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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Greek NT edition commended for pastors, others

NASHVILLE (BP) -- A new edition of the Greek New Testament, biblical scholars say, may help pastors and other Bible students gain new insight on the way early manuscripts rendered Scripture. Released Nov. 15 by Crossway, the Tyndale House Greek New ...


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Freshmen GREEK recruitment to be held spring semester starting next school year

Belmont University will no longer hold fall recruitment for first year students looking to join a GREEK organization. Going forward, freshmen recruitment ...


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GREEK exports to US, China and Saudi Arabia soar this year

GREEK exports to non-European Union states showed a considerable increase over the first nine months of the year, especially those heading to the ...


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This downtown GREEK bistro looks plucked from a GREEK isle

Meraki GREEK Bistro seems like it was transported from an Aegean island complete with GREEK music soundtrack. There's an open air patio with ...


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Storm That Unleashed Deadly Floods in Greece Was a Rare ‘Medicane’

The storm that killed at least 21 in Greece last week was a “rare tropical-like storm” that grew in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea and even developed an eye wall like a hurricane, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.


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Recall watch: Ikea dressers, Greek-style food pulled

Ikea is re-announcing a recall of 17.3 million of its children’s and adult chests and dressers due to a serious tip-over hazard, following the eighth child fatality involving the product. The recalled chests and dressers are unstable if they are not ...


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American Kids Try Greek Food For The First Time - And Definitely Have Some Fun While Doing It

The children on Cut Video's YouTube channel HiHo Kids have had the pleasure of being exposed to cuisines from a large variety of cultures. While they haven't always liked everything they've tasted, these lucky kids have been able to explore traditional ...


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GREEK investors to build Asphalt-concrete plant in Kazakhstan

GREEK investors intend to build an asphalt concrete plant with a capacity of 200 tons per hour in South Kazakhstan region, the local executive body ...


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Sts. Constantine & Helen GREEK Orthodox Church to host Christmas bake sale

ROCKFORD — Sts. Constantine & Helen GREEK Orthodox Church, 108 N. Fifth St., will host its annual Christmas bake sale event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ...


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Cyprus, Egypt, GREECE agree joint efforts to tackle regional challenges

NICOSIA, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cyprus, Egypt and GREECE have agreed to intensify efforts to tackle regional challenges such as terrorism and large ...


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Bank of GREECE: Record September for Greek Tourism

The best month with a double-digit increase in both arrivals and receipts was by far this September for Greek tourism, according Bank of GREECE data, ...


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Two suspects of Exarchia riots released on conditions

A German and a Greek national arrested


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Greek researcher receives prestigious international award

Dr. Christos Mantzoros made breakthrough research in obesity


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Greek Priest Bans Foreigners from Getting Married at Local Church after Sex Act Photo

A British couple have been forced to cancel their dream wedding on the Greek island of Rhodes after a viral photo of another pair of […] The post Greek Priest Bans Foreigners from Getting Married at Local Church after Sex Act Photo appeared first on The National Herald.


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Olga Loizon, at 92, Visits Her Namesake Olga’s Kitchen in Michigan

WESTLAND, MI – Greek-American Olga Loizon, age 92, visited Olga’s Kitchen in Westland, MI for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The namesake restaurant which she founded recently […] The post Olga Loizon, at 92, Visits Her Namesake Olga’s Kitchen in Michigan appeared first on The National Herald.


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Gorgeously Greek

Inspired by the Greek island resort town of Santorini, …


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Greek Coastguard Gets EU Migration-Related Funding

The Greek Port Authority and Coastguard will receive 15 million euros from the European Union’s Internal Security Fund to fund operations related to migration flows and the patrolling of the EU’s maritime borders. The funding which covers operations ...


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Mitsotakis Interview: Over-taxation in Greece is Surreal

Main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is in Strasbourg, where he had meetings with leaders of the European People’s Party (EPP), his New Democracy party’s political family and gave an interview to EUobserver. Mitsotakis argued that by agreeing a ...


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GREEK academic in London slammed over racist rant against basketball star

A GREEK professor, reportedly employed at University College London, caused a GREEK social media outcry on Tuesday after describing National ...


