France Neoliberal Macron: Vanguard of a Covid Global Corporate Dictatorship?
Liberte-Egalite-Fraternite: under Macron’s pass sanitaire guillotine? For the few of us who are students of history, and its aficionado travelers, meaning those who muse and wonder, at times, about how significant figures of the past would view our often dire predicament, it is rather obvious that, for example, the founding fathers of the French Revolution […]
Slavery of Fear
Flee, fight or freeze In the natural world, there are two kinds of responses to imminent threats: either flee or fight. Most of the time, in order to maximize chances of survival, the decision has to be made by individuals or groups in less than a split second. On one hand, the option to flee […]
The Surrealism of the Information War
The flow of knowledge and information is commonly considered the main vector of humanity’s progress through history. One would think that in our era, which is rightly called the time of the information super-highway, the sheer mass of information available to all humans, anywhere at any given time, would have exponentially increased our understanding of […]
Imtiaz Akhtar Discusses His Book of Short Stories, ‘Kafka Sutra’
With this collection of short stories, Imtiaz Akhtar makes his bold debut. Kafka Sutra is the sort of book that as a teenager, I would have loved to sneak from my mother’s shelf, and that as a mother, I would secretly enjoy letting my daughter or son whisk away. A midget who can see the future, boys, […]
Big Brother George Soros’ Web Is Unraveling
Unholy alliance: Soros and British Petroleum’s princes and sheikhs The disinformation campaign about the so-called Muslim ban by the Trump administration has been orchestrated in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe by most mainstream media outlets, fake-left pseudo-independent news outlets, the leading social media platforms worldwide, as well as the search engines. What the Trump […]
