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Raptis: What a Wonderful World!
Znet Article, June, 12 2013
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
This is a wonderful world and the sky is blue. They were "meant" to be that way. They were not "meant" to be filled with drones, or pepper spray, or chemicals
Raptis: Open Letter to the Greek Prime Minister
Znet Article, May, 29 2013
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
The site of the executions was the "Shooting Range" where the Greek sportsmen and the Greek athletes prepared for the Olympic games, etc.
Raptis: Forced Criminality?
Znet Article, April, 07 2013
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Although up to now there is no final scientific answer as to whether criminals are born or "made", it seems that the "made" part is more probable
Raptis: Protection of the Citizen
Znet Article, February, 21 2013
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
The problem of the police is difficult to solve. Today, it is inextricably connected to the general problem of the barbarity of the owners of the world
Raptis: Greece: Poets and "Intellectuals"
Znet Article, January, 17 2013
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
What is really disturbing is that today for most people in Athens there is a feeling that there is less hope than during the Nazi occupation
Raptis: The Turkey of Asi and of Demir
Znet Article, December, 25 2012
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
In the Turkish serial the hate inserted originates with the evil of people around Asi and Demir, even relatives of theirs, who do their utmost to interfere and hurt them
Raptis: Celebrities and Nazis
Znet Article, November, 11 2012
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
The ordinary Americans have to understand that by being indifferent to the violence of the Greek Nazi goons, they are playing with fire
Raptis: Greece: "The Day After"
Znet Article, June, 20 2012
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
How did the Greek Rightist "patriots" manage to secure such a "great" victory in the polls? The world's economic elites did it for them
Raptis: Greece: [In]significant Details
Znet Article, May, 23 2012
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
As usual, there are two sources of "effluent" on the TV screen: the journalists themselves and the politicians with their supporting "experts"
Raptis: The Triumph of the Ridiculous
Znet Article, March, 31 2012
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
The situation in Greece is reaching the limits of rational patience. This drama must end.
Raptis: Merkel's Incredible Feat! (Part one)
Znet Article, February, 15 2012
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
There is a situation that forces most persons that have lost their inborn "leftism" to regain it. That situation is poverty
Raptis: A Call to Syntagma Square
Znet Article, February, 11 2012
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
A call to Syntagma Square on February 11, 2012
Raptis: Quakes: Call on Turks and on Greeks
Znet Article, November, 18 2011
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
So, having a planet "vibrating" with quakes and covered with concrete death-traps, what do we do?
Raptis: Greece: Helicopters or "Nurembergs"?
Znet Article, October, 23 2011
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
It seems that, finally, the elites not only in Greece but worldwide (read: elites of the US) are in trouble!
Raptis: The Problem of Transportation
Znet Article, July, 28 2009
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
An interesting social test, easily performed by anybody, is the following: simply ask friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and even strangers what is their opinion about our life in 2009. Is it full of problems or is it a rather satisfactory and eve...
Spannos: Update on the Greek Uprising
Znet Article, December, 23 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Nikos Raptis is a resident of Athens and also a long-time contributor to Z, which happens to be named for the Costa-Gavras film, also titled Z, that is about resistance and repression in post-war Greece. Raptis's article, "Greek Teenagers," provid...
Raptis: Update on the Greek Uprising
Znet Article, December, 23 2008
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Chris Spannos of ZNet interviews Nikos Raptis on the current status of the Greek revolt.
Raptis: Greek Teenagers
Znet Article, December, 12 2008
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
As always, to understand what is going on today (Dec.11, '08) in Greece (or any place) one has to go back in time a few decades. Let us make the effort.
Raptis: Nazi Olympics
Znet Article, August, 18 2005
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
In 1887 a boy was born in Chicago who "grew up fatherless and poor" in that windy city. At the age of 25 he participated in the pentathlon and decathlon in the "5th Olympiad" of 1912 in Stockholm. He graduated from the University of Illinois with ...
Raptis: Pirates of the Caribbean
Znet Article, January, 25 2004
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
A lecture given by Marcus Rediker at Emmanuel College in Boston on October 9, 2003 and recorded by Roger Leisner of Radio Free Maine (to order, see below). Reviewed by Nikos Raptis Historically the elite of any society have been able to force ...
Raptis: Parecon: Life After Capitalism
Znet Article, January, 03 2004
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
Pressures to alleviate or eradicate poverty have perhaps reached a peak in many parts of the world, particularly in developing countries where the adoption of economic policies induced by the International Monetary Fund have led to debilitating de...
Raptis: Parecon: Life After Capitalism
Znet Article, December, 04 2003
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
The word "Parecon" in the title of this book is unknown to almost all Greeks. Likewise, unknown is to all the inhabitants of the Earth what will be the "Life After Capitalism", which is the subtitle of this book. Michael Albert tries to...