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60-year-old Canadian man kayaks solo from Norway to GREECE in a paddle for peace

A 60-year-old Canadian man arrived at the port of Piraeus in GREECE on Tuesday after having kayaked alone from Oslo, Norway in order to promote a ...


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Deadly flood was a tragedy waiting to happen - geologists

Illegal building and disorganized urban planning were central causes of the flash floods that killed 20 people last week in Athens, GREECE, according ...


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Egypt, Cyprus, GREECE talk cooperation, energy, terrorism and irregular migration

The Greek president also said that GREECE will open an olive farm in Egypt as a symbol of friendship, as well as a center for innovation in Cairo, with ...


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Greek Defence Minister Accepts Responsibility for Anarchists’ Invasion at Ministry

National Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said that he takes full political responsibility for the invasion of members of anarchist group Rubicon in his ministry on Friday. Kammenos spoke in the House on Monday and answered to questions asked by opposition ...


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Greece submits last bailout budget but austerity continues

ATHENS, Greece – Greece's government is promising bailout lenders continued austerity and high primary budget surpluses in its 2018 budget — the last under eight years of international rescue programs. In the budget submitted to parliament late Tuesday ...


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Texas State joins list of universities banning Greek Life after tragedy

by Mason McKie | Nov 21, 2017, 1:31 PM Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email this article Share on LinkedIn Print this article Last year, four fraternities were suspended from Texas State. In doing so, Pi Kappa Alpha, Delta Tau Delta, Alpha Tau Omega ...


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Egypt, Greece, Cyprus: Model for successful international cooperation

CAIRO – 21 November 2017: Egypt, Greece and Cyprus gave the international community a model for successful international relations and cooperation between countries, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said during a meeting with the Cypriot parliament head in ...


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Body found as GREEK flood toll rises to 21

Body found as GREEK flood toll rises to 21. November 21 2017 07:19 PM. International UK/Europe. RELATED STORIES. Destroyed cars are seen on a ...


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20 GREEK and Cypriot companies in Spielwarenmesse toy fair

A total of 20 GREEK and Cypriot companies will take part in the Spielwarenmesse in Nuremberg on January 31-February 4, 2018. Spielwarenmesse ...


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Struggling to improve student involvement, leaders say GREEK life is the answer

After polling campus attitudes toward GREEK life last month, Student Government hosted a town hall Nov. 13 to share the results with the student body.


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ATHEX: Banking and power stocks boost the GREEK bourse

Most GREEK stocks registered gains at the end of Tuesday's trading session, helped by the expected leniency of the European Central Bank on future ...


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Minister: Tourism policy has been extremely successful in GREECE

GREECE'S national tourism policy has been extremely successful during the past three years, Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura said in statements to ...


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Car stolen from GREECE Walmart had 4-year-old inside

GREECE, N.Y. — GREECE police are investigating after a car was stolen from the Dewey Avenue Walmart that had a child inside. Police say the car ...


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Police seeking two women in suspected stolen vehicle, child abduction

Police have located a stolen vehicle with a 4-year-old disabled child inside but continue to search for suspects. According to GREECE police: The 2012 ...


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Gov’t submits bill for tax levy in hotels and touristic accommodations

Together with the Budget 2018, the Greek government has submitted also the provisions for the tax levy in hotels and rooms to let – apartments. The levy will go into effect as of 1. January 2018. The levy will be as follows: – € 0.5 per room per day for 1- to 2-star hotels – … The post Gov’t submits bill for tax levy in hotels and touristic accommodations appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Russia confirms “extremely high” radioactivity Ru-106, denies nuclear accident

 Russia has confirmed spike in radioactivity and “extremely high” concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 (Ru-106) in the Southern Urals in late September. However, it denies there was a nuclear accident and did  not point to any specific source of the pollution. Small quantities of ruthenium 106 were detected also in the atmosphere of Greece, … The post Russia confirms “extremely high” radioactivity Ru-106, denies nuclear accident appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Greece sees primary surplus at 3.7 percent, growth 2.5 percent in 2018 budget

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece on Tuesday said it would post a primary surplus of 3.82 percent of gross domestic product next year and continue 2017’s return to a growth trajectory after years of recession. The final draft of the state 2018 budget submitted ...


