The EU should file a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the controversial US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Bernd Lange, head of the European Parliament's Trade Committee, told the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper on Saturday. 

“My assumption is that the negotiations between the EU and the US will not be able to help agree even on small changes in the implementation of the IRA. The basic structure of the IRA will remain in place. In this regard, I think it is necessary for the EU to quickly file a complaint with the WTO in the coming months,” the lawmaker said ahead of a meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council on Monday, at which the IRA package is expected to be discussed. He added that the lawsuit would help clarify “that the US's actions are clearly not compatible with WTO regulations.”

IS MURDOCH BECOMING A SOCIALIST?

THE ARTICLE THAT FOLLOWS THIS GUS-RANT IS BY OUR ESTEEMED AUSTRALIAN BRAINIAC BARRY JONES… HE RECOGNISES A SHIFT IN THE WAY GROUPS OF VOTERS HAVE CHANGED POLITICAL POSITION BY BECOMING MORE “EDUCATED”…

WE KNOW THAT FOR YEARS, THE ORDINARY MAN IN THE STREET AND THE TRADIES GET THEIR POLITICAL “EDUCATION” FROM THE LIKES OF THE “DAILY TELEGRAPH” WHILE THE MORE EDUCATED LIBERAL THINKERS GET THEIR NEWS FROM “THE MONTHLY” STYLE PAPERS AND ARTICLES — BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, AS WE NEED TO CONSIDER THE FAMILY TRADITION OF POLITICAL AFFILIATION…

Ursula von der Leyen is like those Americans who, due to the sheer speed at which they "do" Yurrup, makes her fall victim to the "if it's Tuesday it must be Naples" syndrome. Ask the men who run the Thames pleasure boats. They say that confusion between the Tower of London and the Leaning Tower of Pisa is common place. And they are tired of being asked "When do we pass Notre Dame?"

(After VINCENT MULCHRONE v the Madding Crowd)

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen likened Ireland’s struggle against British rule in the 20th century to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as she addressed the Irish parliament in Dublin. Her comments sparked anger among Tory MPs.

Last weekend [before March 11, 2022] a far-right group called America First held a political rally in Orlando. At one point, organizer Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist also involved in the 2017 Charlottesville rally, invited attendees to cheer for Russia. Soon the audience was chanting “Putin! Putin!”

Without context this may seem puzzling. Why would a group of ultra-nationalist Americans celebrate the invasion of a U.S. ally by someone both the left and right have largely understood to be an enemy of freedom?

BY Bethany Moreton

David Brock, the Clintons’ henchman who left the limelight after suffering a heart attack, is back. During the next two years, at the helm Facts First USA, he will have 10 million dollars at his disposal to discredit congressional investigators who will try to shed light on the Hunter Biden affair.

BY THIERRY MEYSSAN

While state dinners are always about excessive consumption, the purchase of 200 Maine lobsters for Biden's state dinner with Macron seemingly became the last straw for American eco-warriors. On the other hand, Maine politicians saw this as a plug for the local lobster industry. 

President Joe Biden's first state dinner featuring his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron was criticized by conservation groups for serving 200 lobsters from Maine. 

BY SERGEY LEBEDEV

The ongoing debacle in Ukraine demonstrates that the US and the “allies of the willing” are no longer the main power block in the world. There are new camps forming, alliances, and these are often connecxted to old colonial wounds and shared pain.

Collectively they are ganging up against the schoolyard bully, the US, and its fair weather friends. Hence this alliance of bullies is running scared. They are willing to do almost anything to defend their former position of advantage and wealth, even if that means destroying us all in the process.  They are willing to upset the world order and destroy civilization, treating the whole of humanity as collateral damage.

BY Henry Kamens

• Kenny MacAskill, a former Scottish justice secretary and the MP who asked questions in parliament, tells Declassified: “This obfuscation and avoidance is, I believe, part of a pattern of a cover up in alliance with US authorities.”

Four of Britain’s most powerful government ministries are refusing to say if their officials have met with US authorities to discuss the case of Julian Assange. 

By Matt Kennard / Declassified UK

The Prime Minister’s surprise revelation that he has raised the case against Julian Assange with US officials and urged that charges of espionage and conspiracy be dropped opens up many questions.

Mr Albanese thanked Dr Monique Ryan for her question on Wednesday 31 November, giving what appeared to be a carefully prepared and timed answer. The Independent MP for Kooyong sought to know what political intervention the government would make in the case, observing that public interest journalism is essential in a democracy.

By Alison Broinowski

Self-censorship from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, after she deleted a tweet which mentioned Ukrainian casualties, is “humiliating”, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.

He added that the climbdown showed the bloc is nothing but a US puppet.

“It is obvious that ‘Aunt Ursula’ was slapped upside the head by her bosses in Washington,” Medvedev said in a post on VK. “Seemed to hurt, too. It looks extremely humiliating.”

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive officer of crypto exchange FTX, has denied committing fraud.

The man once hailed as a legendary figure in the crypto industry told The New York Times he had had a "bad month" and had almost no money left.

French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Washington to discuss the unfolding trade row between the US and the EU over Joe Biden's protectionist Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). It's Macron's first visit to the US after the submarine deal debacle that sidelined Paris and cost the French a lucrative defense contract.

Macron's official visit to Washington will last from November 30 to December 2 with the French press insisting that the time has come to turn the page on the 2021 Franco-Australian submarine affair. 

BY EKATERINA BLINOVA

Everywhere in the world, we observe a multiplicity of media, but no pluralism among them. All refer to the same sources which convey the same vision of the facts. However, we all know that if the facts exist in a unique way, the way we perceive them is multiple. Already in the 80’s, UNESCO had highlighted "information imperialism"; this way of imposing a single perception and denying all the others. Today, this domination is manifested with the News Checkers. The only way to free ourselves from this system is not to create new media, but new news agencies.

Only the plurality of information can prevent war

by Thierry Meyssan

Chechens, Buryats and others who are “of Russia but are not of the Russian tradition” are acting with “cruelty” in Ukraine, the head of the Roman Catholic Church told the Jesuit magazine America in an interview published on Monday. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said such words go beyond mere Russophobia.

Ukraine’s people are being “martyred,” Pope Francis said in the interview, conducted last week at the Vatican. “Generally, the cruelest are perhaps those who are of Russia but are not of the Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the Buryati [sic] and so on. Certainly, the one who invades is the Russian state. This is very clear.”