http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@a1articles.com 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_11389_30.html 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 ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_11363_57.html 06th 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_11165_21.html 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_11005_30.html 04th 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10987_51.html 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10983_30.html 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 ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10874_29.html 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10873_29.html 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 ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10872_29.html 03rd October 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10336_24.html 28th 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10217_50.html 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10216_15.html 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10211_30.html 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10203_25.html 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... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10200_30.html 27th September 2005 The Magla Vocables By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The Macedonians have a word for it - "Magla", fog. It signifies the twin arts of duplicity and ambiguity. In the mental asylum tha... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10195_30.html 27th September 2005 The Matrix Revisited By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" It is easy to confuse the concepts of "virtual reality" and a "computerized model of reality (simulation)". The former i... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10191_11.html 27th September 2005 The Medium and the Message By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" A debate is raging in e-publishing circles: should content be encrypted and protected (the erstwhile Barnes and Noble or D... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10190_15.html 27th September 2005 The Pettifogger Procurators By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Four years ago, the most unusual event has gone unnoticed in the international press. A former minister of finance has ac... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10179_30.html 27th September 2005 The Rip van Winkle Institutions By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The West - naive, provincial and parochial - firmly believed that the rot was confined to the upper echelons ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10166_30.html 27th September 2005 The Russian Devolution - Regions and Center in Putin's Russia By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" A centerpiece of President's Putin overhaul of Russia is the reversion to the K... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10164_30.html 27th September 2005 The Technology of Law, The Law of Technology By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" "The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_10151_45.html 27th September 2005 The Eureka Connection By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" A common, guttural cry of "Eureka" echoed as the peoples of East Europe and the Balkans emerged from the Communist steam bath. It was at once an expression... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8991_24.html 15th September 2005 The Expat Experts By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll wrote: "Curtsy while you're thinking of something to say. It saves time." What a missed career. He should h... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8990_15.html 15th September 2005 The Encroachment of the Public By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" As Aristotle and John Stuart Mill observed, the private sphere sets limits, both normative and empirical, to the rights, powers, and obligations... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8989_24.html 15th September 2005 The Author of This Article is a Racist By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Or, so say many of the readers who react vehemently - not to say minaciously - to my articles. They insist that I demonize, chastise, disp... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8987_30.html 15th September 2005 The Demise of the West? By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The edifice of the "international community" and the project of constructing a "world order" rely on the unity of liberal ideals at the core of the organ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8971_30.html 15th September 2005 The Books of the Damned By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" "I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical transactions and proceedings, ultra-respectable, but covered with the dust of disreg... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8970_30.html 15th September 2005 Jamaican OverDrive - Outsourcing and Offshoring Case Study By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) tried and failed to find proof or traces of widespread ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8711_29.html 12th September 2005 Knowledge and Power By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" "Knowledge is Power" goes the old German adage. But power, as any schoolboy knows, always has negative and positive sides to it. Information exhibits the sam... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8700_24.html 12th September 2005 "He knows not how to rule a kingdom, that cannot manage a province; nor can he wield a province, that cannot order a city; nor he order a city, that knows not how to regulate a village; nor he a village, that cannot guide a family; nor can that man ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8456_30.html 09th September 2005 "Sustainable Development" is a worn out cliché - but not where it matters the most: in developing countries. There, unconstrained "development" has led to inter-ethnic strife, environmental doom, and economic mayhem. In the post Cold War era, cent... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8428_30.html 09th September 2005 "...An experience with an adult may seem merely a curious and pointless game, or it may be a hideous trauma leaving lifelong psychic scars. In many cases the reaction of parents and society determines the child's interpretation of the event. What wo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8422_30.html 09th September 2005 The advent of cloning, surrogate motherhood, and the donation of gametes and sperm have shaken the traditional biological definition of parenthood to its foundations. The social roles of parents have similarly been recast by the decline of the nucle... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8402_40.html 09th September 2005 History teaches us that there are two types of tyrants. Those who preserve the structures and forces that carry them to power - and those who, once they have attained their goal of unbridled domination, seek to destroy the organizations and people t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8348_30.html 09th September 2005 Wherever interests meet - they tend to clash. Disputes are an inevitable and inseparable part of commercial life. Mankind invented many ways to settle disputes. Each way relies on a different underlying principle. Generally speaking, there are four ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8304_15.html 09th September 2005 Internet Advertising - What Went Wrong? By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Spielberg's blockbuster, "Minority Report", is set in the year 2054. The future - at least according to a team of MIT futurologists, hi... http://www.a1articles.com/article_8121_15.html 09th September 2005 Hitler and the Invention of the West By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" In his book - really an extended essay - "Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order" - Robert Kagan claims that the p... http://www.a1articles.com/article_7588_30.html 05th September 2005 What Makes a Leader? By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" How does a leader become a leader? In this article, we are not interested in the historical process but in the answer to the twin questions: what qualifies... http://www.a1articles.com/article_4576_24.html 11th August 2005