Antigone Smiles in Chile
28/11/2021
An interview with the activist, daughter, and wife of desaparecidos under Pinochet’s junta, Maria Estela Ortiz, while waiting on the decision for extradition in Chile of one of her father’s…
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Raphael Rowe on Julian Assange’s imprisonment
23/10/2021
Like many journalists, I too have had to access information, data and documents to expose wrongdoing and find evidence. To me that is not a crime. It is certainly not…
Fail Again, Fail Better
05/09/2021
The liberal and centrist Mitsotakis administration handled the pandemic with great success, instilled a sense of security into the citizens, as promised, and faced a series of natural disasters assertively…
Yanis Varoufakis on Labour’s expulsion of Ken Loach
19/08/2021
The decision to expel Ken Loach from the Labour Party, was not one taken lightly. Even since Sir Kier Starmer inherited Labour’s leadership from Jeremy Corbyn, he embarked upon a…
The Cruel Month of August 2021: From pain to solidarity and action
19/08/2021
In the beginning was the pain, during these cruel days of August this year. Pain precedes analyses, even the most meticulous. I am not talking about the people who lived…
The Evia Wildfire and the Museum of Illusions
16/08/2021
Although in Varybobi everything is fine and it’s only the forest that’s become charcoal, in Evia we weren’t so lucky. I arrived at our house there on Thursday. Part of…
Evia Wildfires: 74,100 forest acres that burned down will remain barren
13/08/2021
According to Efthimios Lekkas, professor of Dynamic Tectonic Applied Geology and Disaster Management at the University of Athens, the future looks grim. He warned that “climate change is here” and…
Bulletproof vests among the embers
08/08/2021
In the end, my family’s house in Varybobi was spared. The fire passed by it twice, at different stages of the blaze, and on both sides of the lot–it burned…
Greece’s parliamentary irregularities during the COVID-19 pandemic
07/05/2021
The government has radically reduced the number of MPs allowed in plenary sessions, initially without foreseeing online participation for those absent, which came about at a later date. Eventually MPs…
I confirm what the Greek Police is saying – no one called Dimitris was tortured. But I, Aris, was.
18/03/2021
Aris Papazaharoudakis was ‘arrested’ by the police, if we can call an arrest what he describes as his kidnapping by masked men without uniforms or insignia and who refused to…