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SYRIZA's Betrayal of Greece Is a Spectre Haunting the Left
•�March 6, 2020
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'Super Tuesday’ in the 2020 presidential election season is over and Senator Bernie Sanders’s time as the unlikely frontrunner for the Democratic nomination may have stopped just as quickly as it began. Despite an unprecedented smear campaign coordinated by the party leadership and corporate media against him, the self-described “democratic socialist” not only managed to... Read More
Greek Elections: January and September 2015
From Hope to Fear and Despair
•�August 26, 2015
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Introduction: Eight months will have passed since the election of Syriza on January 25 up to the snap elections in September. During that time Syriza’s leaders play-acted their ‘opposition to austerity’ and then knelt down in submission to the ‘Troika’. The contrast between January and now is dramatic: Syriza’s leader, Prime Minister Alexi Tsipras, aroused... Read More
Greece: Sound and Fury Signifying Much
•�July 15, 2015
•�1,000 Words •�9 Comments
All of Europe, and insouciant Americans and Canadians as well, are put on notice by Syriza’s surrender to the agents of the One Percent. The message from the collapse of Syriza is that the social welfare system throughout the West will be dismantled. The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to the One Percent’s... Read More
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Greece: the Pearl Cast Before Swine
•�July 7, 2015
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Greece is the pearl of Mediterranean, the place generations of foreigners from Lord Byron to Graves to Fowles have fallen in love with. From philosophy to feta, from history to yoghurt, from poetry to honey they provided the example to follow. Their priests preserve the pristine faith; their fighters defeated Mussolini; their Helen is the... Read More
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Greece: Why No Means Yes
Greece Rejects the Troika. Where Do We Go From Here?
•�July 6, 2015
•�1,400 Words •�23 Comments • Reply
Just after 7 PM Greek time on Sunday, I was told that the “No” vote (Gk. Oxi) was winning approximately 60/40. The “opinion polls” showing a dead heat evidently were wrong. Bookies across Europe are reported to be losing their shirts for betting that the financial right wing could fool most Greeks into voting against... Read More
Sunday’s Vote Will Determine Liberty or Serfdom
•�July 2, 2015
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According to history books, democracy originated in Greece. Of course, historians could be mistaken, but this is the prevailing view among Western populations with enough awareness to be interested to know. What we are witnessing today, July 2, 2015, is that after 2,500 years in the Western World only the current Greek government is interested... Read More
Greece Again Can Save the West
•�July 1, 2015
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Like Marathon, Thermopylae, Plateau and Mycale roughly 2,500 years ago, Western freedom again depends on Greece. Today Washington and its empire of European vassal states are playing the part of the Persian Empire, and belatedly the Greeks have formed a government, Syriza, that refuses to submit to the Washington Empire. Few people understand that the... Read More
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Greece: On Behalf of Europe
•�June 30, 2015
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Resisting Financial Conquest
•�June 30, 2015
•�1,500 Words •�4 Comments • Reply
Back in January upon coming into office, Syriza probably could not have won a referendum on whether to pay or not to pay. It didn’t have a full parliamentary majority, and had to rely on a nationalist party for Tsipras to become prime minister. (That party balked at cutting back Greek military spending, which was... Read More
Starvation Is the Price Greeks Will Pay for Remaining In the EU
•�June 15, 2015
•�500 Words •�9 Comments
Syriza, the new Greek government that intended to rescue Greece from austerity, has come a cropper. The government relied on the good will of its EU “partners,” only to find that its “partners” had no good will. The Greek government did not understand that the only concern was the bottom line, or profits, of those... Read More
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Syriza: Plunder, Pillage and Prostration
How the ‘Hard Left’ embraces the policies of the Hard Right
•�June 15, 2015
•�1,800 Words •�43 Comments • Reply
Introduction: Greece has been in the headlines of the world’s financial press for the past five months, as a newly elected leftist party, ‘Syriza’, which ostensibly opposes so-called ‘austerity measures’, faces off against the “Troika” (International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and European Central Bank). Early on, the Syriza leadership, headed by Alexis Tsipras, adopted... Read More
Showdown in Athens
