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Commentary Raptis: A Tale of Two Ladies.

Commentary, April, 18 2003 Nikos Raptis
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The Saxon Lady

Commentary Raptis: Hate: Religious and Secular

Commentary, February, 06 2003 Nikos Raptis
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Hate: Religious and Secular

Commentary Raptis: Rhodes: Memories

Commentary, January, 08 2003 Nikos Raptis
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Andre Vltchek's January 03, 2003 Commentary ("Amnesia In Rhodes") was a pleasant surprise. One is surprised to learn that a fellow-human ( Andre) left Japan and flew to Rhodes in December (!) "to discuss politics, philosophy and democracy with the...

Commentary Raptis: The Relatives Of The Aggressors

Commentary, September, 20 2002 Nikos Raptis
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In the May 13, 2002 issue of "Newsweek" there is an article by Martha Brant and Weston Kosova on Barbara Bush. The title of the article is: "The Queen Mother."

Commentary Raptis: Rebuilding the Twin Towers

Commentary, July, 27 2002 Nikos Raptis
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"What was the aim of the construction of the Great Pyramid-none! In essence, it was a structure without any meaning... This 'urge' to use technology to create huge monumental structures, which one could call the 'pyramid syndrome, continued to pre...

Commentary Raptis: Greece: "The Odd Man Out"

Commentary, May, 18 2002 Nikos Raptis
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In 1453 the Turks (Ottomans) conquered Constantinople. Three years later, in 1456, they conquered Athens (an insignificant small town at the time) and by 1461 they were occupying almost all the Greek areas. After the fall of Constantinople, the ec...

Commentary Raptis: Thomas Friedman's Brave

Commentary, April, 19 2002 Nikos Raptis
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"THOMAS FRIEDMAN is one of America's leading interpreters of world affairs... Mr. Friedman has also won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting for The New York Times..." (Biographical note under Friedman's name on page iii of his book "The Lexus an...

Commentary Raptis: Do the (Ordinary) Americans Know?

Commentary, December, 13 2001 Nikos Raptis
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Does the ordinary American know what the American Government has been doing to the other peoples of the world?

Commentary Raptis: Nukes and Rationality

Commentary, November, 15 2001 Nikos Raptis
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Let us make the assumption that humans have the potential to think rationally. If the assumption is wrong, this text (or any other text for that matter) is irrelevant. So, if in the nature of man there is the potential for rationality, why is ther...

Commentary Raptis: Of Pyramids and Skyscrapers

Commentary, September, 30 2001 Nikos Raptis
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That the skyscraper is the "monumental" structure par excellence of the US culture is difficult to dispute. "The decision for the construction of multistory buildings in any country, either for living space or for work is a political act with very...

Commentary Raptis: Genoa and (Persistent) Resistance in the Balkans

Commentary, July, 17 2001 Nikos Raptis
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Genoa: The G8 Summit What follows is a short report on the situation in Genoa as of July 8, 2001. The coordinator of the protest movement against the G8 Summit at Genoa is the Italian organization Genoa Social Forum (GSF).

Commentary Raptis: Racism; The Greek Variety

Commentary, July, 02 2001 Nikos Raptis
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On October 21, 1999 my wife and I attended the presentation of the latest book of a friend, in downtown Athens. After the presentation, at around 12 midnight, the author invited five or six of us to dinner at a nearby tavern. My wife was not feeli...

Commentary Raptis: A New Film

Commentary, May, 20 2001 Nikos Raptis
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In the late '40s and early '50s quite a few young Greek leftists had to flee their country to avoid at best torture and long prison terms and at worst execution in the hands of the US appointed local puppet Greek Government.

Commentary Raptis: Norman Rockwell

Commentary, April, 02 2001 Nikos Raptis
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Norman Rockwell was born in 1894 and died in 1978. For almost sixty years he worked as an illustrator. He did covers for the Saturday Evening Post, for 47 years. Those covers played a significant role in the cultural environment in which two gener...

Commentary Raptis: The Archbishop

Commentary, March, 16 2001 Nikos Raptis
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The Greek word "orthodox" is a compound word from "orthos" (meaning : right) and "doxa" (meaning : opinion). Therefore, an "orthodox" is a person that has the "right opinion", as opposed to the rest of humanity who have the "wrong opinion".

