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by Jonathan Be

Thursday, March 8, 2012

 Everyone is no doubt paying attention to the events in Greece where the financial oligarchy is bullying Greece into imposing a financial restructuring program that will cause much of the population to experience the miserable poverty that much of the population in Eastern Europe has come to experience since the 1990s when the free-market reforms prescribed by the IMF and EU financial institutions came into effect at the behest of local elites who took power. In the latest western creation, the narco-mafia state Kosovo, more than half of the population is unemployed. Countries like Albania and Romania who have become beholden to the EU economic agenda over the past 20 years are largely economically impoverished and rife with corruption. The EU has functioned as a tool for the main powers such as Germany and France to impose an economic agenda of their liking on the weaker states in Eastern Europe who have become reliant on foreign aid via the EU. With the current events taking place in Greece, it is worth noting the destructive role that American imperialism played in the past in Greece. A chapter from William Blum's book "Killing Hope" that focuses on American imperialist intervention exposes in detail the role America played in Greece shortly after world war 2 in propping up in the face of an armed rebellion from the population a violent corrupt state apparatus primarily staffed by conservative forces who collaborated with the Nazis. This would mark the beginning for Greece a near 30 year neo-colonial domination by America

William Blum "Killing Hope"

Greece 1947 to early 1950s - From cradle of democracy to client state

Jorge Semprun is a Spaniard, a Frenchman, a novelist and film-writer, former Communist, former inmate of Buchenwald. He was at the infamous Nazi concentration camp in 1944 with other party members when they heard the news:

For some days now, we had talked of nothing else. ... At first some of us had thought it was a lie. It had to be. An invention of Nazi propaganda, to raise the morale of the people. We listened to the news bulletins on the German radio, broadcast by all the loudspeakers, and we shook our heads. A trick to raise the morale of the German people, it had to be. But we soon had to face up to the evidence. Some of us listened in secret to the Allied broadcasts, which confirmed the news. There was no doubt about it: British troops really were

crushing the Greek Resistance. In Athens, battle was raging, British troops were retaking the city from the ELAS forces, district by district. It was an unequal fight: ELAS had neither tanks nor planes.

But Radio Moscow had said nothing, and this silence was variously interpreted.1

The British army had arrived in Greece during October and November 1944, shortly after the bulk...

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