Former Federal Reserve Economist Likely Next Prime Minister of Greece

from Economic Policy Journal From the “You Can’t Make This Up Desk”… “Lucas Papademos will be as of tomorrow the new prime minister of the country after the agreement that the outgoing Prime Minister George Papandreou and the opposition head Antonis Samaras reached last night,” reports the Greek daily Ta Nea. Papademos is a 100% [...]

Iran says IAEA’s documents on its missile program “fake”

from Xinhuanet A senior member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami said Monday that the documents of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on its missile program are “fake,” the official IRNA news agency reported. Khatami called on the IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano “not to defame the nuclear watchdog by unveiling [...]

Major powers successfully dictate regime change in Greece

by Chris Marsden, WSWS Just three days after he won a vote of confidence, Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou is out of office and a government of “national unity” is being formed—combining Papandreou’s PASOK and the main conservative opposition, New Democracy. The sole raison d’être of the new government is to impose on the Greek [...]

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