The English language is often hailed as the "international language", but it is not the global language. In fact, the global language will have to ad… - Thorsten Pattberg

Communism and capitalism were made for scale and the masses, and scale and the masses are now in Asia.

The smallest leaves and twigs will bend and break... If our criteria was 'longevity', however, we would be safest to bet on the two great branches of World History, the East and the West.

A Greek invention, democracy is highly overrated. For starters, it never worked in Greece. The first philosophers were fascists and, even today, 2,500 years later, the 'cradle of Western civilization' remains an incompetent state. Roman emperors and a vengeful, authoritarian God are the true European success stories.