δημοκρατία

Στόχος του κειμένου αυτού είναι η υποβολή ενός μακροσκοπικού υποδείγματος αναφορικά με τη σχέση δημοκρατίας και κινηματικών συλλογικών δράσεων. Η άσκηση είναι συνοπτική, όμως στο φόντο της –τουλάχιστον έως πρότινος— δεσπόζουσας νοηματικής σύζευξης καπιταλισμού και δημοκρατίας αποκτά μια ιδιάζουσα σημασία. Η παταγώδης κατάρρευση του «υπαρκτού σοσιαλισμού» πριν από δυο σχεδόν δεκαετίες δημιούργησε όρους για τη μαζική επανάκαμψη της ανυπόστατης παραδοχής ότι η ασύδοτη αγορά είναι λογικά και ιστορικά συνυφασμένη με ενδυνάμωση του δήμου. Είναι όμως έτσι; Το κείμενο το αμφισβητεί επισημαίνοντας (α) ότι η κλασική φιλελεύθερη σκέψη (που ήρθε στο προσκήνιο ως ο κύριος πολιτικός και προγραμματικός λόγος του θριαμβεύοντος καπιταλισμού) εμφορούνταν από την άποψη ότι ατομική ιδιοκτησία και η πλήρης πολιτική δημοκρατία ήταν πράγματα ασύμβατα, και (β) ότι καμία από τις τρεις μεγάλες αστικές επαναστάσεις της νεωτερικότητας (η Αγγλική και η Ολλανδική το 17ο και η μεγάλη Γαλλική το 18ο αι.) δεν εγκαθίδρυσαν δημοκρατικά καθεστώτα. Αυτό στρέφει την προσοχή μας στον κομβικό ρόλο που διαδραμάτισαν για τον εκδημοκρατισμό οι κινηματικές συλλογικές δράσεις. Η δημοκρατία δεν προέκυψε από την επικράτηση των καπιταλιστικών σχέσεων, αλλά από τη στιγμή που, σε ένα περιβάλλον γενικά θετικών πολιτικών ευκαιριών, κινηματικά συλλογικά υποκείμενα επέτυχαν την κινητοποίηση οργανωτικών και συμβολικών πόρων επαρκών για μια αποτελεσματική δημοκρατική διεκδίκηση. Το συμπέρασμα αυτό έχει προφανείς προεκτάσεις και συνάφεια για το σήμερα.Αν για λόγους τόσο οικονομικούς όσο και —κυρίως— πολιτικούς το φαινόμενο που στις μέρες μας δεσπόζει είναι η δημοκρατική απίσχνανση (μια δημοκρατία «ρηχή», αποδυναμωμένη και ελλιπής), η δημοκρατική ενδυνάμωση προϋποθέτει μια νέα διεκδικητική εγρήγορση του δήμου.

"Το ζήτημα αφορά, μεταξύ άλλων, την επιβίωση των κρατών και το ρόλο τους ως οι πλέον νομιμοποιημένες μονάδες πολιτικής οργάνωσης".

2024 MEMO on Academic Freedom
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Οι αρχαίοι Αθηναίοι πρώτοι συστηματοποίησαν και καθιέρωσαν τους Νόμους των νόμων, τους κανόνες δηλαδή εκείνους που είναι απαραίτητο να διέπουν την θέσπιση, το περιεχόμενο και την ισχύ των νόμων μίας δίκαιης και ορθής πολιτικής κοινωνίας. Στο παρακάτω κείμενο δημοσιεύεται ένα εκτενές απόσπασμα από το Γ' Μέρος του βιβλίου το "Το Κοινό Συμφέρον και πώς εξασφαλίζεται" στο οποίο περιγράφονται οι 5 από τους 11 Νόμους περί νόμων της Αθηναϊκής πολιτείας.

Η τραγωδία του Ευριπίδη Ικέτιδες παρουσιάστηκε ανάμεσα στα έτη 425 π.Χ. και 421 π.Χ. και εξελίσσεται στο ιερό της Δήμητρας στην Ελευσίνα. Στην παρούσα εργασία θα επικεντρωθούμε στον «αγώνα λόγων» που γίνεται ανάμεσα στον Θησέα και τον Θηβαίο κήρυκα με θέμα τη σύγκριση των πολιτευμάτων.

ΕΚΛΟΓΕΣ ΚΙΝ.ΑΛ. :
5 υποψήφιοι Πρόεδροι του ΚΙΝΑΛ απαντούν στις ερωτήσεις του περιοδικού  ‘‘Δίαυλος’’ :  Ν. Ανδρουλάκης - Π. Γερουλάνος - Α. Λοβέρδος - Γ.  Παπανδρέου - Π. Χρηστίδης.
Άρθρα - Αναλύσεις :
Κ. Γάτσιος : Η Διπλή  Επανάσταση του ΠΑΣΟΚ-ΚΙΝΑΛ.
Γ. Παπαδάτος : Η επιστροφή στο μέλλον του ΠΑΣΟΚ είναι δυνατή;
Γ. Παρασκευάς :  ΠΟΙΟΣ ΘΕΛΕΙ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΙΟΣ ΜΠΟΡΕΙ.
Ε. Τζιόλας : Κεντροαριστερά: το πιο κρίσιμο game!
(Μη σας πουν αργότερα : «αυτά παθαίνουν οι απρόσεκτοι…»).
Αφίσα για τις εκλογές της 5ης Δεκεμβρίου 2021.

