A public relations firm for major U.S. polluters worked to dismantle EU laws that require large corporations to make plans for cutting emissions and appear to have succeeded as the EU has voted to water down its environmentlaws.
The ultra RW operators in America have clearly planned this and are rapidly advancing Project 2025.
What's patently obvious (of course) is that Trump is NOT the mastermind behind this. Nor Stephen Miller alone.
Project2025 lists dozens of fascists as "authors" which means that WHEN they've all had enough of Trump and he's outlived his usefulness, they'll continue to break USA. America is lost and cannot come back from this.
For us non-Americans the problem is that USA is in all our global homes: internet platforms + apps, media, SocMed, devices, food, sport, banks, tv, music, transport, pharma, energy, military ...
Far from USA having been "ripped-off by nasty countries taking America for granted" as Trump would have us believe, it's actually the other way around. America has reeled us all in, taken us over and used us as rich pickings to feed their banks and make their 1% untouchable. (Arguably we are now allowing China to do the same)
The only way we will survive America is to cut loose from it. Break the addiction to the drug that will kill us.
Excellent work by Naomi O'Leary of the Irish Times showing the millions of euros in grants to Israel's war machine, some of which are Horizon grants not meant to be for military purposes.
"The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU).
..the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how they would overhaul the current structures of the EU"
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There is the great danger and the great difference. France is a country and Great Britain is several countries but Italy is a man, Mussolini, and Germany is a man, Hitler. A man has ambitions, a man rules until he gets into economic trouble; he tries to get out of this trouble by war. A country never wants war until a man through the power of propaganda convinces it. Propaganda is stronger now than it has ever been before. Its agencies have been mechanized, multiplied and controlled until in a state ruled by any one man truth can never be presented.
"More than half the members of the incoming EU commission (each proposed by one member state) and the EU council are from the right. This rightward shift in the balance of power is unprecedented and could mean the end of the centrist majority that has governed Europe since the EU’s creation"
A very good analysis by Jonathan Cook of recent events in Amsterdam, in the wider context of Israel's on-going genocide in Gaza, the increasing demonisation of Muslim and Arab minorities in Europe, and media complicity in both.
Good news...
On trial in Paris today are the far-right National Rally Party (RN) nine former MEPs including Marine Le Pen and party vice-president Louis Aliot, spokesperson Julien Odoul – one of nine former parliamentary assistants – and four RN staff, over allegations they embezzled money from the European parliament with fake jobs.
"The UK’s Reform party, like many populist hard-right parties in Europe, frame access to public service as a zero-sum game between “native” and “migrant” populations, and attribute blame for deteriorating public service delivery to the latter. So fixing the most urgent problems in the NHS will be key to stemming the tide of the populist right in Britain"
Prof Catherine De Vries, Bocconi University, Milan