Sunday, 6 April , 2025

Greece

For sale: Greek islands, hotels and historic sites

In Greece today, government power comes with few trappings. Unable to tap capital markets and dependent wholly on international aid, the debt-stricken country’s senior officials are acrobats in a tightrope act. They are placating creditors, whose demands at times seem insatiable, and citizens, whose shock is never far away.

Euroskepticism Beyond Brexit

Significant opposition in key European countries to an ever closer EU BY BRUCE STOKES On June 23, people in the United Kingdom will vote on a...

Germany (but not its workers) gets richer from Greece’s destruction

While the gap between northern countries, such as the Netherlands, and southern states like Portugal has long been a feature of the euro bloc, the study by an arm of German fund manager Flossbach von Storch shows it is getting ever wider.

Iceland proves the nation state is alive and well

By Bill Mitchell On May 27, 2016, Statistics Iceland (the national statistical agency) released the news – Iceland economy to grow by 4.3% in 2016....

The Tragedy of Syria and the Middle East at Large

By Peter Koenig and Amin Abadi, The Kayhan Institute A few weeks ago, Amin Abadi from the The Kayhan Institute of Teheran asked me for...

Corbyn on EU and TTIP

This is the speech entitled The EU referendum is era-defining moment for workers’ rights given by Jeremy Corbyn at the Institute of Engineering Technology...

In or out of the European Union? A tale of two...

By Andrew Burgin Founder member of Left Unity On June 23rd the British people will vote on whether to stay in or leave the European Union....

JORGE – SHAUBLE

A startling resemblance and an extremely powerful symbolic analogy This prophetic remark - which has been verified several times during the previous years – was...

Michael Hudson: The Financial Invasion of Greece

Economist Michael Hudson says IMF's concern about Greek debt is bogus, this is full scale financial war, forcing Greece give up ports, pensions, properties...

Why Varoufakis’ DiEM2025 is fighting the wrong fight

This text deals with strategy, but strategy cannot be seen separate from people and their histories and actions. SYRIZA has always been an uneasy...