2004
Contributors and the titles of the respective chapters
1. E. B. Weaver and Slobodan Markovich (eds.), Introduction
2. HM Ambassador Charles Crawford CMG, “The Frontiers of Diplomacy”,
3. Dr. George Voskopoulos, “Political Socialization as a Means of Consolidating Pluralism and Democracy in South East Europe”
4. Professor Vojislav Stanovčić, “National Minorities and New Democracies “, 5. Prof. Margaret Blunden, “Democratic Consolidation: Political, Economic and Social Dimensions”
6. Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic, “Globalization, Democracy and Civil Society”
7. Prof. Joseph V. Julian, “Democratic Consolidation – Revisited”
8. Eric Beckett Weaver, “Madness in the Media in Countries in Transition. An Anthropological Approach with Marginal Notes on Publishing in Hungary and Serbia”
9. Slobodan G. Markovich, “Political and Economic Heritage of Modern Serbia: Two Centuries of Convergence or Divergence between Serbia and Western Europe?”

URGENT 2024 MEMO
Criminal US Intelligence Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia(12/2023)
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia & PM K.Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually,it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International & European Studies course load & turned all obligatory courses in 2nd,3rd,4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I.Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean,f.Rector & f.Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki,Greece.
DAP-UoM (New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education)had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds(at least)have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books & simply copy info & answers during the exams(!)without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms & disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university. The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me & “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated & the way they target those who refuse to be their tools

An Academic Institutional Crisis
Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment
Critical questions need answers
1. Is impunity a “local”(institutional failure),national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret & I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International & European Studies & the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt?This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this odd visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP & a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police?Why didn’t the only witness to the incident testify? The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens & the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. On speaking out about corruption & clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick & should seek help).To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE . I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis & USEmbassy Athens? How did he use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network)to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency & those exposing clientelist networks?His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization)is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Jacques Rancière Το Μίσος για τη Δημοκρατία: 15 χρόνια μετά (μετάφραση: Φοίβος Θεολογίτης)

Ποιες είναι οι ρίζες της τρέχουσας δημοκρατικής κρίσης; Πως να κατανοήσουμε την ταυτοχρονία των σύγχρονων εξεγέρσεων; Δεκαπέντε χρόνια μετά τη δημοσίευση του έργου του, που ανέλυε τα περιγράμματα του «μίσους για τη δημοκρατία», μια στοιχειώδη απάντηση από τον φιλόσοφο Jacques Rancière.

Η επίδραση του πολιτικο-διοικητικού συστήματος στην υγεία των πολιτών έχει επιβεβαιωθεί από αρκετές μελέτες, ιδίως από εκείνες που εξετάζουν τα ευεργετικά αποτελέσματα της δημοκρατίας. Ωστόσο, πέρα από την επίρρωση αυτής της υπόθεσης, σημαντική είναι και η ανάλυση των σχετικών μηχανισμών. Η μελέτη αυτή εκκινεί με την περιγραφή ενός θεωρητικού σχήματος που θεμελιώνει το ηθικό καθήκον της πολιτείας να μεριμνεί για την υγεία των πολιτών. Από την αμφισβήτηση της ωφελιμιστικής και εισοδηματικής προσέγγισης της ευημερίας, καταλήξαμε στο να προκρίνουμε τη θεωρία «περί δυνατοτήτων», όπως αναπτύχθηκε από τους Amartya Sen και Martha  Nussbaum, σύμφωνα με την οποία μπορούμε να διατυπώσουμε ότι η δυνατότητα να είσαι υγιής αποτελεί μια λειτουργικότητα που διευρύνει την ελευθερία επιλογής μεταξύ εναλλακτικών τρόπων ζωής, και επομένως διευρύνει την ίδια την ελευθερία του ανθρώπου. Η ελευθερία να βιώνουμε το είδος της ζωής που επιθυμούμε, θα πρέπει σε κάθε περίπτωση να αποτελεί τη βάση κάθε ορισμού της δημοκρατίας.
Ακολούθως, εξετάστηκαν οι μηχανισμοί επίδρασης του πολιτικο-διοικητικού συστήματος στην υγεία. Η ιδιοσυγκρασία της πολιτείας αφενός διαμορφώνει τις τελικές επιλογές των δημοσίων πολιτικών υγείας και των άλλων κοινωνικο-οικονομικών πολιτικών που αφορούν την υγεία, μέσα από διαδικασίες προώθησης, φιλτραρίσματος και ικανοποίησης των αιτημάτων των πολιτών - μια διεργασία που διαμορφώνεται βάσει του επιπέδου δημοκρατικότητας του συστήματος. Η δημοκρατικότητα αυτή ορίζεται από την έκταση αντιπροσώπευσης της πλειοψηφίας των πολιτών σε θέσεις ισχύος, από το βαθμό λογοδοσίας του πολιτικο-διοικητικού προσωπικού και την ένταση του ανταγωνισμού ψήφων, καθώς και από την αναγνώριση και τον σεβασμό πολιτικών και άλλων ελευθεριών. Αφετέρου, είναι σημαντική η ικανότητα των θεσμών να επιτυγχάνουν αποτελέσματα, διότι η πολιτική θέληση για την προώθηση πολιτικών ενισχυτικών της δημόσιας υγείας θα παρέμενε κενό γράμμα, χωρίς την παράλληλη επιτυχή εφαρμογή των σχετικών προγραμμάτων. Επίσης, η πολιτική σταθερότητα, που ευνοείται κυρίως από τη δημοκρατία, ευνοεί την οικονομική ανάπτυξη, και συνακόλουθα οδηγεί στη βελτίωση της υγείας των πολιτών. Η εμπειρική οικολογική ανάλυση σε 137 χώρες με τη μέθοδο της πολλαπλής γραμμικής παλινδρόμησης επιβεβαίωσε σε γενικές γραμμές τις υποθέσεις μας.
Τελικά, θα μπορούσαμε να διατυπώσουμε ότι η δημοκρατία, ως ένα καθεστώς που εξασφαλίζει πολλαπλές ελευθερίες και δικαιώματα για τους πολίτες, φαίνεται να εναρμονίζεται καλύτερα με τη θεωρία «περί δυνατοτήτων» από ό,τι άλλες οργανωτικές αρχές, εξασφαλίζοντας ένα ευρύ φάσμα δυνατοτήτων ζωής για τους πολίτες, μεταξύ των οποίων και η δυνατότητα να είναι υγιείς

