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Category: Culture
Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) and White Tiger (2021) (Spoiler alert) Book cover of The White Tiger (2008) “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free” ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, (Elective Affinities, Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809) What kind…
The culture and arts of a society, of a civilisation can be seen as a barometer of its development and the quality of its statehood. Confucius, who saw music as the noblest of all…
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. And above all, Thou shalt not be a bystander. Yehuda Bauer Globalize the Intifada! Lowkey Intro – Where do we really live? Each…
Note: reading these moronic questions + statements only confirms to me my conviction that Europe is sub-pathetic and deserves what will come its way. This is sad, of course, but indisputable. As for Roger Waters,…
The Saker recently posted an article (here) on the important subject of the quality of leadership in the US. In a comment to that article, I asked him the following question: From what you have…
Introduction The Juche is certainly the most debated ideology but the least understood and it is even the target of hostile attack. It has been perceived in the Western media and the mainstream academics as…
I have watched Oliver Stone’s documentary on the assassination of JFK, both the short version, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, and the long version in four episodes, JFK: Destiny Betrayed. I recommend the latter,…
A movie review. There will be spoilers.. Pádraic Súilleabháin and Colm Doherty (the fiddle player) are old friends whose meetings are as regular as a clock – literally. They meet at 2 pm in…
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. Henry…