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One year after Syriza won

Greece and the eurozone: what’s left? by Tom Vouloumanos It was almost a year ago that Europe elected its first radical Left government since WWII: the Syriza government in Athens under Alexis Tsipras. Syriza was supposed to signal the beginning of the end of neoliberal hegemony in Europe and begin the wave of a Mediterranean pink tide. Within its first months in power, Brussels tightened the screws on Athens. The Troika (EU-ECB-IMF) could not afford to cave into a single demand as Madrid and Lisbon would follow. Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis was ridiculed for making elementary economic demands: Greece was bankrupt and in order to pay back its creditors, it needed growth and debt restructuring, not austerity. But the creditors did not care about being paid back, they were in fact subsidizing bank loans to Greece via taxpayers’ money, so that Greece could pay back older loans to those same private banks with the caveat that it implement an ag

Cold War 2.0: Putin signs security paper labeling NATO a threat to Russia

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a threat to Russia, according to new national security document signed and approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday. The document, which is updated every six years, said that the recent expansion push from NATO in territories close to Russia threatens Russian security and interests. “ The buildup of the military potential of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and vesting it with global functions implemented in violations of norms of international law, boosting military activity of the bloc's countries, further expansion of the alliance, the approach of its military infrastructure to Russian borders create a threat to the national security, ” the document reports. More: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Putin-Signs-Security-Paper-Labeling-NATO-as-Threat-to-Russia-20160101-0007.html

NATO seeking Russia’s destruction since 1949

(PART 1) by Gary Leupp In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, U.S. president George H. W. Bush through his secretary of state James Baker promised Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev that in exchange for Soviet cooperation on German reunification, the Cold War era NATO alliance would not expand “one inch” eastwards towards Russia. Baker told Gorbachev: “ Look, if you remove your [300,000] troops [from east Germany] and allow unification of Germany in NATO, NATO will not expand one inch to the east. ” In the following year, the USSR officially dissolved itself. Its own defensive military alliance (commonly known as the Warsaw Pact) had already shut down. The Cold War was over. So why hasn’t NATO also dissolved, but instead expanded relentlessly, surrounding European Russia? Why isn’t this a central question for discussion and debate in this country? NATO: A Cold War Anti-Russian Alliance Some challenge the claim that Bush’s pledge was ever given,

Το έμμεσο μήνυμα προς το 99%

του system failure Είναι ιδιαίτερα εντυπωσιακό, αν όχι απίστευτο, το γεγονός ότι οι άνθρωποι αποδέχονται παθητικά, χωρίς κανένα ίχνος έκπληξης, πράγματα που στο παρελθόν θα τα θεωρούσαν απαράδεκτα και εξωφρενικά. Μερικά πράγματα θεωρούνται σήμερα τόσο κοινά, που δεν μπαίνουν στον κόπο να τα συζητήσουν περισσότερο. Παράδειγμα: οι μαζικές παρακολουθήσεις πολιτών από κυβερνητικές υπηρεσίες. Τα ψέματα και η προπαγάνδα είναι τόσο συχνό φαινόμενο, που όλο και λιγότεροι άνθρωποι πιστεύουν στα αφηγήματα των συστημικών ΜΜΕ. Ζούμε σε ένα σύμπαν απόλυτης ψευδαίσθησης που κατακλύζεται από ψεύτικη πληροφορία, ψεύτικες εικόνες, σκηνοθετημένα γεγονότα, παραποιημένες ιστορίες. Η ασύλληπτη ποσότητα πληροφορίας που διακινείται καθημερινά στοχεύει τον ανθρώπινο εγκέφαλο, όχι για να τον αφυπνίσει, αλλά για να εξασφαλίσει ότι θα μείνει σε μια μόνιμη κατάσταση απενεργοποίησης. Θα πρέπει κανείς να ψάξει πολύ για να βρει μερικά κομμάτια αλήθειας μέσα στον λαβύρινθο του διαδικτύου. Αλλά αυτό είνα

The indirect message to the 99%

by system failure It is quite impressive, if not unbelievable, how people today know and discuss without any trace of surprise, things that would be completely unacceptable in the past. In fact, some things are considered to be so common now, that they don't even bother to discuss further. An example: government interceptions . Lies and propaganda are so frequent that lesser and lesser people believe to the mainstream media narratives. We live in a Universe of illusion flooded by false information, false images, staged events, manipulated stories. The enormous quantity of everyday information is targeting the human brain, not to wake it up, but to make sure that it will stay in a "switch off" mode permanently. Someone has to dig really hard to find pieces of truth in the internet labyrinth. But this is also a sign that a system spends too much time and effort, trying very hard to sustain its dominance. The events in Greece during the last five years