Ryan Cooper discusses impressions from a reporting trip to Finland.
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Liberalism Versus Socialism
Are the two diametrically opposed? Or does one emerge from the other?
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Putin’s War Goes Sideways
Ukraine is starting the summer campaign, and his pet mercenary warlord marched on Moscow.
Posted inTAP
A Tale of Two Disasters
Today on TAP: The Titan submersible tragedy has overshadowed the sinking of a boat carrying hundreds of impoverished migrants.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Small Business Rises Up Against ‘the Robbery’ in Greece
Eye-popping power bills have devastated midsized companies across Europe. But thanks to a sadistic EU energy privatization regimen called the Target Model, no one has been hit harder than Greece.
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Why Is Greece Cutting Pensions Instead of Its Massive Military Budget?
The Greek Parliament is set to vote today on reforms required for opening negotiations on a badly needed 86 billion euro bailout. Those reforms mostly include tax increases and budget cuts-conditions now painfully familiar to millions of Greeks who have already suffered through more than five years of crushing austerity. But one part of the […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The IMF Breaks with Europe on Greece—About Time!
As I’ve written on several occasions, the only player with the power to alter Europe’s disastrous demands on the long-suffering Greeks is the International Monetary Fund. Yesterday, the IMF acted. In a stunning rebuke to the Germans and the rest of the sadists leading Europe’s Greek policy, an unnamed senior IMF official yesterday warned that […]
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The EU’s Future in the Wake of the Greek Crisis
This weekend may mark a turning point for Greece’s debt crisis, but Europe’s problems don’t stop there.
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Greece: Only the ‘No’ Can Save the Euro
As Greece prepares for a referendum on its creditors’ demands for austerity, the future of Europe hangs in the balance.
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What is Reform? The Strange Case of Greece and Europe
Why creditors’ demands would only prolong Greece’s crisis.