World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/30-3

Austerity Death Knell Echoes Across Europe
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/07-3

The Day After: Europe Rejects Austerity
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/07-9

US Senator Bernie Sanders: Austerity on the Defensive
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/05/07-5

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Argentina s Model, an Alternative to Austerity

Argentina s record levels of employment and massive reductions in poverty have little to do with exports.

http://bit.ly/L8clfA



IMF Chief: It s ''Payback Time'' For Greek Workers

By Stefan Steinberg

The head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, vented her class hatred for the workers of Greece, denouncing them as tax scofflaws and ruling out any respite from the austerity measures that have devastated the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31453.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Austerity as a Bridge to Nowhere

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: ''Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that s what it was, given Sunday s election results in Europe. Perhaps I should also say good riddance. Voters in France, Greece and even Germany, a hotbed of the austerity cult, told their political leaders, in no uncertain terms, that boosting economic growth is more important than cutting government spending.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8983-austerity-as-a-bridge-to-nowhere

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US Austerity in the Face of a 'Fiscal Cliff'
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner544.html



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greece
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Greek
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=IMF
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christine+Lagarde
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=austerity
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=job+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bernie+Sanders
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Julio+Godoy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Maria+Margaronis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eugene+Robinson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/bonner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stefan+Steinberg
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