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Filed under: Austerity, Europe, Southern Europe Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Greek Referendum
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Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul de Grauwe points out that the European push to force Greece into continued austerity is the most important factor holding back a…
Joseph Stiglitz: how I would vote in the Greek referendum
Photo by SpaceShoe The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the bitter endgame playing out between Greece and…
Europe ready to kill Greece to keep TINA alive
My latest piece on Greece was published yesterday at Ricochet. In short, Europe and the IMF’s message that ‘there still is no alternative’ proves that objective of punitive austerity is…
Europe ready to kill Greece to keep TINA alive
My latest piece on Greece was published yesterday at Ricochet. In short, Europe and the IMF’s message that ‘there still is no alternative’ proves that objective of punitive austerity is…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mark Anderson reports on the Change Readiness Index’ findings that the growing concentration and inequality of wealth is making it more and…
Syriza, Podemos, Left Bloc, and the Left
Photo by Margarita Solé NEW YORK, 29 May 2015 — The theme for the 2105 Left Forum was: No Justice, No Peace: Confronting the Crises of Capitalism and Democracy. The…
Creating an Economy of Need in Greece
Filed under: Europe Tagged: Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Socialism, Syriza
Wars and displaced persons camps, in Ukraine and in Haiti
Separatist commander Arseny Pavlov • Photo by Andrew Butko While in Moscow three weeks ago, following a media tour to Donetsk, eastern Ukraine in which I participated, I had the…
With Millions To Spare, Here’s How to Save Thousands of Lives
This rich couple is doing good with their money. Regina caught sight of a jacket in the water during the cruise, and when she asked about it, she was told…
Greece on a knife edge
Photo from Public Domain It is exactly five years since Greece joined the European Support Mechanism with the close cooperation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At that time, the…
Spain’s Gag Law: spectre of an authoritarian past
Spain’s Gag Law: spectre of an authoritarian past. by Carlos Delclós On Friday 10 April 2015, holographic images of about 2,000 protestors from all over the world were projected onto…
Why is the West Spoiling for a Fight with Russia?
Photo by Kremlin.ru What are the consequences when elected governments make policy based on faith and imperial hubris instead of science and expertise? It’s a question that is forcing itself…
The Armenian Genocide: An Open Wound
An Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child • Photo by American Committee for Relief in the Near East To the memory of Stepan Shaumyan, Armenian Bolshevik leader of the…
Toronto Symphony cancels performances by Ukrainian-born pianist for anti-war views
Photo by elPadawan The following statement was released on Facebook on April 6 by the renowned Ukrainian-born classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa. It is in response to the decision of the…
Podcast: The roots of the Greece crisis in European integration and what this means for the future
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/podcast150402-europe.mp3 As the simmering crisis between Greece and the institutions formerly known as the Troika heats up again, it’s a good time to look once more at the roots of…
Eyewitness Greece: The SYRIZA factor in European politics
Image from Public Domain The following talk, “The Greek elections – what next? SYRIZA and the fight against austerity,” was presented to the Department of Political Economy and the Australia-Greece…
Contesting Capitalism in the Eurozone
In light of the new Syriza government’s difficult struggle against the German dominated institutions of the Eurozone, I’ve revisited a little known book published ten years ago by political scientist…
THE EURO, THE DRACHMA AND GREECE: limited options in an impossible situation
Jean-Francois Ponsot Associate Professor of Economics, Université de Grenoble (France) and Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor of Economics, Laurentian University (Canada) Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics ___________________ The final agreement between…
Who Killed Boris Nemtsov?
Photo by Dhārmikatva Practically no one in the West doubts the murder of once-rising reform politician Boris Nemtsov was the work of Vladimir Putin, and/or his allies in government. If…