May 27, 2012
Geert Wilders‘ rejection of Dutch austerity measures caused the government of the Netherlands to fall [AP] The triumph of nationalism How extremist and nationalist forces are growing across Europe in the face of financial crisis and growing xenophobia. London, United Kingdom - “The battle for France has just started”, declared a triumphant Marine Le Pen after her impressive [...]
Tags: European Union, France, Geert Wilders, Germany, London, Marine Le Pen, Netherland, Politics of the Netherlands
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May 13, 2012
Demonstrators occupy Puerta del Sol in Madrid last year in May. Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images link to article http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/13/spain-protests-indignados-first-anniversary The exhibition at Madrid’s Ateneo cultural centre is full of precious artefacts carefully conserved to tell the story of a remarkable event in Spanish history; a moment when the world looked on in amazement at the eruption [...]
Tags: Barcelona, Francisco Franco, Madrid, Mariano Rajoy, Protest, Puerta del Sol, Sol, Spain
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May 11, 2012
Hundreds of Thousands March Against Austerity in UK Public workers, including 20,000 off-duty police officers, protesting pension and benefit cuts – Common Dreams staff Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are taking part in a UK-wide strike to protest proposed government austerity that has taken aim at their pensions and benefits. Public sector workers [...]
Tags: David Cameron, London, Police Federation of England and Wales, Royal Navy, Sally Hunt, Sunderland University, Unite Union, University and College Union
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May 9, 2012
Unpopular austerity measures have often been met with mass demonstrations in Europe [Reuters] New York, New York - This year’s annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund made clear that Europe and the international community remain rudderless when it comes to economic policy. Financial leaders, from finance ministers to leaders of private financial institutions, reiterated the [...]
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May 9, 2012
Greek, French Elections Sound Death Knell for Austerity by Julio Godoy BERLIN – The voting out of conservative governments in France and Greece this weekend heralds the end of harsh European austerity programs and ushers in an era of new economic, investment, and social policies aimed at restoring growth and employment across the continent. In [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, European Central Bank, European Union, France, François Hollande, Greece, Hollande, Olli Rehn
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May 8, 2012
Since Austerity raised its head this page has constantly warned about what is suggested is an attack on working people, to further the cause of the elites and their lackeys. As far as ‘belt tightening’ in concerned, just whose belt is being tightened?. Remember that what we are supposed to [...]
Tags: Athens, Austerity, European Union, France, François Hollande, Greece, Julius Caesar, Nicolas Sarkozy, Parliamentary system, Working class
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May 8, 2012
Austerity Can’t Be Just For Regular People by Matt Taibbi It didn’t take long to crank up the backlash against European voters. This is inevitable whenever a socialist wins a major election, but particularly now, when new French president François Hollande rode to victory shouting, “Austerity can no longer be inevitable!” A protester holds a banner that reads ‘Austerity [...]
Tags: Austerity, Brooks, David Brooks, François Hollande, Greece, Matt Taibbi, Paul Krugman, Wall Street
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May 8, 2012
Washington, D.C. – Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that’s what it was, given Sunday’s election results in Europe. Perhaps I should also say good riddance. Voters in France, Greece and even Germany — a hotbed of the austerity cult — told their political [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Austerity, David Cameron, European Union, François Hollande, Greece, Nicolas Sarkozy, Republican Party, United States, Washington Post Writers Group
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May 7, 2012
German chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted Athens must comply with the stringent terms of its €130bn (£100bn) bailout. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters Eurozone crisis: Merkel tells Athens and Paris to stick to spending limits Efforts to save the euro under threat after EU leaders’ strategies collide with the wishes of voters in Greece and France Europe‘s [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Berlin, European Central Bank, European Union, France, François Hollande, Germany, Greece
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May 7, 2012
François Hollande, France’s newly elected president. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP This is what passes for bad news these days. A proper election process looks to have rejected austerity. That’s bad apparently. In two elections candidates at least claiming to want to give people a voice may be elected or govern as part of a coalition. That [...]
