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The mass public media play a significant role in providing recipients with the social reality in the current society. Mass media report important information, to the people, from various areas covering politics, economics, health, education, culture, sports, and foreign events. The media is also an intermediary in forming an important public opinion. This critical ability of the media is often manipulated and is misused in favour of exercising the interests of the media owners. Editorial offices do not have the ability to deform the minds of the masses one hundred percent, but they can mediate selected information, to the receivers, which has the effect of slightly modifying their opinion. This contribution offers descriptive and interpretative analysis of some aspects of mass media communication, in a nutshell, with regard to current health and social policy of the Slovak republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contrary to the bygone centuries, the twenty-first century tends to provide a unique pattern of development to the human polity. It not only offers the news about the frequent downfall of authoritarian regimes here and there, but most importantly, it heralds that the unstinting current trend of empires itself is on the death bed in contemporary international relations. This sheds light on the possibility of a new and amiable way of decision making in international politics. The arriving trend is thus different than the pattern hitherto known to mankind, the imperial orthodoxy, where the whole actors are doomed to accept decisions that are being imposed on them from a single inner centre. This one way street has approached to disrupt due to new developments in international relations. At present, the international system displays a uni-multipolar system, which is a unilateralist multipolar system. The realities on the ground reflect incompatibleness of this system to the 21st century. Discernibly, this has generated desperate needs of causing a compatible multi-multipolar system, which is a multilateralist multipolar perspective, as a choice. All cultures-friendly order sounds to emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite neoliberalism's declaration of 'end of history' or that political development always terminate at liberal-capitalist democracy; there is a profound rejection to this premature argument that Western modernity is universally valid. The expanding power and reach of the state as a result of the latest wave of anti-Western Islamic militancy, for instance, is a significant reversal for liberals who anticipated the imminent decline of the nation-state in modern life, based on the belief that globalization is eroding the sovereignty of states. Islamism is a direct challenge to liberal assumptions about economics and politics terminating at a liberal capitalist consensus. Unpredicted challenges of this kind have left liberalism on the back foot, raising doubt whether the linear path to improving the human condition is as straight and as inexorable as they claimed only a few short years ago through facilitating, such measures like enhancing a correlation between Central and Eastern Europe, European Union, and the United States (CEE-EU-US). The failure of inclusiveness to other values presents lack of cooperation, hypocrisy, imperial aspiration, misuse of democracy, the domination of other entities among others. Such possible outcomes of the correlation induce a self-destroying global politics than maintaining the trend. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]