Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He is a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, and eBookWeb , a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory Bellaonline, and Suite101 . Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia. Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com/palma@unet.com.mk To improve your Physics, visit SD Tutor Advisor.com - http://www.tutoradvisor.com.sg/ We have a list of Physics Tutors for your Physics Tuition.
Corruption And Transparency I. The Facts Just days before a much-awaited donor conference, the influential International Crisis Group (ICG) recommended to place all funds pledged to Macedonia under the oversight of a "corruptio...... Similar Editorial : Spyware Causes Corruption by Jesse Miller. | Source : Bankruptcy
Narcissism In The Boardroom The perpetrators of the recent spate of financial frauds in the USA acted with callous disregard for both their employees and shareholders - not to mention other stakeholders. Psychologists have ofte...... Similar Editorial : What is Narcissism by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Bankruptcy
The Wages Of Science In the United States, Congress approved, last month, increases in the 2003 budgets of both the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. America is not alone in - vainly - trying...... Similar Editorial : Straddling the Science by Maya Talisman Frost. | Source : Bankruptcy
The Morality Of Child Labor From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO's often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebook...... Similar Editorial : The New Morality by Tushar Jain. | Source : Bankruptcy
OPECs Swan Song? Indonesia's Energy Minister, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, is unhappy with the modest production cut, from June 1, of 2 million barrels per day, adopted by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries la...... Similar Editorial : Song Demos by Tom Gauger. | Source : Bankruptcy
Begging Your Trust In Africa The syntax is tortured, the grammar mutilated, but the message - sent by snail mail, telex, fax, or e-mail - is coherent: an African bigwig or his heirs wish to transfer funds amassed in years of gra...... Similar Editorial : Im Begging You by Thad Greer. | Source : Bankruptcy
The Self-Appointed Altruists Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple...... Source : Bankruptcy
The Ecology Of Environmentalism The concept of "nature" is a romantic invention. It was spun by the likes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century as a confabulated utopian contrast to the dystopia of urbanization and materiali...... Source : Bankruptcy
Bankers In Denial Denial is a ubiquitous psychological defense mechanism. It involves the repression of bad news, unpleasant information, and anxiety-inducing experiences. Judging by the German press, the country is i...... Similar Editorial : Bankers Banks by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. | Source : Bankruptcy Help
The Narcissist In The Workplace To a narcissist-employer, the members of his "staff" are Secondary Sources of Narcissistic Supply. Their role is to accumulate the supply (in human speak, remember events that support the grandiose s...... Similar Editorial : The Cyber Narcissist by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Bankruptcy Help
Bosnia - An Economy In Search Of A State Bosnia-Herzegovina (heretofore "Bosnia") is an artificial polity with four, tangentially interacting, economies. Serbs, Croats and their nominal allies, the Bosniaks each maintain their own economy. ...... Source : Starting a Franchise
Slovenia - The Star Pupil The most exciting event in Slovenia last week was when a group of young army recruits spat on the national flag and sang the anthem of the now defunct former Yugoslavia. They were sent to a military ...... Similar Editorial : Slovenia Property by Kelly Price. | Source : Starting a Franchise
The Second Coming In Albania Blessed with Chinese GDP growth rates (7-8% annually in each of the last 3 years) and German inflation (4%, down from 32% in 1997, mostly attributable to increases in energy and housing costs), it is...... Similar Editorial : Coming Soon by Evander Klum. | Source : Starting a Franchise
Monitoring Macedonia Close to 500,000 people - one in four - live under the poverty line in a country where the average monthly salary is less than 150 US dollars. More than one in three members of the workforce are chro...... Similar Editorial : Your Monitoring Options by Frank Fourchalk. | Source : Starting a Franchise
Russias Vodka Wars Vodka is a crucial component in Russian life. And in Russian death. Alcohol-related accidents and cardiac arrests have already decimated Russian life expectancy by well over a decade during the last decade alone.
Vodka is also big business. The brand "Stolichnaya" sells $2 billion a yea... Source : Best Tequila
