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April 21st 1967: Military junta in Greece backed by the US On April 21st 1967, a group of colonels will oust democratic government under Panagiotis Kanellopoulos administration to take power, claiming that Greece was under the “Communist danger”. Seven years of brutality, terror, tortures, political persecutions, exiles, will follow. The junta will end in 1974 with the biggest tragedy: Turkish invasion in northern Cyprus, a Kissinger-type plan from the US. The seven-year junta will leave its marks in future generations and the psychosynthesis of modern Greeks. In the post-civil war Greece, mainly during 50s, 60s and 70s, interceptions of citizens from para-state agents and all kinds of informers had become a routine. Indeed, the Greeks who lived during that time have plenty, often grotesque, stories to tell around this issue. This phenomenon, which peaked during the seven years of junta, has influenced Greek society in such a degree that even today, even t

US failures leading to US self-destruction

An interview with the Voice of Russia by Joseph Zrnchik, a retired US military planner and trainer Key parts “ [US foreign policy] is schizophrenic because on one hand they are attacking different various groups, and then on the other hand they start assisting the same groups that they are attacking, and it makes no sense and it doesn't advance US interests at all, when you attack Al-Qaeda and then you fund Al-Qaeda. That is just the case there. Same thing in Syria: you work to destabilize the government and then support the CIA to attack Syria, and then the same groups that attack Syria, you sit back and go 'Oh, my God, what were we thinking? It looks like these Jihadists are winning, so we need to start backing off'.” “ We have had a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Iraq fiasco has just been disastrous, I mean if you are looking at it from an advantage of what the US was trying to accomplish, it totally failed in the war. There i

France's local elections: A message with multiple receivers

An interview with Kostas Vergopoulos, Professor of Economics, University of Paris for the tvxs.gr website by Katrin Alamanou Was the percentage of the National Front in French local elections the expected one? Many media are speaking about "historic" results. It was expected. However, it was not as big as announced. In the area of Paris, the most populated electoral area of the country, with about 12 million people, Marine Le Pen's National Front, despite its rise, did not exceed 6%. In South and North France, however, a rise was recorded. In North France a mayor was elected with 50%. In four or five cities of South its percentage was 40-45%. This is a success for the National Front, but in national level it was not so successful. In France, the National Front's total percentage was 4.7% while the percentage of the Right was 47% and the percentage of the Left was 37%. The Left lost in total 8 percentage units, while the Right gained 3.5% an

The Greek government sells off the systemic banks

More to follow According to the announcement of the main opposition party SYRIZA " ... we are talking about a crime in opportunity price since the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF), prior to the increase of the share capital of the bank, has signed an agreement with a team of institutional investors (!) leaded by Fairfax, to attract capital with a share price of 0.30 - that is 75% cheaper of what is was cost to the Public (HFSF), but also lower from the current price in stock market! [...] the offer of the foreign financial firm concerns 47% of the increase equal to 1.332 billion. " http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=426416 In essence, the bank is just changing private hands with money from the taxpayers who will be called to carry the damage of recapitalization. The bank, as well as the other systemic banks was in reality always under private control. Profits for banks, debts for Public: Greece: The only "public" in banks is

How to transform an independent country into a banksters colony

Αnother reason why international banksters and speculators rushed to lend the Greek government Stock market technical analyst P. Panagiotou reveals the whole background of the process The Greek government decided to design a bond auction that, in order to be held, the planned evaluation of the country should be postponed first. The evaluation would remind the obvious: that Greece is not out of the crisis, that the country has financial gaps and probably will be led to a new memorandum and, of course, Greece's debt is still not viable and needs to be treated substantially. In order Greece to attract investors like Goldman Sachs, as the Greek government wanted and to build a picture of a "normal" bond auction, has designed the latest bond issuance under unprecedented legal and financial terms for a European and developed nation. This was designed by the government under top secrecy. A top executive of a party of the opposition forced the Greek Public