July 2015
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Greek Bailout Deal Highlights Monumental Scale Of Syriza’s Betrayal By Chris Marsden
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. Continue reading
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The problem of Greece is not only a tragedy. It is a lie By John Pilger
For a small country such as Greece, the euro is a colonial currency: a tether to a capitalist ideology so extreme that even the Pope pronounces it “intolerable” and “the dung of the devil”. The euro is to Greece what the US dollar is to remote territories in the Pacific, whose poverty and servility is… Continue reading
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Dear Leo, Dear Sam By S. Artesian
Today, after we know the outcome, a plan so severe, so demanding, and so dismissive of Greece as anything other but a body to be bled dry that it leaves Vlad the Impaler envious, you’re back at it, ass-backwards at it claiming that the Left Platform within Syriza and all those arguing for leaving the… Continue reading
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Researching health companies: a web search guide By Caroline Molloy and Richard Whittell
How to uncover the facts about the companies involved in NHS privatisation – a joint OurNHS/Corporate Watch guide, and the first in a series of bite-sized OurNHS guides to NHS campaigning. Continue reading
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Twits and Tweets By S. Artesian
Leo Panitch, “Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Canada Research” or so it says on his business card (“available for weddings, bar mitzvahs, IPOs, and reality TV shows” it says on the flip side) has published this gem on Syriza where he demonstrates that nothing is more distinguished when conducting research than the disavowal… Continue reading
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Is Ukraine a Modern Day Colony? By Andrey Panevin
Western nations like to pretend that colonialism was all but wiped out in the years following the Second World War. However, those who know better than to trust the accounts of the western ‘victors’ of WWII understand that imperialism is alive and well. Constant military and political interventions in Latin America, the Middle East and… Continue reading
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All In By S.Artesian
Greece is structurally incapable of retiring its debt in the next ten, twenty, or thirty years. Greece is structurally incapable of generating sufficient revenues, no matter what level of austerity is applied, to meet more than a fraction of the costs of the “plan of four pillars.” Continue reading
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Video: Debate Rages in SYRIZA Over Austerity Plan
During the early hours of Saturday morning, the Greek Parliament passed the motion by a majority vote of 250 – 300, but Dimitri Lascaris says this is one of the worst political debacles in modern European history (inc. transcript). Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 4-11 July 2015
11 July 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation US Fears Euro Crisis Unravelling Anti-Russia Project 11.07.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM As leaders of the European Union meet this weekend to decide on whether Greece is to be ejected from the eurozone, Washington is pulling out the stops to prevent such an outcome… Continue reading
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Prime Minister Tsipras’ Bailout Reform Package: An Act of Treason against the Greek People By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Tsipras led the “NO” campaign while having already decided that in the wake of the Referendum, he would say YES to the creditors and cave in to their demands. This is tantamount to an Act of Treason. Continue reading
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Get Ready By S. Artesian
So now what happens? First, the struggle is now as it always has been– extra-parliamentary. Golden Dawn has been expanding and consolidating its extra-parliamentary gangs, and extra-parliamentary activity– everything from collecting “protection” money to providing medical treatment for Greeks only– throughout the memorandum period. Continue reading
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Greek government approves brutal austerity measures in proposal to EU By Alex Lantier
Greece’s Syriza-led government agreed to a massive new €13 billion (US$14.34 billion) package of austerity measures yesterday evening, less than a week after Sunday’s landslide “no” vote in a referendum on European Union (EU) austerity. The proposal would be the deepest package of cuts since the EU austerity drive began in Greece in late 2009.… Continue reading
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And Now… S. Artesian
10 July 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor And now, the struggle in Greece becomes much more difficult, and much more dangerous. The bankruptcy of the “old parties”– PASOK and New Democracy, and the demoralization of the poor, the workers, the pensioners, those working in community medical clinics in order to try Continue reading
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The Five Stages of Leftism By S. Artesian
Denial. I don’t believe it. This can’t be real. I just spoke with/saw him/her/they/it and he/she/they/it looked so good. The doctors, and doctorates, were optimistic. He/she/it/they promised. Ignore the papers, ignore the press. Put cotton in your ears. Don’t say another word, I’m not listening. Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 9 July 2015
9 July 2015 — Black Agenda Report Black Self Determination Matters by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two generations of political decay, Black people finally realize they “need to find ways to protect themselves from the police agencies of the Mass Black Incarceration State.” The problem is, getting the police off the community’s back Continue reading
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Media Lens: Daesh, The Revolutionary Neoliberal Party and the British Falsehood Corporation
Lord Hall, the director general of the BBC, is to be questioned by MPs over his refusal to refer to Islamic State using the term ‘Daesh’ (an Arabic abbreviation that means ‘one who crushes something underfoot’ and ‘one who sows discord’) because it is pejorative and therefore biased. Controversial British prime minister David Cameron had… Continue reading
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Euro zone summit rejects emergency funds for Greece, issues austerity ultimatum By Barry Grey and Chris Marsden
Leaders of the 19 euro zone countries on Tuesday rejected appeals from Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for “bridge” loans to avert a collapse of the Greek banking system. Instead, they gave the Syriza-led government two days to submit a plan for the implementation of austerity measures decisively rejected by Greek workers and youth in… Continue reading
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Greece’s Sovereign Debt Crisis: “The Losers are the Looters”. Washington Intent Upon Blocking a Greek Exit By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
The Greek referendum, in which the Greek government’s position easily prevailed, tells the troika (EU Commission, European Central Bank, IMF, with of course Washington as the puppet master) that the Greek people support their government’s position that the years of austerity to which Greece has been subjected has seriously worsened the debt problem. Continue reading
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Planned US Coup in Greece? By Stephen Lendman
Washington’s geopolitical strategy when bullying fails is either assassinating independent leaders, color revolutions, military coups or naked aggression. Continue reading
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Between Berlin and a Hard Place: Greece and the German Strategy to Dominate Europe By Andrew Gavin Marshall
As the United States and the rest of the world would learn, the European strategy for the debt crisis that began in Greece and spread across the eurozone would be dictated by Germany, “the undisputed dominant power in Europe.” More than five years later, the Americans are still pressuring the Europeans to resolve their debt… Continue reading
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