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A pensioner waits to receive part of his pension at a National Bank branch in Athens, Greece on Monday: photo by Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters, 13 July 2015
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Daily life in central Athens: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 13 June 2015
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Daily life in central Athens: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 13 June 2015
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#Greece to extend bank holiday for two more days: image via Reuters Live @ReutersLive, 13 July 2015
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A reaction to #ThisIsACoup from Belgium: image via Ismail Küpeli @ismail_kupeli, 13 July 2015
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German flag over Irish government buildings. That's it lads, drop all the pretense #ThisIsACoup: image via Conor McCabe @Thouxic, 13 July 2015 Dublin City, Ireland
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#Greece crisis: Eurozone leaders talk through the night in bid to agree terms for new bailout: image via BBC News (World) @BBCWorld, 12 July 2015
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Is this going to be the defining image of this deal? #Greece: image via Shawn Donnan @sdonnan, 12 July 2015
Vassilis Zambaras:Hope Dies Last
You get up
Every day hoping
It won’t be your last
And you go to bed wishing
It had been.
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Carnations in the street, Polytechnic University protest, Exarchia, Athens: photo by linmtheu, 17 November 2013
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Carnation... on the grave of Melina Merkouri, in Athens First Cemetery: photo by Robert Wallace, 15 January 2008
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La dignidad de un pueblo frente al chantaje de una mafia. #ThisIsACoup: image via Miguel Urbán Crespo @MiguelUrban, 13 July 2015
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A pensioner waits to receive part of his pension at a National Bank branch in Athens, Greece on Monday: photo by Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters, 13 July 2015
Daily life in central Athens: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 13 June 2015
Daily life in central Athens: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 13 June 2015
#Greece to extend bank holiday for two more days: image via Reuters Live @ReutersLive, 13 July 2015
Killing the European Project
A reaction to #ThisIsACoup from Belgium: image via Ismail Küpeli @ismail_kupeli, 13 July 2015
German flag over Irish government buildings. That's it lads, drop all the pretense #ThisIsACoup: image via Conor McCabe @Thouxic, 13 July 2015 Dublin City, Ireland
Merkel's plan. Athens 2020. #ThisIsACoup #acropolis #brandenburgate #athens #oxi2015 #greece #inexarchiag: image via inExarchiagr @inExarchia, 13 July 2015
Killing the European Project: it wasn’t the Greeks who did it:Paul Krugman, New York Times, 12 July 2015
Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp. Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power. Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the euro.
Even if all of that is true, this Eurogroup list of demands is madness. The trending hashtag ThisIsACoup is exactly right. This goes beyond harsh into pure vindictiveness, complete destruction of national sovereignty, and no hope of relief. It is, presumably, meant to be an offer Greece can’t accept; but even so, it’s a grotesque betrayal of everything the European project was supposed to stand for.
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whoops [road accident, Greece]: photo by linmtheu, 13 March 2004
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whoops [road accident, Greece]: photo by linmtheu, 13 March 2004
Can Greece pull off a successful exit? Will Germany try to block a recovery? (Sorry, but that’s the kind of thing we must now ask.)
The European project -- a project I have always praised and supported -- has just been dealt a terrible, perhaps fatal blow. And whatever you think of Syriza, or Greece, it wasn’t the Greeks who did it.
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#Greece has three days to make cuts or face #EU exit: image via The Times of London @thetimes, 12 July 2015
Killing the European Project: it wasn’t the Greeks who did it:Paul Krugman, New York Times, 12 July 2015
Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp. Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power. Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the euro.
Even if all of that is true, this Eurogroup list of demands is madness. The trending hashtag ThisIsACoup is exactly right. This goes beyond harsh into pure vindictiveness, complete destruction of national sovereignty, and no hope of relief. It is, presumably, meant to be an offer Greece can’t accept; but even so, it’s a grotesque betrayal of everything the European project was supposed to stand for.
whoops [road accident, Greece]: photo by linmtheu, 13 March 2004
Can anything pull Europe back from the brink? Word is that Mario Draghi is trying to reintroduce some sanity, that Hollande is finally showing a bit of the pushback against German morality-play economics that he so signally failed to supply in the past. But much of the damage has already been done. Who will ever trust Germany’s good intentions after this?
