By Max Musson: In an Athens court early yesterday morning, after overnight testimony that lasted for more than six hours, Nikos Michaloliakos the leader of Greek nationalist party Golden Dawn, was jailed pending trial on charges of running a criminal organisation. This follows the wave of arrests carried out by the Greek government last Saturday, which saw Mr Michaloliakos and five other Golden Dawn MPs among twenty people arrested, ostensibly following the fatal stabbing of singer…

By Max Musson: Occasionally our readers leave comments that tempt me to provide a longer and more significant reply than would be normally appropriate for our comments sections and today we have received such a comment, which I have decided to make the focus of this article. The comment reproduced below, which was posted in response to an earlier article of mine entitled, ‘Money-Power, Money and Power‘,  is one of a series with a similar…

Greece’s Golden Dawn party—currently riding high in a series of polls which indicate a large growth of support for that movement—has exposed an astonishing lie put out by that country’s controlled media which involved a photo shopped picture being broadcast on national television. The image purported to show “armed Golden Dawn thugs” marching through a hospital looking for Third World invaders to attack—at least, that was the description put out by the printed and television…