Tags: Alexis Tsipras, Antonis Samara, France, François Hollande, Golden Dawn, Greece, New Democracy, Radical Left Coalition
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May 2, 2012
Britain ‘Does’ Austerity So The US Doesn’t Have To The country’s experiment in austerity has provided the US with valuable information: it doesn’t work. By Dean Baker May 01, 2012 “Al Jazeera” — Washington, DC – A little less than two years ago, the people of the United Kingdom made [...]
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April 30, 2012
Protest flames: demonstrators in Rome take part in a candlelit vigil held for victims of the economic crisis and to highlight the lack of jobs. Partial local elections take place next month. Photograph: Giuseppe Ciccia/Demotix/Corbis Anti-austerity movements gaining momentum across Europe As economies falter, established political parties feel the heat from leftwing and far right [...]
Tags: Anti-austerity protests, European Union, France, Golden Dawn (Greece), Greece, Marine Le Pen, Netherlands, Pen
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April 29, 2012
REUTERS European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has suggested a ‘growth pact.’ Be it austerity queen Angela Merkel or Socialist François Hollande, European politicians are suddenly in agreement with ECB President Mario Draghi’s proposal to round out the European fiscal pact’s austerity measures with a “growth pact.” But many seem to have a different idea about what this means. [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Draghi, European Central Bank, François Hollande, Hollande, John Maynard Keynes, Mario Draghi, Nicolas Sarkozy
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April 29, 2012
Austerity is suicidal public policy warns US economist Joseph Stiglitz.Nobel Prize-winning U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz speaking in Vienna, Austria Thursday night said that it’s a suicidal path for Europe — and that such a policy has never worked in any large country. European, US Austerity Drive is Suicidal: Nobel Economist Stiglitz ‘The Occupy movement has been very [...]
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April 28, 2012
As the Mutiny Spreads, It’s Clear: Europeans Have Had Enough! by ALEXANDER COCKBURN Watch Europe tip left and right as voters rise in fury against the austerity menu that’s been bringing them to utter ruin. In Holland, the right-wing Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders brought down the governing coalition on Monday bellowing his defiance for [...]
Tags: Diana Johnstone, France, François Hollande, Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, Nicolas Sarkozy, Pen, Ron Unz, United States, Vioxx
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April 22, 2012
. Protesters march during a demonstration by the Czech Trade Union, who are opposing the Czech government‘s reforms in Prague April 21, 2012. The banner reads, “Stop the government”. (REUTERS/David W Cerny)Union leader Jaroslav Zavadil said the cabinet was “humiliating the powerless with its anti-social reforms.” * * * BBC News: Czechs stage huge anti-government rally [...]
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April 13, 2012
Electoral posters in Seville, Andalucia, March 2012. Brussels and international bond markets are becoming increasingly worried about Spain’s indebted regions. Photograph: Marcelo Del Pozo/REUTERS Further proof that austerity is just a word. What is really happening is that the so called global economy is just the same as any domestic economy. That is it is [...]
Tags: Andalucía, Andalusia, Brussels, Ciudad Real, El País, European Union, Giles Tremlett, Government of Spain, Mariano Rajoy, Spain
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April 10, 2012
A bomb-damaged branch of the Administrative Reform ministry in Athens yesterday. Photograph: John Kolesidis/REUTERS Eurozone crisis live: Bombs in Athens over Easter break Eurozone investor sentiment drops Spanish minister refuses to rule out bailout Greeks protest austerity measures with small fire-bombs There is more live coverage of events at http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/apr/10/eurozone-crisis-live-athens-protests-bombs Related articles Greeks Rally Against Austerity [...]
Tags: Athens, Austerity, Easter, European sovereign debt crisis, Eurozone, Greece, Greek, John Kolesidis/REUTERS
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April 10, 2012
Protesters dressed up as bankers under police watch in Zaragoza, during the March 29 Spanish general strike [Al Jazeera/Pepe Escobar] The longing for rest and peace must itself be thrust aside; it coincides with the acceptance of iniquity. Those who weep for the happy periods they encountered in history acknowledge what they want: not the [...]
