A Political Refugee From The Global Village

Telegraph obituaries are the best, wonderfully funny and intentionally the nearest modern equivalent to John Aubrey's Brief Lives , one ...

I'd heard of Zygmunt Bauman but he hadn't registered with me until today. I have just read two essays talking about him. This is fro...

"Like Gulliver, tied down by thousands of of little strings, we lose our freedom one regulation at a time." "This is how civi...

  Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald · Sep 26 Nobody spreads "disinformation" more destructively than US corporate media. Those who said...

When German forces invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 they were greeted, understandably, as liberators.  Millions of Ukrainians, Russians...

'Even earlier this year, in April, Teen Vogue published an article headlined “ What ‘Capitalism’ Is And How It Affects People “. It was ...

John Simpson is shown in a clip every hour on the BBC World Service saying the BBC presents the news with 'absolutely no spin', but ...

Twitter, now lamely X, sends me tweets (now Xes) unbidden and always ones expressing establishment views. I was presented with these two at ...

“I think unemployment is the great affliction of man. Even people with jobs are unemployed. In fact, most people with jobs are unemployed.” ...

 

The past is another country. They do things differently there. I refer to 2020-21. I  went to Bodrum for a week in October 2020 and stayed f...

"Imagine the following scene straight out of the science fiction storybook. You are beamed into a town full of people going about their...

"It seems, then, that the original reasons for favoring democracy don’t last forever. First, it depends on strong popular identificatio...

"Philosophy was the mission of my life. I had to philosophize; otherwise, I was not able to live in this world." Edmund Husserl “I...

A friend who's a retired academic just sent me an email. What if the 'sides' in the Ukraine war are peaceful coexistence v. rui...

Dmitry Medvedev, the last Russian President and Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council said this on Telegram on the 29th talked abo...

"Strive not to be a success but rather of value". Albert Einstein

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyn came to power in "a colourless colour revolution" in 2018. The previous government which had been frien...

“President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enl...