In a way, the economics have almost become secondary. But still, let’s be clear: what we’ve learned these past couple of weeks is that being a member of the eurozone means that the creditors can destroy your economy if you step out of line. This has no bearing at all on the underlying economics of austerity. It’s as true as ever that imposing harsh austerity without debt relief is a doomed policy no matter how willing the country is to accept suffering. And this in turn means that even a complete Greek capitulation would be a dead end.
In a way, the economics have almost become secondary. But still, let’s be clear: what we’ve learned these past couple of weeks is that being a member of the eurozone means that the creditors can destroy your economy if you step out of line. This has no bearing at all on the underlying economics of austerity. It’s as true as ever that imposing harsh austerity without debt relief is a doomed policy no matter how willing the country is to accept suffering. And this in turn means that even a complete Greek capitulation would be a dead end.
whoops [road accident, Greece]: photo by linmtheu, 13 March 2004
The European project -- a project I have always praised and supported -- has just been dealt a terrible, perhaps fatal blow. And whatever you think of Syriza, or Greece, it wasn’t the Greeks who did it.
Who said Schauble wants #grexit? #Schaublexit #Schaueble #GreeceCrisis #EuroSummit #Eurogroup: image via Classikos @classikos, 12 July 2015 Rome, Lazio
Greeks react with fury at new €86bn EU bailout deal saying #ThisIsACoup: image via Daily Mail Online @MailOnline, 13 July 2015
The #ThisIsACoup Politically correct Panzer!: image via Tiziano de Simone @tiziodesio, 13 July 2015 Rome, Lazio
Hope Dies Last
#Greece has three days to make cuts or face #EU exit: image via The Times of London @thetimes, 12 July 2015
#Greece crisis: Eurozone leaders talk through the night in bid to agree terms for new bailout: image via BBC News (World) @BBCWorld, 12 July 2015
Is this going to be the defining image of this deal? #Greece: image via Shawn Donnan @sdonnan, 12 July 2015
Vassilis Zambaras:Hope Dies Last
You get up
Every day hoping
It won’t be your last
And you go to bed wishing
It had been.
Vassilis Zambaras: Hope Dies Last, from Vazambam, 9 July 2015
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The #ThisIsACoup meme burned bright in the BRICS as well as Euro periphery. LatAm watching Syriza's fate intently: image via Paul Mason @paulmasonnewstorinoman, 13 July 2015
Q: you've been accused of staging a coup. Juncker: we said it'd be worse after the referendum. So, yes #ThisIsACoup: image via Oscar Reyes @oscar_reyes, 12 July 2015
I woke up like #ThisIsACoup: image via Mary Sinatsaki @mariboo, 13 July 2015
An Air of Acquiescence
Agreement - 13.07.15 #ThisIsACoup: image via Tonousou @Tonousou, 12 July 2015
Vassilis Zambaras: An Air of Acquiescence
Their slender stalks fastened
With twine to thin reeds stuck
In a brown, earthenware pot,
The blood-red carnations nod
In accord with each blustering gust,
All the while suffusing the air
They breathe
With redolent dyes
Of thick, heady musk.
Their slender stalks fastened
With twine to thin reeds stuck
In a brown, earthenware pot,
The blood-red carnations nod
In accord with each blustering gust,
All the while suffusing the air
They breathe
With redolent dyes
Of thick, heady musk.
Vassilis Zambaras: An Air of Acquiescence, from Vazambam, 13 July 2015
Carnations in the street, Polytechnic University protest, Exarchia, Athens: photo by linmtheu, 17 November 2013
Carnation... on the grave of Melina Merkouri, in Athens First Cemetery: photo by Robert Wallace, 15 January 2008
La dignidad de un pueblo frente al chantaje de una mafia. #ThisIsACoup: image via Miguel Urbán Crespo @MiguelUrban, 13 July 2015
Graffiti, Athens: photo by linmtheu, 30 March 2014