Tags: Albert Camus, Bank, Barcelona, General strike, Madrid, Mariano Rajoy, Spain, Spaniard, Spanish language, Spanish people, Unión General de Trabajadores, Workers Commission, Zaragoza
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April 5, 2012
Mourners stand around the spot where a man committed suicide at central Syntagma square in Athens, Thursday. A cash-strapped Greek pensioner shot and killed himself on Wednesday saying he refused to scrounge for food in the rubbish, touching a nerve among ordinary Greeks feeling the brunt of the country’s economic crisis. (John Kolesidis/Reuters) ATHENS, [...]
Tags: Athens, Attica, Austerity, Death, Greece, Greek, Greek language, Karditsa, Suicide, Syntagma, Syntagma Square
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April 3, 2012
After Greece, there are signs of rising protests across EU societies [EPA] London, United Kingdom - German sociologist and influential European thinker Ulrich Beck recently highlightedthat one of the most (problematic) prevailing contemporary tendencies is to elevate Germany‘s “culture of stability” to “Europe’s guiding idea”. While it is necessary that some states take a more conscious and [...]
Tags: Austerity, European Union, Eurostat, Germany, Greece, London, Mario Monti, Ulrich Beck, Unemployment
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March 31, 2012
. Protesters in Madrid during yesterday’s general strike (photo: Jesús Pérez Pacheco) Spain’s New Budget: ‘As Austere As It Gets’ Budget is most austere in Spain’s democratic history – Common Dreams staff Spain has unveiled its most austere budget in democratic history today in the wake of massive protests. The government’s budget calls for cuts [...]
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March 30, 2012
Police try to escort a truck leaving a food warehouse past picketers in Malaga, southern Spain, at the start of a general strike. Photograph: Jon Nazca/Reuters Spain announces ‘extraordinary’ €27bn budget cuts Prime minister Mariano Rajoy‘s conservative government announced Spain’s most austere budget for more than three decades Giles Tremlett guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 March 2012 19.36 [...]
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March 10, 2012
Protesting labor reforms in Spain (photo: arribalasqueluchan!) Fighting Austerity: Spanish Unions Call for General Strike – Common Dreams staff Spain’s two main unions, the General Workers Union and the Workers Commissions, have called for a general strike on March 29 to protest the government’s austerity push. The unions’ leaders, Ignacio Fernández Toxo y [...]
Tags: Austerity, El País, European Union, Eurostat, General strike, Mariano Rajoy, Spain, Trade union
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February 28, 2012
Our Very Own Oscar Night in Rimini By Michael HudsonFebruary 27, 2011 “Counterpunch” — I have just returned from Rimini, Italy, where I experienced one of the most amazing spectacles of my academic life. Four of us associated with the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) were invited to lecture for three days on Modern Monetary [...]
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January 28, 2012
A study of countries that implemented ‘austerity plans’ showed they often weaken the economy [GALLO/GETTY] In an unequal economic situation totally geared to placing the maximum profits and assets of society into the hands of the elite austerity is a quick fix to maintain that very system and to place the burden for recovery on [...]
Tags: Alberto Alesina, Austerity, Bernard Mandeville, Dutch, Economic growth, Economy, Government budget deficit, Government spending, International Monetary Fund, Land and Houses, Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees: And Other Writings, Thebes Greece, World economy
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January 17, 2012
Thousands Hit Athens Streets Demanding End to Austerity Strikes affect public transportation, other services – Common Dreams staff watch video at http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/17-1 Agencies are reporting that thousands of Greeks have taken to the streets and have taken part in strikes in ongoing protests over the country’s harsh austerity measures. Greece has entered its [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Athens, Austerity, Common Dreams NewsCenter, European Union, Greece, International Monetary Fund
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January 15, 2012
Protesters waved Romanian flags with holes in them, symbolising the 1989 anti-communist revolution [Reuters] Romanian police have fired tear gas and clashed with protesters during an anti-government rally in the third consecutive day of demonstrations against austerity cuts and worsening living standards. Authorities said that at least ten people, including one police officer who was [...]
Tags: Basescu, Bucharest, European Union, International Monetary Fund, Romania, Saturday, Traian Băsescu, University Square, World Bank
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January 13, 2012
Countries in Europe have suffered at the hands of the European Central Bank‘s gross mismanagement [EPA] Washington, DC - The people who gave us the eurozone crisis are working around the clock to redefine it in order to profit politically. Their editorials – run as news stories in media outlets everywhere – claim that the euro [...]
