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Greeks outraged by government’s sellout for quick cash — RT
Greece is now set to receive 12 billion euro in additional rescue cash from the EU, after parliament passed a vote on how to implement tough new austerity measures. However, the move sent thousands of angry protestors on to the streets of Athens. Continue reading
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Video: Greeks declare war on austerity cuts — RT
At least 46 people have been injured as violent clashes and strikes paralyzed Greece on the eve of the vote for fresh austerity cuts. Over 20,000 people took out on the streets of Athens on Tuesday, beginning a massive general 48-hour strike. Continue reading
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Sami Moubayed, “The Road to Syrian Democracy: A New Political Party Law to End One-Party Rule”
A new political party law has been drafted in Syria and is now posted online for public debate. It is due for ratification by parliament next August. If it passes, the law would effectively end one-party rule in Syria, which started when the Baathists came to power, through military coup, back in March 1963 Continue reading
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The struggle in the squares By Panos Petrou
Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou and his PASOK party government survived a June 21 confidence vote in parliament, but he will face continued mass protests as he pushes for yet more devastating austerity measures. Continue reading
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War in Iraq: worst moment in UK history – British MP — RT
‘With 179 British lives lost and ten billion pounds spent, there will be no celebrations, no parades or marches or flags out to mark the end of the war. And all we seem to have achieved is we have replaced one rotten government with another rotten government,’ stated Flynn. Continue reading
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Shock and despair By William Gladys
Why was there no parliamentary vote on whether or not these appallingly selfish and vastly rich royals should get yet more money from a hard pressed British tax-payer, at a time when the Queen’s government (not yours believe me), is asking everyone else to suffer severe hardship and cut backs? Do not forget that these… Continue reading
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It really is us against them By William Bowles
MPs fiddling expenses and leaked diplomatic cables: what connects them and is the game finally up for capitalist ‘democracy’? Continue reading
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The problem with politics By Jim Jepps
As a class [politicians have] not helped themselves. When the previous speaker of the house resigned it was not simply because he had failed to tackle the expenses regime – he was making vigorous use of it and was taken down in the very scandal he should have prevented in possibly one of the first… Continue reading
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Tim Black: An intolerable attack on all of us, the people
The arrest of Damian Green is an historic insult against parliamentary sovereignty, and ultimately against us, the people. The police should retreat immediately. And parliament should seek to rediscover the sense of democratic purpose that once saw it clash with kings and lords in its defence of the people’s rights. Continue reading
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Book Review: Consenting Adults? By William Bowles
Capital which is global in scope, is able to move across national borders without let or hindrance, but that ‘democracy’ (where it exists) stops at national borders. And in an age of global capital, the nation state is incapable of dealing with issues that affect the entire planet. And nation states, driven by parochial interests,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 