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...

The Uselessness of Indices Produced by NGOs

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index Like many other an NGO (non-governmental organization) Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) is mainly preoccupied with perpetuating...

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...

Greek-Macedonian Name Issue Myths Debunked

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The "name issue" involves a protracted dispute over the last 17 years between the two Balkan polities over Macedonia's right to use its constitutional name, "The Republic of Macedonia". The Greeks claim...

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 ...

Riots in Egypt about Food, not about “Freedom”

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008-9, riots erupted all over the world, from Thailand to the Ivory Coast and from Yemen to Albania. For some reason, the demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt were...

Macedonians plant six million trees today

In Macedonia today, thousands of people volunteered to plant six million trees as part of a reforestation campaign in the Balkan country.Macedonia has experienced many wild fires over the past two years and...

Military drills in north Greece (Aegean Macedonia)

An ordinary people will understand these things that are happening in region as quite an accident. But unfortunately it is not. Everything was started in year 1913, the year that Macedonia was partitioned on 3 pieces, but for now I won’t go in details and I will say that...

Journalist Reported on His own Murders

A journalist Vlado Taneski who reported on three murders in Macedonia has been arrested by police on suspicion of carrying out the killings himself. Police became suspicious when his newspaper articels included details of the crimes that had not been released by officials. ...

Journalist suspected in women's deaths

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWhat? Slow News day, so he decided to make his own news in order to scoop the competition? Journalists are ususally above suspicion and trusted when meeting the public,...

Macedonia's ruling party wins general election

After an election day that was marred by violence, Macedonia's ruling party has emerged victorious in yesterday's elections. Even though the voting ended with a clear winner, it's thought that the images of...

Violence Casts Shadow on Macedonian Elections

" One person died and several were injured in separate shooting incidents that forced election officials to halt voting in at least 17 polling stations during Macedonia's snap parliamentary elections on Sunday."

Three Shot on Macedonia Election Day

One person was killed and two were wounded in an ethnic Albanian area in Skopje during Macedonia's parliamentary election. The vote has been hindered by several security issues, including a bomb thrown at a café.""We were attacked," said Izet Mexhiti, a senior official of...

Germany to Arrest 13 in CIA Kidnapping Case

"Another reason why we're not awfully popular in the world."Agence France-Presse:BERLIN (AFP) - A German court ordered the arrest of 13 people behind the alleged CIA-backed kidnapping of a German citizen, believed...

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