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1. pmoddel on 01/31/2015 at 4:55 am

   James, why give opinions where it seems you have not studied the details of what your talking about. (Is this right, or am I making a mistake?) To have a fixed belief about rulers (for example, that Greeks are duped just as Americans were duped by Obama) and impose your opinion on situations that, from afar, appear similar is just not informative. It’s tedious. It’s not helpful and may do harm. I say this as an admirer of your work and that’s why I decided to mention how it appears to me. If I am wrong about this, I apologise and retract my complaint
   Peter

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2. mammique on 01/31/2015 at 7:28 am

   Syriza won’t be able to make any significant change while staying in NATO, EU and Euro. They already lost by stating that they won’t leave these institutions.

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   • kris weston on 01/31/2015 at 9:58 am

     personally i dont think its necessary to verify anything, its simply too much to believe that they would be the first political party ever to follow through on their campaign promises. they will throw a few crumbs and thats it, same as every other party ever. you can be sure that the finance is on the winning side, whatever way these puppets choose to turn (ie by profiting from all sides) – perhaps this is the debt jubilee thing coming and thats just the start of new financial onslaught by these obscene casino people, who knows.

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   • kris weston on 01/31/2015 at 6:38 pm

     @mr politician lover: you must be young. youll learn.

     absolute power corrupts absolutely. its never been any different throughout human history, but keep waiting for it to change!

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   • mammique on 01/31/2015 at 11:18 pm

     It is not about what I think or what they say, but what we know for a fact being possible or not. The EU takes all important decisions, if one country wants to make a significant reform it has to get the unanimous approval of all other countries, which is impossible. The probability to have all 28 governments on the left is of 0,0000004% (in French but understandable visual animation, at 1m30s), and I’m not event talking about far-left. So they must get out of EU. No one can make efficient reforms in economy without having total control on their currency. So they must get out of Euro.

     Or they lied to the media to get elected, and they plan to get out of Euro & EU, if yes how will they face the western pressure (including military pressure, up to false flag Greek attack on Turkey soil for NATO to intervene?). Or they lied to the Greek people. Or they lied to themselves.

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3. 911truther on 01/31/2015 at 4:03 pm

   Once again the libertarian/anarchist James Corbett displays the contempt of all his ilk for democracy. He also does not understand that there could be no better way for Greece to protect itself from the predatory Western bankers than to form economic relations with the BRICS countries. He does not understand that the BRICS are an alternative power center to the Western financial empire, and even he should realize that a multipolar world is better than a unipolar one.

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   • kris weston on 01/31/2015 at 6:50 pm

     so the 911 ‘truth’ crew dont like james anymore cos hes not sucking up to the NWO? we dont need global financial institutions. what we need is to get rid of them. guess what!? BRICS was coined by a goldman sachs employee!

     btw please dont use libertarian and anarchist interchangeably, they are totally different things. libertarians are indoctrinated with capitalist greed. they are ‘anarcho-capitalists’, which is a despicable term and contradictory to anarchist thought.

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     • 911truther on 02/01/2015 at 3:48 am

       What “crew” is that? 9/11 truth is non-partisan, scientific truth that is independent of one’s political orientation. Unfortunately, many or most 9/11 truthers don’t necessarily understand much about political economy, and James Corbett is one of them, in my view. The BRICS are an alternate economic power center that has formed in opposition to what you call “the NWO”, the Western financial empire that has been seeking world hegemony. The unipolar world that has existed since the collapse of the Soviet Union is coming to an end. Now it is the Western economy that is collapsing. There is grave danger that the West will initiate a nuclear war rather than give up power. The Greek elections are a very positive event. If the Greeks turn to the BRICS countries for help against the predatory European banks (as Russia has already invited them to do) that is exactly what needs to happen. We need to see the rest of Europe break away from the Anglo-American empire, reject the sanctions against Russia and form closer economic relations with the BRICS.

       We must have international financial institutions because we have an international economy. The question is what kind of institutions they are. Are they looting institutions or are they institutions that invest in genuine economic development, large scale projects like the New Silk Road that create prosperity for all? The IMF, etc. are looting institutions, and that is why China and the BRICS countries have formed alternate financial institutions to develop the real economies of their countries.

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     • kris weston on 02/01/2015 at 3:54 am

       sorry mate, not interested in what 911 ‘truthers’ (lol) have to say – they are crackpots. you will never learn the ‘truth’ (which doesnt exist) of 911 so stop wasting your time and get on with living your life and trying to change stuff for the better. see ya!

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     • 911truther on 02/01/2015 at 4:20 am

       Well don’t let the door hit you on your way out!

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4. kris weston on 02/01/2015 at 3:50 am

   well. im getting on with planning my removal from the corporate paradigm instead of bickering about nothing of consequence on the internet 😉 see ya!

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5. 911truther on 02/01/2015 at 4:14 am

   This Syriza win is indeed a big victory for democracy against the Western financial empire sometimes called the NWO. If Greece now seeks relief from the pressures put on them by the European banks by going to the BRICS nations for help, that is exactly and precisely what needs to happen. Let us hope that this movement spreads to the rest of Europe. They must repudiate their debts to the vulture banks, reject sanctions against Russia and join the BRICS financial institutions instead.

   I have heard suspicions about Varoufakis expressed in other quarters. We will keep our eyes on him, but also keep in mind that Syriza’s enemies will do everything possible to sew such suspicions.

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6. kris weston on 02/01/2015 at 6:08 am

   agreed. any large institution will be corrupt. thats just the way it is in our world. altho, if someone can show me one that isnt, i will eat my words happily. decentralisation not globalisation is the way forward. stick us a mars in the deep fry mate. i must admit i have a soft spot for fresco and his RBE, its a utopian vision, but i quite like it.

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   • 911truther on 02/01/2015 at 8:21 am

     Any large institution will be corrupt? Maybe so, but I guess doctrinaire anarchists such as yourself simply cannot understand that you can’t have a modern economy without large economic institutions. If you have large economic institutions then you have to also have powerful representative political institutions to control them. If you want to get rid of all large institutions, you must favor returning to hunter-gatherer economy, maybe something like North American Indians? Sorry, but humanity has moved on.

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   • kris weston on 02/01/2015 at 8:47 am

     if humanity has moved on, how come you exist ?

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