Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Yanis told you so: "How Syriza’s capitulations allowed the Greek right to escape the dustbin of history."

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As we've observed here in New Albany at a grassroots level, breaking free from the tentacles of business as usual is a daunting task....
Saturday, December 08, 2018

I want to go where it's WARM: From The Durrells in Corfu to Spirit of Place -- Lawrence Durrell's Greece.

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The missus has been watching a series on public television. The Durrells   (also known as The Durrells in Corfu on American televisio...
Saturday, September 01, 2018

More about Patrick Leigh Fermor, travel writing and a lost European world.

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This documentary about travel writing on BBC Four is Travellers' Century, Episode Three: Patrick Leigh Fermor , with Benedict Allen. P...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

ON THE AVENUES: From Baltic to Mediterranean, the diary of an unrepentant New Albanian Europhile.

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ON THE AVENUES: From Baltic to Mediterranean, the diary of an unrepentant New Albanian Europhile. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. ...
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Saturday, May 06, 2017

Grexit to Brexit, "Yanis Varoufakis has written one of the greatest political memoirs of all time."

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Our plans to seek exile in Cornwall have been muddied by Brexit, and Yanis Varoufakis is keeping me informed about it. The six Brexit ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Syriza vs. the EU: #ThisIsACoup documentary, episodes 1 - 4.

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It makes for somber but necessary watching. The Nation's text is here ; episode one of the video is embedded above, with links to ...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Greece: The bailout (this is a coup) and Varoufakis's refusal to play by the rules.

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Yeah, I'm up early today. This one just came over the wire. Greece bailout agreement: the key points ( The Guardian ) However, it ...
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Paying attention to what's happening in Greece.

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Why is it that amid the discussion of bailouts and debt and money, no one seems willing or able to explain why several million Greeks should...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

"The vultures are circling, but Tsipras and Varoufakis tweet on."

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This might be my favorite story of the week. How Tsipras and Varoufakis turned Greek tragedy into Twitter triumph , by Hannah Jane Par...

Joseph Stiglitz 2: "How I would vote in the Greek referendum."

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It's about to get real, isn't it? Mistrust, anger and resignation on the streets of Athens , by Lauren Zanolli ( Al Jazeera ) A...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Varoufakis on Greece: “We’ve lost everything, so we can speak truth to power, and it’s about time we do."

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Sovereignty? Greece will say it as it is: five years on, the medicine prescribed by Germany, Europe’s paymaster, to mend the ills of run-...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Je suis Greece.

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I may be a Europhile, but underdogs come first. Those who would say that it's just another instance of a slacker country looking to ev...
Monday, January 26, 2015

New Albany looks to Greece.

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Photo credit: Guardian Sort of a Salvador Allende moment for the EU, wouldn't you say? Don't miss this comment, also in The G...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Alexis Tsipras warns Greek crisis is also Europe's

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Maybe Henry Miller really did have an inkling about the Greeks. Maybe Americans will come to have an inkling about the Europeans. Maybe I...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

ON THE AVENUES: Miller's Colossus, now and then.

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ON THE AVENUES: Miller's Colossus, now and then. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. The iconic American writer Henry Miller spe...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Today's Tribune column: "Hassan in Pithion, 1985."

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We approach the 25th anniversary of my first pilgrimage to Europe, which began in early May, 1985. Vignettes like the one recounted below, s...
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