Freedom of the Press: Government Does Not Know Best
David Miranda, who was detained for nine hours in Heathrow Airport on August 18, 2013 on suspicion that he might have violated anti-terrorism laws, apparently had no grounds for complaint. The United Kingdom’s High Court found that the actions taken against the partner of Glenn Greenwald, a key participant in the surveillance disclosures of Edward […]
Engineering Failed States: The Strategy of Global Corporate Imperialism
Empires as national and cultural megalomaniac dreams Once upon a time, national entities and cultures aspired to build empires. The impulse was the erroneous assumption of being a superior civilization. It was about exporting an extensive set of aspirations, a culture, and a value system. Romans thought that bringing water through aqueducts and paved roads […]
Are Love and Lust the Same?
“Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling – the equality of all lovers.” – Martin Buber, I and Thou “There may be an attraction that is initially sexual between two humans. If they start living together, this cannot endure for that long and be […]
Bosnia’s Violent Protests: ‘He Who Sows Hunger Reaps Anger’
Bosnia Herzegovina is the microcosm of the rest of the Balkan republics. It was where the dream of a united Yugoslavia was plotted. It proved to be the seat of the multi-ethnic framework that Tito imposed with a mixture of both terror and sweet perseverance. Sarajevo was the ethnic wonderland, a musical and cultural playground […]
Empires Come and Go: The UK’s Decline to a US Colony
The United Kingdom remained an imperialist power only as long as it could maintain control of its colonies. With an economy devastated by World War I and World War II, the British Empire began to disintegrate. After losing India in 1948, a pivotal point in the history of the British Empire was the 1956 Suez […]
