Cars, Communism & Ketchup

As East Germans huddled near the Berlin Wall, listening for signs of humanity, they heard the sounds of automotive freedom while West German cars drove to and fro. Taking the opportunity to get the people doing the...

The Hubris of East Europe's Peasants

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited""It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." Epictetus The denizens of the former Soviet and socialist countries are marked by their resistance to learning from others. Now that...

Rational Interests and Ron Paul

As Ron Paul and others are waging a war on the government in the name of liberty, it is time to tell what they would rather not have you hear. And that is as follows: Without what they are attacking, they would have very little of what they have. I have nothing against...

Lessons in Transition from Communism to Capitalism

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"Question: What have been the most successful approaches to attracting direct foreign investments: offering prospective investors tax breaks and similar benefits, or improving the overall investment...

The Second Middle Ages

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The fourth quarter of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first herald a period akin, in some respects, to certain stretches of the Middle Ages. The High Middle Ages – especially...

Envy as the Foundation of Capitalism

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" In the 18th century, the political philosopher and novelist Jean-Jacques Rousseau made a distinction between amour de soi and amour propre. The former involved striking a balance between regard for...

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 ...

What the West does not know about the Serbs

When people in the West think about the Serbs, they usually think of the First World War and of the ugliness that took place in Bosnia in 1990s. What is less known is that during the Second World War the Serbs led the most powerful guerrilla insurrection against the...

Environmental Armageddon by Dr. Tom Termotto

Why is the world rushing headlong into Environmental Armageddon?By Dr. Tom TermottoIs there any doubt that planet Earth has been undergoing an environmental armageddon for decades?  We are not just referring...

American Right, Soviet Union and China: Wrong Lessons for History

For two decades going now, we are seeing American Right continuing to claim credit for the breakup of Soviet Union and to equate the American Democrats with Stalinists and their crimes. Not enough has been done to change and to challenge this line, either in America...

Dealing with Communist dictatorships – Cuban Embargo

Communism may not be the enemy, dictatorships are. Communism may be the enemy when individual rights and liberties are trampled by dictatorial governments. Fidel Castro is a communist dictator of a little island...

Logic of Beliefs

Every belief has its inherent logic, possessing of potentials that affectuate whether or not they are consciously articulated or believed. This is true for both religious and secular ideologies, and the history of major beliefs show exactly what these potentials...

Real Lessons from Darwin

In "Darwin's Deadly Legacy," the author argues that evolution was the reason for the genocides and demicides of 20th century. Nothing can be further from the truth.Anyone who has actual understanding of evolution knows that evolution is based on mutation, and that differences...

List of Scheduled Events at Tennessee National Tea Party Event

The National Tea Party Convention, being hosted in Tennessee, opened on Thursday, February 4, 2010, with registration. The event is scheduled to conclude on Saturday, February 6, 2010."Tea Party...

China's first gay couple weds

The largest number of gays in the world can be in an unlikely country: China. "It was the most significant event since the Chinese revolution. China's first gay couple tied the nuptial knot, the China Daily has...

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