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UK Secretly Helping Canada Push its Tar Sands Project and Escape Dirty Fuel Designation in Europe

Damian Carrington, The Guardian. November 28, 2011.

A European proposal would designate fuel from tar sands as resulting in 22 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than that from conventional fuels. But not if the UK has its way.

European Union Moves Toward Banning Tar Sands

Fiona Harvey, The Guardian. October 5, 2011.

A tar sands pipeline may get the green light in the U.S. as the E.U. could put a ban on the fuel.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sits in Prison While the IMF Keeps Ravaging Entire Economies Every Day

deleted, AlterNet. May 18, 2011.

The IMF can do far more damage trashing global economic well-being than the man behind the sex abuse scandal.

Europe Turning Away Migrants at Gunpoint

David Cronin, IPS News. October 29, 2008.

Weapons were pointed directly at migrants trying to enter Italy during a recent operation coordinated by the European Union's border control agency.

France Offers Europe an 'Inhuman' Model for Immigration

Julio Godoy, IPS News. July 5, 2008.

French PM Nicolas Sarkozy wants to use France's turn in the EU's rotating presdiency to "harmonize" European immigration policy.

World Yawns at McCain's Coalition of Democracies

Melinda Brouwer, AlterNet. July 2, 2008.

Creating a "League of Democracies" is a central tenet of John McCain's foreign policy "vision," but in other democracies, the idea's a non-starter.

European Arms Manufacturers Pump Weapons into Troubled Regions

David Cronin, IPS News. February 10, 2008.

Despite the EU code of conduct, European corporations continue to supply the world's most dangerous groups with arms. A stronger law is needed.