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 … |
Saying ‘We’ Again: A Conversation with Jodi Dean on Democracy, Occupy and Communism
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By Thomas Biebricher & Robin Celikates Jodi Dean teaches political and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited eleven books, including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies and most recently The Communist Horizon (Verso, October 2012). *… |
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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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 … |
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 … |
THE LITERALITY OF NAZISM
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by Augustine Zenakos, October 13, 2012 · It is not that a neonazi Far-Right is rising as a force external to the Democratic system. It is that the Democratic system has incorporated it into its core and is being … |
Video and documentary on the great pacific plastic patch
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The ‘pacific plastic patch’ is a phrase coined to describe the contamination of the oceans by plastic material of commonly consumed products. Plastic can never be naturally decomposed. All plastic ever produced still exists in some form in the planet. … |
