Dictatorial regimes usually like to bully small ordinary people into submission. They think just because they have absolute power that they will succeed against the underdog. However, famous American writer Mark Twain once wrote, “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight. It is the size of the fight in the dog.” In […]
In recent days, Pakistan arrested the mastermind behind the Mumbai terror attacks. Hafez Mohammed Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Toiba, a Pakistani-based terror organization, organized a series of terror attacks in Mumbai, India in 2008. The targets included a train station, two expensive hotels and a Chabad synagogue. 166 people were murdered in these coordinated terror […]
What He Doesn’t Want Us to Know About the “Great Patriotic War“ Avoidance, lies and accusations–somersaulting history–have undergirded Moscow’s aggression for centuries. Western ignorance, naivete and credulity have multiplied that asset, allowing Russia to enrich the former to weapons grade. In Nezavisimaya newspaper earlier this year, Putin advisor Vladislav Surkov wrote expansively of Russia’s success […]
How post-imperial democracies die: A comparison of #WeimarGermany and post-Soviet #Russia. With Steffen Kailitz of the HAIT @TUDresden_DE and @DVPW_Vergleich in @Elsevier‘s “#Communist and Post-Communist Studies” #politics#politicalscience#democratization academia.edu link Researchgate.net link Sciencedirect.com link While socioeconomic crisis – like in Germany after World War I and in Russia after the Cold War – is a necessary […]
