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Other forms of narcissism

A recent headline in The Conversation notes that more and more people are citing “narcissism’ as a legitimate cause for separation or divorce. But couldn’t this be a form of narcissism, itself? An obsession with the very same self- serving attitude that they are accusing the other of?   Nigel […]

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Nicaragua (2): Demonization, prelude to aggression

The intense, intoxicating and well-orchestrated worldwide demonization campaign against the FSLN government has inevitably influenced and obfuscated the vision of many individuals of goodwill who may have a healthy concern about the media-generated torrent of allegations of undemocratic behaviour attributed to the Nicaraguan government.   Francisco Dominguez   June 2016) […]

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Living in Nazi Germany

Jack Nicholson, in the 1975 movie “The passenger”, plays a character who switches his identity with that of someone recently deceased.   Sean Sheehan   A novel with the same title, “The passenger”, was written almost four decades earlier but remained virtually unknown for seventy years. Its main character is […]

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The importance of trust

This article came about after reading a surprising source―an item by two young (early thirties) female investigative journalists on an investigative assignment to a nudist colony.   Nigel Pocock   At the end of their piece, the authors comment on a characteristic of the group that they clearly had not […]