Do Spaniards need a Grandola?
Spain is cooling down. There is general apathy to the many bad news we hear every day. It is as if everyone is finding shelter in a very popular Spanish saying: “Es lo que hay” (“That is the way it...
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Golden Dawn’s Golden Shower
Yesterday was the day for another impressive media show by Greek far-right (aka neo-fascist) party Golden Dawn. The 25th of March is our National Independence Day, a commemoration for the Greek...
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Eurogroup’s alphabet
By Kostas Mitropoulos for Ta Nea newspaper (26/3/2013) A wonderful cartoon by Kostas Mitropoulos. The teacher’s desk says “Eurogroup”. The students are (from left to right) Greece, Cyprus, Portugal...
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Grand Theft Eurozone
“Grand Theft Eurozone” by Greek illustrator Manos Symeonakis (originally pitched for the Cartoon Movement)
View ArticleCatalonia: austerity takes over the dream of independence
Minute 17 is different to all the other minutes when Barça play at the Camp Nou stadium. While the “blaugranas” perform on the pitch, the call “i-inde-independencia” is sung for a minute to remember a...
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Habemus governo santo
The Greek government continues to keep direct communication with the divine. On March 25 (both national and religious holiday for Greece), the Government Spokesman, Simos Kedikoglou, visited the...
View ArticleHard Rain is Coming
It’s the D week for Portuguese politics. Today the main opposition party (Socialist Party – PS) announced in the Parliament a motion of no confidence against the Government formed by the liberal party...
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Celebration of May Day: the Greek patent
Is it a strike or a holiday? This is the question that rises every year when we get close to May Day. Even though workers’ unions, left wing parties, anarchists and anti-authority groups have made...
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Losing virginity
A pupil has visited the Greek parliament and posted this photo of himself at the assembly room’s balcony. The paper says “My first time in a brothel!” The pupil later got a 5-day suspension from his...
View ArticlePortugal Will Be Left Ungovernable By Europe’s Austerity Drive
Expectations for a turbulent April in Portugal were met over the weekend following the constitutional court’s ruling striking down austerity measures worth over 1 billion euros in value. The austerity...
View ArticleThe collapse of the wingman
Last Wednesday, 3rd April, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Miguel Relvas, was told by his close friend and Prime-Minister Pedro Passos Coelho that he should resign. Relvas didn’t accept it. In...
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The “prison make” investment
The last few days more than 2000 detained immigrants have started a hunger strike and three of them committed suicide in objection to the lengthy stay and the wretched living conditions in refugee...
View ArticleIndignados: not on the streets, but still pushing.
A small group of protesters gather at the door of a building. A spokesman takes a mike from underneath his coat and says loudly: “Here lives a corrupt politician. Somebody who doesn’t listen....
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Couchtroika
Maybe I was frightened with the arrival of troika’s representatives in Portugal; the members of the international institutions came to discuss the new measures that the Portuguese Government has to...
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The Di Canio Case: Children Are Watching Us
Always historicize. Fredric Jameson Children are watching. And they are frightened by our indifference to fascism. When, on 31 March 2013, Paolo Di Canio – a despicable being who wrote repeatedly in...
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Strawberry fields for never
This graffiti was made by Athens-based street artist Paul (aka Pol) and a friend of his on 21/4/13. It depicts the Minister of Citizen Protection having a strawberry daquiry. It says: This is a...
View ArticlePlease, better late than never
This evening, while I was doing some shopping at the supermarket, I heard the cashier scream “Don’t, don´t!! Stop! You can’t do that!”. At first I thought something serious was happening, and...
View ArticleYes, Austerity Fails, But It Was Never Meant to Work
As many know by now, the academic case for austerity suffered a significant blow in recent weeks after widely cited Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff had their work warning of the...
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Going Postal At Palazzo Chigi
While the new grand coalition government led by Enrico Letta (Democratic Party) was being sworn in on the 29th of April, a 49-year-old unemployed bricklayer went postal and opened fire in the square...
View ArticleTime is a bitch
Two years is a long time to keep people rallying on the streets protesting against an old-fashioned and incapable system, and not even the date of the “indignados” movement seems to be able to...
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