Abbas Bakhtiar
Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar lives in Norway. He is a management consultant and a contributing writer for many online journals.
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Articles by Abbas Bakhtiar
February 22, 2009
The worst is not; So long as we can say, "This is the worst." (William Shakespeare)
It is said that today is pregnant with tomorrow. What and how we have done things in the past has shaped out today and what and how we do things today determine the shape of our future. To see into the future of ...
March 23, 2008
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." (Woody Allen)
By now it should be clear to all but the craziest of optimists that we are in a recession, at least in US. What is not clear, however, is the severity of this recession and if this will turn into a depression. A technica...
March 16, 2008
This first warning about the coming financial crisis was first given by this author in 2006. He wrote two other articles in late 2006 and early 2007 describing the effects of the financial crisis. His latest article deals primarily with the evolving crisis in the US and the world. He predicts a further fall in the value of the dollar and the possibility of long-term recession in the US and elsewhere.
October 01, 2007
"Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity". Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Every now and then when some poor country is about to receive some American military attention, the American people are prepared by an intense and unceasing pro...
September 21, 2007
Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war (Julius Caesar Act III, Scene I). The call for war against Iran was issued by no other than Mr. Bernard Kouchner the foreign minister of France, a country with the motto of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. France the home of Voltaire and Rousseau is now cal...
May 07, 2007
“Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were ...
March 18, 2007
“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of...
February 16, 2007
It is said that “honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.” I recently wrote an article “Iran vs Saudi Arabia” in which I criticised some religious elements in Saudi Arabia for financing and spreading the xenophobic and extremist Wahhab...
February 06, 2007
“To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on...
January 25, 2007
Titus Livius (59 B.C.–A.D. 17) the Roman historian once said that men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. These days Mr. Ahmadinejad, the man the West loves to hate, is in hot waters in Iran. He is blamed for almost everything that has gone wrong with ...
January 10, 2007
It is said that there is more than one way to skin a cat. It seems that United States is trying to skin this cat –Iran- in anyway that it can, including economic strangulation. While people are concerned with Iraq and the gathering armada in the Persian Gulf, United States has been quietly carrying ...
January 08, 2007
On Saturday 30th Dec 2006 at approximately 5:45 AM, former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging at the former headquarters of Saddam's military intelligence where many of his victims were executed in the same gallows. Shortly after the execution, the Iraqi government released a ...
October 23, 2006
Once a week, I watch the American CBS TV program: the 60 minutes. This time part of the program was about the latest fad among some teenagers: beating homeless people, some resulting in death. The reporters had obtained the footage of a security camera which showed how four young men beat an unfortu...