In pinball, the term TILT stands for GAME OVER! Germany lost the pinball and tilted. Berlin run out of ideas as to what preconditions it can ask from Greece to undermine or better ‘boycott’ the 3. bailout package. And it came with the total absurdity. It connected the Refugee’s problem with the 3. bailout package.

After months of deadlines that turned out not to matter and final demands that weren‘t met, the threat of a one-way ticket from the euro seems to have finally persuaded Greece to capitulate to its creditors. For all of France‘s diplomatic scrambling last week to help Greece craft a settlement, it also turned out that there‘s really only one voice that matters in Europe — and it speaks from Berlin.

In Frankreich steht die sozialistische Regierung angesichts der Tatsache unter Druck, dass sie den deutschen Kurs in der Griechenland-Frage unterstützt hat. Das führte nun dazu, dass der französische Finanzminister als erstes Regierungsmitglied seinen deutschen Kollegen klar kritisiert hat. Mit dem Ausstieg würde die Büchse der Pandora aufgemacht und andere Problemländer könnten das Heil in einer Abwertung suchen. Derweil wird in der Öffentlichkeit darüber debattiert, die Deutschen „allein im tiefen Wald auszusetzen“, damit sie „ganz allein mit der geliebten Euro-Mark und ihren Konvergenzkriterien“ spielen können.

The European Left Party recognized its own mutated strategy for bourgeois management in the social-democratic positions of SYRIZA, its own positions for assimilation into the EU.

It was to be expected.

The serious problem concerns certain CPs that reproduced the positions of SYRIZA, presented it as force of resistance against the EU, concealing the fact that this party is a defender of the EU predatory alliance and NATO, a manager of the barbaric capitalist system.

(29.Juli) Having the euro as one of its main instruments of economic and political domination by big business, the European Union does not hesitate in trampling hypocritically proclaimed fundamental values – like democracy – humiliating and crushing the sovereign will of a people, while trying to perpetuate policies of exploitation of workers and favouring of big business.

The PCP reaffirms its solidarity to the Greek workers and people, who resist and struggle against the impositions of the European Union and the IMF, demanding respect for their right to take sovereign options in defence of their rights and interests.

The PCP reaffimrs that the seriousness of the situation and the violence of the offensive against the people demands a firm stance to defend sovereignty in face of the instruments of domination by the EU and big business.

After many months of principled diplomacy, the P5+1 — the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, Russia and Germany — along with the European Union, have achieved a long-term comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran that will verifiably prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and ensure that Iran‘s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful going forward.

This deal stands on the foundation of the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), achieved in November of 2013, and the framework for this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), announced in Lausanne on April 2, 2015 that set the requirements for the deal with the P5+ 1 and Iran, alongside the European Union announced today.

Now, with this deal in place, the U.S., our allies, and the international community can know that tough, new requirements will keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Here‘s how:

Twenty-nine of America’s leading scientists—from Nobel Prize winners to nuclear experts—co-signed a letter supporting President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal on Saturday.

“We consider that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) the United States and its partners negotiated with Iran will advance the cause of peace and security in the Middle East and can serve as a guidepost for future non-proliferation agreements,” the letter said.

Opponents cannot escape through a trapped door marked “later.” There is no later, this is the end of the line. Rejection fundamentally shifts the balance of power on Iran from the president to the Congress in a way that makes a future agreement virtually impossible to achieve. Voting no deprives this president, or a future president, of bargaining power over the Iranians. It isolates us in the world.

If a rightwing Prime Minister gets invited into Congress to submarine our president’s policy and the New York Times says that Democrats are torn between their “loyalty to the Jewish state” and their support for Obama, I have a right to talk about where their loyalty should lie. If Bill Kristol of the Emergency Committee for Israel responds to Obama’s statement that Israel is the only country publicly to oppose the pact by saying, “All the greater Israel’s glory,” well, I have a right to say that deal opponents care about a foreign country.

If Natan Sharansky, an Israeli closely allied to Netanyahu, gets to write in the Washington Post, “Jews stood up to the U.S. government 40 years ago, and should again on Iran,” I’m allowed to ask why the Washington Post is running appeals to Jewish American dual loyalty.

Who are U.S. Jewish leaders really representing when they lobby the American president on behalf of Israel’s prime minister? Not their fellow countrymen, for sure.

Chuck Schumer’s decision to oppose the Iran Deal is causing some fear among deal supporters that he has broken down the Democratic Party firewall of support for the deal by giving American Jews who are fencesitters an excuse to come out against it.