• Bailout fund may be used to buy back Greek debt • Markets in turmoil amid escalating anxiety By Ian Traynor European leaders bowed to the inevitable and conceded that Greece is likely to default on its massive debt burden, which would be a first among the 17 countries using the euro. They also abruptly shifted tack in the eurozone debt crisis by raising the possibility of using the eurozone's bailout fund ...

Journalist Manolis Kypraios is now disabled because of the brutal violence he suffered at the hands of the repression organs of the State while he was covering the strike movement on the 15th of June. Specifically, a member of the riot police intentionally threw a stun grenade within inches of his head, causing total hearing loss in both ears, even though our colleague had identified himself as a journalist ...

maandag 11 juli worldwide solidarity protest - Amsterdam from Spiral Move on Vimeo. video by: http://spiralmove.com Afgelopen zondagmiddag en -avond, 10 juli, voeren ettelijke tientallen, uiteindelijk rond de honderd, mensen actie in Amsterdam. Het betrof een pleinprotest en aansluitende demonstratie uit solidariteit met de bevolking van Griekenland, en uit protest tegen het politiegeweld tegen demonstrante ...

The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck. The film tells the story of the Joads, an Oklahoma family, who, after losing their farm during the Great Depression in the 1930s, become migrant workers and end up in Cal ...

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The Civic Movement Iceland expresses a deep concern about the way European political leaders manipulate the state of Greek economy and the reason for its collapse. It is our firm belief that the Greek public is not to blame for the economic meltdown in the world, and even though, Greek banks are now on the brink of collapse, they should not be saved at any cost. Other and more important issues have to be ad ...

Richard Wolff, an American economist, on debt - interview by Helen Skopis, Athens International Radio, February 2011 on Youtube "The largest holders of Greek, Irish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian sovereign debt are the biggest banks in Europe, particularly those in France and Germany and so forth. If you permitted the renegotiation of debt [...], then you would put the problem in the hands of the German, ...

By Yorgos Avgeropoulos I have covered conflicts of protestors and police in various places around the world outside Greece, such as in Argentina, Italy, Bolivia, and Mexico. Especially in Mexico the police, as many know, are considered savage, untrained and corrupt. However, what I lived through and recorded along with my co-workers yesterday Wednesday 29/6 at Syntagma, surpasses all limits in savagery. The ...

By Yasmin El-Sharif and Stefan Kaiser Tough times are ahead for the Greeks, with the government raising taxes, cutting social benefits and selling off state enterprises. Berlin has led the European pack in demanding the measures from Athens. But economists say Germany would be overwhelmed if it were forced to implement similar measures. The Germans are always way ahead when it comes to austerity measures -- ...

By Mark Mazower. June 29, 2011 YESTERDAY, the whole world was watching Greece as its Parliament voted to pass a divisive package of austerity measures that could have critical ramifications for the global financial system. It may come as a surprise that this tiny tip of the Balkan Peninsula could command such attention. We usually think of Greece as the home of Plato and Pericles, its real importance lying ...