{"id":337011,"date":"2017-11-28T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mccarthyism-in-europe-today\/"},"modified":"2017-11-28T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:27:35","slug":"mccarthyism-in-europe-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mccarthyism-in-europe-today\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthyism in Europe Today\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97838\" style=\"width: 520px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97838\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-27-at-10.50.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"341\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from United States Senate | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Big Brother [speaking in English \u2013 of course \u2013 with an American accent]: \u201cAre you or have you ever been sympathetic to the old communist experience in Eastern Europe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yanis Varoufakis: \u201cNo! Never!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Big Brother: \u201cAnd what about Russia today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yanis Varoufakis: \u201cIt\u2019s a sinister and good for nothing place!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What are Europeans allowed to think today? What are the parameters of current European thought? What magic words aid careerism and media exposure in Europe? And what thoughts in the European landscape are simply\u00a0<em>verboten<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>The razor sharp mind of the former Greek finance minister and the founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), Yanis Varoufakis, is a good indicator of contemporary European thinking. And it\u2019s corrupt shallowness.<\/p>\n<p>Varoufakis declares himself to be a \u201cEuropeanist\u201d. Indeed going by his latest book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374101000\/counterpunchmaga\"><em>Adults in the Room<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that\u2019s all he thinks about: Europe. Or to be more precise: the European Union and how to prevent it from falling apart. \u201cDemocracy, pluralism and unwavering Europeanism\u201d is his solution to the EU\u2019s problems. That and anti-communism.<\/p>\n<p>When face to face with the EU\u2019s most hawkish decision maker \u2013 German finance minister, Wolfgang Sch\u00e4uble \u2013 this is how Varoufakis defines and defends himself and the \u201cradical left\u201d in Greece.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0\u2018Are you comparing me with a well-meaning DDR [East German Communist] minister\u2026.?\u2019 I asked. \u2018Let me reassure&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/11\/28\/mccarthyism-in-europe-today\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo from United States Senate | CC BY 2.0 Big Brother [speaking in English \u2013 of course \u2013 with an American accent]: \u201cAre you or have you ever been sympathetic to the old communist experience in Eastern Europe?\u201d Yanis Varoufakis: \u201cNo! Never!\u201d Big Brother: \u201cAnd what about Russia today?\u201d Yanis Varoufakis: \u201cIt\u2019s a sinister and [&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-337011","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\/337011","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=337011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}