Month: November 2014

“The torture of the animals” A few days ago in France, an animal lover recorded with the camera how violently the animals are killed in a slaughterhouse in order to become our food, and then uploaded to the internet. It created a great sensation immediately, and was responded quickly and decisively both by the public and the authorities. According to

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My article, “The Eternity of philosophy” , was published yesterday at Free Press, Village Voice. A day of celebrating philosophy today and I feel the urge to scream: yes, more today than ever we need philosophy. It is philosophy that can provide solutions in times of crisis, since it is born a human’s inborn necessity to seek answer to a

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“The new oil war” The recent fall in world oil prices has a double effect: positive effect for Western consumer warning and negative effect for the authoritarian governments of oil-producing countries, whose revenue has relied on the black gold since 1973 to today. Because the latter countries want to balance the ready for eruption popular indignation movement, due to their

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Hybrid wars When Russia first was engaged in war with Georgia and later with Ukraine, quite a few were talking about the return of “cold war”. When again President Obama and the US declared war against the Islamic caliphate, as many talked about war against terrorism. In both cases thoughts are automatically directed to events of the past. In the

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“Portrait of a leader” What can possibly be the future of a country that in the past six years has been drowned in a deep economic al, ethical and cultural crisis, with the last two of them to strive with enormous effort to surface? The indication that this question refers to Greece is obvious. As unpleasant is for someone to

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Τurkey : the new Middle east problem? In 19th century Turkey was considered by the West “Europe’s sick mate”. Weak, debt loaded, the Ottoman Empire, was incapable to be self-managed and gradually lost its power in the Balkans and North Africa. In contrast modern Turkey possesses a good economy, appears healthy, politically stable, but it does concern anew the western

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Ephemeral dictatorship in art   The FIAC organization, International exhibition of modern art, in Paris, this year set the predominant tone in globalized art market: works of Tim Neuger, Burkard Riemschneider, Olafur Elia, Paul Μac Carthy are sold at prices that stert from US 800000 up to a million US. In the auctions held by international houses these prices can

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