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A salutory warning to those who think Greece is none of their business 21 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
The back cover of a portuguese magazine dedicated to politics and critical thinking. With no further comment from me… Filed under: European Crisis, Greek Crisis, Politics and Economics
Looking back on the Global, European and Greek (post-2008) crises: Interview with D. Polymenopoulos 17 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Dimitris Polymenopoulos interviewed me recently on behalf of Greek-American newspaper The Greek Star. Click here for the original source or read on… How did the EU profit from Greek indebtedness all t...
Three brief Greek summer tales 13 Aug 2013 | 02:58 pm
As a child, I was fascinated by my mother’s, and her mother’s, tales from the 1940s, and in particular their stories about life under the Nazi occupation. It is perhaps not a coincidence that children...
“The Kosovisation of Greece”, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, THE TELEGRAPH 10 Aug 2013 | 05:23 pm
Readers of this blog will recall that, years ago, I was predicting that the (mis)handling of the Euro Crisis by Brussels-Berlin-Frankfurt would cause parts of the Eurozone Periphery (Greece in particu...
David Laibman reviews The Global Minotaur 6 Aug 2013 | 01:44 pm
David Laibman, editor of Science & Society (the oldest academic journal of Marxist scholarship), has recently authored a review of The Global Minotaur. Amid the rising tide of books on the world capit...
Klaus Kastner gives up on the Eurozone (and Greece’s prospects of recovering within) 2 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
Klaus Kastner has been in regular correspondence with me and with readers of this blog. A thoughtful commentator, he has held on to the thought that Greece can be revived within the Eurozone under the...
Athens – Birthplace of our Globalising Wall: Our second contribution to the Witte de With Review 1 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am
Athens: Birthplace of our globalising wall This is the second article that vitalspace.org and I have contributed to the Witte de With Review (an initiative of Rotterdam-based Witte de With Center for ...
James Galbraith on Europe, Greece (and Syriza), Germany and America 30 Jul 2013 | 12:38 pm
What follows is the extended, English language, version of James Galbraith’s recent interview with Roger Strassburg published in NachDenkSeiten. Enjoy: RS: I was listening to your speeches. One of t...
The Germany Europe and the World Need – my article in HANDELSBLATT 29 Jul 2013 | 08:50 pm
A few months ago, I wrote an article under the title ‘Europe Needs an Hegemonic Germany’. Handelsblatt, the respected German daily, has now picked it up and published it on 24th July 2013. (Many thank...
Pleased to announce that the Czech edition of the Global Minotaur is now out 29 Jul 2013 | 03:18 pm
Click here or on the icon below Filed under: The Global Minotaur: A theory of the Global Crisis