A description of a lazy and corrupted nation that does not recognise the sacrifices made by the Germans and an unrest caused by anarchists against whom only fascists can fight back.. This picture would justify a coup, right? Now we can all agree that they did it to themselves and they deserve it, right? A scandalous analysis by Huffington Post. Comment by ReINFORM ------------------------------------------- ...

Rebloged from http://truth-out.org When the global financial system crumbled over four years ago, Iceland played host to one of the most dramatic economic collapses in modern history. Its three largest banks were unable to refinance debt roughly ten times the size of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), causing one of the world's wealthiest nations to limp with hat in hand to the International Moneta ...

People carry body of a protester killed during clashes yesterday in the port city in Suez, about 134 km (83 miles) east of in Cairo January 26, 2013 (Photo: Reuters)   Suez protesters killed during Friday clashes were shot by live ammunition at close range and in some cases from behind, forensics head Ihsan Kamil Gorgy told Al-Ahram Arabic website Saturday. The forensics team has secured bullets extrac ...

From indymedia.nl This is small act of solidarity with our greek comrades. The state attack against villa amalias, radio 98fm, skaramagka, lelas karagianni and the DELTA squat [tessaloniki] are not accidents. This spaces where used as tools against state and fascist terror. Tthe state send paramilitary forces to the center of athens to do the dirty work... Outbreaks of lawlessness are the politicians , bank ...

More than half of the Greek citizens, due to financial difficulties, cannot visit dentists or have precautionary health checks. In other words they have no access to Basic Health Services. Most of them visit the outpatients' clinics of Public Hospitals which during the last few months are getting dramatically busy. According to data brought to publicity by Giannis Kiriakopoulos, Professor of Finance for Hea ...

  Workers and employees of Athens metro, urban train and the tram are facing wage cuts for the 4rth time in the last 2 years. Their salaries have been already reduced up to 45%. Now, the government wants to abolish their collective labor agreements that provide the minimum salaries for their particular sector and apply a payroll, common for all civil workers instead. The workers want to defend their co ...

Above: Greek authorities recently raided and shut down the Villa Amalia squat in Athens as part of a campaign to restore ‘order’.   Seen on http://www.nytexaminer.com/ By Costas Panayotakis: In an article that reports on a number of bombings in Greece in recent weeks, Liz Alderman presents contrasting interpretations of these developments and what precipitated them but, in subtle ways, ends up acting a ...

http://www.zerohedge.com Authored by Martin Lueck of UBS, Cyprus is the euro area’s third-smallest economy in GDP terms (larger only than Malta and Estonia, but likely to be outgrown by the latter this year), accounting for less than 0.2% of the region’s output. Yet, we believe it is big enough to cause trouble. The country urgently needs external funding and applied for an EU/IMF/ECB (in short: troika) pro ...

Translated by ReINFORM In memory of SHEHZAD LUGMAN, the migrant from Pakistan who was murdered on 17 January 2013 at Petralona, Athens 17-01-2013 by Panagiotis Mavroidis http://aristeroblog.gr/node/1341 Even the news on MEGA channel (cc. the most pro-government and neonazi-tolerant tv channel in Greece) today, Thursday 17th Jan 2013, that broadcasted it as one of the last news items, is informing us that th ...

KAYIKI PRESS RELEASE 18.01.2013 “Grief itself is not enough”   On Sunday January 13, 2013 three corpses have been found on the seashore of south Chios Island. They belonged to refugees trying to cross the European borders. On December 15 a refugee boat heading from Turkey to Greece capsized near Lesvos Island, twenty eight people - including women and children- tragically drowned. Earlier, on September ...