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Music

A Ray of Light from the Balkans

BY SLOBODAN ANTONIJEVIC Growing up in a country where inflation was measured in thousands and banknotes displayed billions, while at the same time trying to avoid the supposedly democratic, friendly, and for-our-own-good NATO bombs, was certainly a tough and challenging experience for a young man in his late twenties. However, every crisis inevitably produces its adaptive mechanisms; after all, people are, by nature, designed to … Continue reading A Ray of Light from the Balkans

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History

Did Sussex Smugglers Inspire the US Constitution?

BY NIALL McCRAE & SLOBODAN ANTONIJEVIC High taxes levied to fund war, leading to hundreds of thousands of dead conscripts and a shattered economy: since the birth of nations, this pattern has repeated. Sometimes the ordinary people resist, through individual or collective tax avoidance. In the eighteenth century, as the British government waged costly wars with America and France, ruinous duties on imports and exports … Continue reading Did Sussex Smugglers Inspire the US Constitution?

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