July 2015
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GREECE’D: We Voted ‘No’ to Slavery, but ‘Yes’ to Our Chains By Yves Smith
As this article describes, the cheerleaders over the Greek referendum last weekend has badly misread the game in play. Tsipras is now working on a coalition basis with all parties save Golden Dawn, which means firmly pro-Eurozone parties such as To Potami and New Democracy. And as he and other party leaders promised in the… Continue reading
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Greece Rejects the Troika By Michael Hudson
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker threatened to expel Greece from Europe, despite no law permitting this to occur. Let us see now whether he still tries to carry out his bluff, which has been echoed by right-wing leaders throughout Europe. Continue reading
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Ecuador Fights For Survival – Against Its Elites By Andre Vltchek
While, when I used to live in this part of the world some two decades ago, most theatres were out of reach for indigenous people, now cultural institutions, including the National Theatre, are celebrating great culture of the original owners of this land. 85% of all cultural events in Ecuador are free of charge and… Continue reading
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We Interrupt This Referendum, Part 2 By S. Artesian
Tearing away, just for the moment, from Thunderdome on the Aegean–“Break a deal; face the wheel”– there’s the island commonwealth, Puerto Rico, part of the United States when that’s convenient and lucrative for the Federal government; and not part of the United States when it’s not convenient. Like now. When it has $72 billion in… Continue reading
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We Interrupt This Referendum, Part 1 By S. Artesian
Here’s all we need to know about the difference between voting “???” or “???” on the referendum in Greece: a “no” vote means, in the words of the current prime minister, “I can assure you that the next day, I will be in Brussels and there will be a deal;” a “yes” vote means that… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 28 June – 4 July 2015
4 July 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Greece Faces a New Kind of Coup 04.07.2015 | 00:00 | Vladimir NESTEROV According to the Financial Times, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent a letter to the three major money lenders saying he is ready to accept almost all the conditions proposed by the country’s international creditors at the Continue reading
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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
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Tsipras’s Surrender Rejected As Berlin Pushes For Regime-Change In Greece By Chris Marsden
Just how far Tsipras was prepared to go was made clear in a letter sent Tuesday to the heads of the EU, ECB and International Monetary Fund. In return for a two-year €30 billion loan from the European Stability Mechanism, he was prepared to accept all of the institutions’ basic demands. He only requested a… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 2 July 2015
2 July 2015 — Black Agenda Report Both Major U.S. Parties are Plagues on Humanity by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The two corporate parties have collaborated in knocking off countries targeted for invasion and regime change. They have both nurtured the jihadist international network that was created under presidents Carter and Reagan. And presidents Continue reading
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More than Twice, Less than Zero By S. Artesian
Back in January, Syriza convinced the Greek voters that it could win a write-off of the Greek sovereign debt from the Troika; that it could obtain a “significant grace period in debt servicing;” exclude public investment from the restrictions of previous agreements; rebuild the welfare state; lead the country to productive reconstruction and recovery; increase… Continue reading
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Child Tax Credits Update
Next week, George Osborne wants to take money away from her two children, and thousands more across the UK. If he gets his way, the UK’s poorest families won’t have the money they need for school uniforms, healthy food, or rent. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 