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A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2015

 
 

 
 

Alex is back, lazier and more hard-working then ever

Alex is back, thanks to Damian Mac Con Uladh of EnetEnglish. “Alex, the popular animation character that seeks to demolish the negative, crisis-fuelled stereotypes about Greece in his own little way, has returned to YouTu...
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Politis forum: journalists or losers?

Politis has invited Krysta Kalachani and guest contributor Sakis Ioannides, of Parallaxi, to comment on Παναγιώτης Μένεγος, “Δημοσιογράφος, ο μεγάλος χαμένος (και) της κ...
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New from the EU lexicography: Cyprexit

                                Originally posted by Vaggelis Papavasileiou for Eleftherotypia on March 23, 2013).
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Saying of the day: 6/22/13

“To me, achieving a global classroom means using education to erase barriers between people of different cultures and backgrounds; it means giving people the opportunity to learn without the limits imposed by physical or ...
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Wanted: A new narrative for the nation

By Alexis Papachelas What Greece really needs right now is a fully-fledged plan to regenerate the nation. People are in despair. Some over the extra taxes they are forced to pay at the end of each month, and others because they...
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“Poor because of you” — Femen demonstrate in Davos

From the AP in Davos. “Three women angry over sexism and male domination of the world economy ripped off their shirts and tried to force their way into a gathering of corporate elites in a Swiss resort. Predictably, they ...
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In defense of quiet activism

By Maria Patsarika Last week I went to an interesting talk about the role of social sciences in these days of financial, political and social crisis and insecurity for Greece. Throughout the talk a critical question was lingeri...
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Nai se ola

By Krysta Kalachani Pitsirikos writes for Unfollow Magazine, a pretty decent magazine, although if it was not so leftist sometimes it might be better… Pitsirikos is a blogger known for his sharp way of writing. I am not s...
 
 
 

Global mafia

Chris Hedges posted a desperate warning in his column in Truthdigs earlier this week: rise up or die. His focus is the conspiritorial, near-criminal triumph of corporatism in the US, but the symptoms and peril he decribes are g...
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Panhellenia (sounds like quadrophenia)

By Maria Kallogeroudi Panhellenic exams tomorrow eh…. ahhh!! I remember… I remember myself… it was just a few years ago these days, I’d sit every day for hours and sip on coffee… BECAUSE I NEVER HA...
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