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...

Non Democratic transit to Fascism

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

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...

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...

Redefining and Redesigning Afghanistan’s Banking and Financial Sectors

DISCLAIMER – The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of The...

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

+ Boj za kulturo

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

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Conflicts are meant to involve the living, with the dead being long withdrawn from the complex web of political alliances and bloody feuds that...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

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

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...

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,...

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...

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!...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Netanyahu’s Tin Soldiers Want No Part of an Uprising

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...

The death of 'Terrace House' cast member Hana Kimura and Japan’s mental health struggles

On May 23, 2020, pro wrestler and former cast member of Japan’s hit reality TV series Terrace House, Hana Kimura (22), was found dead...

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...

Two can play Section 230 game: Trump’s EO uses key statute against social media censorship

Though the First Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits the government from restricting freedom of speech, social media platforms have long...

+ Anonimna demokracija

V času, v katerem živimo, je sklic na demokracijo in svoboščine, ki so zagotovljene in samoumevne, pogosta praksa tako tistih, ki jih kršijo, kot...

Controversy over Olympic parody shows no love for political satire

While the nation was still under a state of emergency but moves to reopen the economy were starting to pick up speed, there was one news item that...

Japan is going for broke, minus the broke part

New York – In putting a floor under the world's third-largest economy, Japan is going for broke. Minus the broke part. The central bank has...

Anxiety and COVID-19: The Role of Ontological Security and Myth

Myths that lift the collective morale, that does not necessarily ‘other’, but instead strengthens bonds, may be positive and necessary in these...

A Plea for Kindness

In a graduation speech this month to his alma mater, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the doctor helping to steer our country’s response to the coronavirus...

China’s Hong Kong Gamble

What COVID-19 means for the Japan-U.S. alliance

Washington – On May 11, media reported that Admiral Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy, would...

The Limits of Extreme COVID Monetary Policy

LONDON – With output having collapsed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many are wondering how far monetary policy can be stretched to support...

The post-epidemic recovery should focus on rights, not the economy

Commentary. Is our goal to return to normal, or do we want to design a new idea for our society? The truth is we can never go back. written by...

The rushed easing of lockdown measures could devastate Italy

When the novel coronavirus began spreading across the world earlier this year, Italy quickly became one of Europe's worst-affected countries and...

The road to a blue-green recovery

If there were ever a tide in human affairs that should be taken, this is it. A pitiless pandemic has befallen us, bringing sadness and sacrifice...

Ten years after Israel’s hijacking of the Mavi Marmara, we cannot forget those who it killed

It is ten years since a live broadcast from the Mediterranean on Aljazeera TV came to an abrupt end. On 31 May 2010 I was watching human rights...

Everything's disposable for fame-seekers: Myka Stauffer turned adopted autistic son into YouTube money machine, then ‘rehomed’ him

Despite the acclaim, money, and worshipful followers she’d racked up after styling herself the saintly, self-sacrificing caretaker of the...

Shocking spike in Covid-19 jail suicides should end Britain’s obsession with imprisonment

Britain’s justice system, like many of its prisons, is stuck in Victorian times. And recently there’s been a proliferation of the 'throw away the...

ad Obnovovanie Európskej únie

O tom, že táto pieseň má nadčasový kontext svojím poukazovaním na spoločenské zlo, svedčí jej popularita v súčasnosti. Je paradoxné,...

Forget the race-baiting scare tactics, Trump has every right to go after ‘thugs’ as Minneapolis burns

In one swift moment, the main story in the United States is no longer the coronavirus, and certainly not social distancing, as Minnesota’s...

Mainstream media tries to paint Britain as a Dis-United Kingdom that’s polarised like the US. The truth is very different

The British media, and parts of the political class, seem keen to portray the UK as a hideously divided country. When Jeremy Corbyn was leading...