July 16, 2015
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US Military Launches Jade Helm Domestic Training Operations By Thomas Gaist
The US Defense Department (DOD) officially began continental-scale drills across a broad swath of the southern and western United States, including areas of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas on Wednesday. The drills mark a new and ominous stage in the expansion of domestic military operations and planning. Continue reading
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What a Difference a Year Makes By S. Artesian
16 July 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor What a Difference a Year Makes Mix and Match 2014 “This is not our Europe. This is only the Europe we want to change. In place of a Europe of fear of unemployment, disability, old-age and poverty; in the place of the current Europe Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 735: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: ANGOLA, ETHIOPIA, KENYA
16 July 2015 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Continue reading
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Greece: Sound and Fury Signifying Much By Paul Craig Roberts
The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to the One Percent’s looting of the Greek people of the advances in social welfare that the Greeks achieved in the post-World War II 20th century. Pensions and health care for the elderly are on the way out. The One Percent needs the money. Continue reading
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Greece: PM Tsipras Banishing Ministers Opposing Sellout to Creditors, Syriza Sharply Divided By Stephen Lendman
Make no mistake. What’s happening in Greece signifies what’s ongoing throughout Europe, America, Canada, and other countries, heading for getting much worse – ending social justice to enrich monied interests more than ever, and at the same time, destroy what remains of democratic rights. Financial tyranny rules! Continue reading
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Blaming the Victim: Greece is a Nation Under Occupation By Andrew Gavin Marshall
One cannot properly assess the political gymnastics being exercised within Greece’s ruling Syriza party without placing events in their proper context. It is inaccurate to mistake the actions and decisions of the Greek government with those taken by an independent, sovereign and democratic country. Greece is not a free and sovereign nation. Greece is an… Continue reading
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Greek Guilt and Syriza Perfidy By F. William Engdahl
At this sad and very dangerous juncture of the unfolding events surrounding Greece and the crushing demands of the Troika, it becomes clear that all this would never have come to pass had the Greek people not felt guilty over their country’s debt situation. As a consequence of their feeling guilty since the crisis began… Continue reading
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The Hard Way By S. Artesian
The Hellenic Parliament has voted to approve, and will presumably implement, the demands of the Troika accepted on July 12 by the prime minister, who now states he doesn’t support the agreement although he will implement it, and urges its approval. This comes five days after the prime minister promised “the bigger the ‘No’ vote… Continue reading