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...World economy," and noted that the words "separation of church and state" were nowhere in our founding documents. At times, he seemed to sense that he sounded extreme and offered clarifications like "I'm not saying Barack Obama is the same as Fidel Castro" and "I'm not an anarchist...
Young, Educated, Frustrated Some young Europeans are growing tired of waiting. Last year, a police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Athens triggered weeks of riots by Greek youth. Some commentators attributed the eruption to anarchist groups, but, as elsewhere in Europe, structural flaws are just as much to blame. "In Greece, all flexibility in the labor market comes from young workers and the evolution of their wages is completely flat, while it continues to rise for people in their 40s or 50s," explains Philippe Askenazy, researcher at the Paris School of Economics. "The Greek problem stemmed from...
...guess I don't look at it that way. Maybe it is, I don't know. I've also had some anarchist kids saying "Yeah, he's saying, "Screw capitalism. Screw the government!" I like that a lot of people have different views of this. I think it's great. I read the comments on the YouTube because it's fascinating to me. I don't think anyone who's written a comment has really understood what I meant by the whole thing...
Ultimately, ordinary Greeks will make their political judgment based on both the outbreak of anarchist violence and the actions of the government. Thus far, apart from the still unclear circumstances of the Dec. 6 fatal shooting, the police have mostly taken defensive tactics. But the protests, which harken back to the anti-globalization mix of violence and civil disobedience of Seattle in 1999 and Genoa in 2001, don't appear to be ending any time soon. Protesters say the use of online social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have helped organize street demonstrations, as well as the more high...
...minutes later, they penerated a group of students that had veered off from the 7,000-person march, and, using that group as cover, rushed police officers blocking off the street next to parliament. As the students pounded large wooden flagpoles against the shields of the riot police, the anarchist youth started throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the cops, who responded with tear gas. At least one police officer was treated inside the halls of parliament, as the heart of government was turned into an impromptu medivac center. (See pictures of the Greek riots...