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  • The People of Niger Want to Shatter Resignation

    The People of Niger Want to Shatter Resignation

    Leslie Amine (Benin), Swamp, 2022 In 1958, the poet and trade union leader Abdoulaye Mamani of Zinder (Niger) won an election in his home region against Hamani Diori, one of the founders of the Nigerien Progressive Party. This election result posed a problem for French colonial authorities, who wanted Diori to lead the new Niger. […]

  • Obstacles to the Peaceful Reintegration of Taiwan into the People’s Republic of China

    Obstacles to the Peaceful Reintegration of Taiwan into the People’s Republic of China

    1. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a […]

  • The Road to Totalitarianism (Part 3)

    The Road to Totalitarianism (Part 3)

    So, the Germans are putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes, and, apparently, I’ve already been found guilty and sentenced. Bear with me and I’ll try to explain. The Berlin District Court has issued a so-called “penalty order” or “order of punishment,” in which I am advised that I am now officially a criminal in […]

  • BRICS: A New World Economic and Trading Force?

    Peter Koenig (PressTV Interview – Transcript 23 August 2023 Background The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are holding arguably one of their most important Summits from 22 to 24 August 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Several new countries – up to 40 it is said, including Iran – would like to join […]

  • Conservatives and Communists of the World, Unite!

    Conservatives and Communists of the World, Unite!

    Cosmopolitan — ‘world politics’, ‘world citizen’ — people of many races under a world empire. The word became a meme in the 1890s as British empire blossomed, supposedly the world now united around principles of the free market. Sounds cool. The market is the proven way to run economies. It is neutral, no favorites, harsh […]

  • Grandiose Narcissism of the Billionaire Class

    Grandiose Narcissism of the Billionaire Class

    Are we witnessing the slow, inexorable decay of the human spirit?  A human life–or rather, its degraded facsimile–has become cheap, even contemptible, in 21st century American “society,” an aberrant place where freakish celebrities are role-models and sociopathic mega-billionaires are revered. Wealth-concentration has now reached such extremes that, in the U.S. alone, over 500 billionaires ride roughshod […]

  • A Strong Third Political Party is on its Way

    History tells us that a Third Party has never been successful. The American Federal system, majority rule, Electoral College, and voter perception that a third alternative serves as a spoiler, hinder the eagerness for a Third Party. The possibility of dividing the Electoral College vote so that no candidate gains the required 270 majority deters […]

  • Australia’s Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill

    Could we face collective decisions so fundamental that discourse itself buckles under conceptual strain? If so, maybe this is such a time and it would accordingly be wise to map it in the most reliable tradition, which prioritises agreed facts and valid inference from them. This also befits a need to be incisive, given the […]

  • Mr. Blue and the CIA

    This is slavery, not to speak one’s thoughts. – Euripides, The Phoenician Women, 410 BCE Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down to dinner, our phone rang.  Since I didn’t recognize the phone number and it was dinnertime, I hesitated to answer it, but for some […]

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