25-11-2017
O Καθηγητής του ΠΑΜΑΚ Γ. Βοσκόπουλος απέστειλε επιστολή στον Σύλλογο Φοιτητών του ΠΑΜΑΚ, όπου τον καλέι να λάβει επίσημα δημόσια θέση έναντι περιστατικών σε βάρος του ιδίου. Ο καθηγητής τονίζει στην επιστολή του πώς η μη στήριξη ή υιοθέτηση ουδέτερης στάσης από τα επίσημα θεσμικά όργανα του πανεπιστημίου τον ανάγκασε να κατέλθει σε καθιστική διαμαρτυρία επί τρεις εβδομάδες.
Το παρακράτος αμερικανικής πρεσβείας, Στοάς et al
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Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

2017

This paper will look into the side-effects of lack of meritocracy and the application of clientelistic practices in transitional societies and less mature democracies that lack pluralistic features. In these countries democratic practices need to be consolidated institutionally and within a normative-utilitarianist mode of governance in order to bring optimum results. Through an overt or covert spec-trum of utilitarianism, lack of meritocracy will be investigated against a number of independent varia-bles such as brain drain, democratization, social stratification and clientelistic practices based on pow-er relations between patron and clients. Implicitly these relate to individual rights and social progress. The approach will seek causation patterns for the application of favouritistic practices through anal-yses of social and political given. In a causal relationship one event precedes another or the second event appears unlikely to have happened without the first even having occurred. The approach adopt-ed is utilitarianist, normative, formulated through a twofold functionalist and liberal prism
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322022403_Defining_Elements_of_Lack_of_Meritocracy_and_Clientelism_in_Transitional_Societies_and_Less_Mature_Democracies_A_Utilitarianist_Approach_to_Rights

George Voskopoulos – Academia Memo
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/george-voskopoulos-academia-memo/

Στις μέρες μας, όπως θα ήταν αναμενόμενο σε κάθε εποχή παρατεταμένης οικονομικής κρίσης και αβεβαιότητας, ο λαϊκισμός κάνει θραύση και ενίοτε παρασύρει  ακόμη και σκεπτόμενα υποκείμενα σε επιλογές και τοποθετήσεις απερίσκεπτες έως ακραίες, με ολέθριες συνέπειες για το μέλλον των δημοκρατικών κοινωνιών και του κράτους δικαίου. Παρ’ ημίν και σε ό,τι αφορά στη συστηματική προσπάθεια παροδήγησης των μαζών, ο πολιτικός λαϊκισμός υποβοηθείται από τον θρησκευτικό του ομόλογο, προς αμοιβαίο όφελος πολιτικάντηδων «σωτήρων» από τις παρυφές του κοινοβουλευτισμού, αλλά και της ιδρυματικής ηγεσίας της Εκκλησίας, που όχι σπάνια δράττεται της ευκαιρίας να προσεταιριστεί την κοινή γνώμη προκειμένου να αποκτήσει εκ νέου κοινωνικό έρεισμα. Στην εισήγησή μας θα συζητήσουμε το πρόβλημα του θρησκευτικού λαϊκισμού και τους τρόπους με τους οποίους ο τελευταίος υποθάλπεται και διαχέεται κοινωνικά, στην προσπάθειά του να χειραγωγήσει από κοινού την ιδιωτική και τη δημόσια σφαίρα.

Στο: Αλεξία Αλτουβά, Καίτη Διαμαντάκου (επιμ.), «Θέατρο και δημοκρατία». Πρακτικά Ε΄ Πανελλήνιου Θεατρολογικού Συνεδρίου αφιερωμένου στον Βάλτερ Πούχνερ (Αθήνα, 5-8 Νοεμβρίου 2014), τόμος Α΄, Αθήνα, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών - Τμήμα Θεατρικών Σπουδών, 2018, σ. 669-684 (ηλεκτρονική έκδοση).

Η αναζήτηση του νοήματος της δημοκρατικής αρχής αποτέλεσε το θεμέλιο της ελληνικής συνταγματικής θεωρίας, αλλά και την βάση συνάρθρωσής της με τα λαϊκά κινήματα και τις διεκδικήσεις τους. Για πολλές δεκαετίες, η διαμάχη για το ποιος είναι ο φορέας της κυριαρχίας, το έθνος ή ο λαός, εξέφραζε μια βαθιά πολιτική διαίρεση και αντανακλούσε τις συγκρούσεις που αυτή γεννούσε: η φιλομοναρχική, συντηρητική παράταξη αναζητούσε στο
έθνος το νομιμοποιητικό έρεισμα της αυταρχικής διακυβέρνησης που επέβαλλε, ενώ όσοι αγωνίζονταν να αποτελέσει η θέληση των πολιτών καθοριστικό παράγοντα διαμόρφωσης των πολιτικών αποφάσεων και των δημόσιων πολιτικών, αναγνώριζαν ως πηγή της
κρατικής εξουσίας τον λαό. Αυτή την θεσμικοπολιτική παρακαταθήκη αναδέχθηκε ο Α.Μανιτάκης και αυτήν προσπάθησε να εκσυγχρονίσει κανονιστικά και πολιτειολογικά, εντάσσοντάς την στις εξελίξεις που κλονίζουν το κράτος και την κυριαρχία του, που δυσκολεύουν την έκφραση, έως και την συγκρότηση των πολιτικών υποκειμένων και
αναγορεύουν τους ισχυρούς οικονομικούς οργανισμούς σε ρυθμιστές των κοινωνικοπολιτικών σχέσεων.

