Archive: Opinion

Why did the Silicon Valley Bank go bankrupt and trigger a banking crisis? Are we back to 2008?

Opinion

16.03.2023

Every systemic banking crisis has a trigger that sets it off. In the case of SVB, the reason for its bankruptcy is twofold

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Solidarity knows no borders: DiEM25 team marches with MERA25 members in huge Athens protest

Opinion

13.03.2023

Message by MeRA25's Thomas Achtaridis after the visit of members of DiEM25's Coordinating Collective to Athens

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Lack of response to Nord Stream attack marks the end of EU sovereignty

Opinion

21.02.2023

EU inaction in the aftermath of this US attack suggests that it is at best a protectorate and at worst occupied territory

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Munich Security Conference: If you don’t have a spine, you can bend both ways

Opinion

17.02.2023

The war in Ukraine continues to scrutinise countries’ neutrality ahead of this year’s ‘Davos of Defence’

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One Democratic State: The sensible solution for Palestine

Opinion

17.02.2023

After 75 years of settler-colonialism, ODS is the antithesis to the Zionist project

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Break the wheel: A strategy for the Left in England

Opinion

16.02.2023

What is needed is a pop-up party with the primary aim of changing the electoral system. You might think that that is an impossible task, but ...

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Cyprus: A disastrous decade where the elites tightened their grip

Opinion

11.02.2023

Even as Anastasiades’ presidency comes to an end, the endemic incompetence, nepotism and corruption in the Cypriot political system means hopes ...

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Kurdish plight continues as the EU and US pander to Erdogan’s regime

Opinion

9.02.2023

The destructive earthquakes are being used by the Turkish government to continue piling pressure on the repeatedly betrayed Kurdish people

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The subversive power of laughter

Opinion

3.02.2023

Looking at the activist practices of 50 years ago, it is clear that those of today may have lost something vital - the ability to laugh at the ...

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