17th November Celebration in Greece
Every year, on the 17th of November, Greeks but especially Greek students memorialize the students’ revolt against the colonels’ junta. Students prepare school celebrations, and a big march starts at the Athens Technical University and ends in the American Embassy, ...
CATASTROIKA: Privatization goes public (Video - A must see...)
On April 26, 2012 at 20:00 let’s turn off the TV and turn to an alternative source of information. The creators of Debtocracy, a documentary viewed by millions of people around the world, present their new production, entitled CATASTROIKA. They analyze the ...
The Shock Doctrine - Documentary (A Must See...)
An important documentary based on Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. A study of disaster capitalism, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on disasters, war and terror in order to establish its dominance. Today Greek society seems ...
I, too, am Greek ! Solidarity with the Greek people !
Thousands of ordinary European citizens have joined their voices to the "Movement of Nantes." demanding double nationality! People all across Europe who want to express their support to Greece during this difficult period of crisis, started the "Movement of Nantes" and ...
TEENAGE RIOT: ATHENS - Documentary Video!
An extremely interesting documentary from VICE network about the recent riots last month in Athens: On the eve of the biggest Greek strike since the right-wing junta was overthrown almost three decades ago, VICE travels to Athens to meet up with the people ...
DEBTOCRACY - a documentary produced by the audience
“Debtocracy” is a documentary that seeks the causes of the Greek crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. Watch it below with English subtitles: [youtube 1_yTriIJa9I] Debtocracy website: http://www.debtocracy.gr/indexen.html
We Are All Greeks - Protests of solidarity all around the world!
Solidarity protests for Greece are organized in many European countries for this Saturday! People will protest against economic crisis and its effects on the Greek society. As noted in an online call to the international audience, the austerity measures that the ...
Nobel Prize Winners in Support for Greece
Reproduced by Lecturer Site, and originally reported by Harald Zur Hausen, in Science, 25 May, pp. 978-979, [DOI:10.1126/science.336.6084.978], 2012.
The Greek Society and its institutions are going through very difficult times, emanating from several years of severe economic crisis. The gross national product of Greece decreased by almost 7% last year alone, and the unemployment rate exceeded 20%….
Lagarde to Greeks: “It’s payback time… don’t expect sympathy!”
In her interview for "the Guardian" Christine Lagarde states clearly that the IMF has no intention of softening the terms of the austerity package.
The managing director of the IMF believes that the Greek parents have to take responsibility if their children are being affected by the austerity program.
"Parents have to pay their tax," she says.
Nouriel Roubini: Greece will be forced to default sooner or later
In his article in "Financial Times Deutschland", the famous economist Nouriel Roubini, who had predicted the global recession of 2008 in 2006, says that either this year or the next, Greece will be forced to go bankrupt and leave the eurozone. This will happen even if a government will finally be formed after the elections of June.
Mr. Roubini says that Greece has fallen into a vicious cycle of bankruptcy, lack of competitiveness and continuous recession.
Latest Polls: SYRIZA 28% – Eight-party parliament!
The results of the latest poll, conducted by "Public Issue" on behalf of "Kathimerini" newspaper, bring SYRIZA as leading party with 28%!
New Democracy party comes 2nd with 24% and PASOK was with 15%.
The poll also reveals an eight-party parliament:
Merkel wants Greek euro referendum along with elections!
Germany's chancellor has decided that Greece should hold a referendum on the euro together with next month's national elections! The news came from office of the Greek prime minister Panagiotis Pikrammenos who informed the leaders of the seven parliament parties on the content of the conversation between Merkel and Greek president Karolos Papoulias.
PM Pikrammenos contacted political leaders A. Samaras, Al. Tsipras, Ev Venizelos, Al. Papariga, N. Michaloliakos and F. Kouvelis and filled them in on the contents of the conversation held between the President and Chancellor Angela Merkel.
According to the statement of the prime minister's office, Mrs Merkel expressed her thoughts to the President about a referendum alongside with the Greek elections. The referendum would have to do with whether Greek citizens wish to stay in the eurozone...
