What Stinks about Varoufakis and the Whole Greek Mess? By F. William Engdahl

3 July 2015 — New Eastern Outlook

1133Something stinks very bad about Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and the entire Greek mess that has been playing out since the election victory of the nominally pro-Greek Syriza Party in January. I am coming to the reluctant conclusion that far from being the champion of the hapless Greek people, Varoufakis is part of a far larger and very dirty game.

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The political fraud of Syriza’s referendum on EU austerity in Greece By Alex Lantier

3 July 2015 — WSWS

Since Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called a referendum on European Union (EU) austerity last Saturday, the entire enterprise has been exposed as a political fraud. It is designed to engineer a further capitulation to the EU’s demands, regardless of the outcome of the vote.

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