Des heurts sur l’Esplanade des Mosquées à Jérusalem. Situation de forte tension cette semaine en Israël. Faut-il craindre une nouvelle Intifada ? La spirale de la violence est-elle à nouveau en marche ? L'avis de Michel Bôle-Richard, ancien journaliste au Monde et auteur de Israël, le nouvel apartheid.

RFI

US failure: "The plan would mean nearly 3,000 US troops stationed in Iraq three years after the last soldiers withdrew in December 2011, in what was supposed to be the end of the war that began in 2003."

THE TELEGRAPH

Voces influyentes proponen preservar el carácter de Estado neutral de Ucrania - Sin embargo, esta propuesta ignora las verdaderas razones de la crisis con el Kremlin

EL MUNDO

"The leaders of the BRICS countries will meet before the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said. "The main task is to reach agreements on the main issues on the agenda of the G20 summit. Specifically, the meeting will address the implementation of the decision to launch the new BRICS Development Bank and the pool of contingent currency reserves with a total capital of $200 billion, which was mentioned in the previous summit," Ushakov told a briefing on Friday. Ushakov said special attention will be given at the BRICS meeting to issues relating to the reform of international financial institutions, specifically, redistribution of IMF quotas."

Russia Beyond the Headlines

La victoire des Républicains aux élections de « mid term » ouvre la voie à une accélération des discussions, maintenant que la nouvelle Commission européenne a pris ses fonctions. Passées les élections de mi-mandat aux Etats-Unis et l’entrée en fonction de la nouvelle Commission européenne, les négociations entamées en juillet 2013 entre les Etats-Unis et l’Union européenne sur le partenariat transatlantique (TTIP) devraient connaître un nouveau souffle. Voire même s’orienter sur de nouvelles bases. Dès lundi dernier, le représentant au commerce américain, Michael Froman, s’est entretenu au téléphone avec la nouvelle commissaire européenne au commerce, Cécilia Malmström. Les deux se sont entendus sur « l’importance stratégique et économique » du « Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership » (TTIP) et ont « partagés leur engagement à œuvrer pour un nouveau départ dans les discussions », indiquait le jour même le site web du bureau du représentant au commerce.

LES ECHOS  

Fasten your seat belts: the information war already unleashed against Russia is bound to expand to Brazil, India and China. Brazil, Russia, India and China, as it’s widely known, are the top four members of the BRICS group of emerging powers, which also includes South Africa and will incorporate other Global South nations in the near future. The BRICS immensely annoy Washington – and its Think Tankland – as they embody the concerted Global South push towards a multipolar world.

RT

Australian spies will soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet with just one warrant, and journalists and whistleblowers will face up to 10 years' jail for disclosing classified information. Anyone - including journalists, whistleblowers and bloggers - who "recklessly" discloses "information ... [that] relates to a special intelligence operation" faces up to 10 years' jail. This also gives ASIO immunity for criminal and civil liability in certain circumstances. Any operation can be declared "special" by an authorised ASIO officer

SMH

Given the urgency to anticipate and prepare the EU of 15 states for the great Central and Eastern Europe enlargement wave (+ 10 states in 2004 + Romania and Bulgaria to come later + Balkan states) and anticipating the European Council’s decision planned in Copenhagen on 12-13 December 2002, Franck Biancheri in his book "VISION 2020: Reinventing Europe, 2005-2020", published in June 2002, brought attention to the obsolescence of the European performance, as it had been designed for six member states originally. He was calling the European political class to anticipate the necessary institutional, strategic, political and democratic changes, if Europe didn’t want to get lost in its own institutional dysfunctions and in the national-European anti-democratic and xenophobic speeches like the ones we experience today. For him, "The key problem for Europe in coming decades is to reconcile democratic aspiration, dream of unity and efficiency: Europe is no longer something to be created, but to be governed efficiently and democratically."

