Tag Archives: Greece
News from Iran – Week 09 – 2012
Several new arrests and some released prisoners in this week, where the good news of an Oscar win was quickly overshadowed by the parliamentary elections in Iran and the increasing impact of sanctions. News of Prisoners A-Transfers On day 51 of his hunger strike, Dr. Mehdi Khazali was moved Mon from Ward 350 to high […]
The Repeating Pattern of Protest
I was invited to a FaceBook event, a day of solidarity with the people of Greece, who are being steamrollered into pay cuts and other austerity measures by a government they didn’t elect. The response from the people has been dramatic and destructive. The blog post complains that they are suffering in silence. I can’t say I […]
Greece & UAE shipping firms help Syria send oil to Iran
Help for Syria From Some Surprising Sources (via WSJ) U.S. officials have uncovered an effort by Iran to help Syria mask its oil exports and evade an American and European embargo. U.S. officials and shipping executives said Iran, through a Dubai-based company, Sea Enterprises Ltd., chartered a Greek-owned tanker, the Mire, to ship more than […]
Eurozone unemployment hits new record
In bailed-out Greece, unemployment stands at 18.8%, up from 13.3%; while Spain now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, at 22.9% Spanish people demonstrate against unemployment and austerity measures in Madrid, 2011. The jobless rate hit 22.9%. Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images Public spending cuts and collapsing business confidence have sent unemployment in the eurozone […]
