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Inflation fetish but it’s a deflation fetish where you suck all of the stuff out of people and turn them into shrinkly little raisins and also raise their taxes while cutting government spending

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Greek MEP kicked out by party after allegedly hitting reporter in Strasbourg

Nikos Pappas was expelled from the Syriza group in the European Parliament following an incident in a city bar.

Greek MEP Nikos Pappas has been thrown out of his political group after allegedly assaulting a reporter at a bar in Strasbourg. A delegation of journalists from Greece had visited Strasbourg to cover the plenary session and on Tuesday was in a late-night bar called Aedan Palace, which is popular with MEPs. Pappas, an MEP for the left-wing Syriza party and a former professional basketball player, was also in the bar, according to several people who were present and who were granted anonymity to speak freely.

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[thegreekstranger]

The result of the general election of last Sunday in my country was very bad: a triumph for the Right and more particularly for the party of Nea Dimokratia of the incumbent prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and a crushing defeat for the major party of the Left, the Syriza of Alexis Tsipras. This result is stunning. Not that Syriza did not have its important weaknesses, but Mitsotakis’ conservative government had failed spectacularly in important issues like Covid and the rising cost of life and Mitsotakis himself was compromised with serious violations of the democratic order (efforts to control and manipulate the media and the judicial system, but also eavesdroppings of political opponents, of journalists, or even of...ministers of the government whose loyalty to Mitsotakis was doubted). The policies of Mitsotakis’ government toward refugees and people seeking asylum were also awful and contrary to the international law. Partial explanations for this unexpected outcome of the election can be found in the support of almost all the established media for Mitsotakis and the Right and in the tactical mistakes of Syriza. But I think that there is also a more general and deeper conservative turn of a large part of the society, for reasons that must be analyzed.   

Now, despite the result of the election and the triumph of the Right, the proportional electoral system did not allow an absolute majority of Mitsotakis’ party (Nea Dimokratia) in the Parliament. Given that Mitsotakis has no interest in coalition governments with far right parties or with centrist parties, a new general election will be held in the next month, this time with a different electoral system, which gives an important bonus to the first party. If the Right expands even further its electoral base, it could now gain even a supermajority, a thing which would open the way for a reform of the Constitution in conservative/reactionary direction. I hope that this will not happen and that Syriza will recover, at least partially. Anyway, we have entered a new and difficult period, with a Right far more powerful than before. I think that, despite this reality, leftist and progressive people of my country should avoid defeatism, although it is sure that many things must change in the Left, if it wants to make a comeback.

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Southern Idlib, Syria (2019)

Photo taken by  Sakir Khader 

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Greeks Vote in National Elections, Leftists Expected to Lose Power

(AFP) -- Greek voters will cast their ballots on Sunday in the country's first national election of the post-bailout era, with leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's Syriza party expected to be ousted by the conservative opposition.

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Μάγκυ Δούση :

Ο Κωνσταντίνος Μπογδάνος και ο Θάνος Πλεύρης είναι δύο από τους αντίπαλους μου υποψηφίους Βουλευτές στην Ά Αθηνών.

Ο πρώτος έχει δηλώσει, εν μέσω της Δίκης της εγκληματική νεοναζιστικής οργάνωσης πως η Μάγδα Φύσσα είναι τραμπούκος και "λυτή" και πως ο δολοφόνος Ρουπακιάς "εντελώς ανθρώπινα πρέπει να αισθάνεται ράκος".

Ο δεύτερος καλούσε σε δολοφονίες μεταναστών στο Αιγαίο, λέγοντας επίσης πως πρέπει να κάνουμε τη ζωή των μεταναστών "κόλαση" στην Ελλάδα. Μεταναστών σαν τον Γιάννη Αντετοκούνμπο.

Η εκλογική αναμέτρηση στην Α Αθηνών είναι -εκτός όλων των άλλων- και μια μάχη ενάντια στο φασισμό και την απανθρωπιά.

Δεν είμαστε όλοι ίδιοι.

Τώρα αποφασίζουμε για τις ζωές μας.

#τώραΣΥΡΙΖΑ #ΣΥΡΙΖΑ

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A comment in PRESS TV News on the supposed Greek exit from the troika program

A comment in PRESS TV News on the supposed Greek exit from the troika program

Yesterday (21/8/2018) I made a short comment in PRESS TV News regarding the supposed Greek exit from the troika (IMF-EU-ECB) program.

The main points of the comment are the following.

The supposed exit from the troika program is a sham. The program is practically continuing as there are more austerity measures in the pipeline, the repayment of the troika loans will take several decades (and it is…

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