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Greece's annual independence day in a capital-fortress

Obama to support Samaras while Athens center was full of police excluded for public The picture today from the military parade in Athens with no audience, except of some people who permitted to watch with special invitations, shows perfectly the police-state that the Samaras administration has created, but also depicts the distance between the current political class and people. As the government is forced to follow the destructive IMF recipes and is expected to take new measures after the euro-elections, this picture was also a message to anyone who will dare to fight against such policies. Obama rushed to support Samaras through an announcement: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/24/presidential-proclamation-greek-independence-day-national-day-celebratio

March 24, 2014: 15 years from NATO “humanitarian” bombings in Yugoslavia

“ Exactly 15 years ago, on March 24, NATO began its 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia. The alliance bypassed the UN under a 'humanitarian' pretext, launching aggression that claimed hundreds of civilian lives and caused a much larger catastrophe than it averted.” “ Codenamed 'Operation Allied Force,' it was the largest attack ever undertaken by the alliance. It was also the first time that NATO used military force without the approval of the UN Security Council and against a sovereign nation that did not pose a real threat to any member of the alliance.” “ In the course of the campaign, NATO launched 2,300 missiles at 990 targets and dropped 14,000 bombs, including depleted uranium bombs and cluster munitions (unexploded cluster bombs continued to pose a threat to people long after the campaign was over.) Over 2,000 civilians were killed, including 88 children, and thousands more were injured. Over 200,000 ethnic Serbs were forced to leave their homeland in Ko

A class war culmination after the euro-elections

Neoliberal dictatorship in Greece is ready to take new cruel suppression measures to finish the experiment by system failure Samaras administration announced recently its will to distribute the primary surplus. Government's show continued through the known tactics, as the government officials played their roles and the Greek PM declared with a supposedly strict manner that he is going to distribute primary surplus, despite Troika's orders not to do so. ( http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.politics&id=1817 ) The show continued also inside government through the "fresh milk" case and the supposed "rebel" MPs declaring that they will not retreat ( http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2014/03/21/greeces-coalition-government-at-risk-to-drown-in-fresh-milk/ ), in an attempt to prevent the total defeat of the Socialist party PASOK in euro-elections and persuade voters that they stand for their own "red lines". The mainst

Message from Greece for the 22 of March, global day against fascism and racism

http://www.antiracismfascism.org/index.php/2013-09-08-22-14-42/2013-09-08-23-06-21/2013-09-08-23-06-54/item/910-message-from-greece-for-the-22-of-march-global-day-against-fascism-and-racism http://www.x-pressed.org/?xpd_article=european-antifascist-meeting-athens-11-12-13-april-2014    http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/03/22/cyprus-marks-international-day-against-racism/ http://tdf.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&page=1188&date=3/16/2014&movie=1262 http://tdf.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&page=1188&date=3/16/2014&movie=1239

Κορύφωση του ταξικού πολέμου μετά τις ευρωεκλογές

Η νεοφιλελεύθερη δικτατορία στην Ελλάδα ετοιμάζεται για νέα σκληρά μέτρα καταστολής ώστε να ολοκληρωθεί το πείραμα του system failure Η κυβέρνηση Σαμαρά ανακοίνωσε πρόσφατα την απόδοση του πρωτογενούς πλεονάσματος. Το σόου της κυβέρνησης και η γνωστή τακτική συνεχίστηκε, με τους κυβερνώντες να παίζουν θέατρο και τον πρωθυπουργό με δήθεν αυστηρό ύφος να δηλώνει ότι δεν πρόκειται να κάνει πίσω στις απαιτήσεις της Τρόικα να μην αποδοθεί το πρωτογενές πλεόνασμα.  Το σόου συνεχίστηκε και σε ενδοκυβερνητικό επίπεδο με αφορμή την υπόθεση του γάλακτος και τους δήθεν "αντάρτες" να δηλώνουν με έμφαση ότι δεν πρόκειται να υποχωρήσουν, σε μια απόπειρα να διασώσουν τα ποσοστά του ΠΑΣΟΚ εν όψει ευρωεκλογών, αλλά και να πείσουν ότι έχουν και αυτοί τις δικές τους κόκκινες γραμμές. Τα συστημικά ΜΜΕ, όπως ήταν αναμενόμενο, πρόβαλαν τις διαφωνίες για το γάλα ως μείζον θέμα. Δεν είναι η πρώτη φορά που παίζεται αυτή η παράσταση: http://failedevolution.

