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Rasmus: Responses to the May Jobs Report
Jun 06, 2011
At best, the job market has been flat for two years now
Raptis: The Flag on the Acropolis
May 07, 2011
Approach only the ordinary people in all countries in solidarity and participatory cooperation
Raptis: Soldiers, "Who" Are They?
Apr 09, 2011
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
Feb 20, 2011
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
Jan 27, 2011
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
Jan 08, 2011
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.
Roy: Charge Nehru Too
Nov 30, 2010
My reaction to today's court order directing the Delhi Police to file an FIR against me for waging war against the state...
Raptis: Nikos & Elli
Nov 17, 2010
Nikos Belogianni was born in Peloponese, the southern part of Greece, in 1915. His parents were poor and had only partial Elementary School education.
Roy: Kashmir’s Fruits
Nov 10, 2010
Whether Mr. Obama decides to change his position on Kashmir again depends on several factors...
Roy: Media & Mobs
Nov 01, 2010
A mob of about a hundred people arrived at my house at 11 this morning, Sunday October 31st 2010...
Roy: Pity The Nation
Oct 27, 2010
Arundhati Roy, in the thick of a sedition controversy over her speeches on Kashmir, issued this statement...
Raptis: Thackeray's Greeks?
Sep 26, 2010
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: Lists of Death & Shame
Aug 08, 2010
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!
Jun 07, 2010
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 people to try not to express a thought that since 1945, the end of WWII, for them was considered a "blasphemy".
Raptis: Of Turks & Greeks
May 27, 2010
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 examples: "Sofia, Sofia is our dream...", "I have a sister that is called Northern Epiros...", etc, etc. "Sofia" was and is the capital of Bulgaria. "North Epiros" was and is part of Albania. At that time, early 1950s, the "owner" of the Greek army was General James Alward Van Fleet, of Coytesvill, N. J. and of the US Army. The term "owner" is definitely not an exageration.
Ross: Pentagon Contractor Profits
May 25, 2010
The fighting in Afghanistan this week has resulted in the deaths of Canadian Colonel Geoff Parker, 42, of Oakville, Ontario, and U.S. Colonel John McHugh, 46, of W. Caldwell, New Jersey. It also claimed the lives of Lieutenant Colonels Paul Bartz, 43, of Waterloo, Wis., and Thomas Belkofer, 44, of Perrysburg, Ohio. Other fatalities were Staff Sgt. Richard Tieman, 28, of Waynesboro, Pa., and Specialist Joshua Tomlinson, 24, of Dubberly, La.
Rebick: Israel Losing Legitimacy
Mar 06, 2010
Before Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) even began members of the Ontario Legislature and the Canadian Parliament are falling all over each other to denounce it. I can't remember another time when elected legislators formally denounced a student activity like this. Perhaps during the 1950s when McCarthyism was rampant but that was before my time.
Raptis: Vectors of Evil
Feb 24, 2010
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-action of the force. We call this arrow a "vector". So, a vector is simply a "carrier" (as its original Latin meaning) of something in a certain direction. Let us now introduce a new mathematical term: the "vector of evil". That is a person that "carries" a certain magnitude of evil directed against somebody. For example, Bush (father), Bush (son), and Bill Clinton can rightfully claim to be "vectors of evil" as all three murdered men, women, and children (infants in the case of Clinton) and their acts were directed towards the Iraqis. Dubya's length of the "vector" seems to be longer as he exceeded one million murdered.
Raptis: Obama, a C-minus? No!
Dec 19, 2009
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-...Because he said, 'A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies'...In fact, where nonviolence was attempted against the Nazis it succeeded. Ask the Norwegian teachers... Ask the non-Jewish [German] wives...on the Rosenstrasse... Ask the Jewish descendents of the 7,000+ Danish Jews... or ask the great-granddaughters of the Jews saved in Le Chambon..."
Jun 08, 2011
The Bush tax cuts promise to linger in the US body-economic like a chronic, debilitating disease