New Orleans These are the days when it seems that if it weren’t for bad news, there would be no news at all. Today’s examples emerge from the swamp where we should find our saviors, the health care delivery system, its doctor priests, and its industrial hospitals. More and more I don’t just hear the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Watching the Euro Far-Right in Action in Slovakia
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Jimi-Hendrix-01-Lover-Man-3071325.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsBratislava We were on our way to Bratislava, but first we had an opportunity to observe some kind of action by the members and supporters of the far-right party in Slovakia. More recently, this party, referred to invariably by our hosts as neo-Nazis, had been the governing …
The Personal Cost and Lifestyle Adjustments of the Greek Financial Crisis
Thessaloniki Reading the headlines about the fiscal crisis in Greece and following the protests by hundreds of thousands of people in Athens and other cities, it was hard to feel like we were all getting the whole story. We were sold headlines about profligate governmental spending and debt and a population unwilling to pay taxes. …