26/09/11 | POLITICS AND THE SUBCULTURES: Layout of ages, trends, personalities Hippie, the New Left, counter-culture of the end of 1960s—beginning of 1970s. Part III What can convey the momentary nature and the feeling of creative spontaneity «here and now» better than music? It’s not surprising the musicians — envoys of the New Left movement and especially the hippie subculture — were tremendously significant. For the first time in human history musicians, their behavior, lifestyle, and ideas became a role model and cult.

	19/09/11 | EUROPE OF DICTATORS OR THE FORGOTTEN PAGES OF “COMMON HISTORY” Dictators have never been alone in their outlooks. In the 1930s—1940s millions of radical right-wing extremists acted in Europe. Fascism wasn’t something that occurred to Germany or Italy alone. This was a pan-European trend.

07/09/11 | IRAN HAS NOWHERE TO HURRY Being a civilization state, Iran will strive to restore its influence in Iraq, which belonged to it for quite a time. Americans, who have actually destroyed the Iraqi statehood, have obviously sacrificed its southern part to future possession by Iran. Establishment of Iranian political control over the major part of Iraq that falls into pieces is merely a matter of time. A state with a history of 50 centuries can always wait for an appropriate moment to come.

02/09/11 | POLITICS AND SUBCULTURES: LAYOUT OF EPOCHS, TRENDS AND FACES: Hippies, New Lefts: counter-culture of the end of the 60s—beginning of the 70s. Part II Contemporary rebellions don’t come as a surprise for the authorities. Something quite kin to the recent London events happened in Los-Angeles in 1992 and in Paris in 2005. Watching from without, it’s difficult to get rid of the thought that London violence in 2011 was ritual and entertaining of a kind. It’s like Anthony Burgess’ «clockwork oranges» emerged in the middle of 2011 straight from the 60s! And reasons for their anger (apart from the socially-racial ones and an indefinite «fight against the system») still remain unidentified. It’s clear that we’ve once again faced the turmoil, which spread over youth subcultures — the entire variety of them.

01/09/11 | POLITICS AND SUBCULTURES: LAYOUT OF EPOCHS, TRENDS AND FACES. Hippies, New Lefts: counter-culture of the end of the 60s—beginning of the 70s. Part I Guy Debord, founding member of the Situationist International, played an important part in the arrangement of revolutionary sentiments in Paris in 1968. In the middle and the end of 1960s ideas that Debord, beatniks and some other cultural and political activists (like Albert Camus, George Orwell, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Luc Godard, Wilhelm Reich, Leon Trotsky and Mao Zedong) promoted have found a theoretical and practical point of application in the climax of the New Left and hippie movement. Not only mottos of the New Lefts, but the pivotal philosophic postulates and ideologies of the modern congenial political trends (like German Greens) have been inspired by the theoretical legacy of the aforementioned philosophers, writers and politicians.

25/08/11 | GEOPOLITICAL KARMA: IS THE INDIAN UNITY DURABLE ENOUGH? During the last two and a half millennia rare Indian state managed to unite the major part of Indian subcontinent under its authority. All of such periods were brief episodes of Indian history, which make up merely several centuries and may be counted on the fingers of one hand. Is there a guarantee that the current Republic of India is not the similar transient geopolitical phenomenon?

15/08/11 | CITY UPON A HILL: DEJA VU. Historical parallels: the USA and the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was the most outstanding state of the 16th century. And today, watching at every bit as impressive achievements of today’s America, we have to remember that it’s neither unique, not eternal by any means. «Shining city» upon the Ottoman «hill» declined quickly enough. Thank God that its ruins haven’t buried the Western civilization and haven’t stopped it from walking its own evolutionary path to freedom. We wish as much to everyone.

04/08/11 | POLITICS AND THE SUBCULTURES: Layout of ages, trends, personalities Beatniks, the counter-culture When someone mentions «youth rebellions» everyone instantly remembers the 1960s and hippies for some reason, completely missing the point that in the 60s it was the second wave of «rebellions» (not much of «rebellions», as actual «youth» revolutions — author), consistently changing the world and political trend for good and for all. The first «youth rebellions», though, the ones that had no clear programs, clumsy, awkward and raw ones, started in the 1950s.

	22/07/11 | WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA: HISTORY, WRITTEN BY WINNERS Condemning everyone, guilty of Yugoslavian conflict would have only been possible if Hague Tribunal actually was independent. And if American leaders, who haven’t carried any responsibility as of yet, were within its jurisdiction.

13/07/11 | HISTORICAL ALCHEMY OR TRANSFORMATION OF WHITE INTO GREEN. How comes that Pahlavi’s «modernization» ended up with Khamenei’s revolution. Part III We could’ve said a lot more about «white revolution» and certain displays of it. Yet the time to answer why did «white» turn into «green» has come. Why did all the reforms and modernization ended up with Shah’s overthrowing and creation of Islamic Republic of Iran? Did the «white revolution» failed?

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