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Les MacdonaldPearls and Irritations |
Aeschylus (525-456BC) was, as current circumstances in the Middle East and in Ukraine amply demonstrate, entirely accurate when he observed that...
Let me directly address the narrative pushed by the United States and its allies regarding the alleged “genocide” of Uighurs in China’s...
“No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the...
Over recent decades, the Western economic system has undergone a profound transformation, veering increasingly toward financialisation—a...
US and Australian politicians frequently refer to the rules based international order when attacking the actions of “official enemies”. Most...
We in the West have a propensity noted by the rest of the world, to be rather self-congratulatory about our political and economic systems and our...
The upcoming BRICS summit in Kazan on October 22nd to 24th may well accelerate the beginning of the end of the dollar as the world currency. This...
The propensity of the West, and Israel for that matter has been to impose a forced forgetting on the rest of the world. Each event that occurs in...
Over the past few decades, the Western economic system has shifted increasingly towards financialisation, prioritising the creation of paper wealth...
As the war in Ukraine heads into its third winter, Western leaders appear to be sinking further every day into a delusional belief in the success...
Much of the angst being generated by Australia’s worst foreign policy decision since joining the American invasion of Vietnam may well be...
We may be beginning a return to the original Athenian democracy where strength of conviction and argumentation shaped policy rather than outdated...
One of the characteristic features of modern western democracies is, as John Ralston Saul has pointed out, that it has focused on the development...