Sam Vaknin
Antisemitism Reconsidered
“Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the…
US Public Debt: The Next Great Depression?
Compared with the second quarter of 2022, the government debt to GDP ratio also decreased in both the…
Income, Justice, Fairness: A European Muddle
“Over the past few decades, European societies have witnessed unprecedented increases in inequalities in wealth and income. Faced…
Is Trump a Proto-fascist?
“What we are looking for here is the sort of person that slashes pictures, takes a hammer to…
Hawala: Hamas’s Private Banking
Hamas also controls, not to say appropriates, the $1.1 billion in annual transfers from the Palestinian Authority and…
Nation-states and Minorities: Oxymoron or Ideal?
The same, of course, applies to the convoluted and gory interactions between the Native Americans (aka Indians) and…
Minorities or Immigrants? The Kven and Sami Peoples of Norway
Consider Norway, by far the least plausible candidate for the role of perpetrators of genocide, physical or cultural.…
Kissinger is Dead, Long Live Realpolitik
As the USA’s Founding Fathers knew, universal franchise democracy is a dangerously flawed idea. It empowers the nescient…
Nakba – or Independence War? Fact-checking 1948
As with every protracted conflict, both the Israelis and the Palestinians spew out counterfactual propaganda regarding the events…
USA is the Wrong Model for Europe’s Ailing Hospitals
WHO/Europe is actively working to support countries in addressing these challenges, including providing technical assistance in implementing new…
Who is Defeated in Gaza: Israel or Hamas?
Belgium (Brussels Morning newspaper) Does Khamenei have a point? Has Israel been defeated in Gaza, or at least stymied…
Corruption Reconsidered
Corruption runs against the grain of meritocratic capitalism. It skews the level playing field; it imposes onerous and unpredictable transaction…
Europe Must Cap Executive Pay or Face Labor Unrest
In terms of Purchasing Power Standards (PPS), Europe is still way more equitable than the USA, for instance.…
Next Financial Crisis: Private Equity
Pension funds and other institutional investors are on the hook for the remaining 99% of the capital. The…
Berlin Process: Gaslighting the Western Balkans
The impoverished, hopelessly corrupt, and badly governed countries of the region – Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bosnia Herzegovina,…