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ΦΑΚΕΛΟΣ ΕΥΡΩΕΚΛΟΓΕΣ του system failure Όλα δείχνουν ότι οι προσεχείς ευρωεκλογές θα σημαδευτούν από μία άνοδο των ευρωσκεπτικιστικών δυνάμεων. Σύμφωνα με μια πρόσφατη έρευνα, το ποσοστό των ευρωσκεπτικιστών στο νέο Ευρωπαϊκό κοινοβούλιο μπορεί να φτάσει έως και το 30% ( http://www.tvxs.gr/news/eyropi-eop/sto-30-mporei-na-ftasei-i-psifos-se-antieyropaika-kommata ). Με βάση την έρευνα του Open Europe ( http://www.openeurope.org.uk/Content/Documents/140428_EP_Briefing_Open_Europe.pdf ), τα κόμματα αυτά δεν μπορούν να αποτελέσουν ένα συμπαγές μέτωπο, καθώς προέρχονται από ένα ιδιαίτερα ευρύ ιδεολογικό φάσμα. Την αντίθετη εικόνα παρουσιάζουν τα παραδοσιακά κόμματα εξουσίας, τα οποία με βάση την έρευνα, θα διατηρήσουν την πλειοψηφία στο ευρωκοινοβούλιο, αν και με μειωμένη δύναμη. Τα κόμματα αυτά αποτελούν τις τρεις συνιστώσες του νεοφιλελεύθερου δόγματος που σαρώνει την Ευρώπη και τις Ευρωπαϊκές ανθρωπιστικές αξίες για χάρη των μεγάλων επιχειρήσεων και τραπεζών. Η πρώτη

by Serge Halimi The European utopia is turning into a system for delivering punishment. As Europe’s regime gets tougher, there is a growing sense that interchangeable elites are taking advantage of each crisis to tighten their austerity policies and impose their federal fantasy. This twin objective has the support of boardrooms and newsrooms. But even if you boost their ranks with German rentiers, a few Luxembourgers specialising in tax evasion and most of France’s Socialist leaders, popular backing for the present “European project” isn’t much greater. The European Union does not stop chiding states that fail to be concerned first with reducing their budget deficit, even when unemployment is rife. As they usually fall into line without further persuasion, the EU immediately imposes a programme of corrective measures, with objectives worked out to the last decimal point and a timetable for completion. But when a growing number of sick Europeans have to forgo treatm

“ Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers' Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don't realize that May Day has its origins here in this country and is as 'American' as baseball and apple pie, and stemmed from the pre-Christian holiday of Beltane, a celebration of rebirth and fertility.” “ At its national convention in Chicago, held in 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (which later became the American Federation of Labor), proclaimed that 'eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labor from and after May 1, 1886.'” “ On May 1, 1886, more than 300,000 workers in 13,000 businesses across the United States walked off their jobs in the first May Day celebration in history. In Chicago, the epicenter for the 8-hour day agitators, 40,000 went o

key points: “ According to NED’s 2013 annual report, the agency channeled more than $2.3 million to Venezuelan opposition groups and projects. Within that figure, $1,787,300 went directly to anti-government groups within Venezuela, while another $590,000 was distributed to regional organizations that work with and fund the Venezuelan opposition. More than $300,000 was directed towards efforts to develop a new generation of youth leaders to oppose Maduro’s government politically.” “ One of the groups funded by NED to specifically work with youth is FORMA, an organization led by Cesar Briceño and tied to Venezuelan banker Oscar Garcia Mendoza. Garcia Mendoza runs the Banco Venezolano de Credito, a Venezuelan bank that has served as the filter for the flow of dollars from NED and USAID to opposition groups in Venezuela, including Sumate, CEDICE, Sin Mordaza, Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones and FORMA, amongst others.” “ Another significant part of NED fund

Maria Spyraki, ex-journalist for MEGA channel, one of the biggest tv channels in Greece, now candidate for the euro-elections with the main government coalition party Nea Dimokratia, revealed among other things: “ Greece had a bank-run in the period between the elections of May and June of 2012. This means that, in reality, people were going to the banks and taking their money. This was something that no one in my position could ever tell. No one could ever tell for example that there could be a moment where someone could go to a bank and say 'Good evening, I want ten thousand euro' and the bank would say to him 'I'm sorry, we have no money', because then, everything would end." “ There was a process which was very painful, it was the process of supplying cash to Greece. The plane was taking off from Elefsina, flying to Italy, and returning with cash for the Bank of Greece which was distributing them to the other banks. This was something that we n

“ On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the plant, in the then Soviet Union, exploded and caught fire after a safety test went badly wrong. The blast sent radiation billowing across Europe. At first, authorities denied there was a problem. But tens of thousands of inhabitants were evacuated from Prypyat, the town closest to the site, never to return. A 30 km exclusion zone is still in place around the town. Local firefighters and other emergency workers went straight to the scene and in the ensuing days and weeks sought to bring the situation under control. Exposed to high levels of radiation, few of them are alive today. At least 30 people were killed immediately but some put the eventual death toll from radiation exposure at tens or even hundreds of thousands.” http://www.euronews.com/2014/04/26/remembering-the-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-28-years-on/ ... and other nuclear accidents that remained secret for years: “ America’s worst accident at a

... και άλλη μια απόδειξη για τον πραγματικό ρόλο των συστημικών ΜΜΕ την περίοδο της κρίσης  Η πρώην δημοσιογράφος του MEGA, Μαρία Σπυράκη και νυν υποψήφια με την ΝΔ για τις ευρωεκλογές, αποκάλυψε μεταξύ άλλων: “ Η Ελλάδα είχε bank-run την περίοδο ανάμεσα στις εκλογές του Μαίου και του Ιουνίου του '12. Δηλαδή, στην πραγματικότητα, οι άνθρωποι πήγαιναν στις τράπεζες και έπαιρναν τα λεφτά τους. Αυτό, ήταν κάτι που ποτέ δεν θα μπορούσε να πει ένας άνθρωπος στη θέση μου. Δεν μπορούσε δηλαδή να πει ότι μπορούσε να έρθει μια στιγμή που κάποιος θα πήγαινε στην τράπεζα και θα έλεγε 'Καλησπέρα σας, θέλω δέκα χιλιάδες' και θα του έλεγε η τράπεζα 'λυπούμεθα δεν έχουμε', γιατί εκεί θα τελείωναν όλα.” “ Υπήρχε μια διαδικασία η οποία ήταν πολύ οδυνηρή και ήταν η διαδικασία της τροφοδοσίας της Ελλάδας με μετρητά. Έφευγε το αεροπλάνο από την Ελευσίνα, πήγαινε στην Ιταλία και επέστρεφε με μετρητά που πήγαιναν στην Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος και μοιράζονταν στις τράπεζες

Forty years from the defeat of the fascist dictatorship by Salazar in Portugal. An almost non-blood movement by the Portuguese army which was started in the early hours on April 25th, 1974, and put an end to a brutal dictatorship of nearly half a century in Portugal. The movement went down in history by the name "Carnation Revolution", since thousands of Portuguese people in the streets were encouraging soldiers to unite with the revolutioners by putting a carnation in the barrels of their guns as an indication of peace and reconciliation. Today, Portugal, as well as the rest of the European south countries are under a peculiar neoliberal dictatorship imposed by a Europe which stands very far from its original principles and values to serve the big banks and corporations. The European neoliberal economic empire is imposing for the first time in history, the most brutal measures, not through a military dictatorship, but through an economic war and the

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

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