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From Athens to Brussels and Berlin our NO is everywhere in the squares.
3 / 8 / 2015
On July 13 the political and financial oligarchies of Europe imposed, with the knife at the throat, a program to Greece that the same mainstream economists call simply "impossible to enforce" even under capitalistic standards.
Which was their real goal? They wanted to and had to demonstrate that there can be no viable alternative outside of the field of possibilities defined by their policies. To reach (…)

Update: Being president doesn’t make you black. Update: Being “hip-hop” doesn’t make you concerned about social justice . . . or a musician for that matter. Update: Being a Democrat doesn’t make you a liberal . . . a neo liberal maybe.
So I hate hip-hop. Why? Stealing beats, using two turntables and a microphone no more makes one an artist than, say, painting houses.
Using meaningless buzz words like Turntablism, Freestyle rap, Gangsta rap, Homo hop, Hardcore hip hop, Bounce Brick, (…)

« Serviceman » with daesh, Erdogan was him always !
Whereas « democratic » with the Kurds, it would seem that he is definitively incapable of it…
It will have needed that one year to the leader of the AKP to go out of its reserve and take advantage of the international conflict imposed by daesh in Iraq and in Syria to send an additional ultimatum to those whom he always considers as his internal enemy bound (connected) to a politics (policy) of Marxist economic and social opposition, (…)

The capital of Angola, Luanda remains a city of contrasts. Skyscrapers are growing upward and replacing the grasslands on which the city was founded. Wealth is concentrated near the center of the city, while the outskirts are home to the middle class and poor. However, there is a new class of young, upwardly mobile businesspeople emerging hoping to forge that fractured image into something greater and propel Luanda to its rightful place on the world stage.
One of these trendsetters is (…)

The 28th Amendment
A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution: The Right to Hear (originally proposed by Tommy Smothers).
The people reserve the right to hear, see, or read any (and all) information, regarding their government as well as corporations, from any source whatsoever. Furthermore it shall be illegal for the president, the directors of government agencies, corporations, or any government branch or agency to impede the delivery of such information to the people. It (…)

It was easy to expect that they would have made the Greeks pay for OXI, and so was it. In the light of the most harsh outcome of the "negotiation" between the Greek government and the Eurogroup, the discussion now revolves around pro- and anti-Tsipras stances - has he betrayed the people’s mandate or not? - and/or the question of whether the price to save Europe was maybe too hefty. A discussion, to say the least, that is out of sync. Actually, this "agreement" does not avoid the Grexit, but (…)

There’s a bit of a lull in the news from Europe, but the underlying situation is as terrible as ever. Greece is experiencing a slump worse than the Great Depression, and nothing happening now offers hope of recovery. Spain has been hailed as a success story, because its economy is finally growing — but it still has 22 percent unemployment. And there is an arc of stagnation across the continent’s top: Finland is experiencing a depression comparable to that in southern Europe, and Denmark and (…)

07/19/2015
Over the course of six painful months, round after round of fraught negotiations between Greece and its creditors produced all manner of speculation about what a "Grexit" would actually entail.
With no precedent to turn to for guidance, mapping out the implications of an exit from the currency bloc was (and still is) a virtually impossible task, but the collective efforts of the sellside, the mainstream media, political analysts, and economists did manage to produce a (…)

Flavio Becca is clearly an ambitious man. The Italian-born bricklayer-turned-entrepreneur who lives in Luxembourg, built his property and sports empire out of nothing. But, as every child knows from the story of Icarus, fly too close to the sun and your wax-glued wings dissolve.
Becca has been attracted by the sun, too many times to survive the damage. His empire is about to crash, because it was based on nothing more than sweet-talk. Politicians and even a state bank are among the victims (…)

At the beginning of my recent article, Will Wisconsin’s Ignorance Become America’s Ignorance Again? (Pravda.Ru, 03/04/2015), I stated, “Ever since America’s politicized, corrupt, unethical, corporate-controlled Supreme Court decided the cases of Citizens United vs. FEC (2010) and McCutcheon vs. FEC (2014), I have written numerous articles for Pravda.Ru describing how these two decisions destroyed the ability of working class Americans to exercise their once fundamental right to freedom of (…)