On February 1, 2012, Robert Fisk ended his article in the British daily newspaper “The Independent” as follows: “But there is one unasked question. Just suppose the regime [of Bashar al-Assad] did survive. Over what kind of Syria would it rule?” In other words, the revolt has reached a point of no return. - IV445 - February 2012 / Syria, Arab Revolutions

A class war on a new scale has been declared in Europe: what remains of the social state, resulting from the period following the Second World War, must be dismantled. - IV427 - August 2010 / Economy, European Union

A class war on a new scale has been declared in Europe: what remains of the social state, resulting from the period following the Second World War, must be dismantled. - IV427 - August 2010 / Economy, European Union

Since May 8, 2010 - i.e. the emergency meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB), ECOFIN (finance ministers of the EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held in order to establish a rescue plan for various countries of the EU - all the governments are announcing plans for budgetary austerity “to save the eurozone”. A class war on a new scale has been declared in Europe: what remains of the social state, resulting from the period following the Second World War, must be dismantled, except for a “social safety net” of the World Bank kind. - IV426 - July 2010 / Economy