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Greece Police: Vehicle with 4-year-old inside stolen from Walmart

Greece Police are investigating after they say a vehicle with a child inside was stolen. Police say a vehicle was stolen from the Walmart on Dewey Avenue around 10:30 Tuesday morning. Officers say a four-year-old child was inside the vehicle. Officers ...


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Greek, Cypriot and Egyptian leaders agree on role of countries in region

Fifth trilateral meeting ends in Nicosia


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Greek celebs have some hot gluteus maximus! (photos)

In other words enticing booty


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Tourists in Greece exceed 23.5 million over first nine months

Corresponds to 10.3% increase in the tourism revenue


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On George W. Bush: The Enemy of Our Enemy Is Still a War Criminal

[That George W. Bush finds Trump's rhetoric distasteful is no reason to turn a presidential war criminal into a liberal hero.]That George W. Bush finds Trump's rhetoric distasteful is no reason to turn a presidential war criminal into a liberal hero. (Image: Nathan Congleton / Flickr) You can fuel thoughtful, authority-challenging journalism: Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to Truthout. He received a prestigious award from the West Point Association of Graduates. He published a "runaway" bestselling autobiography. Last February, a lavishly produced book celebrating his paintings of Americans who served in the military was, as Time put it, "burning up the Amazon charts." Still, the liberal media wasn't ready to embrace George W. Bush -- not at least until he made some oblique criticisms of the current tenant of his old position, suggesting that, in the present political climate, "bigotry seems emboldened." Seems? Have you been to Charlottesville lately, Mr. Bush? The former president was less tentative on the main subject of his address to a conference on "democracy" he'd organized in New York City: the importance of free trade and the need for a large American footprint in the world. "We see a fading confidence in the value of free markets and international trade," he said, "forgetting that conflict, instability, and poverty follow in the wake of protectionism." More on that speech later. NOT THE FIRST REHAB JOB George W. Bush is hardly the first disgraced Republican president and war criminal to worm his way back into American esteem. Richard Nixon remains the leader in that department. He spent his later years being celebrated as an elder statesman and a master of _realpolitik_ in international relations. In the process, he managed to shake off the dust of Watergate. In those years, few even remembered that his was the first administration in which both the president _and_ vice president resigned. In 1973, that disgraced vice president, Spiro Agnew, pled guilty to a felony count of tax evasion, but not before he'd bequeathed the English language a few of its most mellifluous sobriquets, among them the "nattering nabobs of negativism" and the "effete corps of impudent snobs" (aimed at those who opposed the Vietnam War). Nixon's rehabilitation not only reduced the Watergate scandal in American memory, but also essentially obliterated his greater crimes, among which were these: > * while still a presidential candidate in 1968, he opened a secret > back channel to the South Vietnamese government to keep it out of > peace talks with the North that might have benefited his Democratic > opponent; >  > * in the war itself, he oversaw the expansion of the CIA's Phoenix > Program of torture and assassination in which, as historian Alfred > McCoy has described it, "the formalities of prosecution" of > suspected Viet Cong were replaced "with pump and dump -- pumping > suspects of information by torture and then dumping the bodies, more > than 20,000 of them between 1968 and 1971"; >  > * he also oversaw an expansive, illegal, and undeclared war in > Cambodia (which, when it was about to come to light, he described as > a brief "incursion" into that country); >  > * he oversaw the saturation or "carpet" bombing of the North > Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, and that country's major port, Haiphong; >  > * and he presided over the "first 9/11," the 1973 military coup that > murdered Chile's elected president, Salvador Allende, ushering in > years of terror and torture under General Augusto Pinochet. And don't think that Richard Nixon is the only other example of such a post-presidential rehabilitation. Ronald Reagan is now remembered by friend and foe alike as a kind, folksy president and a wily strategist who ended the Cold War by forcing a cash-strapped Soviet Union to keep up with US defense spending and then negotiated directly with Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev. When he died in June 2004, The New York Times was typical in the largely fawning obituary it ran, describing him as "the man who restored popular faith in the presidency and the American government." That obituary did at least mention the Iran-Contra conspiracy in which President Reagan approved the (illegal) sale of arms to Iran to fund his (illegal) support of the Nicaraguan Contras, the murderous rebel force that sought to overthrow that country's leftist Sandinista government. "The deception and disdain for the law," commented the obituary, "invited comparisons to Watergate, undermined Mr. Reagan's credibility, and severely weakened his powers of persuasion with Congress." An odd set of observations about a man being hailed for restoring faith in the presidency, but consistent with the contradictions inherent in any lionization of Reagan. Lest we forget, he was also the president who began his first term by attacking unions, starting with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, a move which so many years later still results in regular flight delays, thanks to a 27-year low in the number of air controllers. Reagan also inaugurated the mania for deregulation that led to