Το «Ημερολόγιο» ενός μικρού ανδρός

Ο δικτάτορας Μεταξάς εν μέσω των οργανωμένων της ΕΟΝ. Το «Ημερολόγιό» του είναι αποκαλυπτικό για την προσωπικότητά του

Εβδομήντα εννιά χρόνια από την κήρυξή της, η δικτατορία της 4ης Αυγούστου εξακολουθεί να προσφέρει υλικό σε ιστορικούς και πολιτικούς αναλυτές. Μάλιστα εδώ και μερικά χρόνια έχει επιχειρηθεί από ένα ρεύμα ιστορικής αναθεώρησης ακόμα και μια άτυπη «αποκατάσταση» της δικτατορίας, μέσα από ποικίλους συλλογισμούς και αναφορές. Για την ακρίβεια είναι ο ίδιος ο δικτάτορας Ιωάννης Μεταξάς ο οποίος αντιμετωπίζεται από μερίδα ιστορικών ερευνητών αλλά και μέσων ενημέρωσης ως σημαντικός «πολιτικός άνδρας», με αξιόλογη δράση και ακόμα πιο αξιοπρόσεκτη πολιτική σκέψη.

Nuclear Industry Future Far From Clear

My uncle was 17 years old, proud of his martial Prussian heritage, when he joined the U.S. Marines, just in time to make the landing on Guadalcanal. He made it through that encounter, was later wounded on Okinawa, recovered, and was training for the invasion of the Japanese mainland when Hiroshima and Nagasaki went up in atomic flames. When we buried him a few years ago, the Marine Honor Guard spokesman on hand said that most of the 500,000 Purple Hearts minted for the invasion were still in inventory. That is fortunate for Americans, though it meant woes a thousand fold had come raining down upon the Land of the Rising Sun.

Greece: The Need for a More Collaborative and Flexible Response on Migrants

Lesvos, a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, is currently one of the most popular arrival points for migrants not only in Greece but in Europe. Roughly half of migrants arriving in Greece so far this year have come to Lesvos, which at some points is located less than 10 kilometers from the Turkish coast. Approximately 1,000 migrants have been arriving on the shores of Lesvos each day. These are record numbers for the island of 86,000 people.

Turkey Goes to War

One month ago, Abu Mohammed al-Halabi painted a dismal picture of his fighters’ struggles against the Islamic State along a crucial geographical corridor north of the Syrian city of Aleppo. The jihadis had killed three of his men in a nighttime ambush in mid-June while using night-vision goggles more advanced than anything his group possessed. His brigade had been fighting for 10 days straight without any injection of money or equipment. If this continued for another week, the beleaguered rebel commander told Foreign Policy, “anything could happen” — even a complete collapse of rebel lines.