Commentary Raptis: Quake in India

Commentary, February, 04 2001 Nikos Raptis
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Today (Jan. 31, '01) the number of dead from the earthquake that hit India six days ago is estimated "by officials and aid workers to be from 15,000 to 100,000." The higher estimate came from the Indian Defence Minister, George Fernandes, as his "...

Commentary Raptis: Hitler : The (Strange) Elser Case

Commentary, December, 16 2000 Nikos Raptis
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Johann Georg Elser was born in the German Village of Hermaringen in 1903. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed as a (lathe) turner in a local iron factory. In 1922 he passed his journeyman's exam as a cabinet-maker and became a specialist in ...

Commentary Raptis: Yugoslavia: The Birth of a U.S Client State

Commentary, November, 12 2000 Nikos Raptis
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"Client state: a country that is economically, politically, or militarily dependent on another country" (Webster's 10th). That was a rather polished definition by the political elite around 1918. In today's real world the expressions "vassal state...

Commentary Raptis: Anatomy of the Clinton visit to Athens (Part 1)

Commentary, September, 23 2000 Nikos Raptis
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Can a rather routine visit of a US President to a small country be so important to deserve an "anatomy"? I think that an analysis of the events and the behaviors of the participants in these events before, during, and after the Clinton visit to At...

Commentary Raptis: The Pnyx

Commentary, November, 07 1999 Nikos Raptis
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Pnyx is the name of a low (357 feet high) hill about 450 yards to the west of the Acropolis in Athens. The word "Pnyx" means "tightly crowded together." The "crowding" refers to the male citizens (also known and as "demos") of classical Athens, wh...

Commentary Raptis: The Harvard Lady

Commentary, October, 30 1999 Nikos Raptis
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The U.S. (corporate or state) institutions that dominate the life of ordinary people in almost all countries, though impersonal, need some individuals who as part of a local elite promote the ideology and the goals of these institutions. The portr...

Commentary Raptis: European Labor

Commentary, September, 19 1999 Nikos Raptis
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The German word "Reichstag" means parliament. In colloquial German it also means the parliament building. It is not an exaggeration to say that this building, the Reichstag, is a very important part of the history of the 20th century.

Commentary Raptis: Life Complexities / Quakes

Commentary, August, 20 1999 Nikos Raptis
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In 1943 as the Nazis were rounding up the Jews of Salonica in a part of the city, a 16-year-old girl (not a Jew) stood by in the street watching with curiosity (and I hope with horror) as the Nazis were loading them on trucks.

Commentary Raptis: The Statue of a Benefactor

Commentary, August, 08 1999 Nikos Raptis
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After WWI at the Versailles peace conference, in 1919, an irregular line of nations, north to south from Finland to Albania, with Britain controlling Greece and Turkey, was designated a "cordon sanitaire" to divide Europe into two parts; the capit...

Commentary Raptis: The Dictionary

Commentary, July, 14 1999 Nikos Raptis
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Last year (1998) George Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at the University of Athens, compiled "The Dictionary of the Modern Greek Language." The dictionary was a much needed work, given the fact that all Greek dictionaries up to that time wer...

Commentary Raptis: U.S. Occupation

Commentary, June, 16 1999 Nikos Raptis
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In the core of this "sophisticated and careful" planning one finds the need for a US occupation of the "Grand Area." The dictionary "definition" of occupation is: "The holding and control of an area by a foreign military force."

Commentary Raptis: Hitler's Americanization

Commentary, June, 04 1999 Nikos Raptis
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The intertwined lives of Ernst Franz Sedgwick and Adolf Hitler...

Commentary Raptis: The Greeks, Kosovo, Etc.

Commentary, May, 12 1999 Nikos Raptis
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As already mentioned, during the night of April 27 to April 28, '99, Greek demonstrators forced a train carrying British troops and tanks to Macedonia to return to the terminus of the port of Salonica and not leave for Macedonia.

Commentary Raptis: The Greeks, Kosovo, and the U.S.

Commentary, May, 02 1999 Nikos Raptis
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Following the Chomskyan distinction, in the present text the word Greeks refers to the inhabitants of the geographic region of Greece as distinct from the political and economic elits that "govern" the country. (The use of the quotation marks is e...

Commentary Raptis: What if Colombus Had Not Discovered America

Commentary, March, 11 1999 Nikos Raptis
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ELEFTHEROTYPIA is a mainstream Greek daily (usually first or second in circulation). The title is a compound from ELEFTHEROS (free) and TYPOS (press), yet the modern Greek meaning of the title is not Free Press but Freedom of the Press.

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