Vanishing Cyprus

There is a positive move in the air between Mustafa Akinci and Nicos Anastasiades but one has to wait and see what happens next. What is for certain however, under the present climate, Cyprus is to become a two...

The Anastasiades government is determined to resolve the Cyprus issue one way or another. This is probably an IMF EU-Troika mnimonio memorandum condition that no politician dares to talk about openly. It is not certain, but public sentiment indicates...

While citizens across the Eurozone are squeezed with crippling austerity measures, today’s 28 million unemployed prove that EU policies have not worked for the greater good of the people. Realistically, employment was never a part of the EU master...

  When citizens in a democracy are deprived of the right to a referendum, a pseudo-democratic system will take root and ultimately erode people’s rights and lead to tyranny. Equally, some others will argue that direct democracy in essence embodies...

Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BCE) often walked out in broad daylight carrying a lit lamp claiming that he was looking for an Honest Man (Anthropo) but all he could find was nothing but scoundrels; his philosophic cynicism then, is...

Cyprus, for one more time in its turbulent history, finds itself smack in the middle of international geopolitical interests. It also faces a barrage of unprovoked military threats by none other than the Neo-Ottoman bully of the Eastern Mediterranean...

Unregulated globalization driven by an unquenchable thirst for consumerism can be considered one of the many contributing factors to the ravaging socio-economic turmoil of modern times. The gap between the “haves” and the "have nots” has become so great,...

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a famous phrase asks: “To be, or not to be, that is the question!” That question is also valid when it comes to the Cyprus issue: to negotiate, or not to negotiate, that is the...

The existing turbulent debt crisis in the Eurozone is only the tip of the iceberg before the real storm destabilizes the lives of millions of citizens of the perceived mythological “EU happy family”. Debt-ridden EU countries are confronted with a...

The United States Office of Strategic Services, analyzed Hitler’s greatest propagandist, Joseph Goebbel’s rule on persuasion and mass control as follows: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may...