Plan B was looking at how to set up a parallel currency mechanism that could be immediately implemented on Grexit so as to save ordinary Greek citizens from having no currency, no money, and no viable banking system

The lesson of Syriza should be to never forget the concept of revolutionary practice – the simultaneous changing of circumstances and human activity or self-change

While this farce and judicial scandal continue the reputation of Sweden is diminished and the shadow of America’s menace touches us all

How did we end up with millions behind bars and police armed like soldiers?

But it’s not enough to micromanage parents’ behaviors; we need system-wide change that supports parents to do the hard work of raising children.

China’s stock market crash was a fleeting convulsion. Its system of authoritarian capitalism is unscathed

The only way Sanders’ supporters are going to be exposed to more radical thought is if they engage with people who are thinking in radical ways

In their latest deal to fight ISIS, Washington and Turkey are treating the Middle East’s largest stateless minority like pawns. That’s a huge mistake

Both impulses in their best form would argue to seriously scrutinize the U.S. government’s role as global rogue cop — a “cop” more dangerous than the most violent, racist police operating in the U.S. today

The illegitimate power block, which defends the “red lines” of Turkish Republic, couldn’t tolerate the gains of Kurds both in Rojava and Turkey

Interview on the tyranny of libertarianism, the need for media democracy, and Latin American resistance to US imperialism

Last week, the finance ministers and technocrats presiding over the Eurozone dealt a decisive blow against democracy

The Eurogroup — which has no legal standing — is anti-democratic, disdainful of the European Commission, which it now commands, and internally fractured. This is what it did to Greece

Comparing the civil war in the Ukraine to the Cold War—let alone Europe on the eve of World War II—has little basis in fact

When sovereignty loss, due to unsustainable official debt, yields suboptimal policies in already stressed nations, one knows that there is something rotten in the euro’s kingdom

Every regional power has betrayed the Kurds so Turkish bombing is no surprise

Running a classic ZNet article to honor the birthday of Mikis Theodorakis, who is 90 today.

Ginden and Panitch explain the possibilities and realities of the Greek situation.

Three part interview with Real News elaborating the Panitch/Ginden analysis…

Thanks to a flaw in the design of the Euro, Greece could leave the eurozone without much technical or legal complications