The new dark age: Across Europe, free speech and democracy face their biggest threat since the Thirties

From the Daily Mail:

After a week dominated by the terrible effects of Superstorm Sandy, the increasingly bitter struggle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney and the continuing fallout from the Jimmy Savile scandal, it was easy to overlook a little story about an obscure Greek journalist called Kostas Vaxevanis. 

In its way, though, the ordeal of Mr Vaxevanis, the editor of an Athens magazine, who narrowly escaped prison for publishing the names of suspected tax evaders, is the biggest story of all.Its themes — the freedom of the Press, the corruption of the establishment, the arrogance of the elite and the terrifying storm engulfing the economies of Europe — go to the heart of a crisis that threatens to tear the Continent apart. 

Assault on free speech: Greek editor Kostas Vaxevanis was arrested for naming individuals evading tax 

But the Vaxevanis scandal is merely the tip of the iceberg.

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