Newropeans-Magazine

Le traité transatlantique va réorganiser le commerce mondial au profit des Etats-Unis 
http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20141106trib47501fa01/le-traite-transatlantique-va-reorganiser-le-commerce-mondial-au-profit-des-etats-unis.html

The EU as pawn in a nasty game
"The EU has suffered considerably from its various sanctions against Russians, just as it will suffer considerably from the TransAtlantic Trade and Partnership Agreement should that ever be ratified. Both sanctions and the Agreement are the result of US corporate lobbying of the Commission, and it is American corporations alone who will benefit from both. It is hoped that in rejecting these sanctions, the European Court will begin a reversal of this trend and strike a blow in favour of democracy and European sovereignty."
http://euobserver.com/opinion/126391

Juncker au centre d’un scandale fiscal impliquant 340 multinationales
#CommissionJuncker  même pas une semaine, et déjà le premier lièvre ... vous vez dit #changement ?
http://www.politis.fr/Juncker-au-centre-d-un-scandale%2C28907.html?utm_content=buffer16b97&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

After the case of Luxembourg, the EU still make sense?
The scandal of preferential taxation in Luxembourg practiced in various companies, which have in the Grand Duchy their earnings to be subject to a lower tax, represents the culmination of the distortions of the European Union and complains that the inequalities between states, which is then reflected on the public, are no longer sustainable in a union born with completely different purposes. Luxembourg is now in the center of the controversy, but there are similar situations in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
http://monitoreinternazionale.blogspot.it/2014/11/after-case-of-luxembourg-eu-still-make.html

#Kosovo: le scandale @EULEXKosovo http://t.co/Ihg8BmpaVH via @RFI et bien entendu cela concerne #Ashton  ... #Barroso  ...
http://www.rfi.fr/europe/20141106-kosovo-le-scandale-eulex/?aef_campaign_date=2014-11-06&aef_campaign_ref=partage_user&ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_linkname=editorial&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter

Der Lobbyist aus der heute-show und sein direkter Draht zu "den Jungs" aus dem Bundestag
Am vergangenen Freitag plauderte der (reale) Interessenvertreter Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Spary in der ZDF heute-show ganz offen aus dem Lobbyisten-Nähkästchen: Wie er "die Jungs" im Bundestag mit guten Impulsen versorgt, ihre Restaurantrechnungen begleicht und griffige Argumentationshilfen zu Parlamentsreden beisteuert. Spary ist gleich für mehrere Interessenverbände tätig. Video: http://youtu.be/q6UJcLyYJ14 via abgeordnetenwatch.de
https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/blog/2014-11-05/der-lobbyist-aus-der-heute-show-und-sein-direkter-draht-zu-den-jungs-aus-dem

Newropeans 16 proposals: Vision 2020: Reinventing Europe, 2005-2020 (Background)The vision of one man named Franck Biancheri, for the democratic future of Europe until 2020. We are far behind...
Given the urgency to anticipate and prepare the EU of 15 states for the great Central and Eastern Europe enlargement wave (+ 10 states in 2004 + Romania and Bulgaria to come later + Balkan states) and anticipating the European Council’s decision planned in Copenhagen on 12-13 December 2002, Franck Biancheri in his book "VISION 2020: Reinventing Europe, 2005-2020", published in June 2002, brought attention to the obsolescence of the European performance, as it had been designed for six member states originally. He was calling the European political class to anticipate the necessary institutional, strategic, political and democratic changes, if Europe didn’t want to get lost in its own institutional dysfunctions and in the national-European anti-democratic and xenophobic speeches like the ones we experience today. For him, "The key problem for Europe in coming decades is to reconcile democratic aspiration, dream of unity and efficiency: Europe is no longer something to be created, but to be governed efficiently and democratically."
Newropeans 16 proposals: Vision 2020: Reinventing Europe, 2005-2020 (Background)The vision of one man named Franck Biancheri, for the democratic future of Europe until 2020. We are far behind...

Great powers rise and fall on the tide of history, but we lack the analytical tools to be able to map power transitions with any degree of confidence while they are actually occurring. The process of transition is not always peaceful and linear, but often jagged with friction. As the old and new powers cross each other on the way down and up, they create potential zones of tension that may lead to armed conflict through different pathways.

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