Thanatopolitics in Greece: when a fascist ruling the ministry of health handles public health over to a private business
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Another organized crime-act, performed under the austerity pre-text, legitimized by the punitive rationales of conservatives and neoliberal economics. Thanatos [than–uh-tos, -tohs], meaning ‘death’ in Greek. Thanatopolitics is a philosophical term that discusses the politics organizing … |
Book in English on the rise of nazism in today’s Greece
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Dimitris Psarras, a researcher and journalist studying the far right phenomenon in Greece for over 30 years, had a book published in English, with Rosa Luxenburg institute, explaining the history, the particularity and the realities of the far right in … |
Henry A. Giroux: The Militarization of Racism and Neoliberal Violence
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The recent killing of an unarmed 18-year-old African-American, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer has made visible how a kind of racist, military metaphysics now dominates American life. His subsequent demonization by the media only confirms … |
The Ongoing Barbarism of Two Nationalisms: Hamas and Israel
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Hamas and Israel exploit their mutual weaknesses to revive their national agendas within the increasingly critical Middle East region (Reblogged from http://www.leftcom.org/en) The pundits are scrambling around to explain the “usual” crisis between Hamas and the State of … |
Sleepless Nights and Starry Skies
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Source: http://actforfree.nostate.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/SLEEPLESS-NIGHTS.pdf THE World Cup is not about football. If a country becomes a candidate for organizing this event, it is because football absolves the same function today as the spectacle of the gladiators did in ancient Rome, and because … |
Greece: Which is the private company G4S about to take over the security of detention centres
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By omniatv. Author: filistina Translator: Anna Papoutsi “Private firms providing “security services” will soon undertake the guarding of migrants’ detention centres, as well as the policing of “special” prisoners with monitoring devices, thus paving the way towards the privatisation of … |
Documentary: Pieces of Madrid
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http://www.globaluprisings.org/new-documentary-pieces-of-madrid/ This short documentary explores ongoing resistance and self-organization in the midst of the economic and social crisis in Madrid, Spain. As social conditions continue to deteriorate across the country, people have been turning to the streets and to each … |
Documentary: Fascism Inc
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“Given that the crisis conditions that foster fascism are upon us, not past us…” “Given that the whole of Europe is sinking rapidly into the darkness of the far right…” Debtocracy and Catastroika’s production team steps into the discussion with … |
Bosnia and Herzegovina in Spring
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This short documentary tells the story of the uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina that started in early February 2014. Since February 5 2014, protests have swept across Bosnia and Herzegovina. The protests were started by workers from five factories in … |
The Reality Behind the Greek 'Success Story'
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by Julie Tomlin During over four years of economic crisis, many Greek people seem to have developed a keen sense of farce. The appearance of Greece’s health minister Adonis Georgiadis at an Imperial College London event titled “Turning the tide: … |
