How the world sees Greece
Located on the south coast of the Peloponnese in Greece, the ancient city of Nafplion is well worth a visit. It was under half an hour by car from where we were staying in Kantia and an easy destination choice for us. No visit to Nafplion is complete ...
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MARMARIS, Turkey, Feb. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Originated in the bustling harbour city Bodrum on the Aegean coast, this unique holiday style has been serving travellers from the picturesque ports along the Southern Turkish coast and Greek islands.
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On the 21st anniversary of the Kardak/Imia crisis, at the end of last month, there was a marked tension between Turkey and Greece.
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The Tourism Minister of GREECE, Elena Kountoura graced the show with her presence on second day. H.E. Panos Kalogeropoulos, Ambassador of ...
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Germany’s deputy finance minister has reaffirmed the country’s hard line stance on refusing a debt haircut for Greece, raising the spectre of a further bailout for the embattled country. Jens Spahn said creditors would not countenance any reduction in ...
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… Turk, an Arab and a Greek are traveling to a distant … Arab, on inab; and the Greek, on stafil. A linguist passing … is stafil," says the Greek. The travelers suddenly realize that …
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Although GREEK officials managed to access the next tranche of bailout funding by agreeing to further economic reforms, the reception was mixed.
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GREEK director Daphne Matziaraki's documentary “4.1 miles” has also been nominated for best short documentary; it follows a GREEK coast guard ...
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When new members of a basketball team are instructed to take an extra lap during practice, the idea of hazing doesn’t spring to mind for most. However, leaders at Central Michigan University say customs that seem like innocent traditions to some — such ...
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The future of Greece’s €86 billion bailout — the third since the 2010 debt crisis — hangs in the balance in the absence of crucial backing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and with three European Union (EU) member states going to polls ...
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THESSALONIKI, GREECE – Eight UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and more than 70 other pieces of equipment arrived at the Port of Thessaloniki as part ...
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Another bicommunal event will see Peace2Peace, install around 200 sea pebbles dressed with crochet made by GREEK Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot ...
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Her thesis film "4.1 miles" documents the refugee crisis in her native Greece. If either wins Oscar gold it would be a win for U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
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ATHENS – Claiming Greece’s era of austerity over, Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras now has to seal an unfinished deal with the country’s creditors before getting... The post Reform Deal Undone, But SYRIZA Proclaims Victory Over Lenders appeared first on The National Herald.
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ATHENS – Owed 200 million euros ($211.23 million) by the government, Greece’s state-owned Hellenic Post (ELTA) is on the verge of going under unless the problem is resolved, media reports... The post Unpaid by State, Greece’s Post Office Faces Going Broke appeared first on The National Herald.
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ATHENS – A decade after investigations began into a cash-for-contracts scandal between German engineering giant Siemens and Greek officials charged with taking bribes, the trial was delayed again because the... The post Ten Years Later, Greece’s Siemens Scandal Trial Postponed Again appeared first on The National Herald.
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Inside the Numbers: a Reader’s Guide to This Edition Americans love rankings, and Greek-Americans are no different. Our annual 50 Wealthiest Greek-Americans edition is, year after year, our most popular... The post TNH’s 50 Wealthiest Greek-Americans 2017 List appeared first on The National Herald.
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Continuing a war of words over Aegean islets, Turkey's foreign minister Sunday slammed the “provocative” rhetoric of GREECE'S defense minister.
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The European Union is more optimistic than the International Monetary Fund (IMF) about Greece’s economic performance because the numbers for 2016 were better than expected, Klaus Regling said in an interview with Spanish newspaper “El Pais” on Sunday ...
