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Greek debt, austerity and past military contracts

by Sara Flounders Since the 2008 capitalist downturn sparked the debt crisis, Greek working people have held huge demonstrations, general strikes and now have voted in the Syriza government to oppose...

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EU cannot give military responses to political problems

By Sabine Lösing Three key reports have moved through parliament’s security and defence subcommittee which represent an alarming approach to problems facing the European Union. First, there is the...

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European Parliament Supports Robin Hood Tax in Landslide Vote

Under pressure to address a massive deficit, legislators voted overwhelmingly this week in favor of a tax on financial speculation. This really happened, I swear. Robin Hood Tax supporters scored a...

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Bulgarians Wear Their Pessimism as a Badge

Cross-posted from JohnFeffer.com. John is currently traveling in Eastern Europe and observing its transformations since 1989. Bulgarians are proud to be pessimistic. Many of the people that I recently...

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Serbia’s Strategic Ambiguity and the EU

Cross-posted from JohnFeffer.com. John is currently traveling in Eastern Europe and observing its transformations since 1989. Srdjan MajstorovicSerbia this week adopted new guidelines for its talks...

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The Two Europes

Cross-posted from JohnFeffer.com. John is currently traveling in Eastern Europe and observing its transformations since 1989. The subtitle of Benjamin Disraeli’s novel Sybil, about Britain of the...

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The Pedigree of the “Horsewich”

Conn Hallinan began a recent Focal Points post titled The Sunset of the “Celtic Tiger” Led to the Dawn of the “Horsewich”: “As the Great Horsemeat Crisis continues to spread—“gallops” is the verb...

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Inside-outside Strategy on Wall Street Tax

Cross-Posted with The Huffington Post The International Monetary Fund is accustomed to rallies outside their Washington, D.C., headquarters during their annual meetings. What was different this past...

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The European Union May Be on the Verge of Collapse

(Photo: Robdeman / Flickr) Europe won the Cold War. Not long after the Berlin Wall fell a quarter of a century ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States squandered its peace dividend in an...

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Why the World Is Becoming the Un-Sweden

(Image: Flickr / tiger_days) Imagine an alternative universe in which the two major Cold War superpowers evolved into the United Soviet Socialist States. The conjoined entity, linked perhaps by a new...

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Why Won’t Greece Take a Deal?

(Image: Flickr / SpirosK photography) Greece is in dire straits. As a Greek American, it hurts to watch. Without emergency loans from its European partners, Greece will default on its debts and likely...

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Blood from a Stone

(Image: Flickr / Therese Trinko) Like many other proud Greek-Americans, I’ve visited the country of my ancestors many times over the years. I even lived in Athens for two years while working for the...

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Greek debt, austerity and past military contracts

by Sara Flounders Since the 2008 capitalist downturn sparked the debt crisis, Greek working people have held huge demonstrations, general strikes and now have voted in the Syriza government to oppose...

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EU cannot give military responses to political problems

By Sabine Lösing Three key reports have moved through parliament’s security and defence subcommittee which represent an alarming approach to problems facing the European Union. First, there is the...

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