"Is the EU complicit in Israel's crimes against Palestinians, and if so, in what way? What is the EU's legal responsibility to itself and to international law?" Please click here to read the decision of the recently-held Russel Tribunal on Palestine and here and here to read more bakground information
Since November last year, the public has been bombarded with the story of stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealing a supposed “scandal” of scientific malpractice, stupidly and lazily named “climategate”. Further media frenzy erupted over an erroneous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change statement that 80 per cent of Himalayan glacier area would very likely be gone by 2035. Other climate-related storms in a teacup have been appearing in the corporate media almost on a daily basis. This nonsense is distracting attention from a mountain of evidence that human-induced climate change is accelerating and poses a deadly threat to civilisation.
Amsterdam, 30 January – As corporate CEOs and heads of states gather in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, an international panel of experts on political economy and a wide spectrum of civil society organizations gathered on Friday in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to make heads out of the current global economic crisis and pointed to concrete and radical measures for building an alternative financial and economic system that works for the poor majority and the environment.
The people of the world suffer the greatest from the current economic and financial crisis, the worst in a century. Supposed measures to deal with the crisis further aggravate the hardship of the world’s poor and flagrantly serve to bail out and perpetuate the oppressive and exploitative system of monopoly capitalism. A radical overhaul is needed and societies must be built that deliver livelihoods, incomes, education, health and housing for the people. (Please click here to read the statement in French.)
The following are some relevant documents on the Permanent People's Tribunal Second Session on the Philippines, held March 2007 in The Hague, The Netherlands:
