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Raptis: Haiti and the "Vectors of Evil"
Commentary, February, 24 2010
Nikos Raptis
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Suppose we wish to show on paper the magnitude of a force and the direction in which it acts. We agree to symbolize this by a line segment, an arrow, the length of which depicts the magnitude of the force and its direction shows the direction-of-a...
Raptis: Obama, a C-minus? No!
Commentary, December, 19 2009
Nikos Raptis
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Tom H. Hastings, of Portland State University, wrote in his article "Nobel Speech? C-" (ZNet, Dec. 13, '09): "If...one of my...students had handed in the very speech given by President Obama in Norway, I would have given that student a C-...Becaus...
Raptis: Greece: A Typical Election (and its Aftermath)
Commentary, November, 23 2009
Nikos Raptis
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This is a report on the parliamentary elections of October 4, 2006 in Greece.
Raptis: May Day, the Athens 2009 Sequel
Commentary, May, 20 2009
Nikos Raptis
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Part of my ZNet Commentary of May 5, 2009 ("May Day of Pain and Hope") was dedicated to the execution of 200 Greeks who were detainees at the "Haidari" Nazi concentration camp, on May Day of 1944. The execution took place at "Kesariani", a neighbo...
Raptis: May Day of Pain and of Hope
Commentary, May, 05 2009
Nikos Raptis
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Suppose that the daughters of the Obamas picked up from somebody that "May Day" is an important, historic, and interesting holiday. Being young and curious, they decide to learn more about "May Day"...
Raptis: One More Quake
Commentary, April, 09 2009
Nikos Raptis
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The "experts" (seismologists, etc) were telling the people of the L'Aquila area in Italy that there place was not quake-prone. So it was said in the evening news. The present quake was 6.3 Richters and must have lasted for only [about] 17 seconds....
Raptis: Greek Uprising: Second Update
Commentary, January, 30 2009
Nikos Raptis
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Is the December '08 uprising of the Greek teenagers so important that an additional update is necessary? Given that the uprising had even an international appeal, as shown by the fact that Sarkozy of France, a George W. Bush-type of person, did no...
Raptis: A [Friendly] Suggestion to Ordinary Iraqis
Commentary, December, 18 2008
Nikos Raptis
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It seems a bit arrogant to address an entire population and offer even a [friendly] suggestion. However, if that population, the Iraqis, are the ones that have suffered [together with the Palestinians] more than any other population in recent hist...
Raptis: Suntan and "Leaders"
Commentary, November, 16 2008
Nikos Raptis
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It was the summer of 1958. I was on my way to the school of engineering of the University of Illinois, at Urbana, as a graduate student. I had set foot for the first time on American soil only a few weeks earlier, and I decided to visit a (second ...
Raptis: Palin: The Alaskan Taliban
Commentary, September, 27 2008
Nikos Raptis
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The core characteristic of a Taliban is that he is a professional religious "believer". That is, he makes a living by pretending that he "believes" in paradise, etc. The core characteristic of Sarah Palin is that she is a professional religious "b...
Raptis: White People
Commentary, May, 07 2008
Nikos Raptis
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Do most white people treat black people as if they are inferior? The answer is an angry: Yes!
Raptis: Highly Moral Germans in the...Nazi era
Commentary, April, 17 2008
Nikos Raptis
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The feeling that to kill a human is an immoral act is probably part of the human nature. The only case that a human is justified to kill (or incapacitate) a fellow-human is in self-defense. This seems to be a truism. But, what happens with nations...
Raptis: UK & US Culture
Commentary, March, 07 2008
Nikos Raptis
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The German weekly magazine "Der Spiegel" ["The Mirror"] is one of the most important mainstream magazines of Europe and arguably of the world. "Der Spiegel" is definitely not a radical leftist publication. In its latest issue, that of February 25,...
Raptis: Ethics of Stone
Commentary, October, 21 2007
Nikos Raptis
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That the Greeks are the "chosen people" of the world is indisputable. Usually, "chosen peoples" are chosen by God Himself. However, in the case of the Greeks it was the (European) Christian white man that elevated the Greeks to the top of the worl...
