Photo: (Wiki), Flag of Greece, Author (Code), cs:User:-xfi- (talk) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Greece.svg WSWS Report – The conservative New Democracy narrowly defeated SYRIZA in Greece’s general election yesterday. New Democracy won 30 percent of the vote. SYRIZA came in a close second with 26.5 percent, winning popular support based on its criticisms of austerity measures set [...]
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Deutsche Bank HQ – Photo (Wiki), Twintowers of Deutsche Bank Headquarter in Frankfurt a.M. on a sunny summer day. Seen from the Maintower building. Author: Jürgen Matern – Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twintowers_of_Deutsche_Bank_Headquarter_in_Frankfurt_a.M..jpg Spanish Austerity Savage to the Point of Sadism, by Conn Hallinan, Common Dreams – The main points in Hallinan’s article are the following: * [...]
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Photo: (Wiki). Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin. Author: Jnestorius. w:Iveagh House, 80-81 w:St Stephen’s Green [South], Dublin 2: Headquarters of the w:Irish Department of Foreign Affairs – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iveagh_House_morning.jpg Irish Times – European officials are examining a new revision of the EU treaties to create a “fiscal union” in which member states would transfer another [...]
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The Japanese government officially decided today to reactivate the No. 3 and 4 reactors at the Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, in a bid to prevent power shortages in the Kansai region this summer. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda approved the first restart of Japan’s power reactors since last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, a [...]
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Media Lens – “In our recent alert, The Houla Massacre, we noted how virtually all UK corporate media instantly found, not just the Syrian government, but its leader Bashar Assad, wholly responsible for the brutal massacre of 108 people, including 49 children. While initial accounts blamed Syrian government forces for mass death by shelling [...]
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Women’s “Die-In” against the Restart of Ooi Nuke Plant You Tube – Women’s “Die-In” against the Restart of Ooi Nuke Plant (Jun/07/2012) by tokyobrowntabby2 Linda Pentz Gunther (Beyond Nuclear) – “Mothers in Fukushima, Japan, worry that the food and milk that they must feed daily to their infants and children may one day kill them. [...]
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Government Building, Dublin. Photo: (Wiki) – Government Buildings, Dublin, Ireland, by Mike Peel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Government_Buildings,_Dublin.jpg – 12th August 2005, Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). Irish Times – The German Chancellor has “warned” (RTE News) that her country’s financial strength should not be overestimated by those who believe German money can solve every problem. Angela Merkel [...]
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Angela Merkel Photo: Wiki – Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, chairperson of the CDU by Armin Linnartz http://www.cducsu.de/WebUserControls/ShowPicture.aspx?picid=3512&type=3 image / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AM_Juli_2010_-_3zu4.jpg Irish Times – “Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected pressure today for Germany to underwrite debt or guarantee bank deposits in the euro zone as Spain’s soaring borrowing costs raised new [...]
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The Lia Fáil (Stone of Destiny) on the Hill of Tara. Photo: Hill of Tara – the standing stone. Author: Przemys?aw Sakrajda, 11th 7th 2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tara_stone.jpg The Lia Fáil (stone of destiny) standing stone, on the Hill of Tara in Co Meath. and a national monument has been vandalised, it was revealed today. According to [...]
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Posters for the Irish European Fiscal Compact referendum, 2012 campaign on lower Ormond Quay in Dublin. Author: Blue-Haired Lawyer, Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Irish_Fiscal_Compact_referendum_posters.jpg WSWS Report – With increasing turmoil across the euro zone, the focus on Spain’s ability to borrow on the financial markets and the threat of a Greek exit, has seen Ireland’s economic outlook [...]
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