Huxley makes it crystal clear that he considers the world to be overpopulated, and that science and progress cannot be free to advance without limits. In Part 1 the question was discussed what was Aldous’ real intention in writing the Brave New World; was it meant as an exhortation, an inevitable prophecy or as an […]
Effective people function as intermediaries between Washington and foreign capitals, selling the riches of an empire in decline. By Jason MORGAN “Comprador capitalist” is not a compliment. The term signifies a merchant in a poor country who brokers handle immigrants, parleying his knowledge of local conditions and his contacts with abroad traders into enormous revenues […]
NATO feels no requirement to concede. Nor does it feel under any moral or political commitment to do so. Russia, on the other hand, is not the Russia of the 1990s, states Paul Robinson in an interview with SCF. In some cases things get so bad that one party feels it is best just to […]
No Responsibility and No Apologies By Karen J. GREENBERG The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was marked by days of remembrances– for the bold rescue workers of that minute, for the thousands murdered as the Twin Towers collapsed, for those who died in the Pentagon, or in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, fighting off the hijackers of the […]
Santa is generally a jolly fellow, but that doesn’t indicate he doesn’t enjoy meting our well-deserved penalty to the greedy. Absolutely nothing is more predictable than a stock market rally starting in early November and running into mid-January– Santa’s rally. And given that it’s so predictable, why not front-run the rally by packing up on […]
While Business America is focusing on protecting its precious revenues, its customers and labor force are rebelling by walking away. All of us see shrinkflation every day: the 16 ounce container is now 13 ounces, the breakfast cereal box is now so narrow it falls over, and so on. More subtly, the quality of ingredients […]
When the wreck is recovered, witnesses will question why they took such heedless, silly risks. You remain in the rear seats wedged in between tipsy revelers, the driver is drunk and heading into Deadman’s Curve at 90 miles per hour. No one’s anxious because the chauffeur has never ever crashed. Prior to they moved into […]
The majority of the short articles, essays and interviews selected for this two-part e-book were composed in Afghanistan and in Iraq and/or prior to and after multiple sees to both nations. The 21st century, geopolitically, up until now has actually been formed by the U.S.- crafted Permanently Wars. Forever Wars: Afghanistan-Iraq, part 2, varying from […]
Does Europe possess the energy and the humility to look itself in the mirror, and re-position itself diplomatically? 2 occasions have integrated to make a major inflection point for Europe: The first was America’s abandonment of the Great Game ploy of attempting to keep the 2 Central Asian terrific land powers– Russia and China– divided […]
I hope everyone here is hungry since the banquet of effects is being served. I’ve created a brand-new portmanteau word to explain America’s descent: kleptocrapocracy, a union of kleptocracy (a country ruled by kleptocrats) and crapocracy, a country drowning in a moral sewer of widespread self-interest in which the focus is masking all the skims, […]
