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Saying of the day: 2/27/13

  “What does a congressman do? He works a lot and produces little. That’s the reality.” — Tiririca (Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva), Brazilian Congress
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The perils of democracy

Politis posted excerpts earlier today from a Council of Europe report on domestic threats to democracy in Greece. Below a short article taken from Portside giving a left-of-center take on the same question. “There’s...
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Spying on Greece, too

By Alyssa Olivo Private documents leaked by United States National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, revealed the US has allegedly been spying on the Greek embassy in Washington, D.C. and the Greek United Nations miss...
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Saying of the day: 5/28/13

  “It is often said that our political system is incompetent, but it is doing a perfect job in reproducing the existing model. “ — Paschos Mandravelis, Kathimerini English Edition
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Saying of the day: 1/28/13

  “Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.” — Giorgos Se...
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Greece’s state broadcaster and the politics of eternal discontent

By Kostas A. Lavdas The news is plain and simple. The Greek government has shut down the public broadcaster ERT, calling it a “haven of waste.” While all 2,500 employees would be sacked, the government says they wou...
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Saying of the day: 2/13/13

“We may do different jobs and wear different uniforms and hold different views than the person beside us. But… we all share the same proud title. We are citizens. It’s a word that doesn’t just describe o...
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The invisible Greek crisis

By Diego Salas Before coming to Greece, the talk of crisis had me shocked; I didn’t know what to expect (people in the streets is what I imagined) — all the riots and talk I had heard were making me apprehensive. After ...
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What they’re saying about us now

An annotated collection of recommended articles about Greece and the eurozone, updated regularly by Politis’ summer staff intern, Miriam Kamil. To July 5, 2012 Ann Appelbaum of the Washington Post had this to say on June ...
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A Farewell Lecture

Note from the Editors. Alan Henrikson is the newest Member of the Honorary Advisory Board at the Dukakis Center. We reprint his farewell lecture, delivered recently at the Fletcher School, as a token of our rewspect for his lon...
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