Today: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Tomorrow, 22 March: Demonstrations and various events in Athens, Thessaloniki, Chania and other cities in Europe and all over the World.   Just a few weeks before the euro-elections , tens of thousands of protesters across Europe are sending the message that they will not accept the official racist policies implemented by European governments with a prominent role among these the Greek government .

New shocking data from OECD for Greece

The destructive impact of the neoliberal dictatorship The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released new shocking data for Greece confirming one more time Troika's destructive neoliberal policies. Key points: "Total household income in Greece dropped by 1/3 between 2007 and 2012, with average losses of some 4400 euros per person. This is the biggest fall in the OECD and four times as big as the loss recorded in the average Eurozone country." "Between 2008 and 2013, unemployment swelled at a rate of 3800 per week and 60% of the 1.4 million jobseekers are long-term unemployed." "Since 2007/8, total spending on social protection and health fell by some 18% in real terms, compared to a 14% real-term increase in the average OECD country." "After more than five years of severe economic decline, Greece remains one of only two EU countries without a nationwide minimum-income benefit (the

An example of how the US government is funding groups to destabilize countries

" The Iran-Contra scandal was huge and should have been much bigger. What the US decided to do was to open up ties to Tehran by selling them surface to air missiles. The profits of those sales were then put into banks in Switzerland and were removed to pass to the Contras. We were trying to overthrow the Sandinistas. What Iran-Contra represented at the very heart of the problem was to ignore American law. American law clearly stated that the US was not allow to provide military assistance to the Contras, and American law also stated that we were not going to do business with governments such as Iran that were involved with terrorist actions. The instability that we have contributed to, creates the kind of chaos and disarray that leads to more immigration because you can argue that if we move into the societies and contribute to this dysfunction we have a moral obligation to help the people who feel unsafe in the situations that we in part have created. "

Dressed to Kill

In one of the best Brian De Palma's movies, "Dressed to Kill" (1980), starring Angie Dickinson and Michael Caine, the mysterious murderer was specially dressed before murdering, wearing black glasses. What I remember most from this movie, is Dickinson in her finest moments, De Palma's neo-Hitchcock suspense, and title of the movie that for some reason impressed me. Apparently, I subsequently explain, why murders have a ritual and a protocol and the title was highlighting this process by Makis Andronopoulos "Dressed to Kill" came up in my mind's hard disk, as an "inspiration" of what is happening in Ukraine and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Observing the repeat of the Yugoslavian drama, someone would say that in Ukraine the West is dressed to kill. Is this a chance for US and EU to escape from the monstrous bubble created by monetarism and neoliberalism that puts barriers against their need to grow as much as the want? Or, perhaps

Another human tragedy in Aegean: Seven dead, two missing

EUROPE WHERE ARE YOU? Seven migrants lost their lives and two are missing in the sea area of Cape Koraka Mytilene, as the half-boat sank. Eight people have been rescued. There were infants on board. The incident became known when a merchant ship with Turkish flag, who sailed in the area found and collected two of them. The ship informed the port authorities of Mytilene and two floating boats of the Greek Coast Guard collected two migrants. They said they were in a boat with 15 other people, but it sank. Research for the missing migrants is conducted by two floating boats of the Greek Coast Guard, other boats in the area and a Super Puma helicopter. http://www.tvxs.gr/news/ellada/epta-nekroi-metanastes-anoixta-tis-lesboy