The Greeks, the Brexiters and, now, millions of Indian workers have taken to the streets.
Coal mine canaries: some dying, some chirping loudly.
Will they stir us slumbering, Trans-Atlantic couch potatoes into action or will the fat cats prevail?
http://in.reuters.com/article/india-strike-idINKCN1180UK?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter
And from an ever-inspiring source:
Thank, you, Claire.
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Europe has never been asked what happened to what they gave Greece. They simply didn’t control it. Why not? Because Germany and France have done good business.
Petros Markaris
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Petros Markaris is a very popular Athens-based, Greek author and playwright who has created a series of novels based on an Athens police detective called Costas Haritos. Markaris was born in 1937 in Istanbul to an Armenian father and Greek mother. The family moved to Athens when Markaris was 17. He went to university in Vienna and can write in German, Greek and Turkish. He has lived in Athens for four decades. He is a candid lover of Greece and an astute observer of its politics.
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Greeks learn once more the lesson
That Socrates taught
Until his soul was silenced.
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An unexamined life is not worth living.
We are praying to a Neon god.
This post is really an eye-catching introduction to an excellent link on the Topsy-like growth of neoliberalism, now a bane of our, possibly short-term, existence.
A history lesson which everyone born after 1970 should read. It is well worth persevering through and reads very simply.
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