Speaking of speculators and the Greeks, hundreds of thousands of the most highly educated and technologically skillful people in Greece have fled that country in the last two years, and more are leaving every day. Why? Because the austerity programs imposed by the European Union in response to Greece’s speculator-caused debt crisis have created such a severe economic depression that there is little hope of an economic recovery in Greece for many years to come. Greece only has ten million people, yet in the face of this massive brain drain and the elimination of tens of thousands of public sector jobs, the European Union has just decreed that Greece must amplify her austerity campaign and get rid of tens of thousands more public sector jobs.
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A handful of tax resisters lingered outside of the post office in downtown Ithaca on Monday into the early evening when I walked by, my return already filed electronically earlier that day. The protesters formed…
Traveling may be thrilling, exhausting, dangerous, mind-opening and, occasionally, boring. But more than anything else, going to faraway places is easier talked about than done. Thus, we find history riddled with quiet rumors and full-fledged…
A tragicomedy featuring the US Treasury Department, industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. Continued from last week’s AVA.
To live outside the law you must be honest. — Bob Dylan I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law. — Woody Guthrie…
The morning oozed in gray and wet. The monsoon sky at high tide. Clouds so wet, so low that you can feel them cold on your neck. Push off your cover. A banana leaf. Banana…
More than 50 denizens of the area around the Albion River crowded into the Albion School during the evening of April 11th to discuss the 586-acre timber harvest plan Mendocino Redwood Company has proposed for…
Act one, scene one of a three-act tragicomedy featuring the Treasury Department, US industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. A radio is playing “Nice work if you can get it” as the…