7.7.2015
„The Sunday referendum in Greece, with a turnout of 62.5 percent, saw an amazing 62.31 percent of the voters choosing „???“ – which means NO! This courageous vote hit usually smug politicians and bankers so hard you could almost hear their teeth rattle – or gnash – in well-appointed cabinet rooms from Berlin’s Tiergarten to the Palais de l’Élysée, and oak-paneled bank executive offices in skyscrapers high over Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Luxembourg. These harsh demands for austerity, most ardently voiced by Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, aimed primarily at enriching Germany’s finance and industry and strengthening its leadership position in all Europe and beyond, with the aid of any other European Union politicians who could be bought or brow-beaten.“
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/grossman060715.html
Griechenland-Referendum: Kommentar von Heiner Flassbeck
http://www.flassbeck-economics.de/bravo-griechenland/
Kommentar von Paul Krugman
http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/upload/pdf/150707-krugman.pdf
Andre Vltchek: Warum Solidarität mit Griechenland und nicht mit Ecuador? Weil es immer noch um Solidarität unter den Herrschenden geht. „Greece is white, it is European, and therefore eyes of entire Western ‚progressive‘ world are now directed towards Athens: will its government dare to default, would Greece leave euro-zone and eventually the European Union? As if the answer to this question could change the world; as if Athens is where the fate of humanity will be decided. Some 10 thousand kilometers away, Ecuador is predominantly indigenous, and therefore, inhabited by ‘un-people’, to borrow from George Orwell’s colorful terminology. Battered by its own, mainly Euro-centric and pale-skinned ‘elites’ who are enjoying extremely close links with both EU and the United States, Ecuador and its determinedly left-wing government can count very little on international solidarity, especially on the camaraderie from ‘so-called progressive’ movements in the West. After all, non-white, non-Western people are expected to suffer. Even the left in the West is ‘accustomed to’ their agony.“
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/07/in-ecuador-fight-for-mankind-in-greece-fight-for-greece/
Interview mit dem tansanischen Intellektuellen Issa Shivji über Julius Nyerere, die Entwicklung seit der Unabhängigkeit: „I feel that the neo-liberal, NGOism and consultancy culture with their emphasis on policy – more ‚action‘, little thought – and prescriptive prognosis has taken a toll on our intellectual thinking, the result of which is that we have abdicated analyzing and understanding the world. We cannot fight for a better world without understanding the world better. For that, we need to take a longer view of history.“
http://www.afriquesenlutte.org/afrique-de-l-est/tanzanie/article/a-life-of-critical-engagement-an