Dean Andromidas
(Analyst, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)

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The great edifice of the Euro Empire appears to be crumbling before the mass strike now sweeping Greece. Hundreds of thousands of Greeks have taken to the streets to demonstrate they can no longer tolerate brutalization for the sake of a mountain of unpayable debt. The paralyzed Greek government is unable to implement the austerity plans required before yet another EU bailout can be implemented, to prop up the hopelessly bankrupt euro financial system.
The Greek government's own paralysis is mirrored 17 times over by the paralysis of the 17 nations that make up the Eurozone. After losing their bailout ringleader, former International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, they are unable to agree on a policy to save the doomed Eurozone. While the Eurogang squabbles over unworkable schemes ranging from ``voluntary haircuts'' for private creditors to wet dreams of a giant new bailout fund of EU1.5 trillion, the only solution available is the restoration of a Glass-Steagall standard in the United States, and its extension to Europe.

Let’s face some facts here.

1. The Papandreou regime is completely delegitimized, and hobbling along, as it stubbornly and criminally proceeds with an unprecedented methodical destruction of Greek society through IMF/EU-inspired revenge austerity. At last though, the Greek people are swelling into action -- so far, peaceful but nobody’s putting any money on the table that this will continue for long or that Papandreou won’t be lifting off the terrace of parliament in a helicopter, en route to an aircraft carrier off the Phaliron coast soon, for effectively shooting his own country in the head with the purpose of a professional executioner. Already, even sworn media supporters of the “free market” and maniacal “fiscal rationalization” are taking notice.

Thalia Tzanetti
(RIEAS Senior Analyst)

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 For the past ten days we have been witnessing an unprecedented -for Greek standards- protest in Syntagma Square. Syntagma Square (trnsl. Constitution Square) has been flooded by thousands of peaceful protesters who, organised through Facebook and following the example of Spain’s ‘Indignados’, voice their frustration and disapproval against the existing political elite and their recent decisions.

Few among those who have followed “united” Europe in recent decades have any illusions about the bloc’s supposed “solidarity.”

The term, in everyday European usage, is as empty as the dud efforts to launch, say, a “common” defense and security policy or decide how to repel illegal immigration by blocking Europe’s “outer” borders (most notably, along the Greek-Turkish frontier that is being exploited by the rising ‘great power’ Turkey to permanently destabilize Greece via an unstoppable influx of Third World Muslims.)

In the early hours of May 10, a father of three, on his way to take his car in order to drive his expectant wife to the maternity hospital, was brutally butchered by three yet unidentified attackers, who wanted to steal his video camera -- the camera he was carrying with the aim of capturing the moment his fourth child would emerge into this increasingly murderous and disjointed world.

Later, police reportedly said they had security camera footage that showed the perpetrators to be, most likely, African.

We have repeatedly warned from this page that illegal migration has shaped itself into a national security threat that unceremoniously pushes aside “humanitarian concerns” and the hypocritical touting of the issue by various “NGOs” and other self-appointed “experts” and ready critics, not to mention the UN itself.

Yet another catastrophic military intervention by the West, this time in Libya, and the widespread internal destabilization of other Arab countries, have created the conditions for the illegal migration threat to assume unprecedented proportions. The developing crisis has finally attracted the attention of “central” European powers to the fast approaching breakdown because of uncontrollable waves of North African undocumented migrants crashing onto European shores.

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