Saturday, 11 July 2015

Jesse's Café Américain: Varoufakis: Behind Germany’s Refusal to Grant Greece Debt Relief

Jesse's Café Américain: Varoufakis: Behind Germany’s Refusal to Grant Greece Debt Relief





"What is at stake is a rather heroic rebellion by a very beleaguered people against a doctrine which has been destroying their lives — the austerity doctrine and the whole neoliberal project. For the rest of us, what is at stake is whether we have the moral courage in the sense of ethical responsibility to stand up to it."

Jamie Galbraith, Greek Revolt Threatens Entire Neoliberal Project

It is probably less an issue of ethical responsibility and more an act of self-interest for most.  Having come out of the Third World and working into the developed nations, why would anyone assume that Greece would be sufficient for the maw of neoliberal greed.

The above interview with Galbraith is worth reading.  For one thing it contains the seed of the current spin that Tsipras called the referendum in order to lose it, and to somehow save himself and betray the Greeks.   And for another you will be able to read what Jamie Galbraith really thinks, the parts that the friends of the financial establishment have carefully excluded from their versions of the story.

The calling of the referendum was politically brilliant, because it took the onus of standing against the Troika off himself and Syriza and placed it on the Greek people.  This defused the growing scheme to stage a 'color revolution' backed by the oligarchs to take out these mad leftists who were not speaking for the people.  




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