Letters from a weird country: the pact
My dear European fellows, It’s been a while since the last news I gave you about my beloved country. To be honest, it’s being quite difficult to write about the portuguese situation because I can’t...
View ArticleCoffee or Tea? closing down the Greek Radio & TV
The Greek government spokesman announced some minutes ago, all of a sudden, that the Greek Radio & Television will stop broadcasting as of tonight, midnight. In a pretentiously sturdy press...
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Off air
An illustration by Manos Symeonakis about the closure of the Greek Public Radio & Television.
View ArticleNo country for state education
“Education doesn’t change the world. It changes the people who are meant to change the world,” Brazilian philosopher Paulo Freire once said. But if those people who are meant to make this world a...
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You can’t be serious!
Two opinion polls were published yesterday (one by Public Issue and one by Pulse). Both had two notable changes. 1. SYRIZA was around 1% ahead of New Democracy 2. Golden Dawn was the other party with...
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#19O: The Siege To Austerity And The Riot That Wasn’t
(Photos by Federico Tribbioli) A couple of months ago, while Turkey and Brazil were protesting and the police was brutally cracking down on demonstrations, many started asking themselves: “why aren’t...
View ArticleGreece is on fire or the altar of austerity
A new austerity-related epidemic of deaths has appeared in Greece. First we had the epidemic of suicides. Now the fires at houses has been added. Meteorologists have reckoned that last November was one...
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There is life after the austerity
The guy in the photo (right) is Angel Gurría, general secretary of OECD. When he last met Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (left) last November he congratulated him for managing to bring Greece in...
View ArticleLet them eat baklava? (Why Greece hasn’t revolted yet)
The lack of a collective flashpoint or focus is one facet explaining the dearth of effective change in Greece. A lack of organization and pragmatism, coupled with an insistence on fractious, old...
View ArticleThe effects of light on the daisies
Juan Márquez was, for years, in charge of the Economic section in the Spanish newspaper “El País”. In the past he had been a commentator on large market. He knew that the biggest problem with Economic...
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