In response to the evident breakdown of the neoliberal order in the first among equals of Europe, France and Germany, I cannot but echo what my grandmother would have said, and murmur “well, I told you so”. Not just me. Anyone with half a decent grasp on reality.
Last night I was watching a clip from a 2004 debate between Christopher Hitchens and Michael Parenti on the Iraq war. Or, more correctly: on the bloody…
I’ve always found the drama between online personalities distasteful. Especially on the socialist left where we’re supposed to know better. With the…
Controversy and extremism sell. Attention is money. Controversy grabs attention. It’s a rotten field for a media game that is not game of leisure, but…
This is I, As the Darkness, in peace, I rest, From the dark waters, as the mind, I rise, As the mother, I generate and am generated I am the content and…
Intransigence breeds revolt. The Dowager Empress Cixi of the Qing dynasty gripped the reins of power, and held China fixed under a stultifying regime of…
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The fading embers of empire serve as a cradle for fascism. A faction of the ruling class, usually just below the upper tier, (what I call the Janus…
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Chris Hedges once said that the great failing of modern Christianity in the USA has been that, in the name of misplaced toleration, the churches ceded…
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