The Republic of Macedonia is 20 years Old

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The Republic of Macedonia is 20 years old: an adult with the problems and promises that characterize early puberty. The country now has a young and dynamic leadership which has succeeded to transform ...

Macedonia’s 2011 Independence Day Interview with Stevo Pendarovsk

Macedonia’s 2011 Independence Day Interview conducted by: Sam Vaknin I have been fortunate to meet Stevo Pendarovski several times, in his official capacities, and “for coffee”. On all occasions, I found him to be level-headed, incisively analytical, and a true...

Ratko Mladic Arrested for Balkan War Crimes

Ratko Mladic Arrested after 16 Years in Hiding Ratko Mladic, accused architect of the Srebrenica Massacre of  1995, has been arrested after 16 years in hiding. 69-year-old Ratko Mladic was found in the Serbian village of Lazarevo, where he had been living under the name...

The Crescent and the Cross

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" "There are two maxims for historians which so harmonise with what I know of history that I would like to claim them as my own, though they really belong to nineteenth-century historiography: first, that...

Surviving on Nuclear Waste

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" On May 11, 2005, Romania hosted a two-day exercise simulating a nuclear accident. It was conducted at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant. But the real radiological emergency is already at hand and unfolding....

Macedonia's Hopeful Holocaust

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Macedonia boasts one of only four major Holocaust memorials in the world (the others are in Jerusalem, Washington, and Berlin). For a country of 2 million people with fewer than 130 Jews and no tourism to...

Macedonia's Minister of Education Cleans Academe's Augean Stables

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Finally, a true reform: Macedonia's youthful and intrepid Minister of Education is attempting to overhaul the country's bloated academic institutions by introducing basic principles, long accepted...

The European Union: Fear-driven, Defensive, and Phobic Project

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The European project variably known as the European Community and the European Union is driven by fear, not by promise. It is and has always been a phobic, defensive enterprise rather than a hope-filled ...

Democracy? Not for Third World

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The revenant (many would say ersatz) Egyptian, Mohamed ElBaradei, self-appointed and self-imputed leader of the "democracy" movement in his ...

Balkans: A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd) Study

peter.reardon on the ‘scars of war’:- This study is but one outcome of the Bosnian war, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, (ptsd), it was welcome news personally that this emotional disorder is being recognised in one region, but sadly not all, of the former ...

Russian Gas Supply Via Ukraine Drops; Balkans Halted

Russia has made good on its threats to reroute gas supplies around Ukraine after it accused the country of siphoning off gas. Deliveries to the Blakans have now been halted at the Romanian border as the energy...

Montenegro, Macedonia recognize Kosovo statehood

In "a major blow to Serbia's diplomatic efforts to maintain a claim over Kosovo," both Montenegro and Macedonia recognised Kosovo. " © AP 2008-10-09 23:40:57 - PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) - Both Montenegro...

Srebrenica Memorial Quilt Visits US Capitol as Massacre Victims are Reburied ...

July 14, 2008, Washington, DC: A memorial quilt to those who were murdered at Srebrenica, Bosnia, thirteen years ago took center stage at the U.S. Capitol Friday as congressional staffers remembered the genocide...

Kosovo leaders kidnapped Serbs and sold their organs, UN pressured not to pro...

"Kosovo leaders kidnapped Serbs and sold their organs, UN pressured not to prosecute them"Sensational and totally ignored by the main stream mediaWhile one of the leaders of Kosovo Albanian terrorists - Ramush Haradinaj - was cleared of charges by UNTribunal, a former war...

Greece threatens to veto NATO expansion plans

As NATO representatives meet in Bucharest for the largest summit conference in the organisation’s history the Greek government is threatening to veto any attempt by its northern neighbour, Macedonia to...

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