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Have the Skouries Protesters Really Defeated the EU, Goldminers, and Terror Police in Greece?
El Dorado, the Canadian company that owns controversial gold mines in Greece's Skouries forest, has announced that it will stop all works in the area until at least 2016. According to a company spokesperson, the reasoning behind this decision is that...
The Greek Government Tried and Failed to Close Their PBS
On Tuesday, it was announced that the ERT—Greece's public television network—would be closed down as part of austerity measures the country agreed to when it was bailed out in 2010. Soon after the announcement was made, laid-off workers returned to...
Turkey Is Waging an Invisible War Against Its Dissidents
Possible collusion between the Greek and Turkish governments is just as scary as tear gas.
Austerity's Drug of Choice
Greece's infamous new drug, sisa, is basically meth and filler ingredients like battery acid, engine oil, shampoo, and cooking salt. The majority of its users are poor, often homeless, city dwellers reeling from the psychological and physical impacts...
Immigrants Are Being Stabbed to Death on the Streets of Athens
On Saturday Javed Aslam, the Pakistani president of the Union of Immigrant Workers in Greece, addressed a crowd of about 5,000 people who had marched all the way to Syntagma Square, in front of the parliament building, to protest against fascism and...
World Peace Update
What with India and Pakistan risking a nuclear war by trading bullets all last week, it became obvious that the world would have no problem falling back into its comfort zone of terrorizing itself in the new year.
The Apocalypse Has Come Early to Athens, Greece
Photographer Dimitrs Kleanthris wanted to show just how bad its gotten in Greece, so he climbed to the top of the lofty hotels and high-rise apartments of Athens and snapped photos of people milling about in quiet desperation on the streets below.
The Greeks Just Won't Stop Fighting and I'm Bored
Yesterday saw yet another national strike in Greece, like so many before it. Thousands of people gathered in Syntagma Square to protest a bunch of new austerity measures, Molotov cocktails were thrown in the air, and a man died. I know that should make...
Greece's Fascist Homophobes Have God and Police on Their Side
It's a warm night in Athens, and the nuns have broken the police line. They didn't have to try too hard. The lines of riot cops assembled outside the Chytirio theater are mostly trying to stop the anti-fascists from reaching the neo-Nazis, nuns, and...
The Greeks Welcomed Angela Merkel
As if Greece didn't have it bad enough already, what with the crippling austerity, massive unemployment, and fascists as their local police force, Angela Merkel took a trip over there yesterday for a mini-break just to make sure they're all behaving.
Somehow Athens Just Got Worse
Thank God the hooligans and the looters are here to calm everything down.