As Minnesota burns, media fans flames of race war... and everyone forgets about Covid-19

Just days ago, the sanctimonious shills on cable channels were clutching their pearls in concern over Americans failing to maintain ‘social...

'Being Black in America Shouldn't Be a Death Sentence.' What About Being Palestinian?

Slavoj Zizek: In American protests, victims of Trump’s policies help the criminal erase the crime

Our world is gradually drowning in madness: instead of solidarity and coordinated global action against the Covid-19 threat, not only are...

Hong Kong national security law: all eyes on the US, but Beijing holds all the cards

China’s decision to impose the national security law directly on Hong Kong, passed by the annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC)...

Under the cover of Covid-19, why is the NHS moving away from its founding principles?

‘Protect the NHS’ has been the slogan of 2020 so far in the UK. It’s ostensibly all been about Covid-19, but could there be another agenda? Back...

Coronavirus: the mask of white Australia drops in racist media coverage

At the end of February, I caught up with two journalists in Sydney. The coronavirus had been circulating around the world for about four weeks at...

+ Razumi, kdor more. Jaz sem očitno bolj pri ta počasnih

Potem pa naenkrat, bum, epidemije ni več!, konec je, iznenada. Ej, zunaj smo lahko, lahko se dobimo s prijatelji, lahko klepetamo in se družimo v...

World cannot ignore Chinese aggression in South China Sea

Beijing has been pressuring neighbors and building up fleet strength

Woody Allen deserves an apology. Years of unfounded demonization have failed to crush his creativity

Finally, a mainstream platform has given Woody Allen the chance to speak. Like many others, I've been conditioned to be distracted by the smoke,...

+ Boj za kulturo

Boj lahko poteka znotraj, prepleteno, popolnoma zunaj politike. Pri tem sploh ni rečeno, da to ne bo ustvarjalo novih politik. Politika...

The media hates Lance Armstrong for being a liar & a cheat, and conveniently forget they enabled his lying & cheating

Lance, the fantastically compelling two-part documentary on disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong that concludes Sunday night, makes up for...

Sidewalk cafe culture a safe alternative in the ‘new normal’

Some quintessentially Parisian cafes offer outdoor seating at their many tables laid out on the sidewalk. I once saw an establishment where all its...

In Latin America, protest will not go into quarantine

Report. Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia return to the squares to demonstrate against government decisions: cuts in public spending, blocking elections...

Redefining and Redesigning Afghanistan’s Banking and Financial Sectors

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Foreign students deserve equal treatment on relief handouts

The government’s emergency relief program to hand out cash to college and university students facing financial hardship due to economic...

How safe are pets from COVID-19?

Back in mid-April, I took my 13-year-old cat to the vet for some tests. They told me his chronic heart disease had worsened, but it was nothing...

What is security?

As the national death toll from COVID-19 in the United States climbs past 100,000, a cyclist passes a discarded face mask in front of the Lincoln...

Non Democratic transit to Fascism

The ideology of Aryan Germans had evil roots in literatures of wonderful writers of the…

Slovenija je najboljša na svetu

Ko je predsednik vlade povedal, da je Slovenija najboljša država na svetu, se je številnim povsem odpedaliralo. Ampak kazalci! Ampak številke!...

Res mi ni več do smeha

K do vam laže je najboljša televizijska oddaja, ki jo lahko gledate ta trenutek na slovenskih televizijah. Gre za briljantne analize in...

Mala potreba za človeka, velika za človeštvo

Bilo je nekoč, v času, ko so ljudje še verjeli, da je Zemlja okrogla: bilo je še 15 minut do izstrelitve, velikanske tanke rakete Falcon 9 so...

Za žaltavo južino

Imenovanje upravnega odbora Prešernovega sklada je bilo vedno pomembno politično znamenje in oznanilo: z njim je oblast sporočala javnosti, kaj...

David Quammen, after ‘Spillover’ and ‘Tangled Tree,’ is writing a book about COVID-19

Interview. We spoke with author David Quammen about his new book about horizontal gene transfer, the little-understood evolutionary mechanism that...

Soulwork: The Role Archetypes Play in Jungian Analysis

This post continues my conversation with esteemed Jungian analyst Kenneth James. In Part One, we focused on how Jungian analysis is different from...

Palestine activists have 2 billion opportunities to pressure for divestment

Local government pension schemes hold direct investments worth more than £2.3 billion in companies involved in Israeli war crimes and apartheid,...

It is time for the Iran-backed axis militias to be treated exactly like Daesh

Conflicts are meant to involve the living, with the dead being long withdrawn from the complex web of political alliances and bloody feuds that...

Minnesota riots coverage: This is why Trump called mainstream media ‘enemy of the people’

When Trump tweeted that the media were the enemy of the American people, it caused fury around the world. The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @...