Greece | Greece
May.09.2010
On the road to destruction (?)
Can a society self-destruct? Yes, it most definitely can and the way Greece is headed right now it is a very real possibility that it will.
Here we have a state and a society that allow a handful of nihilistic hooligans to torch the city and cause the deaths of...
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May.05.2010
I trust my readers will recognize a hint of sarcasm if I say that the good news just keeps on rolling in. Of the smoke plumes that were rising into the industrial world’s increasingly murky skies as last week’s post went up, one – the billowing cloud of assorted mis-, mal- and nonfeasance bubbling...
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Apr.16.2010
"Goldman Sachs. The Vampire Squid".
What is Goldman Sachs? The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a global investment banking and securities firm which engages in investment banking, securities services, investment management and other financial services primarily with institutional clients....
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Feb.22.2010
The Independent has a regular feature in which it asks authors to write about a book which changed their lives somehow. Last week the London newspaper asked me to write the piece. Here it is:
In early 1999, King Hussein fell sick on his return from treatment for cancer in the US. I was the Middle...
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Feb.18.2010
For the second in the traditional Japanese games series we have kazu-ken (‘ken of numbers’). Kazu-ken, which originated in China, is thought to be the oldest version of the various ken games. During the game, both players made a hand gesture with their right hand which represented a number from...
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Feb.17.2010
Thank goodness we have George Papandreou and his government in leadership positions as we solve the problems necessary to once again become solvent.
The transparency that PM Papandreou's leadership demands is exactly what any country needs to work out this...
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Feb.03.2010
Today the Congress elected Greece's President; Mr. Papoulias will take on a second term as the Greek President.
Since I immigrated to Greece I have an interest in learning the ins and outs of the government. For example, the President of Greece has very different duties than those of...
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Feb.01.2010
Good morning, from Chania!
Today was so sunny at the very start of the morning. I rushed around the house opening doors and shutters to air out the house. In about five minutes the house was freshly aired out and cold, cold. So I rushed around shutting everything back down. I left the curtains...
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Jan.31.2010
Looking to the south from my dining room window I see that enough snow has fallen on the White Mountains to make them look like rough white snow cones. Nice to be able to see the snow from far away, so much more enjoyable. Mainland Greece had some wild times with blizzards and snow. Luckily...
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Jan.04.2010
Z: a perfect place to start the New Year. Why the last letter of the alphabet? Because it’s also the sound (zee) of the Greek word for “he lives”, a cry of new or renewed life. This doubling of meaning is exactly what Greek filmmaker Costa-Gavras had in mind when he gave his 1969 political thriller...
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