The Greek People Have Been Sacrificed to the Capitalist Gods of Speculation

[Karl Frederick]

From commondreams.org

In Europe, capitalism has persuaded the world that capitalism is the world

by William Wall
The behaviour of the EU states towards Greece is inexplicable in the terms in which the EU defines itself. It is, first and foremost, a failure of solidarity.'We condemn Greece to misery and poverty to keep Standard & Poor’s off our backs. But we have miscalculated.'
The "austerity package", as the newspapers like to call it, seeks to impose on Greece terms that no people can accept. Even now the schools are running out of books. There were 40% cuts in the public health budget in 2010

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