Τον τόμο, που κυκλοφόρησε από τις εκδόσεις Θεμέλιο, επιμελήθηκαν οι Κώστας Γαλανόπουλος και Δημήτρης Παπανικολόπουλος. Το επίμετρο έγραψε ο Αντώνης Λιάκος. Στη δική μου συμβολή, με αφορμή την κριτική του Λεφόρ στον Γκράμσι, σημειώνω ότι  τα κινήματα θα πρέπει να επιδιώκουν να είναι μαζικά και μετασχηματιστικά, ενώ η άσκηση εξουσίας θα πρέπει να έχει συνείδηση ότι τοποθετείται στο ρήγμα της επιθυμίας ενός διχασμένου σώματος, ρήγμα που δεν μπορεί ποτέ να πληρώσει με τρόπο οριστικό, χωρίς να απειλήσει τα θεμέλια της δημοκρατίας. Οι δύο αυτές τάσεις όμως, μπορούν μόνο να συγκλίνουν και ποτέ να ταυτιστούν, αφού, εξ άλλου, αντιστοιχούν στις δύο επιθυμίες που διχάζουν το νεωτερικό πολιτικό υποκείμενο ήδη από την εποχή του Ηγεμόνα και των Διατριβών: την επιθυμία για κυριαρχία και την επιθυμία να μην κυριαρχείσαι. Στο επισυναπτόμενο έγγραφο θα βρείτε εξώφυλλο, οπισθόφυλλο και ένα απόσπασμα.

Μεσογείου παράπλους – περιηγήσεις στον χώρο και τον χρόνο, πέριξ και πέραν της θάλασσας των πολιτισμών: Παρακολουθούμε τις μετακινήσεις λαών, αγαθών, ιδεών και πολιτιστικών προτύπων στον ιστορικό μας χώρο, υπογραμμίζοντας πως οι ανταλλαγές υπήρξαν ο καθοριστικός παράγοντας στην ανάπτυξη των πολιτισμών· συνεπώς, οι τελευταίοι αποτελούν κοινή κληρονομιά των λαών τής Μεσογείου.

The power of democracy reflects on the transformative political power of the people. In democracy, “demos” is the only legitimate actor allowed to challenge tradition in order to shape its own political environment. However, democracy seems to weaken under the pressure and the tensions of globalization. Supra-national schemes as the European Union emerge to provide alternative paths in formulating politics. If, in this framework, the role of European peoples constrains, if the empowerment of the citizen of E.U. is not fulfilled, democracy in E.U. might end up to spectatorship and participation reduced to rituals that legitimize an inequitable social order.

URGENT MEMO: On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED. ODDLY ENOUGH THIS CAME AFTER I STARTED PUBLICIZINFG INFO ON THE BIGGEST EVER PALAGIARISM CASE IN GREEK ACADEMIA. A CASE COVERED-UP BY USEmbassy Athens. ACADEMIC FREEDOM & FREE SPEECH AT RISK

16/4/2015 - Η ΕΠΟΧΗ
Η Ευρώπη σε επικίνδυνους οργανωτικούς πειραματισμούς Ο Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος, πρόεδρος τμήματος Διεθνών και Ευρωπαϊκών Σπουδών στο ΠΑΜΑΚ, μιλά για την Ευρώπη και πώς αυτή έχει εξελιχθεί μετά την κρίση.

Interview SBS AUSTRALIA
ΕΈ κ κρίση,κρίση νομιμοποίησης,άνοδος ακροδεξιάς, ακροδεξιά κ πολιτική
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8e1tisdf3c&list=PLrxRuC7OWIQLOOjbuFgHuPF5ftvym0Al9&index=2

Μετα-δημοκρατία και Θεσμοθετημένη Ανελευθερία
Post-democracy and Institutionalized Unfreedom
Contents in Gr and En, part 1 of 6
Γ. Βοσκόπουλος, Αναπλ. Καθηγητής Ευρωπαϊκών Σπουδών, π. πρόεδρος τμ. ΔΕΣ, ΠΑΜΑΚ
George Voskopoulos, Associate Professor of European Studies
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/%ce%bc%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b1-%ce%b4%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%bf%ce%ba%cf%81%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%af%ce%b1-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9-%ce%b8%ce%b5%cf%83%ce%bc%ce%bf%ce%b8%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%ad%ce%bd%ce%b7-%ce%b1%ce%bd/
Λέξεις Κλειδιά: μετα-δημοκρατία, θεσμοθετημένη ανελευθερία, νέο-θεσμικός αυταρχισμός, κοινωνικό συμβόλαιο, κρατική εξουσία, πρωτογενής ναρκισσισμός, εθελούσια υποτέλεια
Key Words: Post-democracy, institutionalized unfreedom, neo-institutional authoritarianism, contrat social, state power, voluntary subjugation,  primary narcissism and authority.

Περιεχόμενα – Contents
Υγειονομική κρίση, δημοκρατία και το ζήτημα του De l'esprit des lois / The pandemic crisis and democracy: contemplating on the new esprit des lois 
Νέο-θεσμικός αυταρχισμός / Neo-institutional authoritarianism
Το μέλλον της δημοκρατίας, κρατική εξουσία και η λογική του άτυπου καθεστώτος / The future of democracy, state power and the logic of “informal” regimes
Η θεσμική απειλή κατά της δημοκρατίας / The institutional threat to democracy
Το δάσος και το δένδρο / Missing the tree for the forest
Το σύνδρομο του βάτραχου στο καυτό νερό / The boiled frog syndrome
Ζητήματα νομιμοποίησης, διαδικασία και ουσία / Legitimacy issues, processes and substance
Η Πολιτική του Φόβου / The politics of fear
Ασύμμετρος πειθαναγκασμός / Asymmetric persuasion
Κράτος δικαίου ή κράτος των κυβερνώντων / Rule of Law ή Rule of the Rulers
Κατάσταση Έκτακτης Ανάγκης ή Μόνιμης Εκτροπής; / State of emergency or a new “social contract”?
Εθελούσια υποτέλεια / Voluntary subjugation
Κοινωνικός αυτοματισμός
Ο Ρόλος των ΜΜΕ / The role of the media
Η πανδημία, τα δικαιώματα των κυβερνούμενων και η αστική δημοκρατία / The pandemic, individual / civil rights and liberal democracy
Πολιτικές ελίτ και το ζήτημα του maximal - minimal state / Political elites and the issue of maximal or minimal state
Δημοκρατία και Χάμπερμας, επισημάνσεις / Democracy and J. Habermas, some focal points
Υγειονομικές κρίσεις και ιστορία, μαθαίνοντας από το παρελθόν / Pandemics and history, learning from  the past
Παραρτήματα / Appendixes

