The 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...
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...
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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 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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#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...
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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...
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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Off air
An illustration by Manos Symeonakis about the closure of the Greek Public Radio & Television.
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...
View ArticleLetters 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 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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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 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...
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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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 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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