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Greece’s Island of Flames – Evia – Symbol of Europe’s Summer of Hell

ATHENS — While it seemed like all the fires were in Greece, 2021 has been hellish all across Europe where blazes destroyed huge swathes of forests but nowhere more so than Greece’s second-biggest island of Evia, 69 miles northeast of the capital…

13 August, 2021

GREECE·SPORTS·WORLD

Olympics, Return them to Greece

Holding the games in a different country every four years invites chaos, corruption, and redundant infrastructure. The great Australian journalist Murray Sayle famously said there were only two newspaper stories: “we name the guilty man” and “arrow points to defective part.” He…

30 July, 2021

COMMUNITY·TECHNOLOGY·WORLD

Microsoft President Warns Orwell’s ‘1984’ Reality ‘Could Come to Pass’ in 2024 Without AI Controls

Since its release in 1949, George Orwell’s famous “1984” novel has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian science fiction, even going so far as coining the terms “thought police” and “doublethink,” among others. The book focuses on the consequences…

28 May, 2021

GREECE·WORLD

Turkey, a global problem

Turkey has once again escaped the consequences of its actions, this time in Nagorno-Karabakh. It is probably today in the crosshairs of the Pentagon, which wishes to destroy it like all the other states in the wider Middle East. This is the…

13 May, 2021

WORLD

U.S. says Turkey violated international law, NATO commitments in Mediterranean

Turkey broke international law and its NATO commitments in the eastern Mediterranean during a dispute with Greece last year over territory, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Bilateral disputes should be settled peacefully and diplomatically, “not militarily and certainly not through…

15 March, 2021

GREECE·WORLD

The EastMed alliances threaten Turkey’s expansionist agenda

The discovery of huge gas resources in the Eastern Mediterranean and the standardization of cooperation between the countries of the region will change the geopolitical landscape in a few years The discovery of huge gas resources in the Eastern Mediterranean and the…

29 January, 2021

COMMUNITY

The Aristotle Menu: Eat Like an Ancient Greek Philosopher

According to Aristotle, the world was based on five building elements, earth, fire, water, air, and ether. Gastronomy professor Giorgos Palisidis built what he calls the “Aristotelian menu”, based on foods and ingredients of northern Greece, the birthplace of the great philosopher.…

3 August, 2020

GREECE·WORLD

Donald Trump should lift the arms embargo on Cyprus now

Every day the arms embargo remains in place undermines U.S. national security, undercuts the deployed U.S. military, and signals to U.S. allies that Washington is unreliable. On July 20, 1974, Turkish forces—utilizing U.S.-made and supplied equipment—invaded Cyprus, ultimately ethnically-cleansing the northern third…

30 July, 2020

COMMUNITY·HEALTH

Yoga incompatible for Orthodox Christians

The Orthodox Church of Greece has announced yoga as “absolutely incompatible” with Christianity and not a “kind of exercise” since “yoga is a fundamental part of the religion of Hinduism.” The Synodal Committee under Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and all Greece,…

16 June, 2020

WORLD

Game over for oil… The economy is next

It’s game-over for most of the U.S. oil industry and the repurcussions are global Prices have collapsed and storage is nearly full. The only option for many producers is to shut in their wells. That means no income. Most have considerable debt…

2 May, 2020

AUSTRALIA·WORLD

The coming Greater Depression of the 2020s

While there is never a good time for a pandemic, the COVID-19 crisis has arrived at a particularly bad moment for the global economy. The world has long been drifting into a perfect storm of financial, political, socioeconomic, and environmental risks, all…

1 May, 2020

HEALTH·HISTORY

Leaders as healers: Ancient Greek ideas on the health of the body politic

In the current health crisis, we might ask what needs to be cured more urgently: the virus itself or people’s poor sense of moderation. We have seen shocking footage of panicked citizens fighting over the last pack of toilet tissue, our politicians’…

3 April, 2020

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Greece’s Island of Flames – Evia – Symbol of Europe’s Summer of Hell

Olympics, Return them to Greece

Microsoft President Warns Orwell’s ‘1984’ Reality ‘Could Come to Pass’ in 2024 Without AI Controls

Turkey, a global problem

U.S. says Turkey violated international law, NATO commitments in Mediterranean

The EastMed alliances threaten Turkey’s expansionist agenda

The Aristotle Menu: Eat Like an Ancient Greek Philosopher

Donald Trump should lift the arms embargo on Cyprus now

Yoga incompatible for Orthodox Christians

Game over for oil… The economy is next

The coming Greater Depression of the 2020s

Leaders as healers: Ancient Greek ideas on the health of the body politic

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