The IRS permits nonprofit organizations to channel money into electioneering, failing to enforce the law against it.

The EU required Greece to destroy its facilities for printing drachmas, preparing in advance a barrier to leaving the euro.

I have read that there is a euro printing plant in Greece. I wonder if Greece could use that to print a form of drachma. Or, more interesting, whether it could print euros. Real euros, indistinguishable from all the others.

Greece needs in the long run to get out of the euro zone, but printing euros as an interim measure would give Greece a way to teach the bastards a lesson.

The euro-plutocrats told the Greek government to "get serious" — that is, propose the sort of big budget cuts that the Greek people just voted against.

The banksters' politicians have increased their demands, making agreement impossible.

Tsipras presented a serious proposal, including debt relief, and they dismissed it out of hand. Greece has no partner for peace in Europe. All they want from Greece is surrender to further draining, which will make the problem worse (as it has done every year since it started).

The loans that Greece wants forgiven are those that were made as part of the "bailout" of the creditor-banks, which was supposed to give Greece a way out of the crisis but (predictably) made it worse.

Getting out of the euro will enable Greece to have an independent fiscal policy, which it needs.

However, that is not what most Greeks want. When they elected Syriza, they did not give Syriza a mandate to exit the euro. The referendum was about rejecting further bloodsucking by the banksters, but not directly about leaving the euro.

Thus, Tsipras is obliged to try his best to end the austerity while keeping Greece in the euro zone. He has to give the banksters a chance to accept this, so that if they reject it, it is clear that they are responsible and that he did his best.

I think that is clear, now. If the banksters continue punishing Greece as much as they can, I think Greeks will accept leaving the euro.

Britons protested the Tories' killer budget with a die-in in Parliament Square, defying a ban on protests.

Banning protests is itself tyranny.

NSA spying inside the German government has affected the staff of Merkel and her predecessors.