Photo by Jon Tyson There are various reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but there is one important factor that has not been sufficiently explored. The Soviet Union in the 1980s had become increasingly irrelevant. The irrelevance was particularly...
Who Pays to Stop a Pandemic? Image: Sue Coe. Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ravaged Europe in the...
Militarized riot squads deployed on the streets of Los Angeles. Still from local news coverage. “In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.” ― Roberto Bolaño, Distant...
Photograph Source: @zelamine – instagram Many years from now, long after Gaza has been obliterated and its unwanted survivors have been dispersed to whatever hellish limbo awaits them, in that distant future when everyone will have always been against this, I suspect...
Photo by Jon Tyson There are various reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but there is one important factor that has not been sufficiently explored. The Soviet Union in the 1980s had become increasingly irrelevant. The irrelevance was particularly...
Who Pays to Stop a Pandemic? Image: Sue Coe. Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ravaged Europe in the...
Militarized riot squads deployed on the streets of Los Angeles. Still from local news coverage. “In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.” ― Roberto Bolaño, Distant...
Photograph Source: @zelamine – instagram Many years from now, long after Gaza has been obliterated and its unwanted survivors have been dispersed to whatever hellish limbo awaits them, in that distant future when everyone will have always been against this, I suspect...
Photo by Jon Tyson There are various reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but there is one important factor that has not been sufficiently explored. The Soviet Union in the 1980s had become increasingly irrelevant. The irrelevance was particularly...
Image by Levi Meir Clancy. The Genocide Convention defines genocide as an intentional effort to completely or partially destroy a group based on its nationality, ethnicity or religion. Merriam-Webster defines genocide as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a...
Man United used to win. That’s Man U. Manchester United. The team used to play with strength, clarity, fire. The players knew what they were doing. The club too. Unfortunately this may no longer be the case. ‘Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever,’ as Napoleon...
US nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. US Air Force Museum. Public Domain Prologue I remember President John F. Kennedy when, on June 10, 1963 gave the Commencement Address at the American University in Washington, DC. Among his proposals for disarmament, he...