{"id":9448,"date":"2015-06-26T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9448"},"modified":"2015-06-26T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:30:13","slug":"the-people-must-be-overthrown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9448","title":{"rendered":"The People Must Be Overthrown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The People Must Be Overthrown<\/a><\/h3>\n

Perhaps I should apologize for writing about Greece all the time. Thing is, not only have I just arrived in Athens last night (and been duly showered in ouzo), but Greece is the proverbial early harbinger of everything that\u2019s wrong with the world (not to worry, I know that\u2019s a hyperbole), and of everything that could be done about it.<\/p>\n

That places a responsibility on the shoulders of Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras and his team that maybe they don\u2019t want, and for all I know don\u2019t deserve either. But they\u2019re all we have, and besides, they\u2019re all their own people have. In that sense, this is not about everything that\u2019s wrong with the world, other than that\u2019s the same as everything that\u2019s wrong with Greece.<\/p>\n

I was struck last night, talking to people here in Athens, by how much their appreciation of Tsipras, his overall composure and the way he handles the Troika talks, has increased over the past five months. They were doubtful about him before the Syriza election win; they no longer are.<\/p>\n

Still, the negotiations are nice and all, but they\u2019re not going anywhere, and they never will. The Troika side of the table is interested in one thing only: to humiliate Athens and force it into ultimate submission, along the lines of those photographs we\u2019ve come to know of Abu Graibh.<\/p>\n

Yanis Varoufakis labeled the Troika policies vis-a-vis Greece \u2018fiscal waterboarding\u2019 when he started out as finance minister, and here\u2019s thinking he should have stuck with that image in a much more persistent and a much louder fashion.<\/p>\n

Yes, we know, Syriza doesn\u2019t have the mandate to take the country out of the eurozone. A daily dose of fear tactics in the domestic and international media still have Greeks, even Syriza voters, scared stiff about going it alone.<\/p>\n

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