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A 100 Euro banknote is placed on top of a 100 yuan banknote in this picture illustration taken in Beijing, November 7, 2010. Photo: REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic Originally appeared at DWN (German Economic News), translated by Karin exclusively for SouthFront...

It must be hard to be a conservative, insisting that things shouldn’t change – because tradition matters, as that’s what holds societies together. And as far as institutions go, conservatives insist that it’s dangerous to end...

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This is a monologue taken out of extraordinary book and slightly altered to fit the current times as the majority of it is as applicable to today, if not more so, as to the day it was written. I have witheld the author’s name of this excerpt so...

All of us occasionally become the angry, unpleasant, depressed, reactive people we don’t want to be. So what happens in the brain that scatters all our good intentions? Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is one of my all-time...