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Latest3 weeks ago

Alexis Tsipras puts on a necktie, places noose around Greece’s neck (Video)

The Duran – News in Review – Episode 36.

Latest3 weeks ago

General strike in Argentina over austerity brings nation to a halt

Investors are treated like royalty while the average citizen is treated as little better than a foreigner

Latest2 months ago

Begging for bread: A Greek family under austerity

Like 20 percent of Greeks, Iliodoros and Ioanna Filios cannot find work in the country's austerity-ravaged economy.

Analysis2 months ago

Street protest paralyzes Greece

Thousands fill the streets of Athens to protest further austerity measures

Latest2 months ago

Greece to go on general strike

The people are widely in support of striking as they reject the idea of increased austerity.

Hellenic Insider4 months ago

Interview: Former aide on how Varoufakis condemned Greece to further austerity

Despite his anti-austerity facade, Varoufakis' Eurogroup deal in February 2015 led Greece into the third memorandum agreement.

Analysis4 months ago

Viewpoint: The fraud that is Yanis Varoufakis

Internationally touted as an anti-austerity renegade, Varoufakis' actions contradict his rhetoric and his radical image.

Hellenic Insider4 months ago

Beware of "radical" economists bearing new political parties: Varoufakis launches MeRA25

Celebrity economist Yanis Varoufakis launches new political party in Greece, professes to be more pro-EU than the EU itself.

Hellenic Insider4 months ago

More strings attached: €6.7 billion in "bailout" money to be disbursed

The disbursement of €5.7 billion is imminent, while the remaining €1 billion will be released after the settlement of overdue debts

Hellenic Insider4 months ago

Viewpoint: Is Greece truly independent?

On March 25 Greeks worldwide celebrate Greek Independence, but Greece will never truly be independent until its people remove the shackles within.

Latest4 months ago

AUDIO: Hellenic Insider editor Michael Nevradakis talks Turkey, Macedonia, Grexit on Radio Sputnik

Michael Nevradakis spoke to Radio Sputnik about Turkey's aggression towards Greece and Cyprus, the Macedonia name dispute, the consequences of Eurozone membership for Greece and the...

Hellenic Insider4 months ago

Poverty skyrockets as SYRIZA claims economic "recovery"

Panteion University study projects sharp increase in poverty as new pension cuts and tax withholdings are due to take effect.

Hellenic Insider4 months ago

Viewpoint: The magically burning Greek tax offices

Fed-up citizens have apparently been taking the law into their own hands, despite government claims of economic "recovery."

Latest4 months ago

AUDIO: Hellenic Insider editor Michael Nevradakis talks Greece, EU, austerity, migration on Radio Sputnik

The interview was broadcast Friday on the "Fault Lines" radio program, aired on Radio Sputnik's Washington DC-area station.

Latest4 months ago

Greek real minimum wage falls to level of Estonia, SYRIZA touts "success story"

The purchasing power of Greece's minimum wage has fallen below that of Croatia and below the pre-euro levels of the year 2000.

Analysis4 months ago

Viewpoint: The Greek fraud reads like a crime novel

The EU is deliberately, and without any justification, wrecking one of its own member states, destroying its entire economy

Latest4 months ago

When a coffee break turns into a modern Greek nightmare

Suicides have become an epidemic in crisis-hit Greece while SYRIZA claims the country is "recovering" and "emerging" from the economic crisis.

Latest5 months ago

SYRIZA selloff continues: National railway officially sold to Italians

As reported today by Athens-based daily Kathimerini, the transfer of 100 percent of the previously state-owned national railway TRAINOSE to Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. has been...

Latest5 months ago

Mass migration nightmare: "Refugee" squats coming to a town near you!

Since the last massive migrant waves in 2015 and the creation of the so-called migrant “hotspots” all over Greece, which merely serve as processing reception centers...

Analysis6 months ago

Sunday’s Athens rally a moment of truth for Greeks under thumb of EU-imposed austerity

Hundreds of thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, on Sunday, January 21, in a mass rally opposing a compromise...

Latest1 year ago

BREAKING: Former Greek PM injured in bomb blast

Lucas Papademos was in his car when he opened a 'letter bomb' injuring himself , his driver and another individual.

Video2 years ago

EU Prosperity? A Greek Family of 5 Living In Carton Boxes [Video]

Local Greek media has uncovered the story of this family in Patras, that has lived in boxes for nearly one year.

Latest2 years ago

Greece Summer 2016. More EU Austerity, Pensions Slashed By Up To 48%

Greek pensioners and wage earners will their incomes drastically reduced, as a new round of Troika austerity begins after the imposition of the new bailout program.

Latest2 years ago

EU Austerity Killing Greece. Report Shows Suicide, Infant Death, And Mental Illness On The Rise

Welcome to the EU: The physical and mental health of Greeks is deteriorating.

Latest2 years ago

Three Day Strike Hits Greece As Tsipras Plans More Cuts To Please Creditors

Greece's ruling Syriza party will submit two new bills to Parliament aiming to reform Greece's pension and tax systems.

