EU bailout not to save Greece from economic crisis: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Tom Stokes, a Dublin-based Writer and political activist, about Greece’s debt crisis.

Following is a rough transcription.

Press TV: We know that some other European countries might suffer what Greece has. Just how contagious is the Greece example?

Stokes: Well, it is very contagious and that why what has been done to Greece has been done. This is supposed to be an example to the rest of us in Spain, Portugal and Ireland, even in Italy which is not a very stable economy, that we shouldn’t move left. We should stick with the same old neoliberal nonsense that leads to destruction of the préféré to the advantage of Germany in the first place, but also France which has its hands very deeply in imperialism in Africa for instance and in meddling with the Middle East and in North Africa with Libya for instance.

So these are not benign people on the other side of the argument to the rest of us. There is a strong European left which at the level of the street is very strong but at the level of organization is not. In Greece it is with Syriza, in Spain with Podemos, in Ireland where we have an election probably this year, there is an alternative government in waiting, being formed; still a lot of work to do on that. But there is a left alliance that is a possible government in Ireland.

So this was a warning shot from Berlin, Frankfurt and Brussels to get back in line and to accept whatever it is these kelptocrats in the European Union want to impose on the rest of us. They are barbarians really.

Press TV: Indeed, but of course, what are the costs and benefits of this bailout deal for Greece?

Stokes: Well, I'm not an economist but looking at it I can see that if the debt was unsustainable last week, it is doubly unsustainable this week. Greece is not supposed to succeed, this deal is not supposed to make Greece a sustainable economy in Europe. It is opening Greece for further plundering and they have been plundered at various times in their history and we shouldn’t forget that 70 years ago Greece was plundered.

Greece in fact is owed I think it is £216 billion by Germany for the damages imposed on it 70 years ago. So we shouldn’t look at Europe as if these are enlightened or civilized people who hold the reins of power; they are not.  500 years ago they invaded the Americas and committed gross genocide on the indigenous people.

These people who rule in Europe don’t have conscience in the way that the rest of us do. We know hat is right, we know what is wrong; they do not! There is a strong touch of sociopathy or psychopathy about these people.

Syriza’s mistake I think was in going into negotiations with them as if they believed in democracy. They don’t I mean the European Union for instance is a completely undemocratic empire. The only thing that people ever get to vote for is a member of the European Parliament and the members of the European Parliament have no power whatsoever to dictate policy in Europe.

So that is what Greece is up against; it is what the people in the Middle East and North Africa and other places know what Europe means. It is a destructive force.

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