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Egypt Newslinks for 4 February, 2011
4 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Change in Egypt casts dark shadow over Jordan International left in solidarity with the Arab revolution Egypt: Photo Essay_’Egypt on verge of revolution’ Crunch time coming for America in the Middle East? Egypt: Global Intifada A.Loewenstein Online Newsletter Information Clearing House Newsletter 3 February, 2011: After Tunisia and Egypt, the Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks for 4 February, 2011
4 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Change in Egypt casts dark shadow over Jordan International left in solidarity with the Arab revolution Egypt: Photo Essay_’Egypt on verge of revolution’ Crunch time coming for America in the Middle East? Egypt: Global Intifada A.Loewenstein Online Newsletter Information Clearing House Newsletter 3 February, 2011: After Tunisia and Egypt, the Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Portugal 1974 – Egypt 2011
In July of 1975 I went to Portugal because in April of the previous year a bloodless military coup had brought down the US-supported 48-year fascist regime of Portugal, the world’s only remaining colonial power. This was followed by a program centered on nationalization of major industries, workers control, a minimum wage, land reform, and… Continue reading
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Portugal: The Prospect of a Full Bailout And More Austerity Looms in 2011
A full financial bailout of Portugal involving the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) looks set to happen in the first half of 2011. This will involve severe austerity conditions being imposed on the Portuguese people by the ECB and IMF. Continue reading
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Greece – Ireland – Portugal – Spain – Italy – UK – Europe’s Financial Domino Effect Washington’s Blog
Iceland has the world’s 112th biggest economy, Ireland the 38th, and Portugal the 36th. In contrast, Spain has the world’s 9th biggest economy, Italy the 7th and the UK the 6th. A failure by one of the latter 3 would be devastating for the world economy. Continue reading
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The Neoliberal Experiment and Europe’s anti-Austerity Strikes: Governments must Lower Wages or Suffer Financial Blackmail By Michael Hudson
Most of the press has described Wednesday’s European-wide labor demonstrations and strikes across in terms of the familiar exercise by transport workers irritating travelers with work slowdowns, and large throngs letting off steam by setting fires. But the story goes much deeper than merely a reaction against unemployment and economic recession conditions. At issue are… Continue reading
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Videos from Left Bloc Climate Conference
O Clima Farto de Nos? (Is the climate sick of us?) was held in Lisbon, March 26-27. It was organized by Portugal’s Left Bloc and the parties of the European Left. This important event drew left socialist and green activists from a dozen European countries, to discuss how to build a mass movement for climate… Continue reading
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Sitting in the house that Capital built By William Bowles
What an irony therefore, that with the ‘triumph’ of Capital, everything ends up being identical, from the rural backwater of Braga to the malls of Porto. Pizzahut Rules, Okay! Continue reading
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Dig a deep hole and then lie out of it By William Bowles
Guimarães used to be a centre of the Portuguese textile industry but like many other industrial areas of Europe the manufacturing got relocated to sweatshops in Asia or Latin America, so with the help of lavish EU funding, the place has been transformed into yet another ‘heritage’ site and the neighbourhood in which I found… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 