Tags: Debt-to-GDP ratio, European Central Bank, GDP, Greece, Gross domestic product, Ireland, Italy, Spain
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January 11, 2012
In this article Austerity is looked at and seen in a light you may prefer to the voodoo rhythm economics representation of the drastic effects of complete inequality. With the accelerating concentration placing even more into the hand of the elites and the sttoge bankers and politicians together with the media more is needed [...]
Tags: European Central Bank, Government spending, Greece, Gross domestic product, Italy, John Maynard Keynes, Keynesian economics, Member state of the European Union, PIGS (economics), Spain
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January 2, 2012
As a young man living in a small suburb of Sydney’s west, a far from affluent area, I had a neighbour who was an electrical worker. He did work at home and on the walls of his garage he had the somewhat usual assortment of posters of scantily clad ladies and the [...]
Tags: AAA, Austerity, Economic, France, Greece, Heather Stewart, Indignati, Madri, Puerta del Sol, Spain, Sydney, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
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May 19, 2011
Trigger happy murderers in NATO are basically the new cancer on the block in the Middle East. These European invading barbarians know nothing but killing as far as the troops are concerned. Fresh from glory of several thousand years in the killing fields of Europe by air land and sea these new SS Regiments havea true obedience [...]
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May 18, 2011
The reference to assets is interesting. In a country like Egypt assets that seem or may arise in excess of expected personal wealth usually require some explanation of origin, one would assume, if they are being used or going to be used as bail. But then again a lazy $4 million worth of your or [...]
Tags: Africa, Bail, Cairo, egypt, History, Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, Sharm el-Sheikh, Suzanne Mubarak
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May 18, 2011
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
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May 18, 2011
Support Killing People or Lose Your Job By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57881 “Ban the bombers are afraid of a fight “Peace hurts business and that ain’t right “How do I know? I read it in the Daily News” –Tom Paxton PBS (the P stands for “Pure” I think) is concerned that if the U.S. government stops funding [...]
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May 16, 2011
Sanity is where you find it and a recent article by Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com is exactly the place to go to see sanity in action. Perhaps the better word or phrase is “strict critical analysis”, but that is entirely a matter for you to decide. However, there is one possible complaint, and that [...]
Tags: 1948 Palestinian exodus, Bashar-al Assad, Justin Raimondo, middle east, Riders On The Storm, Rudolf Rocker, Tel Aviv, United States
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
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May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
Tags: Australia, Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Economy of the United States, Federal Reserve System, God, International Monetary Fund, Julia Gillard, MarketWatch, Singapore Exchange, Standard & Poor's, United States, Wayne Swan
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March 24, 2011
Despite all the claims of terrorism from parts of the local population in Afghanistan the real truth is that the terrorism is from the external forces saying they are there to stop terrorism Remember that courtesy of Gillard and Rudd an almost all politicians we are doing our level best to support war and killing [...]
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March 23, 2011
Now how can that be right? Almost from birth we have been told that salvation comes from above and as a result many many substandard people have held sway over both our opinions and ideas. But why is this so? Mainly because our parents had been very actively taught (propagandi sed) to believe that the [...]
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March 19, 2011
A am still having some teething problems. But delighted to report that someone thinks I am CNNesque. Apart from making a point of never watching it along with Fox fascism I take that as a complete complimnt. Even for an anarchist there are moments you get to like!I apologise for any delays. I changed my [...]
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March 18, 2011
No matter what the odds are against occasionally longshots get home. With hope even Australia of the following only mentality can take part. But first you need the will then there is only the way left George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site of political and social comment and analysis US judge blocks Wisconsin union bargaining [...]
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March 17, 2011
Europe’s Austerity: a Grimm’s Fairy Tale By CONN HALLINAN In the Greek town of Aphidal, people have stopped paying road fees. In Athens, bus and metro riders are refusing to cough up the price of a ticket. On Feb. 23, 250,000 Greek protesters jammed the streets outside the nation’s parliament. The Portuguese nominated the protest [...]
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Is there a lesson here for the unelected Australian government?
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
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