The once and future Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, has surrendered large swathes of his government to his Albanian coalition partners, DUI, the political incarnation of the rugged insurgents who roiled the country in an armed conflict in 2001. Even the...
opinion by samvaknin | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 105 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
When NATO began bombing Lybia a few months ago, I knew that this was a miscalculation.
While there are many Lybians who hate Qaddafi, there are many others who love him. Lybia is the richest country in the region, second in Africa in per-capita terms only to the tiny...
This is the first time, in my adult life, that I agree with the President of the United States, "You are a one-term President, and one term is more than enough for you, Sir. Kindly leave now."
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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 ...
opinion by samvaknin | 2 years ago | updated 1 year ago 467 views | 4 recommendations | 15 comments
By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"I. Putin's Twilight Putin is losing his grip on power. His allies – not least former KGB and current FSB operatives – are deserting him in droves, put off by his recent economic failures, the ...
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Kadapa, April 19 : It was a feast for the locals when they found bundles of currency notes in a vehicle that caught fire. They helped themselves with the notes daring the flames. According to information, a vehicle possibly smuggling election money caught fire on the...
Hyderabad, April 12: TDP official spokesperson Mr. Sudhish Rambhotla has said that the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh owed an explanation to the nation on why he did not cast his vote in the polling held for the...
This could be good news. Ivory Coast was sliding into a civil war.His army should nowfade away and letr the newleader take over. However some diehards could conrinue tro fight. ""We attacked and forced in a part...
H.L. Mencken said that saving the world is a front for wanting to rule it. In fact, most of the people who have wielded power in recent memory are not, nor have they ever been, interested in saving the world. From Rupert Murdoch and Ed Koch to Texas Oil, these people are not...
"Incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has demanded that all foreign peacekeepers leave the country immediately, escalating a dispute over last month's presidential election. His spokesperson accused UN and French troops of colluding with former rebels. ...
Well folks here we are the day after the elections, all the attack ads off the air, all the signs off the streets, things are getting back to normal (unemployment down, forclosers up...) for at least a day. ...
While much breath has been wasted by the Tea Party on making ridiculous claims of Obama administration being Communist, or totalitarian, or even Nazi, the fact is that the Tea Party constitutes the true...
The following article comes from page A15, The Caucus Section, of the October 27, 2010 edition of The New York Times:Violence Before Debate In Kentucky Senate Race By Katherine Q. Seelye With tensions...
opinion by Grace H | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 822 views | 3 recommendations | 3 comments
" Zimbabwe's president has said a power-sharing deal which expires in four months' time should not be extended. Robert Mugabe said the country should hold a referendum on a new constitution early in 2011 and then elections. He said he was reluctant to renegotiate the unity...
If you think you want someone just like you to be your representative, maybe you should have run for office yourself. Do you think you are qualified? What do you think it takes to address the most monumental...