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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...y, he didn’t. Not 16 years after he died in Berlin.” Prologue “Pol und Jude” Political and a Jew. It’s around 4 o’clock in the morning. I a... ...“And an important one” – I concur – “When he … when he died, he was the head of the political section of the Jewish Agency.” “You mean when he was... ...Hitler was a different man after the war broke out. It may have been expedience or opportunism, we don’t know. Just listen to what I have to say and... ...s Week predicted ‘a steady decline of jingoistic action against the Jews’. British political commentators concurred: ‘Herr Hitler has not inadverten... ...I knew just the place. **** My favorite deli. Right across the street, the most politically incorrect establishment imaginable: cholesterol dipp... ....” “While still in Budapest, in 1928, I went to hear a speech by the Head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency. At first I was taken a...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...nd corrupted by vacuous materialism. Recent accounting scandals, crumbling markets, political scams, human rights violations, technological setbacks... ...te with an eschatology, which involves a changing cast of demonized "enemies", both political and cultural. Read about American eschatology HERE. ... ...ten one and the same. The global spread of American influence through its culture, political alliances, science and multinationals is merely an ext... ...try succeed to thus transform itself? The paper attributes America's success to its political stability, neglecting to mention its pluralism and mul... ...oft power works through attraction ... Our attractiveness rests on our culture, our political values and our policies by taking into account the int... ...through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean. This might also explain his characteristic opportunism - quite atypical for a self-proclaimed warrior of fa...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... released them all. ... To punish a simple outbreak of private passion in which no political element was involved [the prefect] had to mobilize the... ...t that time. This was the modus operandi of all military-organized ideological and political groups. And, taking everything into account, the IMRO ... ...ust in the inevitable triumph of a just claim. The Macedonians were never worse off politically, having contributed no less - if not more - than any... ... new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia). These political Lego games led to enormous population shifts - the pol... ...public of Macedonia is today ruled by a party called VMRO-DPMNE. It is one of a few political parties to carry this name and the biggest and weighti... ...ble the conflicts. Rabid nationalism against utopian regionalism, fascism (really, opportunism) versus liberalism, religion- tinted traditionalism (...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...n office of “Curentul” in Munich a letter sent from the Istanbul camp for political refugees. A small writing, nervous and legible, expanding on fou... ...wards surrealism the Prevertian heredity (Claude Le Roy) and towards “the political significance the holding of silence” (Jean-Michel Levenard). ... ...epressed the hesitation 20 and decided, in compensation, on a resolute political exploration, in which complete actions are taken. Let us come b... ...ious enemy of totalitarianism, which oppresses postmodernism, it was, in a political translation, the necrology of communism. Postmodernism promotes,... ...space, in which are included specific discourses: pragmatic, literary and political discourse, psycho- and biosemiotic matters, design, artificial i... ...ams”) and a couple of other texts based on ludic coincidences and lexical opportunism skillfully reevaluated. We are yet on the ground of an absurd ... ...ious parable on totalitarianism, on alienation, guilty obedience and lie, opportunism, cruelty, violence, monstrosity”, marking “a new dimension of ...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

... creating a scandal, and so they can easily circulate without religious or political censure attacking them, as instead happens later on with Socrat... ... fear and overcoming it, will go around it, if they can, through lying and opportunism”. THE FULLNESS OF BEING “The fullness of being is a fu...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...octors' class, held at Dr. Lee's breakfast table, he brought up articles and political cartoons for discussions. Everything from the continuing menace... ...age him he would be a pussycat purring on my lap and you guys could make any political cartoon on him you pleased." The Africans once said that the m... ... decency to keep the Christian constituents, brethren of Israel, happy. Its political engagements were for its own economic and military hegemony ins... ...he wanted to keep Nathaniel in a state preserved from society's lies, guile, opportunism, greed, and barbarity. She also wanted this private and perso...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about in- numerable social and political questions, questions I could not keep out of my work, which it di... ...not already a little interested and open- minded with regard to social and political questions, and a little exercised in self-examination, you will f... ... has seen. It is now our terrestrial experience that whenever economic and political developments set a class free to travel, that class at once be- g... ...e managed electrically from common gen- erating stations. And the trend of political and social specu- lation points decidedly to the conclusion that ... ...red to be subordinate and subsequent to this general science of Sociology. Political economy and economics, in our world now, consist of a hope- less ... ...sh-speaking movement. And his ideas were coloured too much by the peculiar opportunism of his time; he seemed to have more than half an eye for a prin...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...s in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as aspects of one universal evolving scheme, and placing al... ...ld as aspects of one universal evolving scheme, and placing all social and political activities in a defined relation to that; and to this general met... ...e writer, out- side the complications of practical politics, some man who, politically, “doesn’t matter,” to provide the first tentatives of a politic... ...haps quite a great number of ethical, social, and 6 Mankind in the Making political questions there is no absolute “truth” at all—at least for finite... ...rame a gen- eral theory in accordance with modern conditions of social and political activity. This is one man’s proposal, his attempt to supply a nee... ...icable way of escape is to be found for any one, from that base and shifty opportunism in public and social matters, that pre- dominance of fluctuatin...

...ons,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...rd to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various political opinions on unessential points or their personal attach ments;... ...d so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we coun tenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter an... ...nd exact justice to all men, of what ever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, en t... ...eroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which t... ...a false guide, and to advance under its counsel in their physical, moral, or political condition is perilous innovation; that their duty is to remain ... ...voices are heard as we face a great decision. Comfort says, “Tarry a while.” Opportunism says, “This is a good spot.” Timidity asks, “How difficult is... ...ht of the spirit and purpose of our Na tion, we will not listen to Comfort, Opportunism, and Timidity. We will carry on. Overwhelmingly, we of the Re...

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