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Christos Kontos is a co-founder at Doromu.com

Doromu: An Innovative Online Greek Store that Gives Back to Greece

An intense brainstorming session over Greek coffee, gave birth to a Greek online store that aims to help Greek Exports by giving you the opportunity to shop for Greek products and donate 10% of the proceeds to charities in Greece. With Christmas around the corner, it couldn’t be a better time for Doromu.com to open its online [...]

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Bilirakis Talks Romney’s Comments on Greece; 2012 Election

Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL.), who was re-elected in the Nov. 6 election with a landslide 63% and is co-Chairman of the Hellenic Caucus, talked to the Greek Reporter about the outcome of the US election, the potential impact of the election on Hellenic issues and how he foresees changes in the American political scene. Bilirakis [...]

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Earth Friendly Products Officially Opens New Southwestern Facility

  Government and business leaders mixed and mingled with national and local celebrities on a “green carpet” sprawled in front of Earth Friendly Products’ state-of-the-art new Southeast Division headquarters in Opa-Locka, Florida.  They flew in from as far away as South America, South Africa, California, Illinois, Washington state, and New Jersey to celebrate the grand [...]

Will Obama Change Stance on Greek Issues?

When he was elected to a first term in 2008, Greek-Americans were hopeful that then-incoming President Barack Obama would pay attention to issues that interested them. He didn’t really, with Greece eclipsed again by Turkey on the American radar screen. Turkish troops remained in Cyprus. Turkey still refused to re-open the Halki Seminary, even though [...]

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Mitt Romney, Greece is Not a Punching Bag

A Greek-American’s answer to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney who wants to save America from going “…down the path toward Greece.” By Dean Argiris* – Far too often, it seems, when we see others who posses traits that we feel we lack, we have a tendency to mock those individuals. Yesterday, Governor Romney, without knowing [...]

Meet Facebook’s Greek Engineer Toli Lerios

Writer of code, fixer of all things electronic, dispenser of inappropriate humor, enemy of grooming and formal clothing, and friend to all furry creatures, Toli works hard, sleeps even harder, but always makes time for family and the important things in life. Things like eating cheese, reading obscure legal documents, and trying to talk Christine [...]

The Greek-American Candidates for 2012 Congress Election

In the United States it is estimated there are as many as 3,000,000 people of Greek descent and the community has always avidly supported political candidates, including Philhellenes. This year, nine are running for Congress and are asking for your vote in the upcoming election which will take place on Nov. 6. Eight candidates are [...]

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GR Survey: Do Hellenic Issues Affect Your Vote?

Greek-Americans aren’t the biggest ethnic group in the United States but could still influence the upcoming U.S. Presidential election between Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. According to the 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, there were 1,380,088 people of Greek ancestry in the U.S. while the State Department reports that around 3,000,000 [...]

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Bill Clinton: “There is Nothing Wrong with Greece – Issue Bonds”

Bill Clinton offers support to crisis-hit Greece from the podium of the second Annual Concordia Summit. The former US President notes that “there is no problem with Greece and that Greek people work 25% more hours than the Germans.” Since Germany is not willing to issue Euro-bonds to help Greece, Clinton suggests a non-tradable Greek [...]

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Concordia Summit: A Greek’s Vision to Change the World Through Public-Private Partnerships

Concordia is a Singular Convening of Former and Current Heads of State, Business Executives and Non-Profit Leaders Devoted to Promoting Public-Private Partnerships. Bill Clinton to be joined by Laura Bush, John McCain, Donna Karan, Alvaro Uribe, Thomas Kean, Mikheil Saakashvili, and more on September 27 in New York City.  In an economic environment of uncertainty, links [...]

The Prosecution of Ex CIA Agent John Kiriakou for America’s Torture Policy

Greek-American former CIA agent, John Kiriakou, is being prosecuted for disclosing classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer. He has pled “Not Guilty” to all charges and is still preparing to go to trial on November 26.

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Greek Deputy MFA: “American Election Does not Affect Greece”

Greek Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Konstantinos Tsiaras, spoke exclusively to Greek Reporter about the impact of American Elections in Greece and the purpose of his recent trip to the U.S.A. “I cannot comment on the American election, this is something that concerns only the people of the USA” said Tsiaras. However, a lot has [...]