Click here to access article by Andrew Gavin Marshall from his website.
By using excerpts of recently written rough drafts from a forthcoming book, the author puts together all the details of Italy's process of surrender to European and US banking elites. This series offers an excellent study that illustrates how banking elites are taking over governments in Europe to serve the needs of bankers and banking shareholders.
Part 2 is here.
To understand what is happening in Europe, it would be desirable to have an understanding of the whole issue of derivative
instrument trading on Wall Street that played a major role in the economic collapse.
See this, this, and this.
Also, PBS TV has recently run a very good, though flawed in
some respects, 4-part series on derivative trading called "Money, Power
and Wall Street". They can be viewed online here, here, here, and here. Or you can purchase the 2-CD set that includes all four programs from PBS here for $29.99US.