By Nick Stamatakis
It was Christmas of 1994, and I was walking in a shopping mall in Long Island when my eye caught the cover of a cd on the front window of a music store (in our main photo),...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): "Greeks are those who share our Culture", is the famous motto of Isocrates and Prof. Roderick Beaton certainly follows this eternal principle when he traces the Ecumenical nature of the Greek language - one of...
By Nick Stamatakis
I was born in Kokkinia (Nikea) of Pireaus, a town wholly built after 1922, almost exclusively by refugees from Asia Minor, many of them from Smyrna... The main street of my neighborhood, one block away from my...
PHOTO: You may be able to recognize Demis Roussos (right), but is the guy in the middle Vangelis? Yes, he is... On the left Loukas Sideras...
The whole Greek "pop" lineage, starting with "Aphrodite's Child" has great importance to us...
BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS
FacebookTwitterRedditEmail Prince of the Lilies, fresco in the palace of Minoan Knossos, Crete, about 1,650 BCE. Wikipedia. Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): This year, we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution, but in many ways, we missed some of the essential meanings of this great event. Top among these essential meanings appears in the second...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): Evagoras Pallikarides, a member of EOKA, was executed by hanging by the British colonial forces on February 26, 1959, at the age of 19. He is one of the most celebrated heroes of the anti-colonial,...
By Nick Stamatakis
A rare historical document came to our attention recently, and it is certainly worth reading and commenting on. It is a 1952 letter by Archbishop Iakovos, then priest in the Cathedral of Boston (Annunciation of the Virgin...
EDITOR'S NOTE: When you read the unbelievable heroic acts of the Greek-American, James "Maggie" Megellas, a most distinguished member of the "Greatest Generation," you will shake your head with disappointment when you think that Karloutsos was awarded the Presidential...
By Paul Craig Roberts
Mikhail Gorbachev was the first President of the Soviet Union and the last Soviet leader. He was the best of the younger generation of Communist Party members who understood, like US President Ronald Reagan, the futility...
