The Real News Network May 10, 2012 Michael Hudson: From the Democratic Party to European “Socialists”, they manage crisis in the interests of finance More at The Real News
Will New French President Challenge Germany?
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The Real News Network May 7, 2012 Mark Kesselman: The big question is whether Mr. Hollande will be a lion or the mouse that roared More at The Real News
Round One to Radical Left, Round Two to Europe?
May 12, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 12, 2012 (IPS) – Kosmas Bitros (29) didn’t "believe in politics and in elections as a way of changing society". Still, he showed up at the ballot boxes for the first time last Sunday to cast a vote against austerity in the [...]
An Argentine Perspective on Degrowth
May 10, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente * BUENOS AIRES, May 10, 2012 (Tierramérica) – The controversial concept of degrowth receives little press coverage in a region like Latin America. But the idea of a way of life that is not aimed exclusively at GDP growth does have its proponents in Argentina. [...]
Greeks Gear Up to Cast ‘Protest Votes’ Against Austerity
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – Aggeliki Anagnostopoulou (30) sits in a corner of the huge room that volunteers from the new party, Independent Greeks, are using as a headquarters for their pre-election campaign in the lead up to polling day on May 6. [...]
Germany and Europe’s Path to the 19th Century
March 31, 2012 By
The Real News Network Francisco Louçã: European elite wants to undo the “social contract”; Germany wants more control More at The Real News
IMF Seeks Asia’s Help to Tackle Eurocrisis
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By J. C. Suresh IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – When an international commission headed by Nobel laureate Willy Brandt drew attention to global economic interdependence in its report in 1980, the world was divided between rich North and the poor South. More than three decades later, the International [...]
EUROPE: Unrest Spread Eastwards
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Zoltan Dujisin BUDAPEST, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) – Protests in Hungary and Romania are the first signs of anti-systemic mobilisation in the Eastern half of the continent. While protests in both countries indicate dissatisfaction with their governments’ authoritarian turn, their origins differ, as does the European [...]
GREECE: Austerity Plan Breaches Last Line of Defence of Greek Workers
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) – As the Eurozone falls deeper into its sovereign debt crisis, the labour movement in Greece is being cudgelled to its knees by an austerity programme that has so far failed to bring any positive change for the crumbling Mediterranean [...]
