Although up to now there is no final scientific answer as to whether criminals are born or "made", it seems that the "made" part is more probable

The problem of the police is difficult to solve. Today, it is inextricably connected to the general problem of the barbarity of the owners of the world

What is really disturbing is that today for most people in Athens there is a feeling that there is less hope than during the Nazi occupation

In the Turkish serial the hate inserted originates with the evil of people around Asi and Demir, even relatives of theirs, who do their utmost to interfere and hurt them

The ordinary Americans have to understand that by being indifferent to the violence of the Greek Nazi goons, they are playing with fire

How did the Greek Rightist "patriots" manage to secure such a "great" victory in the polls? The world's economic elites did it for them

As usual, there are two sources of "effluent" on the TV screen: the journalists themselves and the politicians with their supporting "experts"

The situation in Greece is reaching the limits of rational patience. This drama must end.

There is a situation that forces most persons that have lost their inborn "leftism" to regain it. That situation is poverty

A call to Syntagma Square on February 11, 2012

So, having a planet "vibrating" with quakes and covered with concrete death-traps, what do we do?

It seems that, finally, the elites not only in Greece but worldwide (read: elites of the US) are in trouble!

Here is what happened and is about to happen concerning Hitler's "visitors", while he was in prison as a terrorist in 1923.

Nikos Raptis's Resoc Interview

An interesting social test, easily performed by anybody, is the following: simply ask friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and even strangers what is their opinion about our life in 2009. Is it full of problems or is it a rather satisfactory and eve...

Nikos Raptis is a resident of Athens and also a long-time contributor to Z, which happens to be named for the Costa-Gavras film, also titled Z, that is about resistance and repression in post-war Greece. Raptis's article, "Greek Teenagers," provid...

Chris Spannos of ZNet interviews Nikos Raptis on the current status of the Greek revolt.

As always, to understand what is going on today (Dec.11, '08) in Greece (or any place) one has to go back in time a few decades. Let us make the effort.

In 1887 a boy was born in Chicago who "grew up fatherless and poor" in that windy city. At the age of 25 he participated in the pentathlon and decathlon in the "5th Olympiad" of 1912 in Stockholm. He graduated from the University of Illinois with ...

A lecture given by Marcus Rediker at Emmanuel College in Boston on October 9, 2003 and recorded by Roger Leisner of Radio Free Maine (to order, see below). Reviewed by Nikos Raptis Historically the elite of any society have been able to force ...

Pressures to alleviate or eradicate poverty have perhaps reached a peak in many parts of the world, particularly in developing countries where the adoption of economic policies induced by the International Monetary Fund have led to debilitating de...

The word "Parecon" in the title of  this book is unknown to almost all Greeks. Likewise, unknown is to all the inhabitants of the Earth what will be the "Life After Capitalism", which is the subtitle of this book. Michael Albert tries to...