Food Project Greece. Photo supplied by author.What is happening in Greece right now is a microcosm of the relationship between neoliberalism and democracy. A government has been elected whose main platform was to put people before profit and, despite the fact that it had enormous popular support, international financiers have ensured their platform cannot be realised.
Whilst the relation between Greece, the Eurogroup and the Troika is quite simple, the vast majority of corporate news media across the world has managed to get the story upside down: the notion that the Eurogroup offered a ‘bailout offer’ to ’end the crisis’ is so incredibly wrong that the mind boggles.
It is not just in relation to Greece, however, that the news media has things wrong. The crisis itself has been carefully – and one can only assume that senior politicians, financiers and media moguls are working consciously to achieve this – constructed as a public debt crisis.
