Anti-capitalist politics in the time of COVID-19
- David Harvey
As Marxist geographer David Harvey argues, forty years of neoliberalism has left the public totally exposed and ill prepared to face a public health crisis on the scale of coronavirus.
When trying to interpret, understand, and analyze the daily flow ...
Public hysteria vs. scientific thinking
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
The Corona crisis has exposed our political and media establishments as dysfunctional and possibly dangerous. If the West was, until recently, associated with scientific, analytical, rational and methodical thinking, then not much is left ...
The Red Death can stab you
A Gothic tale by Edgar Allan Poe about the plague and the inevitable
- Reinaldo Spitaletta
In times of plague, it is possible that words, stories, accompanied by strings and tambourines, can serve as an antidote, as a kind of spell against contagion and death, as happens in the days of wonder and lust of the Decameron. It is possible that, ...
Translation, wings that helped ‘Parasite’ soar free and high
- Choi Ji-won 최지원
As director Bong Joon-ho captivated the audience abroad with his dark satire “Parasite,” back home the name Darcy Paquet made headlines in local media outlets.
Director Bong Joon-ho (far left) and actors of “Parasite” pose ...
My Struggle: Athens vs Jerusalem
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
I launched my study into Jewishness two decades ago. It began as a result of my reaction to the relentless attacks on dissident Jewish thinkers who didn’t fit with the ‘revolutionary agenda’ of the so-called Jewish ‘anti Zionist’ ...
The Saami Manifesto 15: reconnecting through resistance
- Various Authors - Autores varios - Auteurs divers- AAVV-d.a.
Sápmi, our homeland, has been colonized and exploited. We, the Saami people, have been dislocated and disconnected from the land and from each other. We are struggling to hold on to the remains of our self-determination, our territorial and cultural ...
The Holocaust, the BBC and antisemitism smears: the ' Orla Guerin case'
- Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a brief ...
Clear racist element to hysteria over new coronavirus
- Slavoj Žižek Σλάβοϊ Ζίζεκ Славој Жижек اسلاووی ژیژک سلافوي جيجك
Some of us, including myself, would secretly love to be in China’s Wuhan right now, experiencing a real-life, post-apocalyptic movie set. The city’s empty streets provide the image of a non-consumerist world at ease with itself.
Coronavirus ...
“We and the Russians”: Egon Krenz in Rostock
Report from the RedFox event on 25 January 2020
- Carsten Hanke
At the RotFuchs organization’s event on Jan. 25, 2020, a vital part of the history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany, 1949-90) was both subjected to a historical examination under the title, “We and the Russians” ...
The dark psychology of docial networks
Why it feels like everything is going haywire
- Various Authors - Autores varios - Auteurs divers- AAVV-d.a.
Story by Jonathan Haidt and Tobias Rose-Stockwell
A few right-wing social-media platforms have enabled the most reviled ideology of the 20th century to draw in young men hungry for a sense of meaning and belonging and willing to give Nazism a second ...
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