debt
The Greek program is made to fail. Debt is the main...
There's a real need for international debtor rights, says economist Michael Hudson.
SHARMINI PERIES: It's The Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries, coming to you...
‘EU is particularly good at doing a terrible job’ – Yanis...
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has described the measures taken by the EU to settle the economic crisis in Greece as a “terrible...
First destroying, then expelling Greece. Shaeuble: a “German nationalist” acting in...
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Wednesday brought back the Grexit issue by saying that unless Greece implements reforms it cannot stay in the...
Greek default: To be or not to be?
Dimitrios Konstantakopoulos
The following is from an interview transcript
The situation in Greece is a little bit complicated. You should remember that Greece is not any...
Greek debt crisis: an existentialist drama with no good end in...
By Larry Elliott
Original post date: 5 February 2017
Put three people in a room who can’t get on with each other. Condemn them to stay...
Why we shouldn’t now leave the Euro!
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulo
“Where the peril grows, grows also what will save us”
Friedrich Hölderlin
“The Greek race was always, and it is still, the race which has the dangerous...
IMF – The secret documents, or how they destroyed Greeks and...
The CADTM draws attention to two IMF documents dating from March and May 2010 that were kept secret. These authentic documents were placed at the disposal...
Comment Trotsky explique la soumission européenne aux USA
Par Nicolas Bonnal
29 Septembre 2016
Depuis quand, et pourquoi, sommes-nous ainsi soumis aux américains ? Voyons un maître pour comprendre la situation.
Contrairement à ses disciples...
Grèce : Les banques sont à l’origine de la crise
Cette étude démontre que la crise grecque qui a éclaté en 2010 est d’origine bancaire privée. Elle n’est pas le résultat d’un excès de dépenses publiques. Le soi-disant plan d’aide à la Grèce a été conçu pour servir les intérêts des banquiers privés et ceux des pays qui dominent la zone euro. L’adoption de l’euro par la Grèce a joué un rôle important dans les facteurs qui ont contribué à la crise. L’analyse contenue dans ce texte a été présentée à Athènes le 6 novembre 2016 lors de la réunion de la Commission pour la vérité sur la dette publique grecque.
How to Understand the European Union
To be sure, the union was designed to establish a transnational capitalist bloc capable of competing on the world market. The euro’s adoption moved further in that direction. However, nation-states — in economic competition with one another — created this bloc to begin with. It is therefore insufficient to focus only on capital’s transnationalization; we must