Austerity kills: Greek Martyrs and the Economic Hitmen in Michigan

by Scott Creighton Sooner or later, we are all Dimitris Christoulas. Dimitris Christoulas picked a tree in a park in central Athens by the nation’s parliament. It took him 77 years to get to that point, to pick that tree. He sat down next to it, sat in the shady side at 9am in the [...]

List of Dictatorships Aligned with Neoliberal “Free Trade” Economics

by Scott Creighton Neoliberalism = Washington Consensus = IMF austerity measures = economic hitmen = Dictatorships Below is a list of current (2011) dictatorships and authoritarian ruled nations as compiled by the Freedom House. The nation states in RED are openly free market/neoliberal and supported by the United States of America or other neoliberal nations. [...]

Max Keiser on the Economic Terrorism that Toppled Greece

Protesters and police clash amid largest Greek strike

and read this article from the New York Times Greece Moves Forward on New Austerity Bill

The Death of Democracy: Globalist Endgame Now in Play for All To See

by Scott Creighton Economic governance: direct rule of the people (as opposed to the indirect rule by proxy which we currently have in America) by the unelected, unaccountable bankers, hedge fund managers, and financial institutions like the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the EU.

Riot police battle austerity protesters in Greece

(The German commissioner of the EU suggested that Europe should send in the “Blue Helmets” (UN “peace keepers”) to collect the taxes and control the asset liquidations (wholesale privatization of public owned resources and assets). An occupying force to literally steal the wealth of the nation and enslave them to unfair taxes levied against the [...]

“When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty” – Jefferson

COMING SOON … TO A SQUARE NEAR YOU . . In North America The Right to Dissent is Being Rescinded “one of the things we point out in the book is that this stuff starts by the police and the military (and intelligence ops) months if not years before the demonstration. It includes infiltrating ALL [...]

DEBTOCRACY (FULL – ENG Subs)

Neoliberalism is a crime, it’s a crime against humanity, and it is the now the established religion of the elite and political classes. As is pointed out in this film, even if this odious debt we face here is in fact completely legitimate, which of course it is not, but even if it is, it [...]

Rockefeller’s Dream: National Auto-determination Begins and Ends in Greece

by Scott Creighton The new IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde announced the IMF’s approval of a 3.2 billion euro ($4.6 billion) loan payment for Greece. This latest payment is part of a 12 billion euro bailout package which is being doled out bit by bit as Greece hammers her population with draconian austerity measures and [...]

The Case Against DSK is “Falling Apart” – As If We Didn’t See That Coming

by Scott Creighton Literally the day after it’s announced that the Greek government is going to accept the harshest possible austerity package in exchange for another bailout to give to the international bankers, the news comes out that the case against the former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is “falling apart” Yeah. Like we [...]

Debt Contagion and the Global Economic Collapse

Banker Occupation of Greece

by Stephen Lendman, Another World is Possible Economist Michael Hudson calls it “Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy” in a June 5 article by that title, saying: After being debt entrapped, or perhaps acquiescing to entrapment, the Papandreou government needs bailout help to pay bankers that entrapped them. Doing so, however, requires “initiat(ing) a class [...]

Too little too late: the family dynasties who have failed Greece’s youth

by Daniel Howden, The Independent Greece’s political elite is a pond that refuses to be flushed. Two clans have dominated the scene since the fall of the dictatorship: the Papandreou and Karamanlis families and their socialist and conservative tribes who have played out largely fake wars while pursuing similar policies. This as much as anything [...]

Political turmoil in Greece amid austerity uproar

from Business Week Squeezed between worried creditors and an angry public, Greece’s beleaguered prime minister tried to tamp down an escalating revolt within his own Socialist party Thursday over new austerity measures…. … “The political system is rotting … The country is not being governed the way it should be,” said Socialist deputy Nikos Salagianis. [...]

Germany Backs Down From Confrontation With E.C.B. Over Greece

(This means the people of Greece will have to shoulder ALL of the burden of the economic terrorism created by the banks and financial institutions) from The New York Times Germany backed away Friday from a confrontation with the European Central Bank over a new bailout package for Greece, agreeing under pressure from France not [...]