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Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
News, commentary and interviews about the World, Europe and Greece. Analysis of current events laced with thought provoking commentary on issues facing Greece and the U.S., gives listeners a unique perspective and practical point of view. The podcast is an entertaining fusion of news, interviews, geopolitics, personal finance, lessons from Greece’s classical heritage and American pop culture. Stamatis N. Astra is co-host of Grecian Echoes WNTN 1550 AM, a 70 year old Greek American program…
Episodes
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI MAR 21st - London's Heathrow closed by huge fire
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Heathrow Airport was shut after a huge fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU MAR 20th - Trump to eliminate Department of Education
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump and Zelenskiy pledged to work to end the war in Ukraine - Israeli military…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - WED MAR 19th - Ukraine and Russia report attacks hours after Trump-Putin call
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - A 2-hour call between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, the White…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN MAR 16th - U.S. launched military strikes on Yemen’s Houthis
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump launches large-scale strikes on Yemen's Houthis, at least 31 killed - Judge…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI MAR 14th - Democrats back down on avert shutdown
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Schumer declared Thursday night that he would vote for Republicans’ stopgap spending…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU MAR 13th - Kremlin casts doubt on US ceasefire plan
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Kremlin says no to cease fire with Ukraine - Trump threatens 200% tariff on European…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE MAR 11th - Wall Street Worries about Recession
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - US stocks plunged, bitcoin stumbled and Wall Street’s fears recession - Ukraine strikes…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN MAR 9th - Ukraine’s Gap War Effort
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - How long Kyiv can keep going without American assistance? - Johnson released a proposal…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI MAR 7th -Mexico and Canada get tariff relief
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump partly pulled back his tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports - EU leaders agree…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU MAR 6th - Trump pauses Canada, Mexico auto tariffs
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump granted a one-month exemption on auto tariffs on Mexico and Canada - European…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - WED MAR 5th - Trump declares 'America is back'
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump addressed a joint session of Congress in a televised 100-minute-long speech -…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE MAR 4th - Global Trade wars erupt
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump launched new trade conflicts with China, Canada and Mexico - U.S. is pausing all…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI FEB 28th - Greeks protest to demand justice
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in cities and towns across Greece to demand…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU FEB 27th - Report on Greek Train accident says "all was done in error"
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Report on Greek train accident at Tempoi says were Sequence of omissions, Operational…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE FEB 26th - Ukraine’s minerals deal reached
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM -Ukraine is set to sign a mineral-rights deal with the U.S - House Passes Budget Plan…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE FEB 25th - Trump and Macron differ on Ukraine
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Macron and Trump display stark differences on Ukraine - Musk presses forward with…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN FEB 23rd - Germany Elections - Musk asks "what did you do last week?"
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Germans vote as far-right party set for best ever result - Musk orders US federal…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI FEB 21st - US Russian talks; Germany’s Elections
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Senate adopts $340 billion budget blueprint for Trump’s agenda -Netanyahu says Hamas…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU FEB 20th - Trump's escalating feud with Zelenskiy
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump warned Volodymyr Zelenskiy had to move quickly to secure peace or risk losing his…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - WED FEB 19th - World watches Trump as he flips playbook in geopolitics
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump upends US Russia policy - US and Russia will appoint high-level teams to…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE FEB 18th - US-Russia talks 'first step' to Peace
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Lavrov and Rubio finished direct talks and work towards peace and cooperation - Ukraine…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN FEB 15th - US & Russia to meet about Ukraine Peace
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Ukraine not attending US Russia talks in Saudi- Rubio began his first visit to Israel -…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU FEB 13th - Trump & Putin talk Peace
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump said Putin and Zelenskiy expressed a desire for peace in separate phone calls…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - WED FEB 12th - Trump and Musk to overhaul government
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump signed an executive order directing agencies to work with Musk's Department of…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE FEB 11th - Musk $100B to buy OpenAI - King of Jordan pleads with Trump
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Musk’s offer for $97.4 B OpenAI could end up costing Sam Altman - Hamas has postponed…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN FEB 9th - Courts vs. Trump in power struggle
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Federal judges have blocked major portions of Trump’s early agenda, SCOUS showdowns…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU FEB 6th - 40,000 Federal workers accepted Trump's separation agreement
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - 40,000 federal employees have accepted a separation agreement. That figure represents…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - WED FEB 5th - Trump says US will 'take over' Gaza
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump said that the US "will take over" Gaza while the Palestinians who live there…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE FEB 4th - China retaliates against US tariffs, CAN & MEX make a deal
