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Nikos Raptis
Nikos Raptis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1930. He is a civil engineer. For the last 40 years he has been writing on social matters for papers and magazines (mainly) in Greece. He is the author of "Let Us Talk About Earthquakes, Floods and...the Streetcar" (1981) and "The Nightmare of the Nukes"(1986), both in Greek. He, also, translated into Greek and published Noam Chomsky's "Year 501", "Rethinking Camelot" and translated Michael Albert's "Parecon: Life After Capitalism". Also, he was a contributor to the book "The Media and the Kosovo Crisis", edited by Philip Hammond and Edward S. Hermam. He lives in Athens, Greece.
My first name is Nicholas (or "Niko-laos" in Greek) and it means the "victorious people". The first word "Nike" (victory) is already known to…
Once more, this is a message addressed to ordinary Americans concerning the crimes committed by the US elites in their name. In…
Here are some excerpts form my ZNet Commentary: "Hitler’s Americanization", of June 4, 1999: "Finally,…,one could raise the following questions: ……………………………………………………………………….…
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As a Greek young man I was drafted to serve in the Greek Army. So, I was ordered to sing the usual…
Heroic Evil In the International Herald Tribune of January 22, 2010 there is an article by Nicholas D. Kristof. Here is…
Tom H. Hastings, of Portland State University, wrote in his article "Nobel Speech? C-" (ZNet, Dec. 13, ’09): "If…one of my…students had…
This is a report on the parliamentary elections of October 4, 2006 in Greece. But first, we have to set down…
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