26-12-2011 Thirteen centuries of Islam have effectively eliminated Christianity from the land of its birth. The terminal decline of the Christian remnant in the Middle East has been accompanied by the indifference of the post-Christian West to its impending demise.  more

23-12-2011 For the Army and Marines who lost 4.500 dead and more than 30.000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq. On May 1, 2003, on the carrier Abraham Lincoln, the huge banner behind President George W. Bush proclaimed, “Mission Accomplished!” That was eight years ago. And so, was the mission accomplished?   more

15-11-2011 Former ambassador Georgios Georgiou is more than just deputy chairman of the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) party. A former Eurodeputy as well, he is arguably party leader Giorgos Karatzaferis’ top advisor and a key player in the effort to transform LAOS’ far-rightist image into that of a mainstream, right-wing party. Today, as alternate defence minister in Lucas Papademos’ coalition government, Georgiou is one of four LAOS cabinet members and insists his party was always pro-memorandum, even though it voted down the crucial medium-term programme in July.   more

8-11-2011 Political support for TARP, to rescue the financial system after the Lehman Brothers collapse, is being held against any Republican candidate who backed it. Germans and Northern Europeans are balking at any more bailouts of Club Med deadbeats.   more

3-11-2011 Prime Minister’s announcement for a referendum on the new bailout package is a pretext and an opportunistic move. It is a pretext because, according to this line of thought, he should have brought to a referendum the first bailout package with the EU and the IMF. It is an opportunistic move because there is no rational alternative to the question asked. And it is still not clear what the specific question of the referendum is.   more

29-10-2011 Borders, language and culture are words that are spoken every day by America’s premier talk show host Michael Savage. They are spoken to remind Americans that our nation is a sovereign nation and that we have the right to protect our borders from an invasion by illegal immigrants.   more

10-9-2011 Andreas Loverdos is the first minister who had the courage to raise the question of the pathogenesis of the public sector and the need to rationalize its expenses. This, of course, does not annul the responsibility of the political establishment parties (PASOK, ND), who have been converting for decades the taxpayers’ money to clientele relationships.  more

4-9-2011 The economic crisis is the most prominent issue facing the EU these days. But there is also another issue - a silently emerging one - that may have even more serious repercussions for the EU’s future than the economic crisis.   more

30-7-2011 Amid rampant rumours of snap polls in early autumn, LAOS party leader Giorgos Karatzaferis had been stubbornly calling for a national unity government to handle the economic crisis, a prospect that quickly faded after last month’s failed talks between Premier George Papandreou and opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras.   more