George Voskopoulos – Academia Memo
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/george-voskopoulos-academia-memo/

George Voskopoulos – Academia Memo on academic freedom, meritocracy and criminal networks
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/george-voskopoulos-academia-memo/

Η Υπουργός, η διαφθορά και το Καθήκον-The Minister, Corruption and her Institutional Duty
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/%cf%84%ce%bf-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b8%ce%b7%ce%ba%ce%bf%ce%bd/

ΕΔΡΑ UNESCO ΠΑΜΑΚ, η ανατροπή / Meritocracy Revisited and the UNESCO Chair in UoM, Greece
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2017/12/02/%ce%b3-%ce%b2%ce%bf%cf%83%ce%ba%cf%8c%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%b7-%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%b1%cf%84%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%b7/

Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Λαϊκισμός, διαχειριστικός πλουραλισμός και η κρίση της Δημοκρατίας; Δεκ 2016

Η κρίση στην Ευρώπη δεν αποτελεί μία μονοσήμαντη, μονοδιάστατη πολιτικο-κοινωνική διεργασία. Αντίθετα εξωτερικεύεται με διαφορετικά μέσα και ένταση. Συνιστά κυρίως, αλλά όχι αποκλειστικά, μία κρίση της πολιτικής και του διαχειριστικού πλουραλισμού ο οποίος περιορίζεται δραματικά από την επιβολή μίας μονολιθικής περιοριστικής πολιτικής.
Ο λαϊκισμός συνιστά μία πολιτική στάση που οικοδομείται επί μιας «πολιτικής λογικής» που είτε υπερβαίνει τα στεγανά δεξιά, κέντρο, αριστερά είτε ετεροπροσδιορίζει την ατζέντα των αιτημάτων
Presspublica.gr, 2016

On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS WERE SUSPENDED.
THIS CAME AFTER I STARTED PUBLICIZINFG INFO ON THE BIGGEST EVER RECRUITING/INTELLIGENCE CRIMINAL NETWORK IN GREEK ACADEMIA SET UP BY USEmbassy Athens and  f. U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey R. Pyatt! Following this I have been denied access to my LINKEDIN account, MY SOCIAL MEDIA & EMAIL ACCOUNTS WERE COMPROMISED!

Criminal US Intelligence Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia(12/2023)
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia & PM K.Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually,it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International & European Studies course load & turned all obligatory courses in 2nd,3rd,4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I.Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean,f.Rector & f.Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki,Greece.
DAP-UoM (New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education)had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds(at least)have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books & simply copy info & answers during the exams(!)without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms & disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university. The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me & “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated & the way they target those who refuse to be their tools

An Academic Institutional Crisis
Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment
Critical questions need answers
1. Is impunity a “local”(institutional failure),national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret & I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International & European Studies & the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt?This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this odd visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP & a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police?Why didn’t the only witness to the incident testify? The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens & the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. On speaking out about corruption & clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick & should seek help).To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE . I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis & USEmbassy Athens? How did he use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network)to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency & those exposing clientelist networks?His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization)is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

2013
thinkfree.gr

2024 MEMO on Academic Freedom
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

George Voskopoulos – Academia Memo on academic freedom, meritocracy and criminal networks
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/george-voskopoulos-academia-memo/

Η Υπουργός, η διαφθορά και το Καθήκον-The Minister, Corruption and her Institutional Duty
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/%cf%84%ce%bf-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b8%ce%b7%ce%ba%ce%bf%ce%bd/

ΕΔΡΑ UNESCO ΠΑΜΑΚ, η ανατροπή / Meritocracy Revisited and the UNESCO Chair in UoM, Greece
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2017/12/02/%ce%b3-%ce%b2%ce%bf%cf%83%ce%ba%cf%8c%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%b7-%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%b1%cf%84%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%b7/

Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I

In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia. 
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study. 
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed! 
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis
Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment
Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way.

07/2016
Η ΕΕ διέρχεται μια παρατεταμένη κρίση αξιοπιστίας, νομιμοποίησης και αποδοχής η οποία τουλάχιστον σημειολογικά έχει ως αφετηρία τα δημοψηφίσματα σε Γαλλία και Ολλανδία το 2005 όταν και απορρίφτηκε η Συνταγματική Συνθήκη θέτοντας την ΕΕ σε μία περίοδο περισυλλογής.

2024 Urgent Memo on Academic Freedom
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I

In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia. 
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study. 
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed! 
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.



An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way.

Μεσογείου παράπλους – περιηγήσεις στον χώρο και τον χρόνο, πέριξ και πέραν της θάλασσας των πολιτισμών: Παρακολουθούμε τις μετακινήσεις λαών, αγαθών, ιδεών και πολιτιστικών προτύπων στον ιστορικό μας χώρο, υπογραμμίζοντας πως οι ανταλλαγές υπήρξαν ο καθοριστικός παράγοντας στην ανάπτυξη των πολιτισμών· συνεπώς, οι τελευταίοι αποτελούν κοινή κληρονομιά των λαών τής Μεσογείου.

