Greece Surrenders to Troika Bandits
By Stephen Lendman*
Instead of
renouncing its odious debt and walking away, Athens agreed to pay bankers
first, maintain austerity, and let long-suffering Greeks continue taking the
hindmost.
SYRIZA campaign
pledges proved hollow. Pleasing Brussels and Washington matter more.
After weeks of
negotiations, Greece got what the Wall Street Journal called “a
tenuous agreement for a four-month extension of its bailout Friday removing
immediate concerns over a potential exit from Europe’s currency union but
setting the stage for more tense negotiations over the country’s financial
future.”
