foreign to Americans: a far distant land, a confusing and alien culture, and combat against a shadowy enemy. That feeling is mistaken. America has spent much of its history fighting wars like the one in Afghanistan. So much so, in fact, that Afghanistan would be familiar to an American in 1900, and conventional wars such as World War II would seem strange.
In fact, in many ways (...) -
Huge "Scheherazade" Painting & Poem by Gideon Polya: "One Day in the Life of Barack Obama"
6 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Last year I published on Bellaciao a very carefully researched and documented quantitative analysis of the mass murder of Muslim civilians, and notably of children, by the US Alliance in the Occupied Territories of the American Empire under Barack Obama and entitled “Hey, Hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000”: . This article comes up as #1 out of about 8,000 hits on a Google Search for the famous anti-war chant “Hey. Hey . USA, how many kids did you kill today?” (...)
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Taiwan’s $6.4 billion arms package; Houston, we’ve got a problem…..
3 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Ah Houston, Space Rider here; we’ve got a problem. Space Rider, this is Houston, go ahead. Uh, Houston, Space Rider, we’re in the holding pattern just north of Jupiter and our Foreign Policy Extender Probe is jammed and won’t retract, over. Space Rider, we see the problem and the FPEP engineers are looking at a fix. Houston, Space Rider, we have run the emergency check list and there is no procedure for reentry with the FPEP jammed and generating all that parasite drag. Space Rider, (...)