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The Greek Way is Better

Prologue: Trump and the Pope The US-Israeli war against Iran / Persia did more than rain bombs on Iran, Lebanon and throughout the Middle East. It...

22.04.2026 4

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Evaggelos Vallianatos

During War, Climate Chaos and Even Civilization Become Ephemeral

Prologue: threatening civilization Pope Leo XIV criticized the delusions of omnipotence that US and Israel display in fighting their illegal and...

14.04.2026 7

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The Peloponnesian War: Power, Hubris and Tragedy

Prologue Starting with the Trojan Wat in the early thirteenth century BCE, the Greeks embarked on a gigantic Grexit that lasted for centuries. They...

07.04.2026 5

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The Virtues of Antigone

Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus, King of Thebes. After the dramatic end and disappearance of her father who had blinded himself, her uncle Creon...

23.03.2026 8

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Pesticides Forever?

Prologue I recently came across with an unpleasant memory from the past – chemicals that last so long in the environment that are now known as...

16.03.2026 10

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Clouds of War in the Middle East

The war of the Trump administration and Israel against Persia / Iran is bringing humanity ever closer to catastrophe. Both Israel and Iran are...

11.03.2026 10

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Is Artificial Intelligence in Charge of Nuclear Weapons?

On October 16, 2025, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that as long as nuclear weapons exist, they should never be...

02.03.2026 10

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Trump’s Endangerment

On December 7, 2009, the Obama administration accepted the endangerment finding that, finally, brought fossil fuels in the power of the rule of law....

19.02.2026 10

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Political Climate Boomerang and World Chaos

President Trump is withdrawing the United States from the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is the legal bedrock for...

14.01.2026 10

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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager...

05.12.2025 10

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Oil Politics: Wars, More Floods, More Heat and Suffering — Everywhere

Petroleum is the fossil remnant of extremely ancient forests. Its discovery in mid-19th century sparked the rapid industrialization of Western Europe,...

11.11.2025 10

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Untouched by Time: The Beauty and Vision of Freedom

Prologue The Roosevelt poster on freedom is timeless. I thought about its message while on the Parthenon. In early October 2025, I was on the...

28.10.2025 10

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Big Thinking for the Survival of Birds

Prologue Tim Birkhead, a British ornithologist, introduced me to the extremely ancient and flightless sea bird, Auk, that made a living in the North...

24.09.2025 10

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Strife

Prologue Writing about climate change / chaos in 2025 is like writing fiction or describing Eris / strife. Not that climate chaos is unreal or that...

15.09.2025 20

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Greek Countryside at Risk

Threatening Greek peasants On April 15, 2025, the appointed president of Greece issued an order that is bound to have serious, nay, potentially...

02.09.2025 20

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Sleepwalking to a Collective Death-wish for the World

Prologue I remember President John F. Kennedy when, on June 10, 1963 gave the Commencement Address at the American University in Washington, DC. Among...

12.06.2025 20

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Water in Greek Society

The sacred water world of the ancient Greeks The Greeks had several water gods that reigned over the oceans, seas, rivers and land, including...

22.05.2025 10

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Elon Musk’s Shock Troops, AI and Plutocracy

I worked for 2 years on Capitol Hill and 25 years for the US Environmental Protection Agency. During those 27 years I met many bureaucrats and a few...

06.03.2025 10

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