After exposing USEmbassy Intelligence recruiting practices in University of Macedonia  I received threats
Θεσσαλονίκη: Καθηγητής του ΠΑΜΑΚ κάνει καθιστική διαμαρτυρία για τις απειλές που δέχεται ο ίδιος και η κόρη του!
06.10.2017
Ο καθηγητής του ΠΑΜΑΚ Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος ξεσπά. Οι καταγγελίες του προκαλούν αίσθηση…
Ο καθηγητής του ΠΑΜΑΚ Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος, ξεκίνησε καθιστική διαμαρτυρία στη Θεσσαλονίκη, “σε ένδειξη διαμαρτυρίας για την έλλειψη δημοκρατίας, αξιοκρατίας και ισονομίας, που θα όφειλε να χαρακτηρίζει ένα πανεπιστημιακό χώρο” όπως ανέφερε μεταξύ άλλων σε ανακοίνωσή του. Ο καθηγητής καταγγέλει ότι φοιτητής προσπαθεί να συγκεντρώσει υπογραφές μέσω διαδικτύου για να απομακρυνθεί από το ΠΑΜΑΚ. Ο Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος τονίζει ακόμα ότι δέχεται απειλές

Το παρακράτος της αμερικανικής πρεσβείας

UOn 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS WERE SUSPENDED.
THIS CAME AFTER I STARTED PUBLICIZINFG INFO ON THE BIGGEST EVER RECRUITING/INTELLIGENCE CRIMINAL NETWORK IN GREEK ACADEMIA SET UP BY USEmbassy Athens and  f. U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey R. Pyatt! Following this I have been denied access to my LINKEDIN account, MY SOCIAL MEDIA & EMAIL ACCOUNTS WERE COMPROMISED!
https://www.newsit.gr/topikes-eidhseis/thessaloniki-kathigitis-tou-pamak-kanei-kathistiki-diamartyria-gia-tis-apeiles-pou-dexetai-o-idios-kai-kori-tou/2245611/

Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment
Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Η χρήση θεωριών για (ενδεικτικά) την ανάλυση των δρώμενων στο πεδίο της διεθνούς πολιτικής αποτελεί ένα χρήσιμο εργαλείο συστηματοποιημένης παραγωγής γενικεύσεων. Για τον Stephen Van Evera οι θεωρίες είναι «διατυπώσεις γενικού περιεχομένου που περιγράφουν και εξηγούν τις αιτίες ή τα αποτελέσματα διαφορετικών φαινομένων. Αποτελούνται από αιτιώδεις νόμους ή υποθέσεις, ερμηνείες και προϋποτιθέμενες συνθήκες. Οι ερμηνείες αποτελούνται επίσης από αιτιώδεις νόμους ή υποθέσεις, οι οποίες με τη σειρά τους αποτελούνται από εξαρτημένες και ανεξάρτητες μεταβλητές». Τα παραπάνω συνιστούν μία χαρτογράφηση της παραγωγής και χρησιμότητας των θεωριών και του τρόπου με τον οποίο παράγουν γνώση.
Στον αντίποδα στις «θεωρίες» συνωμοσίας οι όποιες υποθέσεις εργασίας δεν μπορούν να τεκμηριωθούν με επιστημονικό τρόπο και μία ακαδημαϊκή μεθοδολογία. Αυτές απέχουν παρασάγγες από κάθε επιστημονική τεκμηρίωση, αν και όλες δεν αποτελούν εξ ορισμού καινοφανείς ερμηνευτικές/νοηματικές διεργασίες. Με την αποδοχή τους ωστόσο κινδυνεύουμε να οδηγηθούμε σε συμπεράσματα ιδιοσυγκρασιακού χαρακτήρα εκτός μίας μεθοδολογικά αποδεκτής διεργασίας.

On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS WERE SUSPENDED.
THIS CAME AFTER I STARTED PUBLICIZINFG INFO ON THE BIGGEST EVER RECRUITING/INTELLIGENCE CRIMINAL NETWORK IN GREEK ACADEMIA SET UP BY USEmbassy Athens and  f. U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey R. Pyatt! Following this I have been denied access to my LINKEDIN account, MY SOCIAL MEDIA & EMAIL ACCOUNTS WERE COMPROMISED!

Criminal US Intelligence Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia(12/2023)
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia & PM K.Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually,it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International & European Studies course load & turned all obligatory courses in 2nd,3rd,4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I.Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean,f.Rector & f.Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki,Greece.
DAP-UoM (New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education)had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds(at least)have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books & simply copy info & answers during the exams(!)without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms & disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university. The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me & “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated & the way they target those who refuse to be their tools

An Academic Institutional Crisis
Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment
Critical questions need answers
1. Is impunity a “local”(institutional failure),national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret & I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International & European Studies & the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt?This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this odd visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP & a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police?Why didn’t the only witness to the incident testify? The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens & the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. On speaking out about corruption & clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick & should seek help).To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE . I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis & USEmbassy Athens? How did he use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network)to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency & those exposing clientelist networks?His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization)is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

2017
Ο ρόλος του πανεπιστημιακού δασκάλου ως δημόσιου λειτουργού επιβάλλει τη στήριξη κανόνων διαφάνειας, αξιοκρατίας και ισονομίας. Για κάποιους όπως ο υποφαινόμενος οι κανόνες αυτοί δεν είναι διαπραγματεύσιμοι, ανεξαρτήτως του ατομικού ή ακαδημαϊκού κόστους.

