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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part III: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
From the ERT broadcaster shutdown, to the failure to support the Vio.Me factory cooperative, to the privatization of Thessaloniki's water, the Syriza government has broken promises and missed opportunities.
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part I: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
The relationship of the Syriza party with the Greek grassroots movements resisting austerity was a marriage of convenience that has ended in broken promises, lost opportunities and a bitter divorce.
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Exclusive: Greece's Former President of Parliament On Why Syriza Party Broke Its Pledge to the People
“They are trying to bury us – but they forget when you bury a seed it is only going to flourish,” says Zoe Konstantopoulou, the former President of Greek Parliament.
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Greece Closes Its Banks As Crisis Deepens and Nation Awaits Referendum
Greeks will find their savings blocked and their banks closed for a week following a fateful weekend that has shaken Europe’s single currency.
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Greece's Other Story: Golden Dawn and the Dangerous Rise of Europe's Far Right
Continued austerity policies, especially in Europe’s poorer countries, could leave those left behind looking for scapegoats – a situation that history teaches us never ends well.
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How America Became An Oligarchy
If governments are recalling their sovereign powers, they might start with the power to create money, which was usurped by private interests while the people were asleep at the wheel.
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Weimar on the Aegean
In the Greek debt crisis, it is crucial that Europe’s leaders remember the history of the Weimar era that led to the rise of Nazi Germany.
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As Incoming Syriza Leaders Get Down To Work, Europe's Finance Ministers Hold Their Breath
The party is expected to unveil its policy plans in Parliament this week, while meetings get underway between Greece's new regime and the finance chiefs of Britain, France and Italy.
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Occupy Syriza: Economic Tremors Spread Through Europe In Aftermath of Greek Election
The victory of Greece's leftwing Syriza party is sending shockwaves through Europe’s political establishment as popular resistance to the politics of austerity builds.
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Greek Voters Look to Syriza Party to End Austerity and Reclaim Economic Sovereignty
The left-populist party headed by Alexis Tsipras is positioned to win Greece’s elections Sunday on a progressive platform to reverse austerity cuts imposed on the country over the past half decade.
