A Soros «Trojan Horse» inside the New Greek Government?
| Wayne MADSEN | 29.01.2015 | 00:00 |
 As
Greece celebrates the inauguration of its anti-austerity government,
the euphoria should be tempered with a bit of realism. Although new
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who named his son «Ernesto» after Cuban
revolutionary Ernesto «Ché» Guevara, and the vast majority of his new
Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) government have good left-wing
and pro-labor credentials, the same cannot be necessarily said of the
man Tsipras chose to be Greece’s new finance minister. Yanis
Varoufakisis a citizen of Australia who was educated in Britain and
worked as a professor at the University of Texas. Europe has witnessed
such dual nationals with conflicting loyalties take power in countries
in Eastern Europe, most notably in Ukraine, where American Natalie
Jaresko became finance minister in order to deliver International
MonetaryFund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB) austerity «poison
pills» to Ukraine.
Today,
the nations of eastern and central Europe are populated with
globalists, overt types and those of the «crypto» variety, with many of
them, like Varoufakis, citizens or past legal residents of other
nations. Romania’s finance minister, Ioana Petrescu, is a Wellesley and
Harvard graduate and former fellow for the U.S. Republican Party’s
National Republican Institute at the neo-conservative and anti-Russian
American Enterprise Institute (AEI). She is also a past professor at the
University of Maryland. Although Petrescu’s right-wing connections to
Washington appear at odds with Varoufakis’s ties to the neo-liberal
Brookings Institution, in the world of «make believe» political
differences, Petrescu and Varoufakis are two sides of the same coin.
When one follows the money that helped create these two finance
ministers, as well as Jaresko, all roads lead back to Washington and
entities that suckle from the teat of the Central Intelligence Agency
and its myriad of front entities.
Varoufakis’s
curriculum vitae, like that of Jaresko’s, reeks of George
Soros-intertwined globalist links. For a finance minister who is to --
if we believe the dire warnings from the corporate press -- challenge
the austerity measures dictated to Greece’s previous failed conservative
and social democratic governments by the «Troika» of the IMF, ECB, and
European Commission, Varoufakis has had a past close relationship with
the global entities with which he is expected to battle.
Varoufakis
also served as «economist-in-residence» for the Valve Corporation, a
video game spinoff of the always-suspect Microsoft Corporation of
extreme globalist Bill Gates.
The
warning signs that Varoufakis is a «Trojan horse» for the global
bankers are abundant. First, Varoufakis served as an economic adviser to
the failed PASOK social democratic government of Prime Minister George
Papandreou, the man who first put Greece on the road to draconian
austerity measures. Varoufakis now claims that he was ardently opposed
to Papandreou’s deal with the «Troika» but no one will ever know how
much the now-anti austerity finance minister agreed to while he was
advising Papadreou on the proper course of action to settle Greece’s
enormous debt problem.
Varoufakis
is a close friend and co-author of American economist and fellow
University of Texas professor James K. Galbraith, the son of the late
«eminence grise» of American economists, John Kenneth Galbraith.
Galbraith’s ties to the global banking elite are exemplified by his
guest scholar position at the elitist Brookings Institution in
Washington. In other words, although Tsipras’s biography suggests a bona
fide leftist, Varoufakis’s background indicates that Greece’s new
finance minister is at home and comfortable with the banker elites who
carved out Greece’s national soul with a sharp blade of austerity cuts
to social security, public health, and other basic public services.
The
foreword to Varoufakis’s book, «A Modest Proposal, which deals with
Europe’s financial crisis and which he co-wrote with James Galbraith and
former British Member of Parliament Stuart Holland, was written by
former French Prime Minister Michael Rocard. Rocard has called for the
EU to appoint a European «strongman» and Rocard’s choice is European
Parliament president Martin Schulz, the very same man who has warned the
new SYRIZA government to abide by the austerity agreements concluded by
the past PASOK and conservative governments.
Holland,
an adviser to former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, along
with French President François Mitterand, helped craft the 1986 Single
European Act, one of the charters that helped create the European Union
financial system that has been used to emaciate the Greek economy in the
name of austerity.
Varoufakis’s
commitment to work within the IMF and European banking system is
obvious from what the Greek finance minister wrote on his website. After
calls by American financial writers Paul Krugman and Mark Weisbrot for
Greece to follow the example of Argentina and default on its debts and
exit the Eurozone altogether, Varoufakis argues that Greece must «grin
and bear» the measures imposed on it by the bankers and the German
government as a member of the Eurozone. And that means the SYRIZA
finance minister surrendered to the whims of the bankers long before
SYRIZA’s electoral victory. Considering the unquestionable leftist
credentials of many members of the Greek government, the bankers have,
at the very least, a willing accomplice as finance minister on the Greek
side of the negotiating table on the future of the nation’s economy and
the unpopular Troika-imposed austerity measures that swept SYRIZA to
power.
Although
Varoufakis stands ready to cut deal after deal with the global and
European bankers, his colleagues in the coalition government SYRIZA
crafted with the anti-EU but right-wing Independent Greeks party, will
not follow EU diktats when it comes to such matters as agreeing to
continued austerity, as well as EU sanctions against Russia. No sooner
had Tsipras become prime minister, he criticized the EU for issuing a
warning about further sanctions against Russia over Ukraine. Tsipras
said an anti-Russia European Council statement had been issued without
the consent of Greece.
Greece’s
new foreign minister, Nikos Kotzias, is, like Varoufakis, an academic.
However, unlike Varoufakis, Kotzias, a former Communist, has been a
professor at a Greek, not a foreign, university. Kotzias and Tsipras are
following through with their promises of opposing current and future EU
sanctions against Russia, something that will not endear them to the
Soros elements who have their clutches on Varoufakis. Kotzias has the
power to veto new or renewed sanctions against Russia. Kotzias is
opposed to German domination over Europe and was such a staunch
Communist, he supported the crackdown by Polish Communist leader
Wojciech Jaruzelski on the Solidarity trade union movement in Poland in
the 1980s, a fact that places him at complete loggerheads with EU Polish
President Donald Tusk, an early activist within the Solidarity
movement, who wants to impose further punitive measures on Russia. In
what can only send EU and NATO interventionists into a tail spin,
Kotzias will find himself more at home in Moscow than he will in
Brussels or Berlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already started
the process of establishing close relations with the new government in
Athens. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has likely commenced
«surge» surveillance of all official communications links between Athens
and Moscow and it has also certainly placed Greece, like Russia,
Turkey, Brazil, Hungary, Venezuela, Iran, Syria, and Lebanon into the
category of a hostile «target» nation for the purposes of collecting
signals intelligence or «SIGINT».
Greece,
which pioneered the Trojan horse weapon used against Troy, must be on
guard against Trojan horses like Varoufakis who have been implanted in
the new Greek government.
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