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Sam Vaknin
Member since 11th August 2005
Occupation: webmaster Sam Vaknin (http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia. Contact him at http://samvak.tripod.com
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06th October 2005
Milosevic and his cronies stand accused of plundering Serbia's
wealth - both pecuniary and natural. Yet, the media tends to confuse
three modes of action with two diametrically opposed goals. There
was state sanctioned capital flight. Gold and forei...
Views: 210
06th October 2005
A few of my colleagues in the international media compared the
latest clashes between Albanians and Macedonians in Macedonia to the
two Palestinian intifadas ("uprisings" in 1987-93 and from September
2000) in Israel. In doing so, they demonstrated ...
Views: 241
04th October 2005
Why the Beatles Made More Money than Einstein
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
Why did the Beatles generate more income in one year than Albert
Einstein did throughout his long career?
The reflexive answer i...
Views: 68
04th October 2005
I live in the outskirts of an imploding empire. Fuzzy human figures,
bloodied in black and white, lynch senior politicians in full view
of cameras. The parliament building is smoking. When empires die -
and Yugoslavia has always been a Serbian empir...
Views: 170
03rd October 2005
The mad glint in his eyes is likely to be nothing more ominous than
maladjusted contact lenses. If not clean shaven, he is likely to
sport nothing wilder than a goatee. More likely an atheist than a
priest, this mutation of the ageless confidence ar...
Views: 202
03rd October 2005
Winning the European CAP (Common Agricultural Policy)
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
According to a June 2005 OECD report, and contrary to popular, media- fostered impressions, farm subsidies are being phased o...
Views: 221
03rd October 2005
In her book "The Culture of Lies", University of Pennsylvania, 1998,
the Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic says:
"The Yugoslav war is a dispiriting tale about human solidarity. Very
few people sympathized with the Slovenes, when the war began, just ...
Views: 197
03rd October 2005
6. Serbs were always anti-Western and the USA was First Involved
Militarily in the Balkans during the Kosovo Crisis
The First World War pitted the most unlikely enemies against one
another. Austria, Turkey's most avowed enemy, attacked Turkey's
o...
Views: 226
03rd October 2005
12. The Disintegration of Yugoslavia was Inevitable
Milosevic came to power (1987-9) on waves of popular support for his
rabid nationalism and fake anti-establishment credentials. His first
actions were directed at the Kosovo Albanians. He revoked ...
Views: 195
28th September 2005
To Give with Grace
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
Yankee Go Home. Nato is Nazo. American trash culture. The graffiti
adorn every wall, the contempt seems to be universal. A...
Views: 161
27th September 2005
The Future of the Book
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
One of the first acts of the French National Assembly in 1789 was to
issue this declaration: "The free communication of though...
Views: 184
27th September 2005
The Golden Sham - Privatizing with Golden Shares
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
In a rare accord, both the IMF and independent analysts, have
cautioned Bulgaria in early 2002 that...
Views: 279
27th September 2005
Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant
Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West
Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review,
PopMatters, Bellaonline, and e...
Views: 176
27th September 2005
The Internet in the Countries in Transition
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
Though the countries in transition are far from being an homogeneous
lot, there are a few denomin...
Views: 158
27th September 2005
The Last Family
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
There is no word for it in Russian. Platon Karatayev, the
typical "Russian soul" in Tolstoy's "War and Peace", extols, for
pa...
Views: 195
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