Thursday 20 May 2010
By Olivier Besancenot and Pierre-François Grond
What is happening in Greece concerns all of us. The people are paying for a crisis and a debt that are not their own. Today it is the Greeks, tomorrow it will be others, for the same causes will produce the same effects if we allow it. Continue
By John Pilger
The crisis that has led to the “rescue” of Greece by the European banks and the International Monetary Fund is the product of a grotesque financial system which itself is in crisis. Greece is a microcosm of a modern class war that is rarely reported as such and is waged with all the urgency of panic among the imperial rich. Continue
By Danny Schechter
We live in a three-card monte world. Follow the money as it moves from one shell to another. Now guess where it is. Most of us don’t know the hand can be quicker than the eye. That’s why mostly everyone who has ever been suckered into playing ends up losing except those who are allowed to win to keep the hustle going. Continue
By ALAN ZIBEL
More than 10 percent of homeowners had missed at least one mortgage payment in the January-March period, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday. - A big jump in the number of borrowers who have missed three months of mortgage payments drove the increase.Continue
By Amy Goodman
Twenty-nine miners died in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion. Eleven workers died on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which is owned by Transocean, working under contract for BP. There are state laws that govern manslaughter as well, and special language given for maritime deaths. So why aren’t the executives of these companies behind bars? Continue
Romanians in mass protest over cuts: Romanian authorities have closed off parts of central Bucharest, the capital, as around 40,000 protesters gathered to demonstrate against drastic spending cuts.
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