WANTED: More Hypocritical Politicians
First, before the vocabulary Nazis skip to the comment section and start furiously hammering away on their keyboards, the title of this article misuses the word ‘hypocritical’ purposely. A hypocrite is someone who says one thing and does another, or professes beliefs and values that they don’t actually hold. Certainly something politicians do, though not […]
Our New Allies, the Jihadists
By Anthony Zeitouni The recent raid on the Israeli embassy in Cairo is a serious and dangerous incident and cannot be described as an act of recklessness by a few young protesters. It sets a precedent, and is a bad omen for the future of Egypt. The protesters who stormed Tahrir Square and other public […]
The Crisis is Us!
By Maria Odete Madeira Crisis is the generalized threatening referent and reference that pulverizes the daily cognitive dynamics of the now-human-present, with the permanent alert that it is the case that we are in the imminence of collapsing as a species, and that not even the mercantilization of the crisis, as resource to an unwise […]
The Coming Global Uprising: Learning From Egypt, Libya, and Other Revolutions Gone Wrong
Feature image DeesIllustration.com You won’t hear it discussed much, not in main stream media anyway, but the people of Egypt are, and have been for some time, back in Tahrir Square fighting for the same things they were fighting for nine months ago. You’ll be allowed to see Hosni Mubarak wheeled into his media trial […]
Runaway Algorithms
Feature image from Techpil.com By Ron Steinman Recently, Spain, a member of the European Union that has strict privacy laws, told Google to stop cataloging information about 90 of its citizens who filed complaints against the search engine giant. These 90 people are suing Google for what they call an invasion of privacy. Why is […]
