In my ZNet Commentary, "Greece: 'The Odd Man Out'", of April 22, 2002, I mentioned: "The palm-gesture…with all fingers extended apart… (known as…
A few days ago I started writing a Commentary for ZNet. Here is the initial part of it: For months now…
This is addressed mainly to the approximately 800 relatives of the murdered and injured people in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik, in July of 2011 –…
"The infliction of physical punishment is not every man's job, and naturally we were only too glad to recruit men who were…
One morning during the [military] dictatorship [of 1967-1974 in Greece] my wife and I were driving towards Syntagma Square. The car before…
On Saturday April 30, 2011, three days before the writing of this piece, Lakis Santas died in Athens, at the age of…
During the last few days I have been busy writing a piece for a work with the title: "Part 2, EXIT: The Rest…
Aesop Aesop is supposed to be a man who lived 600 years before Christ and who created the famous Greek fables. Scholars…
That the Founding Fathers of the US and their descendents respected and admired the classical Greek civilization is easy for present-day ordinary…
As mentioned in some of my ZNet Commentaries, during the 1941-1944 Nazi occupation in Greece there was a famine in Athens, in 1941, that…
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