Fotis Kapetopoulos
An atheist at Greek Easter
My beliefs are inconsistent with my actions, I do not believe in god, yet I participate in Greek Easter Πάσχα. I attend the ecclesia – the body of citizens – …
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An interview with Steven Pressfield: Channelling Ares, the god of strife
Steven Pressfield’s latest book A Man At Arms is set in Jerusalem and the Sinai desert around the first century CE when Judea was under Roman occupation. Telamon of Arcadia …
Greek Revolution of 1821 was the foundation of international human rights
On March 25, 1821 a messy and bloody uprising by Greeks in an inconsequential province of the vast Ottoman colonial empire set the world on fire. Most important for the …
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Jack is my brother, he’s not heavy
Multidisciplinary artist, choreographer and endurance performer, Christos Linou has been carrying his brother Jack on his shoulders. Jack Linou a self-taught artist, heroin user, petty criminal and outsider, who died …
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Seven Greek pirates sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW were freedom fighters says scholar
Sailors, Pirate and Freedom fighters Seven Greek sailors were sent as convicts to Australia in 1830 for piracy. The seven sailors on a Maltese ship Hercules attacked a British Ship, …
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Professor Kidd, the ‘Nation’s GP’ calls on all adults to get vaccinated
Professor Michael Kidd AM – Australia’s Acting Chief Medical Officer – is a world expert on primary care. He is “the nation’s GP” as he says. Professor Kidd is confident …
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Health Minister Hunt is confident with vaccine rollout
“Australians can be confident ,with the vaccine program to be rolled out nationally,” the Health Minister Greg Hunt’s spokesperson responded to Neos Kosmos. “The Government follows the advice of the …
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Koulla Roussos barrister, First Nations’ advocate and fine art curator is a genuine polymath
Koulla Roussos from the Northern Territory is a Criminal Law Barrister who coordinated a landmark Stolen Generations case in the mid-90s and a curator punishing herself by completing a Masters …
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Cross-cultural love and Christmas tidings
This story first appeared in Neos Kosmos on 24 December, 2019. By the mid 1980s up to 40 per cent of all Greek Australians were marrying outside their cultural …
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Santa is any colour you want
Late last month, in Lakewood – a quiet community in North Little Rock, Arkansas – Chris and Iddy Kennedy received a racist letter ‘by Santa’ telling them to remove the …