In one of the last interviews before his fall, Nicolae Ceausescu was asked by a western journalist how he justified the fact that Romanian citizens could not travel freely abroad although freedom of movement was guaranteed by the
Goodbye growth
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Written by Giorgos Kolempas Image by Clifford Harper The globalized capitalist economy, in both previous and present crises, knows how to put forward only three identical goals: Enlargment! Expansion! Growth! The political exponents constantly repeat the same words: if we … |
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An island in the Mediterranean with 4 letters: Cuba
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Which regime in Europe questions bourgeois democracy and private property ? Try to imagine a regime in which the leaders (the ones who truly have power, not their pawns) question the right of private property, impose restrictions on capital flows … |
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Slavoj Žižek: The west's crisis is one of democracy as much as finance
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/west-crisis-democracy-finance-spirit-dictators?INTCMP=SRCH |
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When public spaces became public enemies
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Amidst the troubled city of Athens, voices have been chanting for the recently lost squat of Villa Amalia. This historic squat wasn’t the first to be evicted in crisis-stricken Greece and as already confirmed not the last one too. On … |
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Moody's downgrades France
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According to BBC the well-known credit ratings agency Moody’s downgraded France’s debt from AAA to AA1. In my humble opinion, what is really important to see is the rhetoric that surrounds this move. The grounds Moody’s provided were elegantly summed … |
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Troika's forecasting skills
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Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-14/why-troikas-forecasts-are-total-joke-one-easy-chart Recently, Zerohedge has published this graph that displays the forecast of the Greek GDP according to Troika and the reality as presented frankly and cynically by numbers. Numbers are not actually needed for someone to be certain that … |
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Follow live the General Strike in Spain
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Today Europe is holding its breath. For the first time in history there is a call for a transnational general strike. This is a critical chance for European citizens to show themselves solidarity and prove that together they can success … |
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Does Europe need a general strike?
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Yes. European citizens need a general strike. We need to interrupt Europe’s economy for at least one day. We need to show we won’t tolerate any longer the financial terrorism and social blackmail that, banks, corporations and their puppet governments … |
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Occupy Wall Street: what is to be done next?, Slavoj Žižek, The Guardian
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What to do in the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street movement, when the protests that started far away – in the Middle East, Greece, Spain, UK – reached the centre, and are now reinforced and rolling out all around … |
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