{"id":307450,"date":"2017-05-10T02:48:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T01:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/somebodys-going-to-suffer-greeces-new-austerity-measures\/"},"modified":"2017-05-10T02:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T01:48:39","slug":"somebodys-going-to-suffer-greeces-new-austerity-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/somebodys-going-to-suffer-greeces-new-austerity-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Somebody\u2019s Going to Suffer: Greece\u2019s New Austerity Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Sharmini Peries: The European Commission announced on May 2, that an agreement on Greek pension and income tax reforms would pave the way for further discussions on debt release for Greece. The European Commission described this as good news for Greece. The Greek government described the situation in similar terms. However, little attention has been given as to how the wider Greek population are experiencing the consequences of the policies of the Troika. On May Day thousands of Greeks marked International Workers Day with anti-austerity protests. One of the protester\u2019s a 32-year-old lawyer perhaps summed the mood, the best when he said \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe current Greek government, like all the ones before it, have implemented measures that has only one goal, the crushing of the workers, the working class and everyone who works themselves to the bone. We are fighting for the survival of the poorest who need help the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To discuss the most recent negotiations underway between Greece and the TROIKA, which is a European Central Bank, the EU and the IMF, here\u2019s Michael Hudson. Michael is a distinguished research professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of many books including, \u201cKilling the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage the Global Economy\u201d and most recently \u201cJ is for Junk Economics: A Survivor\u2019s Guide to Economic Vocabulary in the Age of Deception\u201d\u2026.Michael, let\u2019s start with what\u2019s being negotiated&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/05\/09\/somebodys-going-to-suffer-greeces-new-austerity-measures\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharmini Peries: The European Commission announced on May 2, that an agreement on Greek pension and income tax reforms would pave the way for further discussions on debt release for Greece. The European Commission described this as good news for Greece. The Greek government described the situation in similar terms. However, little attention has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-307450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}