2023 update
Academia Memo on academic freedom, meritocracy and criminal networks
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/george-voskopoulos-academia-memo/

U.S. – Greece academic engagement and academic freedom
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2022/10/27/the-story-of-a-picture/

Η Υπουργός, η διαφθορά και το Καθήκον-The Minister, Corruption and her Institutional Duty
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/%cf%84%ce%bf-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b8%ce%b7%ce%ba%ce%bf%ce%bd/

Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

MME και κρίσεις: καταγραφή, παρέμβαση και το ζήτημα του crisis communication

https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2020/03/12/mme-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9-%ce%ba%cf%81%ce%af%cf%83%ce%b5%ce%b9%cf%82-%ce%ba%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%b1%ce%b3%cf%81%ce%b1%cf%86%ce%ae-%cf%80%ce%b1%cf%81%ce%ad%ce%bc%ce%b2%ce%b1%cf%83%ce%b7-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9/

2024 Memo on Academic Freedom & Intelligence Networks in www.uom.gr
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8e1tisdf3c 

Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Ευρωπαϊκών Σπουδών, τμήμα ΔΕΣ, ΠΑΜΑΚ, π. Πρόεδρος τμήματος ΔΕΣ, f.Eramus Academic Coordinator, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Thematic coordinator 2015-2018, interview SBS AUSTRALIA

Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση και κρίση, κρίση νομιμοποίησης, άνοδος ακροδεξιάς

Urgent Memo, 2023
Academic Work Censored
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2023/12/06/academic-work-censored/

2003
"Εδώ και μερικά χρόνια, γράφει το μέλος μας, καθηγητής κ. Γ. Βοσκόπουλος, ο όρος εκσυγχρονισμός κυριαρχεί στο δημόσιο διάλογο και θεωρητικά τουλάχιστον υπαγορεύει τη δράση..."


2024 MEMO on Academic Freedom
Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis

Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way

Η τάση αποπολιτικοποίησης στις σύγχρονες δημοκρατίες παρατηρείται αρκετά πριν από το ξέσπασμα της παγκόσμιας οικονομικής κρίσης και σε αυτό το άρθρο αναζητούμε, ακριβώς, τις πολιτικές και ιδεολογικές ρίζες αυτού του φαινομένου. Μελετούμε τις ευρύτερες μεταβολές που επιδέχεται η  ίδια η έννοια και η πράξη της πολιτικής κατά την περίοδο της νεοφιλελεύθερης παγκοσμιοποίησης. Την περίοδο αυτή παρατηρείται άρση ή κατάργηση κοινωνικών δικαιωμάτων και κεκτημένων και, όπως θα υποστηριχθεί, συντελείται συγχρόνως ένα πλήγμα προς την ίδια την πολιτική, τόσο την πολιτική δράση όσο και την έννοια και το πεδίο της πολιτικής. Αυτό που θα υποστηριχθεί είναι ότι η νεοφιλελεύθερη ιδεολογία, που επικράτησε στις ανεπτυγμένες καπιταλιστικές κοινωνίες από τη δεκαετία του 1980 και έπειτα, πρεσβεύσει μια απαξιωτική αντίληψη για την πολιτική.

Μετάφρασή μου στο κείμενο των Konstantin Alther και Marie Samuelsen ( Ένωση Σχολείων του Όσλο) με τίτλο "10 years since the horrifying terror attack in Norway". Δημοσιεύτηκε στο τρίτο ένθετο των Αλληλέγγυων Σχολείων («Θρανία της Αλληλεγγύης»), το οποίο κυκλοφόρησε με την Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών στις 30-10-2021 (βλ. σχετικά: http://solidarityschools.gr/?p=12519).

Το Δημοκρατικό Έλλειμμα / The Democratic Deficit

*Απόσπασμα από το
Γ. Βοσκόπουλος, Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, θεσμοί, προκλήσεις, προκλήσεις, προβληματισμοί, Επίκεντρο, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2009, σσ. 29-32,
draft, χωρίς διορθώσεις και παραπομπές
Ο Thomas Zweifel θέτει δύο κρίσιμα όσο και οντολογικά ερωτήματα που αφορούν το δημοκρατικό έλλειμμα. Πρώτον, «είναι οι θεσμοί της ΕΕ δημοκρατικοί» και δεύτερον «λειτουργεί η ΕΕ δημοκρατικά όταν λαμβάνονται αποφάσεις»; Ο ίδιος εκτιμά ότι το πρώτο ερώτημα είναι στατικής υφής ενώ το δεύτερο ενέχει μία δυναμική.

On 2/11/2023 ALL MY TWITTER ACOUNTS WERE SUSPENDED.
THIS CAME AFTER I STARTED PUBLICIZINFG INFO ON THE BIGGEST EVER RECRUITING/INTELLIGENCE CRIMINAL NETWORK IN GREEK ACADEMIA SET UP BY USEmbassy Athens and  f. U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey R. Pyatt! Following this I have been denied access to my LINKEDIN account, MY SOCIAL MEDIA & EMAIL ACCOUNTS WERE COMPROMISED!

2023 update
U.S. – Greece academic engagement and academic freedom
https://gvoskop.wordpress.com/2022/10/27/the-story-of-a-picture/

Ο καθηγητής του ΠΑΜΑΚ Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος ξεσπά. Οι καταγγελίες του προκαλούν αίσθηση…

Ο καθηγητής του ΠΑΜΑΚ Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος, ξεκίνησε καθιστική διαμαρτυρία στη Θεσσαλονίκη, “σε ένδειξη διαμαρτυρίας για την έλλειψη δημοκρατίας, αξιοκρατίας και ισονομίας, που θα όφειλε να χαρακτηρίζει ένα πανεπιστημιακό χώρο” όπως ανέφερε μεταξύ άλλων σε ανακοίνωσή του. Ο καθηγητής καταγγέλει ότι φοιτητής προσπαθεί να συγκεντρώσει υπογραφές μέσω διαδικτύου για να απομακρυνθεί από το ΠΑΜΑΚ. Ο Γιώργος Βοσκόπουλος τονίζει ακόμα ότι δέχεται απειλές τόσο ο ίδιος όσο και η κόρη του, που είναι φοιτήτρια στο Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο! Η κατάσταση δείχνει να ξεφεύγει και οι καταγγελίες του καθηγητή του Τμήματος Διεθνών και Ευρωπαϊκών Σπουδών του ΠΑΜΑΚ, προκαλούν αίσθηση.
https://www.newsit.gr/topikes-eidhseis/thessaloniki-kathigitis-tou-pamak-kanei-kathistiki-diamartyria-gia-tis-apeiles-pou-dexetai-o-idios-kai-kori-tou/2245611/

