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EURO MPs began debating the secretive and anti-democratic Trade in Services Agreement (Tisa) yesterday, ahead of a vote on Wednesday.
Tisa is being negotiated behind closed doors between 23 “partners” — one of which, the EU, dictates to 28 countries including Britain.
But leaked documents have shown that the proposed agreement would force signatories to open up all their public services to private-sector outsourcing or competition.
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
The federal government’s plans to finance the war in Ukraine with Russian assets, and a possible deployment of German troops, put the population in Germany in the highest danger, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out
Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran