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Youch; Varoufakis reveals cloak and dagger ‘Plan B’ for Greece, awaits...
Via the Telegraph UK: ‘Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis claims he was authorised by Alexis Tsipras to look into a parallel payment system’ by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (I’m going to...
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Open thread on the twists and turns afoot in Greece
Juliania has been paying attention to events in the Hellenistic Republic, bless her heart, and although the Snap Election isn’t until Sept. 20, I thought I’d put up a shell that we can add to at will....
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Tsipras/Syriza pull it out
With only 30% of the vote yet to be counted: #Grélections 70.29% du total: Syriza 35.42% ND 28.30% Aube Tarée 7.02% Pasok 6.38% KKE 5.47% Potami 4.01% ANEL 3.65% U Ctre 3.38% — Olivier Drot...
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Forced Frenemies at the UNGA: Putin and Obama
(This will be a copy/paste post in the main, given the dueling voices and media narratives. And of course Obama finally reached the conclusion that ‘the coalition partners against ISIL need both...
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NATO’s Rampin’ It Up: will create new HQs in Hungary & Slovakia, Too!
From the horse’s mouth: #NATO Defence Ministers take further steps to enhance collective defence http://t.co/cY7feqKwFt #DefMin pic.twitter.com/10KNOfJ7KC — NATO (@NATO) October 8, 2015 “The Ministers...
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WikiLeaked Cables Demonstrate Attempts to Overthrow Elected Socialist...
From jacobin.org: ‘The Latin America WikiLeaks Files’; US diplomatic cables reveal a coordinated assault against Latin America’s left-wing governments’, authored by Alexander Main & Dan Beeton of...
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Mass 24-hour Walkout Strike in Greece over IMF and ECB Austerity
#Greece: Thousands in front of the Parliament now for the general #strike pic.twitter.com/jz9whwKEtz — Savvas Karmaniolas (@SavvasKarma) November 12, 2015 ‘Our rage will be relentless’: Syriza faces...
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Will Media Psy-Ops and NGOs Undermine Chavismo in Today’s Elections in...
(I apologize that this will be a terribly inelegant and rough diary; but needs must.) Ah, yes; starring Miz Picklepuss of Adrienne Arsht/ Atlantic Council: working to secure the future (of some™)...
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Can We Save Ourselves from The Lords of Capital at Davos While They ‘Save the...
(I’m sorry it’s so long; I’m not even sure I’d read it if I hadn’t had to…) The Mission Statement of the World Economic Forum, in part (my bolds): “The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the...
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Exploring Compromised NGOs, Part I
Frida Kahlo’s The Wounded Table During the epic kerfuffle over Mark Ames (Pando Press) having reported on Pierre Omidyar’s financial support of the US-backed putsch in Kyiv back in 2014, and referenced...
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Newest Anti-Russian Psyop
Danielle Ryan at RT asks today: ‘Coincidence? Baltic invasion story reappears as Pentagon seeks to quadruple Europe spending’ First she explains why the theme of Russian revanchism may have been put...
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Compromised NGOs Part II
As I’d said about Part I, some of this diary might cause readers discomfort in varying measures. All I’d ask is that you set aside your preconceptions for a bit to examine some of the facts and...
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‘Rats’ Sez Yats: ‘We’ve lost control of our Neo-Nazis!’
Via Presstv (with video, ish): “The government of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has survived a no confidence vote, hours after the president asked him to step down. The motion got 194...
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Lightning & Thunder & Rumbles from Europe
This is actually heating up as a possibility (who’d a thunk?): Twitter wars on #Brexit: four more months until the June 23rd referendum: Debating a typical kipper on Twitter re #UKIP and #brexit...
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Of Course Operation Cold Response Ain’t Aimed at Roossia; sheeesh.
‘Pentagon Planet’ by anthony freda Silly RT journalist Dan Glazebrook claims that ‘‘NATO drills – US attempt to show readiness for war against Russia’. He writes: “Norway is hosting Europe’s biggest...
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Self-organizing Democratic Alternative Institutions in Greece: Solidarity for...
Recently we’d been discussing Ben Reynolds’ essay at Roar Magazine ‘Whose lives matter? The limitations of Bernie Sanders’ and this core thesis: “Rather than channeling popular anger into...
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Obama Joins Macri in an Alley-Oop to Turn the Pink Tide in Argentina the...
welcoming Obama in Argentina (profits for local kleptocrats and multinationals, that is…) (no transcript so far, but check) (Operation Condor) “Condor’s key members were the governments in Argentina,...
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Breaking: ‘Rats’ Says Yats again; ‘Drat, foiled again!’, cries Nuland as Yats...
Via RT: “Gilbert Doctorow of Russia Insider pointed out that Yatsenyuk’s resignation occurred shortly after Ukraine’s association agreement with the EU had been rejected in a Dutch referendum. “This...
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‘Dilma Out: Brazilian Plutocracy Sets 54 Million Votes on Fire’
Yep, you’ve likely guessed by the title that the author’s Pepé Escobar, and whoo-eee, he’s on fire with indignant condemnation of the most recent soft-coup in the global south, this one of course,...
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‘The Financial Invasion of Greece’: Michael Hudson on TRNN
(the transcript) ‘Finance as a ‘new’ means of war’, ‘rollback to neofeudalism’, and “The IMF is preparing to bail out Ukraine, to say you don’t have to pay your debts that you owe to Russia or any...
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