Corona Pandemic: Oligarchs and Politicians Do Not Let a Crisis Go to Waste

Corona Pandemic: Oligarchs and Politicians Do Not Let a Crisis Go to Waste

Strict measures -even extraordinary ones- are of course required to deal with the tumult flowing from an unleashed global pandemic. But the people must be watchful and remain ever vigilant of the conduct of their leaders. There will be threats related to state restrictions on personal freedom, as well as those in the sphere of…

North Macedonia Accession to NATO Aims to Maintain Unipolarity in Multipolarity Age

North Macedonia Accession to NATO Aims to Maintain Unipolarity in Multipolarity Age

Bulgaria says there is no Macedonian language but rather it is a Bulgarian dialect. There is academic consensus that the Ancient Macedonians were Greek. Albanians claim nearly half of North Macedonia in their project for Greater Albania. North Macedonia is a complex and complicated country, but despite this fact, on Friday, it became NATO’s thirtieth…

“The Russians are Coming”

“The Russians are Coming”

“The Russians are coming”, a phrase allegedly uttered by US Secretary of Defense James Forrestal while suffering from mental illness in 1949, is still in use today by certain media outlets (at the behest of, as conspiracy theorists would say, American and British intelligence agencies). And recently, this “prophecy” has indeed come to pass. The…

The Power of Fear

The Power of Fear

Fear is an instrument of social control and repression. Time and again, terrified people bow to the will of their ruling authorities even when harming their own rights and well-being. The philosopher Seneca once said that “(t)here are more things…likely to frighten us than there are to crush us. We suffer more often in imagination…