Criminal Networks of Impunity in Greek Academia
PART I
In 2019 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece) Rector ordered an investigation after I publicly denounced a number of issues regarding transparency and criminal academic networks in academic affairs as well as massive cheating during final exams.
All these years the university authorities and at a later stage the Council of the institution did nothing to publicize the findings of the investigation despite my continuous requests. This very fact sets issues of rule of law and academic order.
In the meantime, I have been consistently targeted in many ways, while my car has been vandalized several times inside the university parking lot. I asked the then Dean (and former Rector) I. Kouskouvelis to take measures and condemn these acts, yet, his response was that this was Not falling within his administrative duties. I guess it was not within his moral, academic obligation to support a fellow academic under attack, either. This is indicative only of the level of democracy I have been cherished for years in University of Macedonia.
In an academic environment where students’ youth organization affiliated to Nea Dimokratia and PM K. Mitsotakis enjoy TOTAL IMMUNITY and IMPUNITY in massive cheating cases publicly acknowledged by students themselves in social media.
Eventually, it was the very same criminal milieu (DAP-UoM) that pulled the strings to change the Department of International and European Studies course load and turned every single obligatory course in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years to ELECTIVE. Practically there is no obligatory course in the aforementioned years of study.
The initial proposal for this radical change was made by the then Dean I. Kouskouvelis honoured by today’s university authorities despite the fact that he is an INSTIGATOR TO A CRIME committed by a student upon his request. The student started collecting signatures in Google demanding my removal from the department a very aim set by DAP-UoM for years now. Eventually he was forced to confess in Court that its was I. Kouskouvelis who asked him to do so!
The aforementioned Dean, f. Rector and f. Head of the Department was a member of the local criminal network of Tectonic Hall of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is worth mentioning that he was acquitted in almost a dozen high profile legal cases (setting NGOs).
DAP-UoM (the New Democracy ruling party youth organization in tertiary education) had been enjoying full protection in all kinds of illegal behaviour. Hundreds (at least) have cheated during final exams, yet NO INVESTIGATION took place whatsoever! For years they allowed students to open books and simply copy info and answers during the exams (!) without a single student being punished!
Instead of an investigation the Rector of University of Macedonia Katranidis ordered an investigation against me for publicizing these acts. A punishment, an intimidation act for doing my duty as a Head of the Department.
Unlawfulness does Pay (indicative incidents-everything is documented)
1. A student carrying notes in the final exam room refused to handle his exam paper after he was caught cheating. Instead, he pushed back the exams supervisor, run to the exit and disappeared. NO student dared testify as they were intimidated. Students told me they knew who this person was, yet, they were afraid to speak up.
2. During class evaluation the forms were collected by an unknown student who had never been in class. The student picked up the forms and disappeared. I asked the Department Secretariat to inform me on his identity, yet, they refused to assist me on the grounds of this was personal data” not to be disclosed!
3. On another occasion a student filling in the evaluation form for that year’s classes was forced (upon my insistence) to reveal that he was NOT A STUDENT of the department. Eventually he admitted being a student of another university (Aristorle). The aim of this scam was evident. To under-evaluate me and “prove” that I was not good at my academic work. This is how the corruption system operated and the way they target those who refuse to be their tools. Had I let him participate in the evaluation process he would have made derogatory comments to justify insufficiency in teaching. This is a common practice for those outside the criminal network. In one case a high-profile university official told me that he had been using this scum to harm and dishonor those who just refused to operate as his puppets.

An Academic Institutional Crisis
Some critical issues arise from this clientelistic environment

Some critical questions that need answers
1. Is impunity a “local” (institutional failure), national issue or is it the outcome of blatant interference of power networks operating in universities? The answer is a common secret and I would not try to answer it because of a major and revealing lawsuit to come.
2. What was the meaning and purpose of an INGOGNITO visit to the Department of International and European Studies and the University of Macedonia of the then US Ambassador to Greece G. Pyatt? This is a multi-million-dollar question that NO-ONE dares to bring forward. Is it customary for an ambassador to SECRETLY visit a university department without academics knowing about this “odd” visit? The question becomes a real puzzle taking into consideration the ANONYMOUS Greece revelation that a network of counter-information with the aim to supposedly deal with Russian influence in the city was built on the pillars of University of Macedonia, ELIAMEP and a number of journalists. They denied everything, yet, some facts cannot be explained. Nor can there be an explanation as to why the university authorities did not support my demand to provide an answer to why my university office was bugged. Why was I forced to deliver the monitoring device to the police? Why didn’t the only witness to the incident didn’t testify?  The answers to these questions may be found in the operating of USA Embassy in Athens and the way to “deal with” those who refuse to be recruited.
3. One more important issue. On speaking out about corruption and clientelist, un-meritocratic networks in the university a DEFAMATORY campaign against me started with individuals at the institutions spreading rumours of me being mentally sick! This is classic intelligence practice applied by secret services particularly by the US. Is this related to the incognito visit of f. US Athens ambassador to the UoM? It appears that he had a “preference” to the institution. In the process I had to file a lawsuit against a colleague at the department (Bitzenis) as he was involved in communications mails with defamatory content (he suggested that I was mentally sick and should seek help). To this day justice has NOT BEEN DONE and my lawsuit is STILL PENDING. I dispose of sms corroborating this standard intelligence practice of character assassination.
4. What is the relation between f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis and USEmbassy Athens? How did the f. Rector I. Kouskouvelis use his structural power as a freemason member of the local Tectonic Hall (a criminal network) to persecute all those who stood up for meritocracy, equal treatment, transparency and those exposing clientelist networks? His cooperation with DAP (New Democracy Youth Organization) is well-known as well as the huge clientelist network they built. In a sms sent to me by a New Democracy party official he underpins that “he is capable of everything” meaning he is extremely dangerous for anyone who stands in his way