The economic crisis in Greece has spread to other parts of Europe. Prof. Jayati Ghosh of Economics Department, Jawaharlal Nehru University, speaks to Newsclick about the issues concerned.

Prof. Vijay Prashad from Trinity College, CT, USA talks about the terrorist killings and bombings orchestrated by Norwegian Eurofascist Anders Breivik. He comments upon the Norwegian peoples' response to these killings and compares it with right wing and general public reaction after the 9/11 attacks in the US. He also explains the irrationale behind the Islamophobic, anti-Marxist, anti-multiculturalist mindset shared by fascists like Breivik.

Sitting on an Amtrak train from New Haven to Washington, DC on Friday, I was enjoying my thriller, Kjell Ola Dahl's The Man in the Window. Dahl's police procedural novels are set in Oslo, Norway, where the remarkable detectives Frank Frølich and Gunnarstranda confront the heart of modern evil: Property is often the hub of the conflict, but so too is the ineluctable history of Nazism and the Second World War.

The financial crisis in Greece has demonstrated the limitations of Eurozone as it exists today. Newsclick speaks to Professor Jayati Ghosh analysing the possibilities ahead. 'Things have gone worse from bad', says Prof. Ghosh, "since I spoke to you (Newsclick) a year ago"

Prominent Italian Journalist and Leftist political activist Marco Berlinguer is interviewed on Skype on the Indignats movement in Spain.

 Senior Political Analyst, Aijaz Ahmad comments on the European political economic situation today. He discusses the unrest taking place in Europe due to the financial crisis and the response by the governments in several nations in Europe 

Prof. Aijaz Ahmad talks about Turkey as a rising influence in the globa political arena and how it is becoming a conduit between the West and middle eastern countries.

The more things change, the more they really do stay the same. For a while after the global crisis, we were told that the IMF had changed its position with respect to the strict and generally pro-cyclical measures it had been suggesting to countries in the throes of financial or balance of payments crisis. Their economists openly accepted the need for fiscal stimuli and generally counter-cyclical macroeconomic policies to combat the recession.

Read More

Prof. Jayati Ghosh of Jawaharlal Nehru University, talks about the economic crisis in Europe and the knee-jerk reactions of the various ruling Govts.

The difference between the FTAs and the earlier trade talks under the WTO regime is that while the multilateral talks under WTO are relatively open with texts in the public domain, the FTA talks are shrouded in secrecy.

The India EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks have been on for some time, as have been some other FTA talks -- notably Japan and Israel.