Don't blame American appetites, rising oil prices, or genetically modified crops for rising food prices. Wall Street's at fault for the spiraling cost of food. Bankers recognized a good system when they saw it, and dozens of speculative non-physical hedgers followed Goldman's lead and joined the commodities index game, including Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Pimco, JP Morgan Chase, AIG, Bear Stearns, and Lehman ...

Goldman Sachs appears to be testing the limits of its special talent for avoiding all accountability following revelations of its role in exacerbating the Greek debt crisis. The bank has come under heavy criticism from European political officials over its role in helping Greece hide its debts, and on Wednesday, Greek labor unions staged a historic strike that shut down the country's national infrastructure ...

  If Europe's single currency fails, so would the Union itself. The warning comes from the EU president, who was speaking ahead of the meeting of the Eurozone's finance ministers. Portugal has warned it could be forced out of the Eurozone, and Ireland is also being urged to use European bailout money to prevent bankruptcy. But Financial analyst Max Keiser says going to the IMF for help would be even wo ...

If you want to be called a man you'll never stop even for a single moment to fight for peace and justice. You get out on the street, you scream, your lips will get bloody from yelling, your face will get bloody from bullets, but not a step behind. Every scream of yours is a rock thrown on the windows of war mongers. Every gesture of yours is like ruining injustice. And make no mistake: Don't let yourself be ...

Citing Eurostat data, Wall Street Journal on Monday 14 Feb. 2011 published an entry, entitled “Busting North – South Stereotypes” indicating that Greeks in particular have the longest working week in Europe at an average of 42 hours, followed closely by the Spanish and Portuguese with 39-hour weeks. The full WSJ article follows: The euro-zone debt crisis has underlined one of Europe’s more enduring stereoty ...

“Inside Job” provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the fil ...

"For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. “Debtocracy” seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. ...

RESOLUTIE VAN DE OPENBARE ASSEMBLAGE VAN HET VIERKANT VAN HET SYNTAGMA Reeds lange tijd wordt er over ons, maar zonder ons, beslist. Wij zijn werknemers, werklozen, gepensioneerden en jongeren die naar het Syntagma-plein zijn gekomen om te strijden en op te komen voor onze levens en onze toekomst. We zijn hier omdat we weten dat de oplossingen voor onze problemen alleen uit ons zelf kunnen voortkomen. We ro ...