Tag Archives: Coup

Friends were sitting on their balcony in a suburb in Turkish capital Ankara, when they heard a loud noise short after 10 o’clock in the evening. They saw F-16 fighter jets flying and thus rather low over the heart of the city in Kizilay, where major government buildings and the …

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For one more time, Greece is in the Eurogroup’s Twilight Zone. Some of the creditors insist on putting obstacles in front of the release of the 2-billion euro bailout tranche. And no wonder, it is the usual “suspects”: Schaeuble, Dijsselboem & Co. Ok, everybody knows that Dijsselbloem is following Schaeuble’s …

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Twitter hashtag #ThisIsACoup was trending worldwide on Sunday night, as euro leaders were pushing and kicking around and putting pressure on Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to either accept  their deal or exit the euro club in an unprecedented collective action of EU/EURO-blackmail against a member-state. Angry users from all …

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Do the markets cause the end of Democracy in Europe? If their pressure on elected governments is immense, the answer is most probably…. “Yes!”. There is this interesting article published on New York Times about “Conspiracies, Coups and Currencies“. It coincides more or less with the KTG-article “ Post-Post Modern Coup …

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