In 2001, in the Bamyan valley in central Afghanistan, the Taliban destroyed two giant 6th Century Buddhas which had been carved into the cliff face. In their view, they were idols and had to be destroyed. History and art that reminds us of the past is an annoying presence for totalitarian regimes, and for new […]
The people of East Wall are persevering. All credit to them for their backbone.
It’s not good enough to frighten people into submission.
It seems that this proxy war between Russia and America has been seized upon by some commentators and politicians to define the great threat within, as well as the great evil without. Russia has now become to be portrayed as a sort of Mordor by the media and its consumers in Ireland, just as America […]
Ghoulish
Strangelove is a comic gem.
Who has power?
Can it be fixed?
Ruthless
Henry Kissinger famously applied the dictum that “information is power” to a theory of global economic and political systems. His understanding of geopolitics and global economies and the interconnected global world can be summarized with the triad: Control food, you control the populations; control energy, you control whole continents; control currency, you control the world. […]
Environmentalism has turned into a creed of the elite.
Casualties are horrific