Greek Bailout Deal Highlights Monumental Scale Of Syriza’s Betrayal By Chris Marsden

14 July 2015 — WSWS

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has signed up to an agreement that transforms Greece into a de facto colony of the European Union and places the country under the dictates of Germany.

What remains of the Greek economy, above all its most valuable assets, is to be pillaged so that Athens can continue to pay back loans from the EU, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

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The problem of Greece is not only a tragedy. It is a lie By John Pilger

14 July 2015 — John Pilger

An historic betrayal has consumed Greece. Having set aside the mandate of the Greek electorate, the Syriza government has willfully ignored last week’s landslide “No” vote and secretly agreed a raft of repressive, impoverishing measures in return for a “bailout” that means sinister foreign control and a warning to the world.

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Dear Leo, Dear Sam By S. Artesian

13 July 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor 

Shut up, you should excuse the harsh language.  Put a sock on it.  Close your gob.  Be quiet.  Just shut up.  You don’t know what you’re talking about and you keep talking about it so it’s gone from simply being embarrassing to being  annoying to being pathetic to being downright offensive.  So shut  up.

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