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It's important to remember that many voices and experiences have been erased from standard history narratives, says Audrea Lim, coeditor with Andrew Hsiao of t_he Verso_ _Book of Dissent_. The volume's mosaic of dissenting voices shows how the powerless have fought for liberation through four millennia of world history. [Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This the last great battle of the West. - W.E.B. Du Bois.]"Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This the last great battle of the West." - W.E.B. Du Bois. (Photo: CM Battey / Library of Congress) _Throughout the ages, whenever there has been oppression, there have been those who raised their voices in dissent. The new _Book of Dissent_ from Verso collects speeches and essays, poems and songs, plays and manifestos composed by the resisters who came before us -- philosophers, prisoners, bishops, abolitionists and more. Order the book today by making a donation to Truthout! _ Audrea Lim is coeditor with Andrew Hsiao of_ the_ _Verso Book of Dissent_. In this interview, she provides some insight into how quotations of dissent were picked from more than three millennia. She also discusses her own favorite passages. MARK KARLIN: AS A COEDITOR WITH ANDREW HSIAO OF THE _VERSO BOOK OF DISSENT_, HOW DID YOU CHOOSE QUOTATIONS OF DISSENT STRETCHING BACK TO 1800 BCE? AUDREA LIM: It was a long, collective process. We sought suggestions from Verso comrades, collaborators and friends; we asked scholars of different eras and regions about dissenting voices that history has overlooked; and we combed through archives, histories and reference books for interesting, rousing quotes. From this massive trove, we chose a mix of historically significant, eloquent and unusual expressions of dissent. The book is far from comprehensive, but I'd like to think that it's a broad, varied mosaic of how the powerless have fought for liberation through history and all around the world. WHY IS IT OF IMPORTANCE THAT IN 2017, WE VIEW THE PERSPECTIVE OF DISSENTERS DATING BACK SO LONG AGO? I think if we care about history (or watch movies set in ancient Egypt, China or Greece), it's important to remember that many voices and experiences have been erased from the standard narratives. Incredibly, many of these people were fighting similar enemies as we are today (patriarchy, dictators, corrupt politicians). I also think there's value in seeing dissent across such a long time-scale, because the rights and liberties we have today (however hollow they may seem) weren't just won in the 60s, as we may like to think. People struggled for millennia to get us to where we are today, and we should never take progress for granted. DO YOU HAVE FIVE OR SO FAVORITE QUOTATIONS AND WHY? Because it's beautiful: "My grieved country, In a flash You changed me from a poet who wrote love poems To a poet who writes with a knife." (Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, 1967) Because we need vision, not just a desire to tear it all down: "You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future." (Leader of Burkinabe Revolution [Burkina Faso] Thomas Sankara, 1985) Because they're defiant: Puerto Rican nationalist (and former political prisoner) Lolita Lebron when she was arrested in 1954 ("I did not come here to kill. I came here to die."); and IWW founder Lucy Parsons, who the Chicago police described as "more dangerous than a thousand rioters" ("Of you hungry tramps who read these lines...."). W.E.B. Du Bois, _Black Reconstruction_ (1935), because, "are we back there again?" "Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This the last great battle of the West." Because [we should] never forget those who are still behind bars: "I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive -- nor will we deserve to." (AIM activist Leonard Peltier, _Prison Writings_, 2000) Because it's clever: "Because communists' headaches are historical, that is they won't go away with painkillers only with the realization of Paradise on Earth." (Salvadoran poet and revolutionary Roque Dalton, 1969) Because Carlos Bulosan, who immigrated from the Philippines to the US, was fighting racialized deportations back in 1935: "These were the longest years of their lives; These were the years when the whistle at four o'clock Drove them to the yard, then they scurried Home heavy with fatigue and hunger and love." (From "Factory Town") Because it's one thing to recognize injustice, and another to be willing to give up something to change it: "Some have tears in their eyes and let me know how awful they feel about the way our poor live, our Blacks, or those in dozens of other countries. People can cry much easier than they can change." (James Baldwin, 1977) Because pain can push us to fight: "This instant and this triumph We were never meant to survive." (Audre Lorde, "A Litany for Survival," 1954) Just watch the speech on YouTube: "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop." (Mario Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley, 1964) TRUTHOUT PROGRESSIVE PICK ------------------------- [The Verso Book of Dissent] This globe-spanning anthology collects dissident voices from over the course of three millennia, in the form of speeches, poems, songs, plays and more. CLICK HERE NOW TO GET THE BOOK! ------------------------- WHY ARE POETRY AND SONGS SO IMPORTANT TO THE LIBRARY OF DISSENT? I think if manifestos and political programs are like a movement's skeleton or brain, then poetry and songs (and images, literature, narratives, art) are like its heart. At the end of the day, it's the basic human experiences they convey -- love, pain, empathy, sorrow, fear -- that compel us to act. Also, I don't think movements can win without promising a future that includes beauty, joy or fun. The Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa (executed for his activism against Shell) instructed his indigenous brothers and sisters to "dance the military guns to silence." IS THERE SOMETHING TO BE SAID AFTER READING A 340-PAGE COMPILATION OF DISSENT THAT READERS WHO SEEK JUSTICE ARE INSPIRED THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE AND HAVE NEVER BEEN ALONE? I think it's easy right now to feel like we are facing something unprecedented and unbeatable, but many of the people and movements in the book were fighting much harsher regimes, and still kept fighting for justice and liberation anyways. Some of them won incredible victories. I think it's important to remember that power is never really absolute until no one's willing to push back or speak out.
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… against granting debt relief to Greece and around three in 10 …
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Greece’s agony drags on, as we’re reminded by remarks from Germany’s deputy finance minister Jens Spahn. Greece must not be granted a “bail in” that would involve creditors taking a loss on their loans, he said. The International Monetary Fund ...
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Method Center Actors Theatre is proud to announce the opening show for their 2017 season and will be partnering with San Diego Theatre Week! The production follows two women of Athens and explores issues of gender, government and human nature. Visit ...
