Showing posts with label Yanis Varoufakis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yanis Varoufakis. Show all posts
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Yanis Varoufakis calls far left party Popular Unity's plan for Grexit and a return to the drachma "isolationist"

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In Greece the left calls the left isolationist. In America the right calls the right isolationist. Maybe the isolationism is whe...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Greeks pass third draconian austerity/bailout package 222 to 64 with 11 abstentions

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Looks like Alexis Tsipras' Syriza MPs defected in a big way: 32 No votes this time with 11 abstentions and 1 absent. This could prove ...
Monday, August 3, 2015

EuroGroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem gets a new name: Lightweight Weaselbloom

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Yanis Varoufakis, quoted here : 'In the full transcript published on his blog, Varoufakis also laid into the Eurogroup president...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

James Galbraith defends Yanis Varoufakis

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“I've never seen anyone work so hard or so selflessly on behalf of his country”. James K. Galbraith, University of Texas, quoted...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras proves once again he's a stand up guy, says he directed Yanis Varoufakis to develop Plan B

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The Telegraph reports here : 'This morning, Alexis Tsipras has come out in defence of Yanis Varoufakis. The PM has spoken about ...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is rightly exasperated by the oligarchy's attempt to criminalize Yanis Varoufakis

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Here : 'It has come to this. The first finance minister of a eurozone country to draw up contingency plans for a possible euro exi...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

EuroGroup deal forced on Greece "akin to dragging a collapsed marathon runner back to the race"

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From Giles Wilkes' review of Yanis Varoufakis' The Global Minotaur ,  here .
Saturday, July 18, 2015

The Grauniad strikes again: 3 week bank closure cost the Greeks . . . just 3 Euros!

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Seen here .
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Whatever you may think of Alexis Tsipras, tonight's interview showed him a true leader of Greece and an adept politician

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The Grauniad is predictably impressed, here , but for many good reasons: "Even if you think Alexis Tsipras has misplayed the cr...
Monday, July 13, 2015

In 1967 the Greek coup d'etat was by the tanks, in 2015 by the banks

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Yanis Varoufakis, audio here , says Tsipras felt defeated by the "No" in the referendum: "In the [1967] coup d’état t...

Alexis Tsipras sought out the help of Yanis Varoufakis starting in 2010, but never fully agreed with him

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Varoufakis' plan, as outlined here in an interview in The New Statesman, was never embraced by Syriza as it needed to be to have even...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

The Greek referendum was close in only one place: Conservative Sparta

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The vote was less close in Kastoria in the north, with "No" winning 52%-47%. You'll notice The Guardian got the graphic ...