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GERMAN SKEPTICISM OVER NEW GREEK BAILOUT

by | Jul 16, 2015

Vilified in the Greek press as the cruel taskmaster, 72-year-old German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble speaks the truth about the latest bailout, more likely to fail than succeed. When 40-year-old socialist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rolled the dice,...

NUKE DEAL DOUBTED BY AYATOLLAH AND U.S. RIGHT WING

by | Jul 15, 2015

With the ink still drying on the historic July 12 nuke deal with Iran, skeptics have come out in droves from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to conservatives on Capitol Hill. Speaking at a White House Press...

WHITE HOUSE CLOSES HISTORIC IRAN NUKE DEAL

by | Jul 14, 2015

Closing an improbable nuke deal with Iran, Secretary of State John Kerry pulled off what many thought was impossible, getting Iran’s U.S.-bashing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to go along. Working for the U.S. was the Ayatollah’s dirty little secret that his mullah Azeri...

GREEK CRISIS EXPOSES CRACKS IN THE EUROZONE

by | Jul 13, 2015

Knock-down-drag-out marathon negotiating sessions July 11-12 on a third multibillion-euro bailout for Greece revealed deep splits within the common currency zone. Once viewed as irreversible, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble...

TSIPRAS BIT THE HAND THAT FED GREECE

by | Jul 12, 2015

Biting the hand that feeds him, 40-year-old Greek Prime Minister picked the wrong time for his adolescent revolt, pitting himself against 60-year-old German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Rising quickly the helm of the Helenic Republic Jan. 26, Tsipras’ leftist Syriza...