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Born in Salonika, Greece in 1984, Nicolas Mottas is a graduate of Political Science, Diplomatic Studies, Conflict Resolution, a political research student (PhD) and a freelance article-writer. He has been a collaborator for the Greek newspaper 'Macedonia' and the Greek-Australian weekly 'Neos Kosmos'. Mottas has founded the Greek website Guevaristas devoted to the argentine marxist revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.

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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Greek Left's veterans Theodorakis and Glezos head up new resistance movement
While crisis-hit Greece faces a new round of neoliberal austerity madness, two legendary personalities call for civil disobedience.


Thursday, November 17, 2011
"Bread-Education-Freedom": The spirit of November 1973 lives on in Greece
Thirty-eight years since the Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military Junta.


Saturday, November 5, 2011
Greece: Public vote, not coalition of austerity
The discussion about the possible formation of a "national unity government" is misleading of the major problems Greek people face. (Op-Ed at phantis.com)


Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Closing Guantanamo: President Obama's Failed Promise
The existence of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, two years after the election of President Obama, consists a humiliation of human rights worldwide and a remnant of Imperialism at its worst kind.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Greece must deny to pay an odious debt
In times of harsh neoliberal austerity and limited national sovereingty, the denial to pay an odious and illegitimate debt is a moral, political and social need.


Friday, March 11, 2011
Libya: between Scylla and Charybdis
Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi may have been proved ruthless and brutal but the biggest threat for the country is a NATO intervention.


Thursday, February 3, 2011
The Egyptian Revolution : Moment of Truth
Mubarak has no chance of surviving politically due to 30 years of corruption, nepotism and despotic governance but will what follows destabilise the Middle East?


Thursday, December 2, 2010
Greek legendary composer Theodorakis revolts against Austerity
Mikis Theodorakis, the famous composer and prominent figure of the Greek Left rises his voice against IMF and EU austerity.

Monday, June 14, 2010
Renegotiate the IMF-EU bailout
Op-Ed published in 'Neos Kosmos' Greek-Australian Newspaper, 14.6.2010.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
New role for Athens in Middle East


Monday, October 12, 2009
Positive premiere, high expectations
Greece's new leadership of George Papandreou made a positive and ambitious debut, thus raising the expectations for economic stability and progress.


Friday, October 2, 2009
Greece votes in hope of a new 'Change'


Monday, August 10, 2009
Murdering Peace in Derynia
The 1996 Dherynia atrocities by Turkish forces in Cyprus consisted a brutal act against the Peace process.

Monday, July 27, 2009
The progressive route to compromise
The name 'Republic of Northern Macedonia' can be an acceptable designation between Greece and FYROM but only when specific preconditions have been met.


Saturday, July 18, 2009
Tony Blair for EU President? No, Thanks!
What the European Union needs is a truly pro-Unionist new President who has the credentials to contribute effectively to the proper function of the Treaty of Lisbon. That person is definitely not Tony Blair.


Monday, May 18, 2009
Lambrakis is gone, but his legacy lives on!
Forty-six years since the assassination of the Greek parliamentarian and anti-War activist Gregoris Lambrakis, his Democratic Legacy continues to inspire political ideals.


Monday, December 1, 2008
The New Phase of the Cyprus Issue


Thursday, November 20, 2008
Archbishop Iakovos: Championing Human Rights


Tuesday, November 11, 2008
An Interview with Barack Obama's associate Alexi Giannoulias
(1 comments) Alexi Giannoulias, the Democratic Illinois State Treasurer, head of the 'Greek Americans For Obama' Committee and a close associate of the U.S. President-elect Barack Obama gave an interview to the Sunday edition of the Athens Newspaper 'Eleftheros Typos'. It was published on Sunday, 9 November 2008.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Can We Believe in Change? A View from Europe
The 44th president of the United States of America has the opportunity to create a new framework within which America and Europe will develop a new collaboration in international politics. A cooperation is needed, having as a base the shared principles which have been proved as the unifying elements of the traditional Euro-American friendship.

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