Hypocrisy and Corruption: Members of European Parliament Preach Austerity, Practice Luxury
By William F. Jasper, February 6, 2012 Marta Andreasen (left), the courageous former chief accountant of the European Union, will not give up. In 2002 she was fired for refusing to sign off on the European Commission’s accounts. But she has continued to hold the EU politicians and eurocrats in Brussels to account, exposing fraud, […]
Has the UN Learned Lessons of Bosnian Sex Slavery Revealed in Rachel Weisz Film?
By Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian, January 15, 2012 The Whistleblower is a shocking film that reveals how Balkan peacekeepers turned a blind eye to kidnapping, torture and rape. But these abuses still go on We do not see the torture inflicted on one girl for trying to flee her captors, but we see the tears […]
False Flag: Israeli Mossad Agents Posed as CIA Spies to Recruit Terrorists to Fight Against Iran
By Mark Perry, Foreign Policy, January 13, 2012 Buried deep in the archives of America’s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush’s administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According […]
Smart Growth Centralizing Wealth in the New Earth Age (Part 2)
By Niki Raapana, December 28, 2011 In the 1950s, small groups of concerned, caring people began working on a series of contracts and trade negotiations that led to the establishment of the WTO and the European Union. A key component of the free trade agreements became acknowledgement of the supremacy of the communitarian law. Communitarianism […]
Smart Growth Centralizing Wealth in the New Earth Age (Part 1)
By Niki Raapana, December 28, 2011 “Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.” Aristotle, Greek philosopher and educator (384-322 BC) The very idea that land management is a proper function of government did not arise naturally in the nation founded on […]
Honduran Farmers Slaughtered In Name Of Global Warming
By Paul Joseph Watson, October 4, 2011 23 farmers in Honduras were slaughtered in cold blood by hired mercenaries as they tried to protect their land from being seized by a corporation who wanted to use the land to produce biofuels as part of a United Nations-accredited EU carbon trading scheme. “Protests erupted in July […]
Hundreds of Herbal Remedies Now Outlawed Across Europe
By M.K. Tyler, May 13, 2011 Live in Europe? Get your herbs while they last. New rules put forth by the European Union (EU) will ban the sale of certain herbal remedies that have been used for centuries. Traditional herbs such a St. John’s Wort or Echinacea must now meet strict licensing guidelines in order […]
Van Rompuy: “Almost a Lie” to Say EU Not Democratic
By We Are Change, April 5, 2011 Unelected European Council President Herman van Rompuy was questioned by students at Warsaw University on democracy in the European Union. He seemed irritated at the suggestion that the EU was undemocratic, despite the fact that he’s completely unaccountable to the people of Europe. Herman Van Rompuy has issued […]