According to the official economic fairy tale, the US economy has been in recovery since June 2009.
This fairy tale supports America’s image as the safe haven, an image that keeps the dollar up, the stock market up, and interest … Read the rest
Posts Tagged ‘Greece’
Budget airline tickets fuel illegal immigration into Europe, warns EU border chief
Illegal immigration into Europe is being fuelled by airlines that sell budget tickets from North Africa for as little as £120, a senior European border control official has warned.
Migrants buy low-cost, one-way tickets from Morocco and Algeria to Turkey … Read the rest
Ericsson bribes officials to secure deals
Swedish mobile telecoms equipment maker Ericsson paid 116 million Swedish crowns ($18 million) to a commercial agent, money which was then used to bribe Greek officials to secure a deal for Ericsson in 1999, Swedish radio reported on Wednesday.
In … Read the rest
Israelis tried to send arms to Iran via Greece
F-4 Phantom
Israeli arms dealers tried to send spare parts for F-4 Phantom aircraft via Greece to Iran in violation of an arms embargo, according to a secret probe by the US government agency Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) carried out … Read the rest
Swiss turn down Greece’s retroactive tax plan
Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf turned down the proposal of her Greek counterpart Yiannis Stournaras to impose taxes on Greeks’ bank accounts and transfer the money to Athens.
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
Currently in the Greek capital, Widmer-Schlumpf told Stournaras that … Read the rest
Defeated by the Taliban, Washington decides to take on Russia,China
by Paul Craig Roberts
The several days of organized protests in Ukraine are notable for the relative lack of police violence. Unlike in the US, Canada, Thailand, Greece, and Spain, peaceful protesters have not been beaten, tear gassed, water cannoned, … Read the rest
Greece to draft ‘hate speech’ laws
Nikolaos Mihaloliakos
The leftist Greek government said on Monday it would soon present a bill targeting “racist hate speech”, part of a crackdown on the Golden Dawn party after an anti-fascist rapper died.
“(The bill) will be submitted to parliament … Read the rest
Controversies around Greece’s Golden Dawn party: a timeline
A protestor outside police headquarters in Athens holds a placard stating: ‘Listen chief, listen again, you have ridiculed the system one more time – Golden Dawn of the Greeks’
Golden Dawn, the aggressive Greek right-wing party making headlines in the … Read the rest
Greek government arrests Golden Dawn leader and MPs
Arrested: Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of Golden Dawn
by Hélène COLLIOPOULOU
Greek police on Saturday swooped on the Golden Dawn party, arresting its leadership and hunting for dozens of members across the country in a crackdown sparked by the murder … Read the rest
Thousands protest against right-wing party in Athens
Supporters of Golden Dawn in Greece
Thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Athens to protest against far-right extremism on Thursday, a day after police and demonstrators clashed in cities across the country following the murder of an anti-fascist … Read the rest
ADL urges Greece to reconsider appointment of minister
Adonis Georgiadis – Health Minister of Greece – during his TV show ‘Greek Awakening’
Greece’s Health Minister nationalist Adonis Georgiadis has a history of remarks about Jews and has promoted anti-Semitic book.
The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern on Friday over … Read the rest
Racial attacks rise in crisis-hit Greece
Enough immigrants, thank you
Omar Diallo’s head is still swollen after a recent assault on the streets of Athens which left him with several stitches.
Having fled his troubled homeland of Guinea, the 28-year-old is no stranger to violence, but … Read the rest
Greece hires Goldman Sachs, Rothschild to ‘help economy’
Who better to help Greece escape financial turmoil than Wall Street mafia head Goldman Sachs and the international banking elite family known as the Rothschilds?
According to an official statement as reported by Reuters, Greece’s bank rescue fund has turned … Read the rest
Greek political parties try to solve crisis around state TV closure
Thousands of demonstrators gather outside the Greek public television and radio broadcaster ERT headquarters in Athens, June 11, 2013.
Greece’s governing coalition parties are to meet for a second time in three days to try and end a political crisis … Read the rest