Tsipras Pushes Greeks to Take Bailout Deal
Jul 15, 2015 Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday continued the diplomatic high-wire act that his country's economic crisis has obliged him to attempt by working hard to persuade members of the Greek Parliament and the general population to accept the bailout package he was just offered in Brussels.
VIDEO: Greece Accepts Draconian EU Bailout Demands
Jul 13, 2015 To get desperately needed funds, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has submitted his country to harsh economic reforms that the people had rejected in a referendum just a week earlier.
We Are All Greeks Now
Jul 13, 2015 What is happening in Greece in the name of austerity has already happened to the poor and the working class in the United States. If the global financial elites continue in power, the misery of the Greeks will become our own.2016 Southern California Journalism Award: First Place, Online Political Column/Commentary
VIDEO: Tsipras Permitted Untold Damage to Be Done to the Greek Economy for Nothing
Jul 10, 2015 “There is no end in sight to the suffering of the Greek people,” writes Guardian editor Larry Elliott following the prime minister's capitulation to European demands.
‘Guerrilla Warfare Against a Hegemonic Power’: The Challenge and Promise of Greece
Jul 10, 2015 By nationalizing its banks and issuing digital loans and thus restoring the liquidity desperately needed by banks and the economy, Greece could provide a model of sustainable prosperity for the world. But it is being strangled by a hegemonic power in a financial war being waged against us all.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Resigns
Jul 6, 2015 Despite his country’s decisive rejection of the European Union’s terms for remaining in the eurozone, the Greek finance minister has quit his post, citing an unwillingness on the part of some EU ministers to negotiate with him.
Is Greece’s ‘No’ on the Debt Referendum Another Youth Revolution?
Jul 6, 2015 In the past five years, the old political categories -- left, right, center or capitalist and socialist -- have been challenged by a new category: youth.
Greek Voters Send Decisive Message to European Leaders: No Deal (Updated)
Jul 6, 2015 If there was any lingering question about where the majority of Greeks stood on the deal drummed up by European creditors to try to contain Greece's ongoing financial crisis, Sunday's referendum on the bailout package soundly dispelled it.
EU Bailout Terms Are Designed to Force Syriza From Power
Jul 2, 2015 The aim of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other EU powers in the Greek debt crisis is “apparently to humiliate Tsipras and his government in preparation for its early replacement with a more pliable administration,” writes Seamus Milne, associate editor of The Guardian.VIDEO: Chomsky on Greece: A ‘Savage Response’ for Standing Up to Austerity ‘Class War’
Jul 2, 2015 In an interview for "Democracy Now!" Noam Chomsky comments on the challenges faced by Greece's leading party, Syriza.