Spanish city's locksmiths say they'll no longer assist with evictions
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In Spain, in 2012, more than 50,000 families were evicted from their homes when they failed to pay their rent or mortgage. As the year wound down, a handful of people committed suicide after learning they would be evicted. Now, … |
Europe's Grecian wall of shame is completed
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Europe’s wall of shame has been completed in Greece’s northeast ground border with Turkey. The wall is four-metre-high and is blocking a 10.365 meters-long strip of land from army guarding post of Kastanies down south to river Evros. The name … |
Death surge linked with mass privatisation
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The Oxford-led study measured the relationship between death rates and the pace and scale of privatisation in 25 countries in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, dating back to the early 1990s. They found that mass privatisation came at … |
Impressions from the 14N in Lisbon
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In 14N, during the European General Strike, two of us were in Lisbon seizing the chance to join the demonstrations, observing a general strike a la Portuguese and showing our solidarity. This text is by no means a journalistic reportage, … |
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 … |
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 … |
Heraklion, Crete: as the Parliament in Athens votes in further austerity cuts, a city shows the way forward for the struggle
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At the same time that in Athens the new measures were voted in parliament and the protest outside was hit by repression and rain, some remarkable events in Heraklion, Crete show how the struggle against the memorandums can be intensified. … |
The Guardian: "Greece gave birth to democracy. Now it has been cast out by a powerful elite."
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By Kostas Vaxevanis The case against me and my magazine, Hot Doc, for publishing a list of alleged tax evaders is a symptom of Greece’s corruption. Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters/Corbis
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Nothing is better than love: how not to repeat Weimar in Greece
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Rather than a fateful error arising from the jockeying of more centrist political agents, the Nazis’ victory was assured and sustained because capital needed their kind of idiots to pursue its (at that time) necessary kind of survival-through-suicide. It needed … |
