Video: Athens on fire as mass protest turns violent

At least ten buildings went up in flames as the riots engulfed the center of the Greek capital.

A three-story corner building believed to be a home appliances store was severely damaged by fire.

Among other buildings damaged were a cinema, a bank, a mobile phone dealership, a glassware shop and a coffee shop,

the Associated Press says – citing the fire department.

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Greek lawmakers approve austerity bill as Athens burns

The Greek parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy,

as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country.

Cinemas, cafes, shops and banks were set ablaze in central Athens as black-masked protesters fought riot police outside parliament.

State television reported the violence spread to the tourist islands of Corfu and Crete,

the northern city of Thessaloniki

and towns in central Greece.

Shops were looted in the capital where police said 34 buildings were ablaze.

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Greece On Fire

Pissed-off Greeks in their second day of protests on Athens’ Syntagma Square.

While inside the Parliament, their traitorous politicians decide by how much they are going to sell out their country,

police fired tear gas to disperse an estimated 80,000 protesters gathered outside.

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Democracy? EU-IMF Sets Tax-and-Spend Policies in Greece as Citizens Burn it to the Ground

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“Real Despair” Sweeps Through Greece as Severe Austerity Measures Demanded by E.U.-IMF Cripple Nation

Greece continues to face political turmoil over a sovereign debt crisis that has embroiled the country for almost two years.

On Monday, the Greek government said it would hold new elections in the face of massive demonstrations against a new austerity package that was approved on Sunday in exchange for a European Union-International Monetary Fund bailout.

To discuss the latest in Greece,

we’re joined by Maria Margaronis, London correspondent for The Nation magazine.

She was in Greece last week covering the economic crisis there.

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Greek Fire: Extremist Elites Gone Wild in Democracy’s Cradle

What we are seeing in Greece is not an” economic” program

it is – most openly and brazenly – a political program:

a savagely destructive extremist ideology being imposed on ordinary people by force.

In its all-pervasive brutality and tyrannical control of every aspect of life,

it makes the “Shariah law” bogeyman of right-wing nightmares look like an anarchists’ picnic.

And make no mistake:

the extremist doctrine being forced on Greece is, in every particular way,

the ruling ideology of the United States, Great Britain, and all the “great democracies” of the West.

The aim of the doctrine is the “final solution” of the “problem” of democracy:

i.e., the fact that the rabble keep seeking a decent life for themselves and trying to order their own affairs

instead of staying in harness to enrich an all-powerful elite …

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