Josiah Hawk gives warning to revolutionists

“Is it a Revolt? No Sire, It’s a Revolution”

A press clipping freshly received from your French correspondent NKN shows the dramatic picture of a former Greek right wing minister in shock after a rocky encounter with the crowd during a protest (see below). Angry constituents went after him while shouting “thief! thief!”. (He ended-up being evacuated by his bodyguards, and is ok)

Whilst Greek riots are not making international headlines anymore, popular anger is not going away. Moreover, popular exasperation against the established order of things seems to be spreading across all sorts of channels and means of expression. Seemingly unrelated events such as the Greek riots, the protests against pension reform in France or the rebellion of anonymous hackers trying to bring institutional sites down in the wikileaks saga, all contribute to reinforce the palpable climate of rebellion against ‘a system’.

Are we just witnessing a revolt or a true revolution?

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The cliché of The Perfect Storm really comes to mind if you add up the headlines gleaned from around the world.@Dr_Tad wrote about this in a recent post on the ‘left flank’:
“There is a confluence of moments:
- Mass movements against austerity rapidly emerging in Europe
- The collapse of the American Empire’s legitimacy through quagmires in Afghanistan and Iraq”
- We now also have unrest online with the WikiLeaks saga and the attempts of anonymous hackers to bring corporate and institutional websites down.

“Despite a prolonged period of defeats and quiescence for the subaltern classes, there is a palpable sense of systemic crisis, the very crisis that neoliberal victories were supposed to reverse.”

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Financial Terrorism Analysis: How Global Bankers Plunder Nations – Lessons from Greece

By Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research

In late June of 2011, the Greek government passed another round of austerity measures, ostensibly aimed at getting Greece “back on track” to economic progress, but in reality, implementing a systematic program of ‘social genocide’ in the name of servicing an endless and illegitimate debt to foreign banks. Right on cue, protests and riots broke out in Athens against the draconian measures, and the state moved in to do what states do best: oppress the people with riot police, tear gaPublish Posts and bashing batons, leaving roughly 300 people injured.

Is Greece simply a case of a country full of lazy people who spent beyond their means and are now paying for their own decadence? Or, is there something much larger at stake – and at play – here? Greece is, in fact, a microcosm of the global economy: mired in excessive debt, economically ruined, increasingly politically repressive and socially explosive. This report takes a look at the case of the Greek debt crisis specifically, and places it within a wider global context. The conclusion is clear: what happens in Greece will happen here.

This report examines the Greek crisis, as well as the larger global economic crisis, including the origins of the housing bubble, the bailouts, the banks, and the major actors and institutions which will come to dominate the stage over the next decade in what will play out as ‘The Great Global Debt Depression.’

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Reading the world in a loaf of bread: Soaring food prices, wild weather, upheaval, and a planetful of trouble

By Christian Parenti, Energy Bulletin

What can a humble loaf of bread tell us about the world?

The answer is: far more than you might imagine. For one thing, that loaf can be “read” as if it were a core sample extracted from the heart of a grim global economy. Looked at another way, it reveals some of the crucial fault lines of world politics, including the origins of the Arab spring that has now become a summer of discontent.

Consider this: between June 2010 and June 2011, world grain prices almost doubled. In many places on this planet, that proved an unmitigated catastrophe. In those same months, several governments fell, rioting broke out in cities from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to Nairobi, Kenya, and most disturbingly three new wars began in Libya, Yemen, and Syria. Even on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Bedouin tribes are now in revolt against the country’s interim government and manning their own armed roadblocks.

And in each of these situations, the initial trouble was traceable, at least in part, to the price of that loaf of bread. If these upheavals were not “resource conflicts” in the formal sense of the term, think of them at least as bread-triggered upheavals.

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9 11 2011 - Ten Years, No Justice

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