The Antislavery mural is back, hopefully forever
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
Hip Hop legend Ice Cube came under fire last week for posting an anti- racist image on Twitter in support of Black Lives Matter. The image was widely panned as ‘anti-Semitic’ by those who work hard to conceal images of slavery, oppression ...
The Ark of Humanity, an ultrademocratic initiative: Interview with Christof Wackernagel
- Milena Rampoldi ميلينا رامبولدي میلنا رامپلدی Милена Рампольди
Christof Michael Wackernagel (Ulm, 1951) is a German actor and writer. He spent ten years (1977-1987) in prison for his membership of the Red Army Faction (RAF). He lived in Bamako, Mali, from 2003 to 2013. He is one of the founders of the initiative ...
Liberating the American People
Back to the Spirit of Jazz
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
I am a jazz artist, I have dedicated my entire adult life to the study of Black American music and culture. Jazz is certainly the most important and maybe, the only significant American contribution to world culture. And the next question is, where is ...
While we stayed home...
- Peter Harling
The outbreak of a new infectious disease has hardly brought us together. Rather, it has proven intensely polarizing—in line with the age’s politics, economics, and international affairs. If one point of agreement can be found, it lies ...
Will the Coronavirus change the world? On Gramsci’s ‘Interregnum’ and Žižek’s ethnocentric philosophy
- Ramzy Baroud رمزي بارود - Romana Rubeo
The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion: the post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the end of World War II.
Angel Boligan, Mexico
Even before the ...
Nazis boasted about six million Holocaust victims, but It was a Jew who first cited that figure
- Ofer Aderet עופר אדרת
A historian embarks on a pioneering archival journey to discover the first time that someone used the number
Eliezer Unger pictured with students in an undated photograph from the time he was a principle in a school in Montevideo, Uruguay. ...
Covid-19: the rise of a global collective intelligence?
- Marc Santolini
All around the world, scientists and practitioners are relentlessly harnessing data on the pandemic to model its progression, predict the impact of possible interventions and develop solutions to medical equipment shortages, generating open-source ...
The city in a time of plague
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
History teaches us that epidemics are more like revelatory moments than social transformers
The plague-stricken town, traversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive ...
The unbearable lightness of China
Review of Kishore Mahbubani 's book, 'Has China Won? '
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Kishore Mahbubani's new book argues that China's rejuvenation is not driven by missionary impulse, a fact a flagging US refuses to see
Singaporean ex-diplomat and author Kishore Mahbubani speaks at an Asia Society event in a file photo. Photo: Flickr ...
In the dark mirror of the pandemic
- Gabriel Zacarias
“This society which eliminates geographical distance reproduces distance internally as spectacular separation.”
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, §167
Interior (Model reading), Edward Hopper, 1925
Talking to a friend who ...
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