the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and ultimately to the subprime mortgage crisis and financial meltdown of 2007-2008. His presidency reinforced what would become a never-ending slide in the value of real wages and his tax policies were the starting point for what has, in our own time, become not an inequality gap but an inequality chasm that has now left three men with the same amount of wealth as 160 million Americans. (Not surprisingly, depending on who's calculating it, the United States either has the world's highest or perhaps fourth-highest Gini score, a measurement of economic inequality.) Nixon had to wait many years for his rehabilitation and Reagan's was largely posthumous. At a vigorous 71, however, Bush seems to be slipping effortlessly back onto the national stage only nine years after leaving office essentially in disgrace. He will evidently have plenty of time to bask in history's glow before the first of those nostalgic obituaries are written. And for that, he can thank Donald Trump. W. REDUX? During that October 17th speech in which he criticized Trump without mentioning his name, George W. Bush touted the "Spirit of Liberty: At Home, in the World." There, he bemoaned the degradation of political discourse by "casual cruelty," noting that "bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry, and compromises the moral education of children." Like the rest of his family, Bush does not share Trump's aversion to immigrants, so he added that this country seems to be forgetting "the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America." Articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and even the Guardian eagerly reported Bush's implicit criticisms of the president as a hopeful sign of resistance to Trumpism from the "responsible" Republican right. Politico simply labeled the event a "George W. Bush speech on Trumpism," although much of it was about the decline of democracy in Europe and the value of free trade. It's certainly true that his speech included oblique critiques of the man who repeatedly insulted his brother Jeb as "a very low-energy kind of guy" and knocked him out of the race to be the third Bush to sit in the Oval Office, but it's worth reading the whole address. It's vintage W. -- that is, vintage W. as a war criminal. He began, for instance, by reprising the lie that "since World War II, America has encouraged and benefited from the global advance of free markets, from the strength of democratic alliances, and from the advance of free societies." As Alfred McCoy demonstrates in his recent book, _In the Shadows of the American Century_, that is a particularly disingenuous description of a 70-year history in which Washington supported and, in a remarkable number of cases was directly involved in, the _destruction_ of free societies. A list of examples would perhaps begin with the 1953 British and US-backed coup against the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh that would install the despotic Shah in power in that country. It would certainly continue with the 1954 US and United Fruit Company coup against Jacobo Arbenz, the democratically elected president of Guatemala (an early instance of Washington's post-World War II "encouragement" of anything-but-free-trade); the 1960 CIA-backed coup against, and the murder of, Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba; and the 1973 military coup in Chile. An honest history would also include the active "encouragement" of societies that were anything but free, including those run by juntas, dictators, or military governments in Greece, Brazil, Argentina, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Uruguay, Iraq, and South Korea, to name just a few. Of course, George W. Bush is hardly the first president to lie about the post-World War II record of the United States. Nor is he the first to suggest that "American security is directly threatened by the chaos and despair of distant places," which he attributed in his speech to the lack of the democracy Washington put so much effort into destroying in more than 70 countries across the planet. And don't forget that it was precisely the pretext of a direct threat to American security that led to the most criminal lie of his career: the insistence that Iraqi autocrat Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and that the US invasion of his country was justified by a (legally questionable) case of preemptive self-defense. By initiating a war of aggression, by loosing "shock and awe" on the capital of a nation that had not attacked ours, President Bush committed a war crime. Indeed, it was the first in the list of crimes for which the leaders of Nazi Germany were indicted at Nuremberg after World War II: the ultimate crime against peace. Few Americans have ever heard of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, but in 1928 the United States signed it and the Senate ratified it by a vote of 85-1. The 50 signatories of that treaty renounced war as a means of settling international disputes and, as the authors of _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World__ _have argued, by implication made aggressive war a violation of international law. The US Constitution states in Article 6 that "all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land." By invading Iraq, Bush broke both international and US law. In addition to his crimes against peace, Bush and his administration were also the authors of such traditionally recognized war crimes as torture and the use of chemical weapons. One of the uglier aspects of the US military's battle for the Iraqi city of Fallujah was its use of white phosphorus, an incendiary munition. Phosphorus ignites spontaneously when exposed to air. If bits of the chemical attach to human beings, skin and flesh burn away. The burning continues as long as there is oxygen available, sometimes right into the bone. In short, isn't it a little early to begin rehabilitating the man responsible for indefinite detention at Guantánamo, "enhanced interrogation techniques," and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and at least 