Greece goes to elections on June 17th – Judge Pikramenos named as caretaker PM
Senior judge Panagiotis Pikramenos was named Greece's caretaker prime minister, and new elections will be held on the 17th of June!
Although, the meeting of the political leaders lasted more than an hour, the political leaders could not agree on a certain political figure who would become the interim PM of the country in order to lead Greece to the new elections' round.
The proposal of ND and PASOK to keep Lucas Papademos on the post was not accepted the other parties and President Papoulias decided to place judge Panagiotis Pikramenos to the position of caretaker PM.
Mr. Pikramenos was born in Athens on 1945. He studied Law at the Athens Law University and post-degree studies in Public Law in Paris.
Olympiakos wins dramatic Euroleague final! (Video)
Well... this has nothing to do with politics and it didn't happened in Greece... but we believe that this win definitely deserves a post...
Olympiakos Piraeus staged a magnificent fourth-quarter fightback to win their second title in Europe's premier club basketball competition with a dramatic 62-61 victory over CSKA Moscow in Istanbul on Sunday.
During the third quarter of the match CSKA was leading the game with 19 points (53-34) but during the last period Olympiakos dug deep and completed a stunning fightback after Georgios Printezis scored on the buzzer to give them a 62-61 win.
Angela Merkel: “We want to make sure nobody else will want the Memorandum”
According to Wall Street Journal, German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was intentionally so hard.
When George Papandreou, the former Greek premier who negotiated the original bailout (2010) he asked Angela Merkel for gentler conditions in the memorandum. Angela Merkel replied that the aid program must be very hard (!): "We want to make sure nobody else will want this..." she said.
After Greece's May 6 elections results, more elections are likely in June, with no guarantee that a stable government will emerge. Greece's growing turmoil is the culmination of a radical austerity experiment and a botched economic overhaul that pushed the Greek nation into a social and political breakdown. It is obvious that forcing deep austerity on Greek people won't save the euro...
Tsipras Letter to EU leaders: “Greek people politically illegalized the Memorandum”
The leader of Syriza party yesterday sent a letter to Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso, Herman Van Rompuy, Martin Schultz and Jean-Claude Juncker.
Mr. Tsipras states that the vote of Greek people politically illegalized the Memorandum due to which Greece was led to being “the only European country in peacetime which in 2012 is now in its fifth consecutive year of deep recession”.
Read the full letter below:
Al Jazeera: Greece’s media crisis! (Video)
An extensive report by Al Jazeera about the crisis in the Greek media and how those media use propaganda in order to influence public opinion towards the interests of their owners and our creditors.
A Must See Video... Watch it below:
Olympic Flame ceremony 2012 (Video)
The ceremony of the Olympic Flame in the ancient city of Olympia has been successfully completed a few minutes ago.
The flame was lighted by the "High Priestess" Ino Menegaki ( the Priestess captures the morning sun’s rays in a parabolic mirror) and then handed over to the world champion of swimming Spiro Giannioti to start the torch relay.
The flame will pass through many areas of Greece and will end up in the Panathenaic Stadium on Thursday, May 17 at 7 pm. Τhen will travel to Britain on May 18 for a 70-day relay around the UK...
Watch the video of the ceremony below:
Dow Jones Newswires: Latest polls show “Syriza” party at 25%
According to the latest internal surveys by PASOK and New Democracy parties, Syriza continues to make strong gains among Greek voters...
Syriza is probably the country's most popular party since there are no information about the two ex-major parties...
The international news agency Dow Jones Newswires, reported that Syriza is now garnering around 25% of the vote--up from the outcome of the 6th of May elections when it gathered 16.8% of the votes, two percentage points behind New Democracy's 18.9%.
Golden Dawn shocks Greeks: “All Rise!” (Video)
The first shock came very early or our "Democratic" nation... The leader of the far right party "Golden Dawn" (Crysi aygi) N. Michaloliakos was about to address the media when a member of the party urged the television reporters to rise and “Show respect to our leader!”
Moreover, the members of the party demanded that their leader's speech should be "live" broadcasted by all media otherwise the journalists should leave the place...
“This is customary with us” said the man when the stunned reporters raised objections! Watch the video below:
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