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Another Look at Mahatma Gandhi
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Many myths abound about Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand known as Mahatma "Great Souled") Gandhi (1869-1948).
He was not born to a poor Indian family. His father was dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar, the capital of a small principality i ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 876
[History]
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The First Serial Killer - Ed Gein
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Ed Gein is also known as The Butcher of Plainfield, The Plainfield Butcher, The Mad Butcher, The Plainfield Ghoul.
A serial killer who served as the inspiration to numerous films, among them Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Maniac, Th ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 12660
[History]
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How to Raise the Muslim World from Poverty?
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In the times of yesteryear when Prophet Muhammad banded together the followers of Islam into a single economic and political group people associated their livelihoods with their tribe. Purchasing, selling, earning money was predominately transacted t ...
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By Murad Ali Hits: 24582
[Current Events]
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Murtha Right, Bush Lies
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DETROIT -- Privately, President George W. Bush is having a political panic attack as he retreats to his cocoon, seeking comfort from his nannies. Babs, his mommy, wife Laura, Condi Rice and Karen Hughes serve as his ladies in waiting, assuring our co ...
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By Bill Gallagher Hits: 18523
[Commentary]
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Thanks Mankind!
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I got to thinking today and i have to say, we rock! Humans I mean. For some reason, as I sat there, eating my McDonalds, I started thinking about technology. Man was I impressed! We have so much, and we dont think about it enough. I suppose it really ...
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By Tyler Hits: 8798
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France?¡¯s Troubles: Learning from US
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I know that there are some people who are celebrating France?¡¯s recent troubles with delicious glee. I guess I can understand how they feel, given France?¡¯s ongoing hypocrisy concerning the Iraq War [hmmm?¡whose hand is in that oil-for-food cookie ja ...
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By Matthew C. Keegan Hits: 5642
[Commentary]
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Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, born 1915
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After seizing power in a bloody CIA-backed coup, General Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile with a rod of iron for two decades, during which human rights violations became the norm of Chilean life.
Hailing from an upper-middle class backgrou ...
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By Vassil Hits: 12025
[History]
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Ferdinand Marcos - President of the Philippines, 1917-1989
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A trained lawyer, Marcos was convicted of assassinating a political opponent of his father in 1939 and, from his condemned cell, argued his case up to the Philippine Surpreme Court, where he won an acquittal.
During the Second World War, Marco ...
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By Vassil Hits: 678
[History]
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New Orleans My Home - Katrina My Nightmare
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Whether Katrina is seen as a disaster, a scourge or a purge it is hard to believe that it can dislodge the deep culture and uniqueness that makes up this city known as New Orleans. From its long history in the hands of the Spanish the French and then ...
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By Rev. Michael Bresciani Hits: 7436
[Current Events]
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Russia's Idled Spies
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On November 11, 2002, Sweden expelled two Russian diplomats for spying on radar and missile guidance technologies for the JAS 39 British-Swedish Gripen fighter jet developed by Telefon AB LM Ericsson, the telecommunications multinational. The Russian ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 2010
[Current Events]
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Epidemic of Anger as SMOKERS go to WAR
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Going to burn both ends of the candle with this subject on the smoking ban in public places.
The government have already taken away our parental rights where a prison sentence hangs over our heads if we chastise our children with a sma ...
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By kacycarr Hits: 21451
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America's Second Civil War
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Reprinted with permission from:
"The Second Civil War in the USA and its Aftermath" by Sam Vaknin (second, revised impression, 2029)
Summary of Chapter 83
"The polities of the nineteenth and twentieth cent ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 24614
[Commentary]
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The Costs of Coalition Building
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Foreign aid, foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) have become weapons of mass persuasion, deployed in the building of both the pro-war, pro-American coalition of the willing and the French-led counter "coalition of the squealing".
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 21068
[Current Events]
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Vojvodina - The Hungarian Kosovo
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In October 2005, Parliamentary Assembly of Europe members tabled a draft resolution castigating the human rights situation in the province of Vojvodina. As EU accession looms larger for Serbia and Montenegro, such resolutions are bound to proliferate ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 6995
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The Gulf between Baghdad and Doha
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On April 8, 2003, in a testimony before the Senate Steel Caucus, industry executives urged legislators to ignore the future decision of a World Trade Organization appeals panel, widely expected to uphold an earlier preliminary ruling that U.S.-impose ...
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By Sam Vaknin Hits: 24002
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