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My Big Fat Greek Minister By Greg Palast
20 May 2013 — Vice Magazine
It wasn’t too difficult picking out the Fat Bastard in the crowd of Russian models, craven moochers and media mavens. Besides, Fat Bastard and I were both desperate for coffee and heading for the same empty urn.
(We’d both signed on for Kazakhstan’s annual Eurasia Media Forum, a kind of Burning Man festival for Eastern oilgarchs and their media camp followers.)
The Manifesto of the Mediterranean Meeting in Tunisia
3 May 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 815
We, the representatives of progressive political parties from the Mediterranean region, gathered in Tunis from March 23 to 24, 2013, at the call of the Popular Front, and adopted the following resolution.
Video: Privatizing Europe
24 April 2013 — The Real News Network
Nick Buxton: A massive European fire sale is one way finance is using the crisis to entrench neo-liberalism (inc. transcript)
Greece: A new “Marshall Plan” or a new and difficult road to socialism? By Panagiotis Sotiris
16 March 2013 — Lasting Future
In a recent speech in London Alexis Tsipras insisted on the need to put an end to the politics of austerity in the Eurozone. More specifically he suggested that it is necessary to have a new “Marshall Plan” in Europe and he proposed a big debt relief such as the one agreed upon for Germany in the 1953 London Conference.
For the Finance Minister of Germany, Crisis Is a “Necessity” By Victor Grossman
2 April 2013 — MRZine
Angela Merkel’s face usually displays a rather plain, friendly, almost benign expression, matching her simple, benign words. But in rare unguarded moments, some claim, they glimpse a very hard visage, which is matched, equally rarely, by hardly benign words, like her annoyed statement that Cyprus was “exhausting the patience of its euro partners.” Yes, Angela can get annoyed and lose patience, above all with those irresponsible lands and leaders to the south so reluctant to manfully bear the required share of their burdens.
Videos worth watching
15 February 2013 — The Real News Network
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Worker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of Ownership Can co-ops come out of the margins of the economy and be part of a larger political project to transform how things are owned? Go to story | Go to homepage |
Europe: Existential Danger: New Political Challenges By Elisabeth Gauthier
4 February 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 769
In Europe we are at a new stage of class confrontation. Despite the systemic crisis not only of finance but of the whole of the mode of accumulation and reproduction of ‘financial market capitalism,’ this system has been able to maintain itself. Its transnational power – largely sustained by the nature of European integration and policies – has not been seriously cracked, despite the massive destruction of public and private goods, which is constantly becoming more extreme, deepening the great crisis. Continue reading
The Left in Europe: From Social Democracy to the Crisis in the Euro Zone. An Interview with Leo Panitch
18 January 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 761
<strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. He is co-editor of the Socialist Register. His most recent book, co-authored with Sam Gindin, is Global Capitalism and American Empire (Verso 2012).
Can the Left Save Greece? By Yiannis Milios, Yiannis Baboulias
11 January 2013 — New Left Project
For the fifth consecutive year, Greece is mired in deep, morale-shattering recession. In those five years the country’s GDP has plummeted by nearly 20%, and few expect 2013 to bring an improvement.
Statewatch News Online, 31 December 2012 (22/12)
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1. EU: European Parliament study: Evaluating current and forthcoming proposals on JHA databases and a smart borders system at EU external borders
2. EU: Council of the European Union: Exchange of EU classified information (EUCI) with third States and international organisations
3. Council of Europe: Human Rights Commissioner: Restrictions on defenders of migrants’ rights should stop
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Crisis and Resistance in Portugal By Mark Bergfeld
14 December 2012 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 745
A day before the right wing coalition government in Portugal was to vote through its 2013 budget, the German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble met his Portuguese counterpart Vitor Gaspar and proclaimed, “Portugal is on the right path and is, for all of us in the Eurozone, a brilliant example that the approach we have been following to stabilize the Euro is correct.” Continue reading
Video: Eurozone Austerity Policies Will Spark New Crisis in 2013
11 December, 2012 — The Real News Network
Costas Lapavitsas: There is an impression that the crisis has been handled by ECB but economies are deteriorating quickly (inc. transcript) Continue reading
The Greek Left and the Rise of the Neo-Fascist Golden Dawn By Panagiotis Sotiris
17 November 2012 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 731
For the past months there has been an intense debate both in Greece but also in international media regarding the rise of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn in Greece. The reason is obvious: for the first time in a European Union (EU) country a political party that in contrast to most of the varieties of the European far Right does little to hide its openly neo-nazi ideology and the culture of the nazi street gang that has been its trademark since the 1990s, has been one of the rising political forces. Continue reading
Video: Portugal General Strike: This is What Austerity Looks Like By grtv
15 November 2012 — GRtv
Excerpt from: The Strike in Southern Europe:
A storm is brewing in Southern Europe. In Greece on November 6 and 7 another general strike will take place. On November 14 Portuguese, Cypriot, Spanish and Italian trade unions intend to go on strike in opposition to the austerity policies of the European Union. Belgian and British trade unions, as well as the European and German trade union confederations, are also calling for action. If the mobilization is successful, this transnational strike will be a milestone in the formation of a European protest movement desperately needed to prevent the final demolition of the European welfare states… Continue reading
The Strike in Southern Europe By Sahra Wagenknecht
12 November 2012 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 728
A storm is brewing in Southern Europe. In Greece on November 6 and 7 another general strike will take place. On November 14 Portuguese, Cypriot, Spanish and Italian trade unions intend to go on strike in opposition to the austerity policies of the European Union. Belgian and British trade unions, as well as the European and German trade union confederations, are also calling for action. If the mobilization is successful, this transnational strike will be a milestone in the formation of a European protest movement desperately needed to prevent the final demolition of the European welfare states.
ICH November 7, 2012: Gulf States: British Arms Deals – Quick Death, Fast Profits
7 November 2012 — Information Clearing House
To Humiliate and Degrade
Impressions of Gaza
By Noam Chomsky
Where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32968.htm
Video: Greek Parliament Approves Contentious Law to Expand Privatization
2 November 2012 — The Real Network
Dimitri Lascaris: New budget makes it clear Greece will never pay off its debts, real aim of austerity is to break unions and privatize public assets Continue reading
ICH 30/31 October 2012: Israel Lobby Calls for an ‘Iranian Pearl Harbor’
31 October 2012 — Information Clearing House
Israel Lobby Calls for an ‘Iranian Pearl Harbor’
By Muhammad Sahimi
The War Party has revived the idea of creating the “right incident” for provoking a war with Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32891.htm
Greece: Turning Despair Into Hate By Shaun Harkin
24 October 2012 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 715
Greece is in a grueling downward economic spiral with massive political and social ramifications. Aspects of Greek society are literally falling apart at the seams. Across the whole eurozone – the countries that use the euro as a common currency – unemployment is at a record high of 18.2 million people without work in August. Across the 27-nation European Union, the number of jobless has climbed to 25.5 million. In Greece last May, unemployment reached 23 per cent for the total population and a staggering 55.4 per cent for youth. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 