By John Metzler PARIS — The albatross of the debt crisis continues to dominate headlines throughout the European Union and indeed the United States. While whopping budget deficits and massive social service obligations serve as a millstone to European economic recovery, many economists are nervously looking to the long term stability of the Euro currency […]
In the centuries before our times, the Western nations called outstanding works in art and philosophy works of genius. Ironically, Russia had been producing creators and thinkers of genius until genius in art and philosophy had been killed before Stalin’s death (1953) by Stalin and his propaganda, according to which there was one source of […]
There is an opinion that the cause of slavery is the historic backwardness of the country. Actually, the cause of slavery is the same as that of other crimes: their impunity. Slavery is one of the gravest crimes, for the criminal robs his victim of everything except what is needed for a slave to carry […]
Before the 20th century, the history of the world was taught in the West as a single global story. The key concepts in the Western studies of history were “developed” and “underdeveloped” (countries). The West was mostly developed and the world outside the West mostly underdeveloped. The developed countries, where slavery was only a historic […]
Since the future of our world is likely to be decided by WW3, it may be of interest to predict its outcome. Owing to my obsession with freedom, I emigrated from Russia with my wife, our son, my mother, and several hundred strangers (the purpose of the owners of Russia was to create the fantastic […]
In a democratic country, everyone may have his or her own vision of the country’s political course after the election. Under Lenin, who died (1924) and was buried grandly, there had been no election, since elections are “tricks of bourgeois propaganda.” It was assumed that the “people” had considered Lenin’s power — their power. However, […]
