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Things I could not believe about Greece until I got here

It is said that people have many reasons for being amazed by Greece. Here are mine!   How long people stay at restaurants and cafes. At most places in America you receive your meal and the waiter stands by the table waitin...
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Freedom here and now

By Diego Salas Freedom as natural right is what gives every person the capacity to live life the way they want to. This capacity is subject to numerous restrictions, of course. It has moral restrictions, legal restrictions, and...
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Why all the talk about revolution now?

Politis invited regular contributors Krysta Kalachani and Maria Patsarika to comment on two recent blog posts discussing revolution, by Christos Giannaras and Politis’ own David Wisner. Why all this talk about revolution ...
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Why has there been no revolution?

By David Wisner I have asked myself this question over and over. So have many of my acquaintances, from what I can gather. Indeed, I began this line of inquiry barely a year into Greece’s sovereign debt crisis. American t...
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Freedom requires virtue and courage

By Maria Patsarika “Θέλει αρετή και τόλμη η ελευθερία” – Andreas Kalvos “It is inevitable that the Greek people will go through hardships to get through the crisis… Inev...
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News on the street

A picture says more than 1000 words, or so they say. And now, the news.      
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Macropolis

By Krysta Kalachani Now on to the Macropolis site. I just read a couple of texts there. It is a pretty good effort to show an ecumenical picture (καθολική εικόνα) of Greece’s political, economical, and socia...
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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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The broken shackles of social media

By Jiya Pinder Some weeks ago, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras made the decision to shut down the state broadcaster, The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. The decision has sparked the discussion of social media role and o...
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Paid for services rendered

By Fotinie Efstratiadou Here is a story about a public servant — an employee at the public ambulance service in Northern Greece — who missed work for five years from 2006 to 2011 and yet was payed throughout without...
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