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Aditya Chakrabortty: Ten years after Lehmans, it’s as if we’ve learned nothing from the crash
Claims that the finance sector brings jobs and revenue were exposed as a sham – and the rest of us inherited a legacy of debt Read here
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Huffington Post – Austerity Bites: Westminster Is Brexit Blind But Across The Country People Are Struggling With More Tangible Problems
They just dont learn. At the end the coporate media mentality wins the day. Read here
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Yanis Varoufakis: The Three Tribes of Austerity
Who were the three groups that deoivered austerity to the West? Read here
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Abby Innes – The dismantling of the State since the 1980s: Brexit is the wrong diagnosis of a real crisis
Abby Innes writes that the vote to leave the EU and the administrative chaos around it pull into focus the crisis we should have been talking about before: the failures of homegrown neoliberal policies and […]
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Kostas Kalloniatis – Greece: 10 unscientific slips of a left-wing critique
In his article Kostas Kalloniatis argues that the situation in Greece not as bad as claimed by Sergio Cesaratto and Stavros Mavroudeas in their article “Revelli, SYRIZA and Render unto Caesar the things that are […]
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Yanis Varoufakis: Greece was never bailed out – it remains a debtor’s prison and the EU won’t let go of the keys
It is odd that the EU still is trying to maintain its lie of “We saved Greece”. How can the EU lead Europe when it has lost all moral authority? Read here
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Steve Keen – “Greece exits bailout program but economic hardships persist”
After eight grueling years of austerity, Greece today emerged from its bailout program. The $330 billion in loans from the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund saved the country from […]
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Simon Wren-Lewis: The biggest economic policy mistake of the last decade, and it had nothing to do with academic economists
In Germany austerity is still considered the only responsible financial policy – by politicians, media , and populace. The same is true of the EU poltical elite. Read here
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Larry Elliot: Greece’s bailout is finally at an end – but has been a failure
While European mainstream media has been euphoric concerning Greece´s exit from the beialout programme it was subjected to. The results are catastrophic: -500k people, mostly young, emigrated – Unemployment hit 27.8% (still >20%) – Youth […]
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Aditya Chakrabortty: The post-crash world: how the 2008 crisis led to our current age of extemes
Ten years on, the aftershocks of the crash threaten the very notion of the nation state. Read here