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Kosovo is checking the strength of the Balkans

11:57 22.09.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Kosovo is checking the strength of the Balkans

The Balkans often bring the most experienced politicians to a standstill. Here you feel yourself in a space from Kurosawa's famous movie "Rashomon," where everyone has their own truth, and the truth is bathed in blood. "Hate each other, but do not kill" - this strange call came from the …

East and West: Behind the Veil of Ignorance

15:00 08.09.2011 Armen Oganesyan

East and West: Behind the Veil of Ignorance

A WEEK BEFORE TRIPOLI FELL to the insurgents, a glamour model and ex-girlfriend of Mutassim, one of Colonel Gaddafi's sons, had come to the Libyan capital. Talitha van Zon, the former Playboy centerfold, who claimed that she had parted with Mutassim Gaddafi several years ago, could not explain why she …

Burying the Middle Class, or The Fall of the Golden Billion

15:00 01.09.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Burying the Middle Class, or The Fall of the Golden Billion

THE CURRENT ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, like others before it, has shattered many dreams. But this is the first to have devastated so many people at once, regardless of class or social status - from pauper to prince. Thanks, globalization. Well, globalization is not entirely to blame. A crisis like the present …

One Hundred and Sixty Million Women Liquidated ... Without a Single Shot Being Fired!

15:00 01.09.2011 Armen Oganesyan

One Hundred and Sixty Million Women Liquidated ... Without a Single Shot Being Fired!

DUTCH JOURNALIST Mara Hvistendahl comes to the conclusion in her book Unnatural Selection that mankind today is missing 160 million women. Most of these missing females are not victims of neglect. Choosing boys over girls was a conscious choice that deprived girls of their right to life in their mothers' …

Gendercide

21:58 25.08.2011 Armen Oganesyan

The world's population will reach 7 billion by October 31, 2011. Though the UN and other international institutions will in various ways hail the development, it is an open secret that the population growth constantly bothers members of the global elite. David Rockefeller eloquently summarized their fears when he said: …

Weeding Out Humans Seems to Be an Impending Plan

15:24 18.08.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Weeding Out Humans Seems to Be an Impending Plan

Population reports project that there are going to be 7 billion of us on this planet by October 31, 2011. No doubt, international institutions – from the UN to lightweights – will be dishing out nicely worded statements on the occasion, but it takes no effort to sense the undercurrent …

Henry Kissinger on Historical Memory and World War III

15:00 01.08.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Henry Kissinger on Historical Memory and World War III

ON MAY 17, Henry Kissinger's latest book On China reached the American bookshops. This is a book about China but the panoramic thinking of the "last of the Mohicans" of international politics extended beyond China, a starting point for the man whose vast experience and an absolute relevance of whose …

Obama vs. Republicans: Patriotism put to Test

8:10 14.07.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Obama vs. Republicans: Patriotism put to Test

One of the paradoxes we are witnessing these days is that financial embarrassments hit the world's richest countries. The US Administration has no money for social security payments, while Brussels struggles to mobilize sufficient funds to keep its debt-ridden economies – Greece and Portugal – afloat and faces the prospects …

Gaddafi is not a Friend of Mine, but Truth is in All Cases a Better Friend

15:51 16.06.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Gaddafi is not a Friend of Mine, but Truth is in All Cases a Better Friend

A Western journalist boorishly asked Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, former head of Russia's Kalmykia and acting president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) who was giving a press conference in the wake of a tour of Libya, whether he had asked for NATO permit to cross into the country. Asking the media …

New Year in Reverse

15:00 26.05.2011 Armen Oganesyan

New Year in Reverse

IN RESPONSE to my lamenting about how difficult it is to choose a topic for an article at New Year, a historian I know said with a shrewd wink: "Write about New Year 'in reverse.'" Anticipating my bewilderment, he went on to say that he has long used this kind …

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