Diatribes & Commentaries

“It was all for nothing, all my struggles, all my privations and I’m alone. I try to figure out the reason for this and each time, I am more and more at a loss.” – Nikos Syrmos DEAN KALIMNIOU My youthful recollection of pappou Niko is of an exceedingly tall old man, possessed of severe eyebrows perpetually pressed into a …

Just as in 1914, religion is being abused for political purposes by groups of extremists says genocide studies lecturer Panayiotis Diamadis Neos Kosmos – 14 Oct 2014 It is another hot January 1st. Hundreds are aboard a train bound for a picnic to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. Suddenly a burst of gunfire shatters the festive atmosphere. Police …

When pappou Manoli’s son discovered the cache of five dollar notes in his father’s shaving equipment, he contrived of a fitting way to ensure his father’s legacy

The recent theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewellery and other votive items from the monastery of Panayia Kamariani shocked members of the Greek community DEAN KALIMNIOU – 25 Aug 2014 NEOS KOSMOS The recent theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewellery and other votive items dedicated to the Panayia from the monastery of Panayia …

CARTOON ABOUT GAZA DENOUNCED AS “ANTI-SEMITIC” AND RETRACTED BY NEWSPAPER By Michael Hoffman www.revisionisthistory.org ZIONIST THOUGHT COPS REDUCE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER TO QUIVERING BOWL OF JELLY  Sydney Morning Herald can’t apologize enough for editorial cartoon and accompanying column “We apologize unreservedly for this lapse and the anguish and distress that has been caused….It was wrong to publish the cartoon in its original …

He was warned not to go out onto the street, even for the weekly shop, but his brother laughed and enjoined him to stop fretting like an old woman. Confidently, they walked out of their house and proceeded down the block, when suddenly they were set upon by masked men. They kicked them into a kneeling position and held their …

The photographs accompanying this diatribe were taken last year by Turkish photographer Bastermur Bilal. They depict a couple of semi-nude stick figures attempting to assume languid attitudes of sensuous nonchalance. As such, they could be dismissed as yet another accretion to the derivative drivel that poses as art, if it were not for the context in which these were taken. …

The following is a letter that Mode of Life sent off to various Greek Australian newspapers and news websites in response to questions regarding whether diasporan Greeks should have the vote in Greek elections. Of course there are similar discussions amongst other Orthodox Christian communities within Australia where the debate of whether Serbs, Bulgarians and so forth should have say …

Recently in the Neos Kosmos English Weekly Supplement (4/1/2014), there was a report made by Penni Pappas that looked at how the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia was bucking the trend of decline in youth presence within religious denominations. Needless to say, given the agenda and views of much of Australia’s local Greek mass media, the report did not give …