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...
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The so-called “Armenian Question” is generally thought of as having begun in the second half of the nineteenth century. One can easily point to the Russo-Turkish war (1877 -78) and the Congress of Berlin (1878) which concluded the war as marking the emergence of this...
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FIFA, the International Association of Football Associations put out the following statistic: "The cumulative audience of the 64 matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup is expected to be in excess of 26 billion." ...
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Visit May Signal Historic Shift In U.S. Middle East Policy
In spite of efforts to turn the clock and transform Turkey back to a an Islamic country that the West can live with, the fact...
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http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/the-sick-man-of-north-america/This column, republished with permission from Mr. Eric Margolis, is dedicated to Mr. Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington, who is an ardent defender of Bush administration policies in...
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The western world has had to deal with violent jihad by Muslims for more than a thousand years. After the defeats of Muslim armies in Spain centuries earlier, and of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, the west largely relaxed regarding that particular threat. The...
I came across this amazing collection of information and blogs all dealing with the life & murder of Hrant Dink... Slideshow here"Aged 53, Dink was killed by several shots fired at him on the 19th of January...
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Daily News " Although it seems as if it was a domestic problem of the Ottoman Empire, since the time it first emerged, the Armenian problem has always been closely related to foreign affairs and always more than one countries were involved in the matter. Armenians have been...
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"In his quoting of14th-century Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Palaeologus the Pope is not quoting a Latin/Catholic Church father but rather a member of the old church, the Byzantine Orthodox Church. The Church of Russia rather than the Catholic Church of Rome or the church of...
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According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...
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