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Drawing a distinction between circular and linear time is only one of many possible divisions. It can coexist and overlap with sacrum and profanum, ecological and structural as well as with objective and subjective time. Moreover, the very same event, such as for example the rite of initiation, by most community members considered as a manifest of circular time, by individuals can be seen as linear...
The al-Qaeda terrorist attacks upon the United States on September 11, 2001, in the Western countries commonly acknowledged to be the turning-point in relations with the Islamic world, were merely a reflection of the growing from several decades Muslims' dislike for the West of which initially the most important reason was the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, unsolved from 1948. However, the actual situation...
After winning the presidential election in December 1998, Hugo Chávez undertook a fundamental reorganization of the Venezuelan foreign policy and proclaimed the Bolivarian Revolution, referring directly to the Simón Bolívar's legacy and aiming to build 'the socialism of the 20th century' in Venezuela, based on the petroleum export profits. However, the revolutionary rhetoric used by the new president...