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After the primaries – expectations for the troubled future of the French left

Rositsa Garcheva Sunday 29.01.2017 the "official" French left organized the final phase of the vote for the nomination of its presidential candidate. Approximately two million citizens participated. The result: a victory with 58.8% for the representative of the left spectrum of the coalition "Beautiful People's Alliance" Benoit Ammon against a little more than 41% for his opponent - the former Prime Minister ...

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A Voter's Guide in the Age of Populism - Part I. An ABC for Rumor Management

Krasen Stanchev Definition Rumors are officially or documentary-factual-statistically unconfirmed messages that are put into circulation both in interpersonal and official information channels. Conditions for the sustainability of rumors: a. Plausibility (a grain of truth) concealing disinformation; b. Reliability (connection with generally accepted beliefs and ideas about human nature); c. The alleged …

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Monthly Macroeconomic Monitor: State of the Bulgarian Economy at the End of 2016

growth of the Bulgarian economy

Dear readers, We at EKIP believe that in order for a society to be free and able to navigate the contemporary economic and political situation, it must first and foremost be informed. That is why we have decided to start a new monthly column "Macroeconomic Monitor", in which we present an interactive graphical overview and …

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Immigrants vs. Juncker! Brexit reaches the Court in Luxembourg.

For many people, mostly with more left-wing ideological views, the past year was bad and even scandalous because of Donald Trump and Brexit. However, neither Trump has begun his reign, nor Brexit is a fact, so there is no need for hasty conclusions and mass hysteria. Quite the opposite – the focus should be on …

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Donald Trump – the visible and the invisible in trade

“In economics, every action, custom, institution, or law, produces not just one result, but a series of consequences. Of all of them, only one consequence is immediate; it appears simultaneously with the cause (and the action); it is visible. The other consequences appear later; they are invisible; we are lucky if we can foresee them.” …

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Harm reduction: Psychedelics 101

Every culture known to us from history (with the sole exception of the Eskimos) has had its own potions, mushrooms, herbs for visions, meetings with the gods, spiritual growth. The Aztecs and Indians have their Peyote cactus (from which Mescaline is extracted), the Mayans have Ayahuasca, the Thracians in our lands had a selection of …

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