Friday’s Liberation front page
After Wednesday’s successful front page which was widely circulated in Greek cyberspace, French newspaper Liberation is going to have this page as a cover tomorrow. Impressive work. Libération Title:...
View ArticleThe far right in the new Greek government
There have been few surprises when we heard the names of those who compose the new Greek government under Lucas Papademos. As a government of national unity, everybody expected to see which members of...
View ArticleThe run-up to the Greek economic crisis (Part 4)
This is the 4th part of Greek journalist Pavlos Papadopoulos’ article on the run-up to the current Greek economic crisis, published by “To Vima” newspaper (16/10/2011). The first part of the article is...
View ArticleNigel Farage on Greece, Italy and Rompuy
Another populist speech by the UK Independence Party leader. Nigel Farage says he does not want to live in a German dominated Europe that has puppet governments. Referring to the recent appointment of...
View ArticleConspiracies, Coups and Currencies
The murmurs about Barack Obama being forced out began in Berlin and Beijing. After his party lost the midterm vote, there were hints that a government of technocrats would be imposed on America, to...
View ArticleEurope’s worst nightmare
Another article, this time from New York Times’ Landon Thomas Jr., talking about the possibility of a military coup in Greece (see this and this for previous mentions). It would be Europe’s worst...
View ArticleA military coup in Greece: conspiracy or real threat?
I ‘ve just got an email from by Leonardo Bianchi, an Italian journalist and author of La Privata Repubblica, who has been reading this blog for quite some time. His question was whether all those...
View ArticleA poll for Papademos
PM Lucas Papademos at the Greek Parliament A new opinion poll is presented today by Sunday’s Ethnos newspaper. It’s questions (and the results as a consequence) are constructed in a way to show that...
View ArticleA porn star’s political party and random thoughts of today
While the fate of my country is decided by unknown people on the other side of the planet and Twitter is like a sewer of rumours on how the PSI negotiations are going, here’s some random thoughts and...
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