July 3, 2015
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The Radical Reconfiguration of Southern European Politics: The Rise of the Non Leftist Left By Prof. James Petras
New political movements, purportedly on the left, no longer are based on class conscious workers nor are they embedded in the class struggle. Likewise on the right, greater attention is paid to escalating the repressive capacity of the state instead of state intervention in pursuit of economic markets. Continue reading
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What Stinks about Varoufakis and the Whole Greek Mess? By F. William Engdahl
What we have witnessed…is what can only be called a clown show, one in which the laugh is on the Greek people and EU citizens as a whole. The ones laughing, as often is so, are the mega banks and Troika–ECB, IMF and EU. Behind the Troika, almost invisible, are the Greek oligarchs who have… Continue reading
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The political fraud of Syriza’s referendum on EU austerity in Greece By Alex Lantier
On the eve of the referendum, the Syriza government is in full-scale retreat. If the “yes” vote carries, the Tsipras government is preparing to resign and give way to a more openly right-wing regime, dedicated to implementing whatever the EU demands. In his speech Monday calling for a “no” vote, Tsipras signaled that his government… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 