In addition to Italy’s Beppe Grillo’s Movement 5 Star has company growing in Spain’s Podemos (We Can) development, augmented also by Greece’s Syriza political party. From The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/16/podemos-left-crisis-ukip-anti-immigrant
reviews the growing political opposition to orthodox economic dysfunction. Just as Franklin Delano Roosevelt depended on ‘brain trusts’ to flesh out the goals of the New Deal, and the neoliberal thought collective has adopted ‘think-tanks’ to accomplish its Chicago School of Economics nefarious agendas, it will be interesting to watch the newly forming parties to see what equivalent resources are developed or not, thus indicating their viability to address the existential economic duress being imposed through political austerity. This may be the last chance for the EMU to get itself corrected. For sure, the troika as it is presently constituted and controlled must be completely replaced with organizations adhering to their original design functions.
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