Recent Articles
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- Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013
ZNet Article 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 -
- Wednesday, May 29, 2013
ZNet Article The site of the executions was the "Shooting Range" where the Greek sportsmen and the Greek athletes prepared for the Olympic games, etc. -
- Sunday, Apr 07, 2013
ZNet Article 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 -
- Thursday, Feb 21, 2013
ZNet Article 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 -
- Thursday, Jan 17, 2013
ZNet Article 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 -
- Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012
ZNet Article 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 -
- Sunday, Nov 11, 2012
ZNet Article The ordinary Americans have to understand that by being indifferent to the violence of the Greek Nazi goons, they are playing with fire -
- Wednesday, Jun 20, 2012
ZNet Article 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 -
- Wednesday, May 23, 2012
ZNet Article As usual, there are two sources of "effluent" on the TV screen: the journalists themselves and the politicians with their supporting "experts" -
- Saturday, Mar 31, 2012
ZNet Article The situation in Greece is reaching the limits of rational patience. This drama must end. -
- Wednesday, Feb 15, 2012
ZNet Article There is a situation that forces most persons that have lost their inborn "leftism" to regain it. That situation is poverty -
- Saturday, Feb 11, 2012
ZNet Article A call to Syntagma Square on February 11, 2012 -
- Friday, Nov 18, 2011
ZNet Article So, having a planet "vibrating" with quakes and covered with concrete death-traps, what do we do? -
- Sunday, Oct 23, 2011
ZNet Article It seems that, finally, the elites not only in Greece but worldwide (read: elites of the US) are in trouble! -
- Thursday, Jul 01, 2010
Blog Post Here is what happened and is about to happen concerning Hitler's "visitors", while he was in prison as a terrorist in 1923. -
- Friday, Nov 06, 2009
Blog Post Nikos Raptis's Resoc Interview -
- Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008
ZNet Article 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... ZNet Article Chris Spannos of ZNet interviews Nikos Raptis on the current status of the Greek revolt. -
- Friday, Dec 12, 2008
ZNet Article 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. -
- Thursday, Aug 18, 2005
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Sunday, Jan 25, 2004
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Saturday, Jan 03, 2004
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Dec 04, 2003
ZNet Article 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... - All Recent Articles
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Raptis Commentaries
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- Saturday, May 12, 2012
Commentary The Greek case will initiate a domino effect; for Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and even France -
- Saturday, Mar 17, 2012
Commentary Why is there so much hate in the richest society of the world? -
- Monday, Mar 05, 2012
Commentary 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 -
- Saturday, Feb 18, 2012
Commentary The majority of the Greeks understand that right now it is imperative to get rid of the corrupt old political structure -
- Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
Commentary Russia as a geographic entity is represented by the Russian people and the elite are represented by Putin -
- Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012
Commentary The elite cannot exist without the "protection" of the police, the torturer, and the soldier -
- Saturday, Dec 10, 2011
Commentary MIT has given "birth" yo an "army" of US-controlled native elites all over the world as "tools" for dominating the planet -
- Tuesday, Nov 01, 2011
Commentary The ultimate insult -
- Wednesday, Aug 03, 2011
Commentary Why is so much blood spilled by religion; Christians, Muslims, Zeus, Mars, etc? -
- Friday, Jul 01, 2011
Commentary Hope for the Greeks rests at the Squares of all its cities and towns -
- Thursday, Jun 09, 2011
Commentary For the first time in Greek politics the parliamentarians of a governing party are talking back to their leader -
- Saturday, May 07, 2011
Commentary Approach only the ordinary people in all countries in solidarity and participatory cooperation -
- Saturday, Apr 09, 2011
Commentary 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. -
- Sunday, Feb 20, 2011
Commentary Aesop is supposed to be a man who lived 600 years before Christ and who created the famous Greek fables. -
- Saturday, Jan 08, 2011
Commentary 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. -
- Wednesday, Nov 17, 2010
Commentary Nikos Belogianni was born in Peloponese, the southern part of Greece, in 1915. His parents were poor and had only partial Elementary School education. -
- Sunday, Sep 26, 2010
Commentary 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. -
- Sunday, Aug 08, 2010
Commentary Once more, this is a message addressed to ordinary Americans concerning the crimes committed by the US elites in their name. -
- Monday, Jun 07, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, May 27, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Saturday, Dec 19, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Monday, Nov 23, 2009
Commentary This is a report on the parliamentary elections of October 4, 2006 in Greece. -
- Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Commentary 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"... -
- Thursday, Apr 09, 2009
Commentary 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.... -
- Friday, Jan 30, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Dec 18, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Sunday, Nov 16, 2008
Commentary 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 ... -
- Saturday, Sep 27, 2008
Commentary 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... - All Raptis Commentaries
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