EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Once again, this was a convenient opportunity for Karloutsos to make an “extra buck” ahead of Bartholomew’s expected visit in a few weeks. We are told he is currently overseeing the installation of a mosaic—valued...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick stamatakis). Few songs in Greek music carry the timeless aura and simplicity of Fragosyriani (Φραγκοσυριανή), composed by Markos Vamvakaris in 1935. Often called the "patriarch of rebetiko," Vamvakaris drew inspiration directly from his native island of Syros....
Some things never change! Two hundred years ago, in 1828, Patriarch Agathangelos sent a committee of four Metropolitans to ask Governor Kapoditrias to quit fighting and to submit again to the Ottoman Sultan!! The Governor rejected the letter... A...
ΦΩΤΟ: Αφίσα της ταινίας, Αρκεί να Φαίνονται Ωραία, του Θόδωρου Μαραγκού, 2007.
Του Ευάγγελου Βαλλιανᾶτου
Ο Θόδωρος Μαραγκός από τα Φιλιατρά της Πελοποννήσου είναι άριστος καλλιτέχνης Ελληνικής ιστορίας και πολιτισμού. Στο 2007 έργο του, Αρκεί να Φαίνονται ωραία, συνοψίζει την...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). What is the surest sign of the Mitsotakis government suppressing the freedom of the press? The fact that foreign agents and personalities run to Greece to file "defamation" lawsuits they would not otherwise dare file...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). In this talk - the presentation of the book by M. Kottakis "Secret Files Of Kostas Karamanlis" - Professor Ioannis Mazis, the "father" of Greek geopolitical analysis, frames Greece as both a guardian of history...
Growing up in Kokkinia, you were a refugee regardless of your origin
EDITOR'S NOTE: I wrote this short essay in 2013 in remembrance of Kokkinia, the neighborhood in Piraeus where I spent my first 24 years before immigrating to New...
PANCRETAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
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Thursday, August 16, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Pancretan Association of America Inaugurates the First Epilepsy Clinic in Crete in Collaboration with the Region of Crete and PAGNI
With a modest yet distinguished ceremony, the Pancretan Association of America (PAA) inaugurated...
Zeus and Hermes in the house of Philemon and Baucis, testing philoxenia / hospitality in the village. Baucis and Philemon were hospitable to the gods. Zeus and Hermes rewarded them but punished the villagers who ignored them and philoxenia....
source - estianews.gr
European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kövesi launched a scathing attack on the Greek Government, stating bluntly that the 57 deaths in the Tempi tragedy are a consequence of corruption in Greece.
The Romanian prosecutor—who in recent weeks has come...