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The standoff over the Greek debt crisis was nowhere closer to an amicable resolution on Sunday, when Germany's deputy finance minister Jens Spahn said in an interview with German broadcaster Deutschlandfunk that Greece must not be granted a "bail in" that ...
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Two surveys that were held following the Eurogroup’s meeting in Brussels on Monday show that most Greeks are more than ready to see the conclusion of the bailout review and no longer see a Grexit as an eminent event. The polls were released on Sunday in Athens and according to Kappa research polling for the Greek […]
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Greece reported having some 149.1 tonnes of gold reserves at the end of 2016 amounting in the value of 5.26 billion euros, according to reports by Reuters. Almost half of that gold is kept in vaults abroad, and after a Greek newspaper reported that half of its gold reserves had been handed over to the European […]
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What started back in 2010 in Athens as a revival of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” – where Greeks dressed up in their best zombie costumes – has now become the Annual Walk of the Zombies which has entered its 5th year! The first event in 2010 attracted 400-500 people, whereas the current zombie walk attracts thousands each […]
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ATHENS, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Greece will likely need a fourth bailout program, according to Cypriot economist and 2010 Nobel laureate Christoforos Pissarides. "I am afraid there will be a fourth memorandum," 69-year-old Pissarides said in an interview with ...
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Hourly rates close in on pay levels in western laggards Greece and Portugal
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The workers of the recuperated VIO.ME factory in GREECE are building towards more supportive communities and a stronger, less-fractured society.
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House of Riz's GREEK Rice Pudding was recently awarded the best dairy dessert in Australia at the 2017 Australian Grand Dairy Awards. The pudding ...
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There was no immediate statement from the United Nations, which has been hosting the talks, but the Cyprus government said that GREEK Cypriot ...
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PALM DESERT, Calif. - Thousands gathered in Palm Desert for the 21st annual GREEK Festival on Saturday. The event was held at Saint George's ...
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Defence Minister Panos Kammenos on Sunday responded strongly to comments by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in the Turkish press on Friday about the islets of Imia, saying “there’s no way they [Turks] will set their foot” on a Greek island.
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Small ways in which you can include your collegiate sorority or fraternity in your "I dos." Who says college doesn’t last forever? If you were part of a Greek organization, you may be familiar with the phrase, “it’s not four years, it’s for life ...
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GREECE will do everything to prevent Turkey from getting to its territory, Greek Minister of National Defense Panos Kammenos said Sunday, adding that ...
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ATHENS, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- The average real estate price for residential and commercial properties in Greece has plunged by 41.3 percent since 2008 and will continue to drop in the next few quarters, according to the central bank of Greece. Prolonged ...
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The awards honor George Polk, who was murdered in 1948 in Greece where he was covering the GREEK civil war as a CBS radio correspondent.
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GREEK Cypriots say the solution to the Cyprus problem not only depends on GREEK and Turkish Cypriots striking a deal, but, more importantly, on the ...
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No prizes to our regular readers for guessing which picture I'm grabbing to accompany this post. Sadly that can just keeps on getting kicked. A couple ...
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GREECE must not be given “bail in” conditions to write off debt in any future agreement with creditors, Germany's Deputy Finance Minister Jens Spahn ...
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For Christian Hadjiminas, who owns a company that makes night-vision equipment, the return on Monday to Athens of EU and International Monetary Fund bailout monitors will come as a “huge relief”. “We’re grateful that we’re not going over the ...
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This Chicken Pot Pie only requires a handful of ingredients and swaps out the usual cream and butter for greek yogurt—so it’s not packed with extra calories.
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... at an economic impasse, as the unemployment rate in the 45-64 age group is growing instead of dropping, like the overall jobless rate in GREECE.
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ATHENS – Greece expects tension with Turkey over Aegean islands could go on for two more years and believe Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will try to claim them. Erdogan... The post Greece Girds for Two More Years of Turkish Tension appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greece is a country full of cultural and religious traditions – and one celebration which is a bit of both is Clean Monday or “Kathari Deftera. Let’s take a look at some of the ways that Greeks celebrate one of the most important days of the year.
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Greece’s central bank said on Saturday it held 149.1 tonnes of gold reserves at the end of December worth 5.26 billion euros ($5.55 billion), with about half kept in its vaults and the rest stored abroad. Responding to a report of Kyriakatiki Dimokratia newspaper that half of its gold reserves […]
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(7 hours ago) Anonymous said: The GREEK was spamming under every single article. Where can you go forward to when the GREEK ignores plain facts ...
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Greece must not be granted a "bail in" that would involve creditors taking a loss on their loans, Germany's deputy finance minister said in an interview broadcast on Sunday, reiterating the German government's opposition to debt relief for Athens.
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