After the Crash of 1929 two were the major developments that shaped our world. First, the common currency of that era began to disintegrate. Secondly, Nazi and Fascist parties gathered enough strength to push liberal democracy aside and to unleash a dark nightmare upon humanity.
After the Crash of 2008, our generation’s 1929, at least in Europe, our common currency is disintegrating and the extreme Right is beginning to hatch the serpent’s eggs. From 2011 this site has been warning of this dystopic development. Unfortunately, its prognosis proved prescient. Europe is sliding into a variety of authoriatarianisms of which the rise of parties like Golden Dawn in Greece are mere symptoms of a broader epidemic.
ALL POSTS ON THE THREAT TO EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY (Updated October 2013)
- 3 FEB 2011 – The Euro Crisis as a Crisis of European Democracy
- 15 MAR 2011 – Tobin’s tax and the parlous state of our European democracy; the beginning of my ban from Greek state tv and radio
- 24 MAY 2011 – Privatisation Without Representation: European democracy’s last gasp
- 30 MAY 2011 – When push comes to shove? Exposing the incredible threat of Greece’s forced exit from the eurozone
- 31 MAY 2011 – Greece, Europe and the Global Economy: A debate with readers
- 12 JUN 2011 – The Greek Crisis and the Threat to Political Liberalism: A cautionary tale for Ireland, Portugal, the whole of Europe
- 20 JUN 2011 – Misleading Parliaments: The essence of Greek Bailouts Mk1 & Mk2
- 30 JUN 2011 – When French Folly and German Naiveté unite against Greek debt: Another sorry episode of how not to deal with a systemic crisis
- 24 SEP 2011 – Need a reminder of our era’s political deficit? Here is a glimpse (dating to 1936)
- 14 OCT 2011 – A grim assessment of Europe’s Social Democratic Parties: video
- 18 NOV 2011 – The Serpent’s Egg hatchlings in Greece’s postmodern Great Depression (My first piece on the fascist revival spurred on by the mainstream parties, and its repercussions for Europe)
- 18 APR 2012 – THE MODEST PROPOSAL AND THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT
- 14 MAR 2013 – Lest we forget: The neglected roots of Europe’s slide to authoritarianism
- 19 APR 2013 – Greek Banksters in Action: On the latest twist in the story of mafia-style terror spreading through the Greek polity
- 12 JUN 2013 – A night at occupied ERT. A night to remember. A night that friends at the BBC,ABC, CBC ought to note
- 14 JUN 2013 – Why am I defending a public broadcaster (ERT) that banned me, and which I always considered problematic?
- 15 JUN 2013 – James Galbraith on ERT, the Fight for Greek Democracy and the Euro Crisis
- 16 JUN 2013 – Censorship in Austria – guest post by Professor Kunibert Raffer (University of Vienna)
- 20 SEP 2013 – Nazi Murders – and what to do about them (radio interview plus a short article)
- 23 OCT 213 – The Dirty War for Europe’s Integrity and Soul – Inaugural Europe Public Lecture, State Library of NSW, Sydney
- 15 NOV 2013 – Democracy: Its trials and tribulation in the face of financialisation, crisis and technological change
- 11 MAY 2014 – How the Greek Banks Secured an Additional, Hidden €41 billion Bailout from European taxpayers, without the consent of electorates
- 29 MAY 2014 – A Europe of One Extreme: Interviewed by Thomas Fazi on the European Parliamentary Election outcome
- 30 MAY 2014 – A lesson in democracy for Mrs Merkel (and her merry Merkelites around the Eurozone) by Alexis Tsipras, SYRIZA’s leader
- 9 JUN 2014 – Europe’s Crisis and the Rise of the Ultra-Right is the Left’s Fault
- 29 AUG 2014 – WHY IS EUROPE NOT ‘COMING TOGETHER’ IN RESPONSE TO THE EURO CRISIS?
- 7 SEP 2014 – CAN EUROPE ESCAPE ITS CRISIS WITHOUT TURNING INTO AN IRON CAGE
- 26 SEP 2014 – Frances Coppola and Simon Wren-Lewis on the ‘Modest Proposal vs Austerian Federalists’
- 3 OCT 2014 – Centralisation-Without-Representation: A reply to Frances Coppola, Simon Wren-Lewis and Niall Ferguson
- 13 NOV 2014 – CRUSH THE GREEKS! The Greek bailout revisited in the light of the Geithner revelations