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Austerity Not a Greek Goal

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This is nonsense. BRICS members Brazil and India and future BRICS like Indonesia and Turkey are in fact astonished at the degree of Western indecision, or prostration, at the feet of the neo-liberal Zeus. They want a radically different "global order of tomorrow" -- starting with finding their own escape routes from the contamination caused by the eurozone debacle.

If only the Monty Python match could be reenacted. Kant would insist on a critique of pure reason while Plato would insist we all live in a cave and can only identify shadows. It would be, essentially, a draw, and everybody would remain in the euro.

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