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Greece's "Game of Thrones": Venizelos Squeezes Out Stournaras
ATHENS – Absent from the list of the 105 athletes that Greece will be sending to the London Olympics this month – excluding the 12 players from the national basketball team who somehow lost a qualifier to Nigeria –...
Greece
Greece: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
ATHENS - After 38 years of taking turns plundering the Greek treasury, hiring every crony and illiterate who couldn't read or write but knew how to put an "X" next to the names of the people putting them on...
Economy
The Cowards of Golden Dawn Hide in the Dark
ATHENS - As if any more proof was needed that the Nazis of Golden Dawn are really just cowardly bullies who do their fighting in packs like mad dogs when they can pounce on one victim without fear of...
Economy
Survey Says! Germans Most Respected, Greeks Least Respected
ATHENS - As Greeks prepare to commit political suicide at the June 17 elections – a bullet in the head courtesy of the New Democracy Capitalists - PASOK Anti-Socialists who created the economic crisis and favor more austerity, or...
Greece
Never Mind Socrates, Let’s See the Trial of Tsochatzopoulos
ATHENS - More than 800 people turned out at the Onassis Foundation here to see a second re-creation of the most famous case in history, the rigged verdict of the Trial of Socrates in which the famed philosopher was...
Economy
The Greek Problem: The Grating Sense of Entitlement
ATHENS - After a foggy night of Eurovision wailing, listening to twin dancing Irish robots keening, ballads in everything from Serbian to Lithuanian, and Greece’s Aphrodisiac entry coming up limp, I was awakened at 8 a.m. by the blaring...
Economy
The Red Scare: The Hammer and Sickle Flying Over Greece
ATHENS - From 1947-57 it was Sen. Joseph “Better Dead than Red,” McCarthy who put the fear of having no God into Americans with his political witch hunt trying to root out Communists – or suspected Communists – from...
Economy
Dimas, Lambrakis, Give Away Their Good Names to Politicians
ATHENS – Since it’s apparent that new PASOK Anti-Socialist leader Evangelos “Mr. Tax Man,” Venizelos, the World Heavyweight Bombast Champion, is leading his party to defeat in the May 6 election, and as the leading New Democracy Capitalists are...
Economy
Greece Will Bail Out Its Banks, But Not Its People
ATHENS – After imposing mandatory losses of up to 74 percent on its own banks, Greece is ready to give it all back through a plan to recapitalize them with $64.4 billion, a bailout paid for by the taxpayers....
Economy
Yet Another Idea to Restore the Deteriorating Omonia Square
ATHENS – A hundred years ago, Omonia Square was filled with trees and benches and was a beckoning oasis in the middle of the city. Later, there was a fountain, before it was removed in 2000, disappearing just like...