Varoufakis vs. the Troika
•�February 28, 2015
•�2,400 Words •�7 Comments • Reply
A disagreement over the terms of a deal to provide a bailout extension for Greece, has set the stage for a final clash between the Eurogroup and members of the Greek ruling party, Syriza. Although the agreement was approved on Tuesday when a list of reforms were submitted by Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to... Read More
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Ironman Varoufakis’s Revolutionary Plan for Europe
Don't Tell Anyone in Berlin
•�February 19, 2015
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If you haven’t been following developments in the Greek-EU standoff, you’re really missing out. This might be the best story of the year. And what makes it so riveting, is that no one thought that little Greece could face off with the powerful leaders of the EU and make them blink. But that’s exactly what’s... Read More
Greece Under Attack — Pray for Yanis Varoufakis
•�February 1, 2015
•�300 Words •�11 Comments
Greece’s new Finance Minister is a highly intelligent person. His likes are not to be found in any Western government. As he stands in the way of those who are determined to complete their looting of Greece, the Western looters are out to get him. The BBC, as the interview in the link below demonstrates,... Read More
As in 1942, Germany Must Show Restraint Over Greece
Mussolini tried to warn his ally of the danger of bringing the country to its knees. So should we
•�February 1, 2015
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Here are some quotes from the diaries of Count Ciano (Mussolini’s foreign minister and son-in-law), referring to Greece a year and a half after it was invaded and occupied by Germany. 6 October 1942: “Clodius [the Third Reich’s economics minister] is in Rome to discuss the Greek financial question, which is very bad. If it... Read More
The Spartan Resurrection in Greece
•�January 30, 2015
•�400 Words •�4 Comments
Having just written that Greece needs Spartans in order to prevail over its creditors and the EU, the new Greek government is showing signs of being Spartans. Listen to these words from Greece’s new Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras: “We should not accept or recognize the government of neo-Nazis in Ukraine.” “The EU lacks democracy, and... Read More
Is Democracy Dead In the West?
•�January 29, 2015
•�1,400 Words •�5 Comments
We will find out the answer to the question posed in the title in the outcome of the contest between the new Greek government, formed by the political party Syriza, and the ECB and the private banks, with whose interests the EU and Washington align against Greece. The Spartans, whose red cloaks and military prowess... Read More
Greece Elections: In Times Like These, the EU Has Far More Dangerous Adversaries Than Syriza
Compared to the crises revolving around Isis and Ukraine, the Greek situation is 'wholly soluble'
•�January 27, 2015
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In ancient Greece, city states often rebelled against their overlords, who then besieged them to punish those responsible and re-impose outside control. Modern Greeks have likewise rebelled against EU authority by choosing a government led by the anti-austerity Syriza party and now face an economic siege aimed at forcing them to abide by past agreements... Read More
Greece Elections: Greek PM Alexis Tsipras Takes Aim at 'Neo-Liberal' Europe
Country gears up for prolonged austerity battle
•�January 26, 2015
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The radical left leader Alexis Tsipras was sworn in as Prime Minister of Greece today after the decisive victory of his Syriza party over establishment parties supporting the European Union programme that has impoverished so many Greeks. Mr Tsipras was swiftly able to form a government by reaching an agreement with the Independent Greeks, a... Read More
Greece Elections: Syriza and EU on Collision Course After Election Win for Left-Wing Party
Success for Syriza party may provoke economic siege by European Union
•�January 25, 2015
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Greek voters have rebelled against the austerity programme imposed by Brussels and Berlin in return for loans to fund Greece’s massive debt. The radical left Syriza party, which promises better terms for Greece, won a decisive victory in the general election today and is close to winning an absolute majority in parliament. Syriza, led by... Read More
Greece Elections: Voters Will Choose the Syriza Party – and Send a Defiant Message to the EU
•�January 25, 2015
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It was raining yesterday in central Athens, which creates a problem for those feeding the homeless. “Normally, people living on the streets stay at a single spot where they can get heat from an air vent from underground, so they’re easy to find,” says Yanis, a diver and engineer in the navy who runs a... Read More
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