Latest3 years ago

Unemployment continues to grow is an already dreadful jobs environment in Greece

Employment shrank considerably last month, as according to the Labor Ministry’s Ergani database, salaried jobs declined by 56,473 in October, with the balance between hirings and...

Latest3 years ago

Molotovs thrown at police in Athens, mark a bizarre Syriza sponsored protest against the austerity it will enforce [Video]

Molotov cocktails were thrown at police, who responded with tear gas in the Greek capital's central square as labor union members walked out for 24 hours.

News3 years ago

Molotovs thrown at police in Athens, mark a bizarre Syriza sponsored protest against the austerity it will enforce [Video]

Molotov cocktails were thrown at police, who responded with tear gas in the Greek capital's central square as labor union members walked out for 24 hours.

Latest3 years ago

Syriza begins doing the Troika’s bidding. Greek lawmakers ready to vote on austerity bill for EU cash

Left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday faces his first test in parliament since a bailout rebellion split his party and triggered a snap general election...

Latest3 years ago

Greek farmers are planning massive protest against tax increases agreed to in Memorandum 3

Greek farmers are planning to take their tractors onto the roads in protest against tax increases that Greece has agreed to in exchange for a third...

Latest3 years ago

Complete surrender? EU finally strikes deal with Greece. Now the hard part begins

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras surrendered to European demands for immediate action to qualify for up to 86 billion euros ($96 billion) of aid he needs...

News3 years ago

Complete surrender? EU finally strikes deal with Greece. Now the hard part begins

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras surrendered to European demands for immediate action to qualify for up to 86 billion euros ($96 billion) of aid he needs...

News3 years ago

Quarantine Greece? EU is placing terms into new loan proposal that will cut Greece off from BRICS financing

Troika creditors are embedding terms into the new loan proposal that will prohibit Greece from seeking any financial assistance from third parties...i.e. Russia and the BRICS.

Latest3 years ago

Tsipras’ impossible dilemna…please EU creditors, please his SYRIZA party, and please the Greek people

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is faced with the ultimate dilemma: accept German-advocated austerity measures opposed by hardliners in his own party or take his country...

News3 years ago

These three charts, and soup kitchen line, show Portugal’s EU austerity program success

The economic success of Portugal's EU sponsored austerity program in three charts and one picture.

Latest3 years ago

These three charts, and soup kitchen line, show Portugal’s EU austerity program success

The economic success of Portugal's EU sponsored austerity program in three charts and one picture.

The Duran

Alexis Tsipras puts on a necktie, places noose around Greece’s neck (Video)

General strike in Argentina over austerity brings nation to a halt

Begging for bread: A Greek family under austerity

Street protest paralyzes Greece

Greece to go on general strike

Interview: Former aide on how Varoufakis condemned Greece to further austerity

Viewpoint: The fraud that is Yanis Varoufakis

Beware of "radical" economists bearing new political parties: Varoufakis launches MeRA25

More strings attached: €6.7 billion in "bailout" money to be disbursed

Viewpoint: Is Greece truly independent?

AUDIO: Hellenic Insider editor Michael Nevradakis talks Turkey, Macedonia, Grexit on Radio Sputnik

Poverty skyrockets as SYRIZA claims economic "recovery"

Viewpoint: The magically burning Greek tax offices

AUDIO: Hellenic Insider editor Michael Nevradakis talks Greece, EU, austerity, migration on Radio Sputnik

Greek real minimum wage falls to level of Estonia, SYRIZA touts "success story"

Viewpoint: The Greek fraud reads like a crime novel

When a coffee break turns into a modern Greek nightmare

SYRIZA selloff continues: National railway officially sold to Italians

Mass migration nightmare: "Refugee" squats coming to a town near you!

Sunday’s Athens rally a moment of truth for Greeks under thumb of EU-imposed austerity

BREAKING: Former Greek PM injured in bomb blast

EU Prosperity? A Greek Family of 5 Living In Carton Boxes [Video]

Greece Summer 2016. More EU Austerity, Pensions Slashed By Up To 48%

EU Austerity Killing Greece. Report Shows Suicide, Infant Death, And Mental Illness On The Rise

Three Day Strike Hits Greece As Tsipras Plans More Cuts To Please Creditors

Unemployment continues to grow is an already dreadful jobs environment in Greece

Molotovs thrown at police in Athens, mark a bizarre Syriza sponsored protest against the austerity it will enforce [Video]

Molotovs thrown at police in Athens, mark a bizarre Syriza sponsored protest against the austerity it will enforce [Video]

Syriza begins doing the Troika’s bidding. Greek lawmakers ready to vote on austerity bill for EU cash

Greek farmers are planning massive protest against tax increases agreed to in Memorandum 3

Complete surrender? EU finally strikes deal with Greece. Now the hard part begins

Complete surrender? EU finally strikes deal with Greece. Now the hard part begins

Quarantine Greece? EU is placing terms into new loan proposal that will cut Greece off from BRICS financing

Tsipras’ impossible dilemna…please EU creditors, please his SYRIZA party, and please the Greek people

These three charts, and soup kitchen line, show Portugal’s EU austerity program success

These three charts, and soup kitchen line, show Portugal’s EU austerity program success

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