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How a Wise Decoupling May Be a Good Thing for Both China and the West

November 11, 2020

Imagine a bird was led to believe that it was a fish. For a while it might get used to living under water, but it wouldn’t take long before it could sense that something was wrong. If the bird didn’t …

From Balfour to the Nakba: The Settler-Colonial Experience of Palestine

November 7, 2020

Opinion

The late prominent scholar of settler-colonialism, Patrick Wolfe, reminded us repeatedly that it is not an event, it is a structure. While settler-colonialism in many cases has a historical start…

Lithuanian Government Impoverishes Its Own Citizens As a Means to Topple Belarus President Lukashenko

October 31, 2020

Opinion

Since the re-election of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko on August 9, deemed a rigged election by the West, protests have persisted for nearly three months. Led by opposition leader Sviatla…

Covid: A Curfew for What?

October 29, 2020

Opinion

Several Western countries think they are facing a new wave of Covid-19 epidemic. Populations that have already suffered a lot, not from the disease, but from the measures taken to protect them from it…

It’s the End of the (Western) World as We Know It

October 28, 2020

Books

Michael Kimmage, The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2020). 373 pp. $23.99. SEATTLE’S CAPITOL Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) and At…

The Fall of the Western Model

October 24, 2020

Opinion

The crisis of capitalism Historically, the crisis of the West began with the crisis of American capitalism in 1929. At that time, the majority of books and newspapers claimed that the concentration of…

How the Global Media Lost Its Way

October 24, 2020

Opinion

Herman and Chomsky call it the age of manufactured consent. Surrounded by propaganda, unable to determine motives behind selective presentation of content on an illusory spectrum of media choice, we y…

Can There Be More Than One Idea of Freedom in the 21st Century?

October 21, 2020

Opinion

There is one thing that every revolutionary and ideologue on Earth, past and present, has fought for over the centuries – freedom. There are few things (if any) as widely accepted as universally “good…