150,000 Afghans -- not to mention the trillions of US dollars shoved down the memory hole in pursuit of the futile wars that followed? LEDA AND THE SWAN  The same year that the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed, William Butler Yeats published a collection of poems called _The Tower_. It contains what many consider his masterpiece, the harrowing sonnet "Leda and the Swan." In it, Yeats recreates the moment in Greek myth when Zeus, the ruling god of Olympus, having taken the form of a swan, rapes the helpless human woman Leda, leaving her pregnant with a daughter. That daughter became Helen of Troy, whose abduction was the _casus belli_ for the Trojan War. The poet begins with the victim's shock and awe: _"A sudden blow: the great wings beating still _ _Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed _ _By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, _ _He holds her helpless breast upon his breast._ In the final stanza, Yeats writes: _"A shudder in the loins engenders there _ _The broken wall, the burning roof and tower _ _And Agamemnon dead."_ In those brief words can be read an entire history of war and death, recounted more fully in the 15,693 lines of the _Iliad, _all somehow encapsulated in that first act of violence. In his poem, Yeats implies that Zeus knows full well the final outcome of his act. Similarly perhaps, the "swans" of Washington in 2003, which was at that time the planet's own imperial Olympus, had more than an inkling of the broken walls, the burning roofs and towers their invasion of Iraq might engender. As early as 1996, future Vice President Dick Cheney's fellow hawks Richard Perle and Douglas Feith -- who would later join the Bush administration as adviser on the Defense Policy Board and under secretary of defense for policy -- helped write a report for Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then running the Israeli government for the first time. Titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," it urged the leaders of Israel's right-wing Likud party to leave behind the nation's previous geopolitical strategy by abandoning peace negotiations with the Palestinians and using military means to actively restructure the Middle East in their favor. "Israel," the authors argued, "can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria." Such a campaign would begin by "removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq -- an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right -- as a means of foiling Syria's regional ambitions." The ultimate goal was a realignment of power in the region, with Syria destabilized, a monarchy in Iraq, and a new regional alliance among Turkey, Jordan, and Israel. It would prove to be the geopolitical equivalent of a movie preview. In the wake of 9/11, the same cast of characters would take a similar path in Washington and, in the end, that "rolling back" operation would shake or destroy country after country from Afghanistan and Iraq to Libya and Yemen. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Syria has certainly been destabilized in ways almost impossible to imagine, through the rise of ISIS (born in an American military prison) and a vicious, multi-sided civil war that, by early 2016, had left more than a tenth of its population killed or injured. In the process, more than 10 million people, including untold numbers of children, were turned into internal or external refugees. Netanyahu, in fact, would reject the "clean break" proposal (perhaps because it also suggested that Israel make a clean break with its dependence on US aid), but the neocons were undeterred. In 1998, they resurrected the plan as part of a new pressure group they formed, the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), and presented it to Bill Clinton in a letter encouraging him to direct "a full complement of diplomatic, political, and military efforts" to "remove Saddam Hussein from power." Nor were they overly concerned about the legality of such a move, writing that "American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council." In other words, the country should not be "crippled" by adherence to the UN Charter, whose Article 51 prohibits unilateral war making without Security Council approval, except in cases of immediate "individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations." Like Netanyahu, Clinton ignored their suggestion. However, the signatories of the letter included many figures who would become key players in the Bush administration, among them Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Undersecretaries of State John Bolton and Richard Armitage, Reagan hold-over Elliott Abrams, and Zalmay Khalilzad, who among other roles served as Bush's special envoy and ambassador at large for free Iraqis. And it included, of course, Cheney adviser and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, who had prepared a draft of a 1992 Defense Planning Guidance document for President George H.W. Bush in which he argued for the importance of US readiness to take unilateral military action, whether approved by the United Nations or not. In other words, the top officials of the Bush administration took office already planning to attack Iraq. It only awaited 19 mostly Saudi terrorists hijacking four American commercial airliners on September 11, 2001. That would be the pretext to launch what has become a "generational struggle" that would eventually destroy Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen (and almost as a side dish, Afghanistan), and which now threatens to engulf the entire Greater Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia, from Afghanistan to the Philippines, in a set of never-ending wars and spreading terror movements. All that suffering sprang from the actions of one feckless president and his crew. So what if -- after 16 years of fruitless war, 16 years of disintegrating American infrastructure, 16 years of almost unprecedented inequality -- George W. Bush does find Trump's rhetorical style distasteful? Is that really any reason to turn a presidential war criminal into a liberal hero?


