The Greek Watergate - UNHERD - Yanis Varoufakis
The Greek Watergate - UNHERD - Yanis Varoufakis
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The Greek Watergate - UNHERD - Yanis Varoufakis
Nothing surprises me more than politicians professing to be surprised that their phones have been tapped. In the world revealed to us by Edward Snowden almost a decade ago, no phone is beyond the reac...
In the case of Watergate, it was hard to unveil Nixon’s complicity, but the moment the President’s involvement was established, he was gone. In the case of Greece’s Watergate, our parliamentary sovereignty was jettisoned so that the guilty PM could stay put. In this sense, Greece’s Watergate bodes more ill for democracy than America’s original.