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...

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...

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. ...

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...