Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small … Continue reading Monsanto’s Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming | Vanity Fair

If you thought the Goldman Sachs banker who did the deal to get Greece into the euro might have been chased out of the City of London, think again. Source: Greek debt … Continue reading Goldman Sachs banker who got rich getting Greece into the euro

… According to the OECD, in 2010 the Greek government collected 70.3bn euros ($93.1bn), or 34% of the country’s total gross domestic product (GDP) – slightly below the EU average of 38.5%. … Continue reading Is Greece really all the bad at collecting taxes? – BBC News

Greece and other weak EU countries were victims of predatory lending too – mainly by bankers in Germany and France. Like their still unindicted counterparts at America’s too-big-to-fail banks, the banksters responsible … Continue reading The Greeks Fight Back: Oxi to Austerity

Continue reading Even Margaret Thatcher said that the Euro & the ECB will destroy democracy.

Greece did not fail on its own. It was made to fail. In summary, the banks wrecked the Greek government and deliberately pushed it into unsustainable debt so that oligarchs and international corporations … Continue reading Greece – What You Are Not Being Told by the Media

Italian company Hacking Team which made software and sold it to such countries as Egypt, Sudan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia which helped those countries spy on, suppress and most … Continue reading Italian Hacking Team Company HACKED! They helped Governments repress (and kill?) people.

Germany struggled in the early years of their membership of the Eurozone with deficits well in excess of the Maastricht fiscal rules (maximum of 3 per cent of GDP), which I wrote … Continue reading Germany’s serial breaches of Eurozone rules | Bill Mitchell – billy blog

Piketty: When I hear the Germans say that they maintain a very moral stance about debt and strongly believe that debts must be repaid, then I think: what a huge joke! Germany … Continue reading Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid its debt”

A crucial referendum will be held in Greece this coming Sunday, July 5. PP-GR ask its members to vote freely, dictated by their their conscience. Source: In A True Democracy Referenda Should … Continue reading In A True Democracy Referenda Should Be The Rule Not The Exception | PirateTimes

For their countries, realizing the dream of EU membership did not mean achieving liberal democracy, as advertised, but being thrown to the wolves of neoliberal capitalism. Local elites made a killing out … Continue reading A Laboratory Sitting on a Graveyard: Greece and the Neoliberal Debt Crisis – The Los Angeles Review of Books

Every single mainstream media has the following narrative for the economic crisis in Greece: the government spent too much money and went broke; the generous banks gave them money, but Greece still … Continue reading Greece – The one biggest lie you are being told by the media