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#JEFTA: Corporate Power Agreement Officially Signed By Japan, EU Over Wills Of Citizens, Will Go To Member States For Ratification From JEFTA To NATO, Rejecting Both The "Liberal Order" And Far-Right Conspiracies On "Globalism" WTO's Survival At Risk As Trade War Looms: Reports Helsinki Summit: 31 Left-Wing Protestors Against Repression Arrested, Beaten By Finnish Cops US Journalist Arrested Attempting To Ask Trump, Putin Questions On Nuclear Weapons Ban Intense Political Climate In US As Pro-War Democrats, Republicans Back Hearings, Claim "Treason" An Analysis Of The Summit Between US And Russia - Hysteria On All Sides BREXIT: FOUR LABOUR MPS DEFY WHIP, SAVE MAY FROM GENERAL ELECTION AS THRY BACK HARD LINE BREXIT Owen Jones: John Mann, Frank Field, Kate Hoey & Graham Stringer Must Be Kicked Out Of Party #London: A Quick Visit To The Home Office In Solidarity With Migrants Dijon: Large Refugee Squat Evicted By CRS (PHO...

Today, officials from the European Union plan to sign off on a major trade and investment agreement with Japan, known colloquially as JEFTA. The deal, which is multiple years in the making, has drawn intense concern from environmental and labour campaigners due to its lack of provisions on whaling (amazingly still a problem in 2018), weak commitment to sustainable development, and inclusion of rules that could facilitate the privatisation of public services, including water, in Germany and other EU states. In addition, the deal refuses to recognise the precautionary principle and includes restrictions on the right of states to regulate multinational corporations.  JEFTA, written behind closed doors by lobby shops, is only visible to campaigners because it was leaked to Greenpeace. Yet, bar a freak accident, it will be signed off tomorrow without a public referendum in any country.  The agreement, like its sister deal CETA and the WTO, should be reminders of the dark ...

France: Nantes Riots Escalate As Thousands Of Youth Manifest Against CRS Police Brutality, Department Store Set Alight, More Cars Torched Cops Clash With Student Protestors As Flames Spread Though The Streets.... Nantes: Report By The Assembly Of Those Injured By The Police Berlin: Solidarity With Nantes! Action Against Police Vehicle, Repression Apparatus #OccupyICEPHL: Philadelphia Police, DHS Forces Evict, Destroy Encampment Against ICE From "Socialist Coup" To "Avalanche Of Drugs:" Media Smear Campaign Against #AbolishICE Santiago De Chile: Solidarity To #ICEBreaker Comrades In The USA On Establishment Law And People's Disorder Spain: Revolutionary Feminists Protest Against Sexual Violence, Capitalist Heteropatriarchy From East to West, The New Feminism in European Politics Feminism and Revolution: Looking Back, Looking Ahead  Increasingly, The Far-Right Regards Human Inequality as “Natural” Euro-Ecologists: Call To Action A...

European Far-Right And Centre Unite To Pass Brutal Refugee Policy SPD Cheers CSU Efforts In Imposing Even-Harsher Policy On Migrants As Anti-Semitic AfD Takes Credit For "Cleansing" Of Germany..... Extreme Centre Parties Create Repression Philosophy To Pathologise Left-Wing Thought, Action Emmanuel Macron Launches New, Direct Attack On The French Social Model And The Constitution Europe's Ongoing Genocide: More Than 200 Migrants Drown In Three Days Another Boat Full Of Refugees Capsizes As EU's New Social Murder Policy Blocks Ships A Detailed Analysis Of The European Union's New Refugee Policy Denmark: Harsh Conditions Intensified In Ghettos For Refugees And Immigrants #RefugeesGR: Plans To Close Pikpa Refugee Camp Slammed By Activsts Left-Wing Groups Denounce Increasingly Barbaric Policies In European Parliament Deportation Targets And The Deterrent Dogma: UK Immigration Enforcement From Straw To May #OccupyICE Movement Explodes ...

End Of The ICE Age As Over 700 Protests & Occupations Sweep USA, Activists Fight Cops #MeltICE: Antifa Groups & Leftists Beat Back Fascist Riot In Portland Aligned With Cops #CrushICE: A Look Inside The #OccupyICE Camps & Communes And Their Struggle #AbolishICE: 600 Anti-ICE Feminists Arrested En Masse In DC NYC Cops Steal Palestinian Flags From Anti-ICE Protest Groups The Failure Of Liberals And Their Collaboration With Police- An Essay Charlottesville Right-Wing Extremists Plot Rally Outside White House EU Gives Stamp Of Approval To Frontex State Terrorist Campaign Against Refugees "Controlled Centres" - Migrants To Be Directed To African Concentration Camps.... NGO Ships Detained Without Explanation As Hundreds Drown Rightwing Smears Of NGOs As "Human Traffickers" Has No Basis In Reality Varoufakis: European Leaders Dancing To Salvini's Racist Tunes Germany: Socialist And Communist Groups Protest AfD Anti-Refu...

Since Donald Trump took office last January, commentators have struggled to define the meaning of his "America First" agenda. Seemingly wide discrepancies in his administration's communications and actions have led many to point to the influence of individual personalities, or the erratic character of Trump himself. However, with his actions in the last two weeks, it is now absolutely clear what "America First" and "economic nationalism" stand for- an aggressive trade and economic policy that will create gross inequality, environmental ruin, and fan the flames of global conflicts, and one that is intensely aligned with the agenda of national business groups. The main goal of the Trump administration appears to be to increase US exports to further the dominance of US multinationals abroad, perhaps most crucially in the energy segment, which we have discussed in a previous piece. However, information technology, high-tech weaponry, chemicals, and a...