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Update for GREEK school history textbooks

Jihad, the GREEK Civil War, genocides, minority rights, the Holocaust, syndicalism, the modern refugee crisis – these are some of the topics that a working group of historians will be adding to the history curriculum of the new education program at schools, Kathimerini has learned. The way history is being ...


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Two hot springs recognized as thermal spas in GREECE

Two more hot springs in GREECE have been officially recognised as thermal spas in a ministerial decision implementing national tourism policy, which aims to boost forms of theme tourism - in this case spa tourism and promoting thermal springs as tourist destinations. According to an announcement on ...


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Cyprus, GREECE support Egypt in EU, Al-Sisi praises tripartite cooperation

Cyprus and GREECE have asserted they will continue supporting Egypt in the European Union, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday, during the fifth tripartite summit between the three countries. Cooperation in the energy field came at he forefront of the summit, as the leaders declared ...


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Historic Greek Orthodox Church in Constantinople Reopens Doors after 3-Year Restoration

CONSTANTINOPLE – The historic Hagia Yorgi Greek Orthodox Church, the Church of St. George, a UNESCO world heritage site, has been opened with a ceremony held […] The post Historic Greek Orthodox Church in Constantinople Reopens Doors after 3-Year Restoration appeared first on The National Herald.


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President Pavlopoulos Praises the Armed Forces’ Self-Sacrifice in Defending Greece

ATHENS – Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos on Tuesday praised the Armed Forces for their self-sacrifice in defending the borders and national sovereignty of Greece but also […] The post President Pavlopoulos Praises the Armed Forces’ Self-Sacrifice in Defending Greece appeared first on The National Herald.


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Antetokounmpo The Greek: He’s No Freak

When he was little more than a boy, the son of Nigerian immigrants who so loved Greece they gave their five sons both Greek and […] The post Antetokounmpo The Greek: He’s No Freak appeared first on The National Herald.


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Stringent Checking of Greek Travellers in Germany after New Schengen Regulations

BRUSSELS (ANA/Ch. Vassilaki) – The issue of exceptionally stringent passport checks for Greek passengers in German airports will be discussed on Wednesday at a meeting […] The post Stringent Checking of Greek Travellers in Germany after New Schengen Regulations appeared first on The National Herald.


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Some 37.5% of Greek Children Still at Risk of Poverty

ATHENS – More than 7 ½ years into a crushing economic crisis, nearly four in 10 Greek children aged up to 17 are are at […] The post Some 37.5% of Greek Children Still at Risk of Poverty appeared first on The National Herald.


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Fuel Your Muscles With This GREEK Salad

One note: The keen of sight will notice that this recipe uses Cotija cheese, which is Mexican, not feta, which is GREEK. That's because feta liquefies into a hot mess on the grill pan. (Believe me, I tried it while testing recipes for the book.) Oh, and on that note: If you're wondering how I can get away with ...


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