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Raptis: The "Drama" of the Greek Elections
Commentary, May, 12 2012
Nikos Raptis
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The Greek case will initiate a domino effect; for Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and even France
Raptis: Anno Domini 2012: One More Year of Ridicule and of Hate
Commentary, March, 17 2012
Nikos Raptis
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Why is there so much hate in the richest society of the world?
Raptis: Of Nationalism and of ... Potatoes!
Commentary, March, 05 2012
Nikos Raptis
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This nascent movement against the middleman and the solidarity shown in the process, constitute a very important aspect of the Resistance of the Greeks against the arrogance of the "northern" elites
Raptis: Merkel's Incredible Feat! (Part two)
Commentary, February, 18 2012
Nikos Raptis
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The majority of the Greeks understand that right now it is imperative to get rid of the corrupt old political structure
Raptis: Russian Ammunition for Assad
Commentary, January, 18 2012
Nikos Raptis
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Russia as a geographic entity is represented by the Russian people and the elite are represented by Putin
Raptis: The Psychopathic "Servants" of the Elite
Commentary, January, 10 2012
Nikos Raptis
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The elite cannot exist without the "protection" of the police, the torturer, and the soldier
Raptis: The MIT "Offspring"!
Commentary, December, 10 2011
Nikos Raptis
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MIT has given "birth" yo an "army" of US-controlled native elites all over the world as "tools" for dominating the planet
Raptis: Greece: A Very Important Event
Commentary, November, 01 2011
Nikos Raptis
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The ultimate insult
Raptis: Nazis in Norway and Beyond
Commentary, August, 03 2011
Nikos Raptis
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Why is so much blood spilled by religion; Christians, Muslims, Zeus, Mars, etc?
Raptis: Greece: Syntagma Square, What Next?
Commentary, July, 01 2011
Nikos Raptis
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Hope for the Greeks rests at the Squares of all its cities and towns
Raptis: "Syntagma Square" of Athens
Commentary, June, 09 2011
Nikos Raptis
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For the first time in Greek politics the parliamentarians of a governing party are talking back to their leader
Raptis: The Flag on the Acropolis
Commentary, May, 07 2011
Nikos Raptis
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Approach only the ordinary people in all countries in solidarity and participatory cooperation
Raptis: Soldiers, "Who" Are They?
Commentary, April, 09 2011
Nikos Raptis
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During the Second World War (WWII) the British and the Americans to gain secret information from the German prisoners, that they had captured, they devised a system of "benign" extraction of such secrets.
Raptis: An Aesopian Mythos
Commentary, February, 20 2011
Nikos Raptis
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Aesop is supposed to be a man who lived 600 years before Christ and who created the famous Greek fables.
Raptis: Militarism and the US
Commentary, January, 27 2011
Nikos Raptis
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That the Founding Fathers of the US and their descendents respected and admired the classical Greek civilization is easy for present-day ordinary Americans to verify.
Raptis: They Eat Cats and Dogs
Commentary, January, 08 2011
Nikos Raptis
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In Patras, the Greek port just opposite Italy, there are hundreds of Afghans, Iraqis, Pakistanis, etc fighting one an other trying to reach Italy by sneaking on the trucks that are ferried to Italy.
Raptis: The Tragic Nikos and Elli Era
Commentary, November, 17 2010
Nikos Raptis
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Nikos Belogianni was born in Peloponese, the southern part of Greece, in 1915. His parents were poor and had only partial Elementary School education.
Raptis: Thackeray's Greeks?
Commentary, September, 26 2010
Nikos Raptis
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In 1868, a British literary magazine was published adopting the title "Vanity Fair" and lasted up to 1929. Then, as happens with colonies, a European-British colony, the USA, had its own "Vanity Fair" magazine.
Raptis: The Lists of Death and Shame
Commentary, August, 08 2010
Nikos Raptis
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Once more, this is a message addressed to ordinary Americans concerning the crimes committed by the US elites in their name.
Raptis: Israel; It, Finally, Happened!
Commentary, June, 07 2010
Nikos Raptis
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It started quite a few years ago. The more the religious fanatics from New York (or is it the psychopaths "used" by the US elites?) as emigrants to Israel got the upper hand, the more I could detect a rather painful effort in rational and honest p...
Raptis: Of Turks and of Greeks
Commentary, May, 27 2010
Nikos Raptis
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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 "martial" songs that soldiers-in-training sing all over this unfortunate planet. The songs I was supposed to sing had words as the following example...
Raptis: Haiti and the "Vectors of Evil"
Commentary, February, 24 2010
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
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 ...
