Sunday, 28 April , 2024

Greece

‘Leftist’ Alchemies and Direct Democracy (A necessary clarification)

As the saying goes, “Before it pours, it rains”. And it is true that the cause of all evil that happens in the socio-political level is the morbidity of someone, or some brains that fantasize that they are messiahs destined to ‘save society' from other bad messiahs who also use a thousand lies to deceive and exploit. So every new party of young rescuers build,

Keep Destroying Greece

The loss of a quarter of economic output and the increase in the unemployment rate close to 28 percent at one point have been widely and repeatedly reported as Greece has struggled through a state of perma-crisis in recent years

Looting and colonizing Greece

The Greek Company of Property and Holdings SA was created in May 2016 by the Greek parliament as the fourth part of the general law "Urgent provisions for the implementation of the Agreement for fiscal goals and Structural Reform and other provisions". All assets of the Greek state for sale to individuals or "co-management" with so-called institutions were transferred to this company for 99 years, a procedure which is a mere formality since this

Who Profited From the $440 Billion Greek Bailout? Not Greeks

The US$440 billion in Troika loans—and thus Greek debt—has not been employed to benefit the Greek people, or to help the Greek economy recover from its eight years of depression; it has gone to pay the principle and interest on previous Troika debt, as that debt has been piled on prior debt in order to pay for previous debt.

EU backs Greek ex-data chief over criminal charges

The Greek government must guarantee the independence of its statistics office, the European Commission has said, weeks after criminal charges were brought against a former data chief. The EU executive said failing to protect the statistics office could be "dangerous" for the Greek bailout programme.

Leaked memo shows George Soros worked to push Greece to support...

By Alex Christoforou Leaked documents show that George Soros was active in mapping out the Greek media landscape with generous grants, so as to further...

How to organize a resistance economy

The World Bank was always dominated by the United States, but in its earlier years and up to the 1980’s – the time when neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus – started their merciless ascent, the World Bank financed and carried out some real ‘grass-roots’ projects

Ex-Attaché to Israel among coup leaders, according to Haaretz

According to an article published in the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, among the six senior army commanders arrested in connection with the failed coup in Turkey, there is General Akin Öztürk, who in the 1990s was the Turkish military attaché to Israel.

Erdogan Tsipras and the Turkish soldiers

Turkey coup attempt: Erdogan rounds up suspected plotters By Sheena McKenzie and Ray Sanchez Two days after a failed military coup, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

Flagrant violation of the EU values

On July 5. 2015, in line with the domestic constitutional order, a referendum was held in Greece for the Greek people to adopt a stance, certainly not to exit from the EU – even from the euro (since no such issue had been debated), but to give an answer to the extortive dilemmas of Brussels and the so-called Institutions who are commissioned to serve the Creditors’ interests. T