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Sputnik Sputnik (via Global Research) 26 February 2016 EU politicians and European heads of state are desperately looking for ways to save the European project, but a series of powerful anti-EU shocks, and growing public distrust makes a Soviet-style collapse seem almost inevitable, French economist Charles Gave suggests. Beset by crises from all sides, from the prospects of a Brexit to the ongoing migrant crisis to a negative economic outlook, cracks have appeared in the EU project, France’s Atlantico newspaper recalls.Speaking to the newspaper, Charles Gave, an economist and president of the liberal think tank Institut des Libertes,  was asked  why he believes the European Union project may eventually face the same fate as the old Soviet Union. © AP Photo/ Giannis Papanikos “The disaster of the quotations of European banks shows that something has gone terribly wrong,” the economist warned. “I ...

EDITORIAL Ne News 27 February 2016 Ever gone to a river and see the water flow. Well, the water in a river never stops flowing. Well, culture is just like that. Culture in a particular area is not static, it is always evolving; and it will never stop. It never stopped in the past, and it will never stop in the future. It is always evolving in one way or another. This means that the culture you are witnessing in your part of the world would be different in fifty years. It would be different fifty years after that. And it would be different fifty years after that. It is always evolving and it would never stop evolving. Take for example the indigenous cultures of North America. Around ten thousand years ago, Asian immigrants arrived in the Americas via a land bridge that today is the Bering Strait that separates North America and Russia. They probably had cultural ties to Asia, but over thousands of years, the descendants of these very ancient immigrants, the Native Americans w...

Andre Vltchek Counterpunch (via Global Research) 26 February 2016 Philosophers have been muzzled by the Western global regime; most of great modern philosophy concealed from the masses. What has been left of it, allowed to float on the surface is toothless, irrelevant and incomprehensible: a foolish outdated theoretical field for those few remaining intellectual snobs. Philosophy used to be the most precious crown jewel of human intellectual achievement. It stood at the vanguard of almost all fights for a better world. Gramsci was a philosopher, and so were Lenin, Mao Tse-tung, Ho-Chi-Minh, Guevara, Castro, Frantz Fanon, Senghors, Cabral, Nyerere and Lumumba, to name just a few. To be a thinker, a philosopher, in ancient China, Japan or even in some parts of the West, was the most respected human ‘occupation’. In all ‘normally’ developing societies, knowledge has been valued much higher than material possessions or naked power. In ancient Greece and...

Guillaume Kress Global Research 19 February 2016 President Francois Hollande, whose legitimacy stems from nothing but a fraudulent multiparty electoral system , has repeatedly abused his authority  since taking office in 2012 by waging illegal wars in foreign countries (i.e., Mali, Syria) without consulting his electors. [1] He  recently failed to confer with them when his Socialist government responded to last year’s terrorist attacks in Paris by adopting Orwellian domestic policies – policies that have allowed the Hollande administration to spy on citizens , block websites containing “terrorist related content” , strip convicted “terrorists” of French citizenship , and criminalize activism against Israeli occupation .[2] These policies prevent the spread of information which may expose the government’s criminal activities. We should note, here, that the state of emergency greatly facilitates political corruption. [3] To put it briefly, the state of...

Dan MacFadden McGill Daily (via globalresearch.ca) 24 February 2016 Six years before the fall of the South African apartheid, an editorial by The Daily (“ South Africa Love it and Leave it ,” September 12, 1985, Editorial, page 4) noted optimistically, “Now, even the most conservative authorities are recognizing that revolution is inevitable. Now, they are divesting not on principle, but out of self-interest.” McGill would later, in November 18, 1985 , join dozens of other North American universities in divesting its holdings from South Africa, also becoming the first Canadian university to do so – something that played an important role in taking down legislated apartheid in the country. Thirty years later, the end of Israeli apartheid appears distant on the horizon as it has been ever since the occupation of Palestinian territories by Israel in 1967. The use of the term “apartheid” is a parallel drawn by human rights organizations and activists between the past ...

Sorry about the lateness of this week's recommended readings. The date for the referendum on the United Kingdom's possible exit from the European Union for 23 June 2016. As mentioned in last week's episode, Press TV has a episode of The Debate about the so-called "Brexit" that would have not just an impact on Britain and Europe, but the world (http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/22/451774/UK-Britain-European-Union-Brexit). There have also been a number of articles on Global Research about it, most notably this one from Binoy Kampmark (http://www.globalresearch.ca/camerons-european-sojourn-the-referendum-on-brexit-is-nigh/5509560). In other news, the oppression of Palestinians by the fascist government in Israel continues http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-is-on-the-brink-of-a-tyranny-of-the-majority/5509881); and the media in the United States are still telling lies about Syria. The United States claim that they are fighting the terrorists in Syria when in fac...

Recommended Readings: Friday 19 February 2016 NOTE: Every Tuesday at around 23:00, a list of recommended readings will appear before the Friday show. Note that the opinions of these readings are the opinions of the author/s and does not necessarily reflect the views of Ne News. The Nazi Roots of the 'Brussels EU'- Paul Anthony Taylor, Aleksandra Niedzwlecki, Matthias Rath and August Kowalczyk (http://www.reject-the-eu.co.uk/) NOTE: You can download the UK edition of this book from this website for free. Global Research- http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Be Your Own Leader- http://beyourownleader.blogspot.com.au/ Team Europe: The European Alliance of EU-Critical Movements: http://teameurope.co/ NOTE: This website contains links to non-English language websites, but some of these sites contains English-language articles.  

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