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump’s U-turn on CAN & MEX tariffs stunned markets and boardrooms across the world -…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN FEB 2nd - Trump announces new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump on Saturday signed an order imposing 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, as well as…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI JAN 31st - No survivors in DC aircraft crash
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Wednesday’s midair collision killed all 67 people on the two aircraft, leaving…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU JAN 30th - All feared dead in DC plane crash
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - An American Airlines passenger jet collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - WED JAN 29th - DeepSeek’s rise, AI's risk
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - DeepSeek’s AI model threatens to diminish the need for Nvidia’s most-expensive chips -…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE JAN 28th - Wall Street in DeepSeek chaos
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - China’s DeepSeek, a dark-horse power in artificial intelligence, has turned Wall Street…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN JAN 26th - Trump’s vision for a new American “Golden Age”
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Trump’s vision for a new American “Golden Age” is coming into focus, and it revolves…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI JAN 17th - Hamas set to release first hostages
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - Israel says Hamas is set to release the first hostages under the Gaza ceasefire deal -…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - WED JAN 15th - Trump's Cabinet in front of the Senate
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM - More than 6 million people in LA under critical fire threat - RedNote app to replace…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE JAN 14th - Hopes rise for a Gaza ceasefire deal
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Negotiators are hoping to finalize details of a plan to end the war in Gaza - Chinese…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN JAN 12th - LA fire moves as crews reports some progress, but wind warnings remain
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Death toll from the Los Angeles fires rose to 16, crews got some respite from the…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI JAN 10th - Entire LA neighborhoods are turned to ash
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - At least 10 people have died this week in wildfires across Los Angeles - Several…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
LA fires damage 10,000 structures
LA fires keep spreading as winds pick up again - Evacuation Alert was mistakenly sent - A terrible housing shortage will become a crisis- Water systems can’t…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU JAN 9th - 'Apocalyptic' wildfires in Los Angeles
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - LA Residents fleeing their homes by the tens of thousands as wind-driven wildfires are…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
LA fires, Trump eager to rule the world - Parapolitika FM
LA fires, Trump eager to rule the world - Parapolitika FM. Fires threaten iconic Hollywood Sunset Boulevard- Trump and Musk megaphone of an aggressive diplomacy
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - WED JAN 8th - Explosive wildfires ravage Los Angeles
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Winds are fueling dangerous wildfires in Los Angeles, where tens of thousands of…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE JAN 7th - Meta Ends Fact-Checking in Free-Speech Political Content
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Meta Ends Fact-Checking in Free-Speech Political Content, the pivot comes as…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN JAN 5th - Ex Prime Minister of Greece Simitis passed away
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Ex-Prime Minister of Greece Simitis, who got the country in the Euro, passed away -…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI JAN 3rd - No connection between NOLA and Las Vegas, says FBI
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Investigators say there is no apparent link between the New Year's Eve truck attack in…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Terror in New Orleans, suicide in Las Vegas
Political and social analysis of the terror attack in New Orleans and suicide in Las Vegas.
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU JAN 2nd - 15 Dead at truck rampage in New Orleans
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - The man who allegedly drove a pickup truck into a New Orleans crowd early on New…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN DEC 29th - 179 dead in South Korea's worst plane crash in years
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - A plane crash-landed on a runway in South Korea before skidding off and bursting into…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI DEC 27th - South Korea impeaches interim president
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - South Korea’s legislature voted to impeach the acting president, extending the…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN DEC 22nd - Biden signs stopgap funding bill into law after Congress votes to avert shutdown
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Biden signs stopgap funding bill into law after Congress votes to avert shutdown - The…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI DEC 20th - Congress rejects Trumps bill heading for a Shutdown
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - The US House of Representatives rejected a Trump-backed bill that would have extended…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU DEC 19th - Government Shut Down Looms
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Government Shut Down Looms as Trump tells GOP to kill spending bill - Dow drops as Fed…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE DEC 17th - Ukraine kills Russian General - German Government collapses
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Ukraine kills a top Russian general in Moscow it accuses of chemical weapons crimes -…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - SUN DEC 15th - Chasing Assad's Fortune of Billions
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - In Syria, the collapse of the Assad dynasty has kicked off a hunt for their massive…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - FRI DEC 13th - EU freezes asylum for Syrians - Big Tech gives big to Trump
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Russia launches a major missile attack on Ukrainian power facilities - Trump…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - THU DEC 12th - Hamas & Israel close to a cease-fire agreement in Gaza
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Hamas yielded to Israel’s key demands for a cease-fire agreement in Gaza - FBI…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - WED DEC 11th - Syria at the crossroads
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Refugees return to Syria as a caretaker prime minister is appointed - UnitedHealth…
- Astra Report | WNTN 1550 AM | Grecian Echoes
Daily Global News - TUE DEC 10th - NYC Shooting suspect captured
Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. - Suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth CEO captured - Iran’s regional allies have…