Greece in crisis and the response of the Community
The moment is historic. The financial measures announced by the Greek government are nothing if not extraordinary.
After considering different measures for months and concluding that neither the Euro...
Peter Kourides, in memorial
He is usually praised as the capable attorney who served the church well for six decades without getting paid a penny. And that is indeed a remarkable contribution. But he was more, much more, than th...
Lets be counted
One of the long-unresolved questions of our community is how many of us there are. Are we 1.5 million, as some of us believe are we more, or are we about one million, as the U.S. Census people have us...
This Week's Editorial
There was an eerie feeling in Greece on Wednesday as the general strike which paralyzed the country was about to unfold. Government employees, the source of most of the woes of the country, mostly sta...
Harsh words
When a Wall Street Journal reporter called up our offices the other day, seeking comment on a very interesting story he was working on, we inadvertently raised the issue of the editorial that ran in h...
The new size
As previously announced, this is the first issue of The National Herald in its new size. The dimensions are in line with the size of most major newspapers across America.
We believe the new size is s...
Turning toward the future
Predicting the future is not an exact science. Nonetheless we are willing to declare that in the not-too-distant future the Greeks will turn against the Europeans, just as they turned against the U.S....
It is all very painful
The media, and those who - for whatever reason - oppose Greece, are having a field day. Never before - in the last five decades at least - has Greece been so demonized, or depicted as such an irrespon...
This Week's Editorial
The Europeans, and especially the Germans, must be cursing themselves for allowing Greece to enter the eurozone.
They must have known that it would have been difficult for Greece to adjust to that co...
Not a proud moment
These are indeed historic times, reminiscent of another era we thought was gone forever: Wherever one turns these days, be it political or business news, in the newspapers or on TV, one name keeps com...
Important U.S. – Greece diplomacy
The Alternative Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Dimitris Droutsas, visited Washington this week, in the first visit by a senior member of the new goverment. We hope that the Greek Prime Ministe...
Doing more harm than good
The Secretary General of the United Nations paid a rare visit to the Republic of Cyprus this week, apparently in an effort to boost the efforts underway by the leaders of the two communities to reach ...
This Week's Editorial
One of the fundamental questions that was missing from the discussions so far about the best way to handle the financial problems of Greece is whether Greece can shoulder all the burden of complying w...
How did this happen
People are asking, how did Greece get into this financial mess, where her name is dragged into the mud in the world press every day? Did they not see the crisis coming? Was it all the result of the in...
Making progress
The Greek authorities finally apprehended some suspects in the case of the criminal act of setting afire the synagogue in Chania, Crete. From this point on, the justice system of Greece, we are certai...
This Week's Editorial
On the 30th of January, the name day of the three scholar-saints known as the Three Hierarchs - Vasilios o Megas, Ioannis o Chrysostomos and Grigorios o Theologos - the Greek world also celebrates "...
Greece and Israel
We do not know if the fire at the synagogue in the beautiful city of Chania, in Crete was the criminal act of a provocateur.
We do not know if the person(s) who started it is Greek or not.
What we...
A Greek tragedy
It would have been funny if it were not tragic. Unfortunately, it involves the Archbishop, our spiritual leader. God help us!
Here is the story:
The Metropolitan of Central Africa Ignatios and the u...
Clock is ticking for the community
The new decade of the 21st century that we have just entered will almost certainly be one of the most challenging the community will have ever faced. Either it will lead to the emergence of a forward ...
Build it
We read the Letter to the Editor by Katherine R. Bouloukos in our December 26 edition with some holiday season disappointment. She is the co-founder, along with Anastasia Nicholas, of The Greek Museu...
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