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Athens is the struggle's epicenter against financial terrorism. On and off general strikes shut down the country. More will follow. Prime Minister George Papandreou resigned.
Former ECB vice president Lucas Papademos replaced him. Troika power rules the country - the EU, IMF and ECB.
It runs all 17 Eurozone countries. They're trapped in the euro straightjacket with no control over their monetary or fiscal policies.
Sovereign Greece no longer exists. Will other troubled sovereigns follow? Several now approach the abyss.
Will millions more across Europe lose jobs, welfare and futures? Will tear gas, rubber bullets, baton power, and mass arrests restrain them?
Is America too big to fail? Whether it is or isn't won't help ordinary people losing jobs, homes and futures. It's happening in plain sight, strip mining the country's human capital.
In mid-September, protests erupted, first on Wall Street, then elsewhere nationwide, in big cities and small. America's media ignored them, then trivialized, marginalized and mocked them. They became the issue, not legitimate grievances needing addressed.
Reactionary politicians like Republican Eric Cantor criticized "growing mobs." Presidential aspirant Herman Cain called them "anti-Semitic." Fox News calls them a "fringe" group," "petulant little children," "useful idiots," and "deluded" with "absolutely no purpose or focus in life."
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