Evaggelos Vallianatos

1 week ago | counterpunch.org | Evaggelos Vallianatos

The secrets of Greek demographyA Greek newspaper editor, Nikos Konstandaras, said in the midst of the country’s debt crisis, in 2013, that:“The Greeks are in a struggle for survival. And the odds are piling up against us. The fight is not only on the economic front… that has resulted in greatly reduced incomes, higher costs and taxes, and an overriding sense of insecurity.

2 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Evaggelos Vallianatos

PrologueI remember President John F. Kennedy when, on June 10, 1963 gave the Commencement Address at the American University in Washington, DC. Among his proposals for disarmament, he defended peace because, as he put it, “peace and freedom walk together.” He said:“I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces.

1 month ago | counterpunch.org | Evaggelos Vallianatos

The sacred water world of the ancient GreeksThe Greeks had several water gods that reigned over the oceans, seas, rivers and land, including Amphitrite, Poseidon, Proteus, Nereus, Tethys, Okeanos, Thetis, Phorkys, Triton and Pontos. The most important of these divinities was Okeanos, source of life for both gods and humans. River gods were also important. The most ancient was River Styx, sacred to gods and Greeks. Its realm was in the underworld and groundwater of Arcadia, Peloponnesos.

1 month ago | counterpunch.org | Evaggelos Vallianatos

PrologueThe British writer Adam Weymouth tracked a wolf that had walked some 1,000 miles across Europe. That was the post-Cold War Europe opened to people and protective of wildlife, including wolves. But ecological crises, especially the anthropogenic climate chaos, waves of refugees, and the coming to power in America of Donald Trump, triggered the emergence of a new Europe of walled borders and trapping of animals and life behind those walls.

1 month ago | thetimes.gr | Evaggelos Vallianatos

Freedom or death has always been a battle cry and virtue for the Greeks throughout their history. From the battles against the Persians, the Greek Revolution of 1821, and the heroic resistance to the Axis powers, Greeks have consistently demonstrated unwavering courage and a deep commitment to liberty in the face of overwhelming odds. By Evaggelos VallianatosAthenians and their Greek allies defeated the Persians at Marathon in 490 BC.