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 [...]

Video of brutal crackdown on Tahrir Sq protesters in Cairo

Protesters and police clash amid largest Greek strike

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

“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 In North America The Right to Dissent is Being Rescinded “one of the things we point out in the book is that this stuff starts by the police and the military (and intelligence ops) months if not years before the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 [...]

Over 50,000 Protest European Central Bank’s Assault on Greek Sovereignty

by Scott Creighton see a photo of the protest here Tens of thousands joined the protesters who have been camped out for over a week to protest the harsh draconian austerity measures being forced on the people of Greece by the global banking cartels.

Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy

(A must read) by Michael Hudson, Information Clearinghouse Soon after the Socialist Party won Greece’s national elections in autumn 2009, it became apparent that the government’s finances were in a shambles. In May 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the lead in rounding up €120bn ($180 billion) from European governments to subsidize Greece’s unprogressive tax [...]

Banks demand savage austerity measures in Greece

by Patrick O’Connor, WSWS Officials with the European Central Bank (ECB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the European Commission (EC) have been deployed to Athens this week to finalize plans with the Greek government for another round of savage austerity measures. The initial round of mass public sector layoffs, wage cuts, and destruction of welfare [...]

The Strauss-Kahn Set-Up and the Globalist Assault on Greek Sovereignty

by Scott Creighton Now that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been successfully removed from the equation, the globalist financial institutions are free to cash in on the Great Recession they created.  They’re attempting to hammer the people of Greece into submission with new “unprecedented” levels of privatization of public assets and even calls for “outside institutions” to [...]

Photos of Greek Protests May 25th 2011

  Photos from recent anti-austerity measures protests in Greece.

Videos of Police Brutality in Spain

(H/T Prison Planet) Could you imagine the outcry if this were taking place in Iran? We would be at war in hours. They are wearing riot gear, masks, no name tags, no faces… beating on children. Go here to watch new videos being uploaded now. In this video, watch the fascist thugs get chased from [...]